Please be kind enough and show us something that has an open protocol, works as p2p, not proprietary, has 12 million people online and is not being blocked/traffic shaped by your ISP ?
Just maybe, i mean really, just maybe, there is a reason why skype doesn't want everyone on their cake party ?
You also have the option to check out msn's protocol which horribly abused by bots to spread scam and malware, or take a peek at most open source chat clients who's userbase is comparable with the number of students in some major college.
I just see why skype does things the way it does, i'm not saying that it's 100% right, but it is one of the best options out there today.
Having skills in that many languages already means that your concentration is getting fuzzy. The more languages you add the fuzzier it gets.
A superior programmer in 2-3 languages is worth way more than a guy who knows a little about everything.
The "superior" java jobs are already taken, the jobs you would get as a java "freshman" are nowhere where you would like to be. Instead advance yourself in languages you already now and dig more deeply.
Seriously, every time one of the big closed source giants come around to open source, the find a "rebel" from their ranks, the person looks like the ultimate "open source fanatic" from in their own ranks.
Usually the person is a sleek, charming bs-machine. His goal is not to get the company into a open-source-everyone-happy state, he's a peacemaker, a showman. They tell you how much the company wants to move toward open source and how hard it is to do it. They give out empty promises and while they are at it, they actually "consume" you:)
Stop wasting your time on empty hopes about them coming to opensource world and taking you to nirvana. Get to the nirvana yourself, you'll beat them for sure.
Resistance is futile, You will be assimilated -- this did not come from any borgs from out of space, this came from microsoft, oracle, corel and god knows whom else.
Do you honestly think that 99.99% people on the planet care for your bloody gender ? no they don't, they just want your creditcard number, the expiry date and cvc number:)
I have lived all my life with an ID number, and i don't really give a lama's ass about who knows where i'm born or what gender i'm of.
Poor iPhone shaking on the ground, a running helicopter in the distance. A fanatic iPhone hacker tries to twiddle with the touch-screen to get the damn big investment to work, next to him stands Jobs in a long latex costume, holding a firmware update next to the hacker's head. He says "Unlock this" and fires the update 1.1.3.
But Neo isn't there, Neo is home, enjoying a simple unlocked phone that has 3G and tons on applications and just works (and it was cheaper):-)
When iphone came out, a lot of people made the noise "locked phone ? forget it mate, i will go and buy something else"... some others fought back and said "oh come on, we will hack it, ha-ha-ha"... who is laughing now with their several hundred $ investment ?
Wake Up! Apple doesn't count these 18% as users. They count it as consumers but not as users, not as the market place they want to have.
It's too damn simple, can't you fools understand ?
1. Apple sells you a phone, they say it's locked, they say it's fixed networked.
2. Every legal paper along the way tells you it's supposed to be locked down.
3. Now some idiots come along and protest that they can't keep it broken.
4. Profit ? Yes and no.
Apple enjoys the buzz around "locked or unlocked, how exciting", it's probably a minor part of their strategy. They just want to sell you the phones, they don't want you (hackers, crackers or dummy followers) as their main client base.
Bmw counts medium rich people as their "users", not the dumb wit 18 y/o death racers. But they still sell to them.
Microsoft counts companies and honest home users as their clients, not the illegal-copy-using people.
Pharmacies count ill people as their clients, not drug dealers that synthesize addictive drugs out from legal ones.
Why Should Apple Differ or Care ? --> Simple, they don't.
As far as apple cares: you bought a car and you complain that the f*cker can't fly, oh my !
End of story, stop dreaming. This is life, if it's too much for you too take, go play WoW or something.
* Take a shiny new lenovo laptop with ati x1400 graphics and try to "ubuntu it"... it won't work. the "open source" ati driver doesn't support the card, the vesa graphics doesn't manage to display the installer window (because the resolution is too small, probably a vesa bug) and the automatic tool that lets you switch between resolutions and drivers just crashes along.
* Why why why and why does the default desktop install cd come without a command line installer ? if you can't make X work for everyone, give us the command line installer, ok ?
Now if the LTS comes out with the same "features" towards ati cards (and no workaround to install the native ati driver that at least brings X up), and also skips proper kde support, i'll kick it out from my laptop.
KDE is the only reasonable X window manager for me, i have grown into it through out the years and there's nothing that will make me move towards the clumsy, ugly and slow gnome. If ubuntu says "let's only do gnome officially for a while and let the kde people suffer", i will go and 'suffer' my ati based laptop to gentoo. It works like gold on my secondary and i don't have to be shaking like a madman every 6 months.
And modding the parent down for no obvious reason is a lame move from mods. Stop it dudes, he didn't say anything wrong. LTS is a bad joke as far as i can tell (old packages, old bugs and no real solutions to the bugs because eliminating the bugs would introduce some new ones).
We will be able to access healthcare remotely, from just about anywhere in the world
-- i get get-a-bigger-penis pill commercials every day, everywhere, from everywhere, and this is healthcare, kind of
Real-time speech translation -- once a vision only in science fiction -- will become the norm
-- i call over skype with my girlfriend, and i don't understand anything, something gets lost in the translation...
There will be a 3-D Internet
-- 3 f-n words: WoW
Technologies the size of a few atoms will address areas of environment importance
-- see comment #1
Our mobile phones will come close to reading our minds
-- happening all the time (neither of them is doing anything lately).
if you give them a truck load of rice, they'll be hungry tomorrow again.
of course the olpc is no world saver either. but if somebody would tell me let's buy 200 fishing rods for 200$ (in mass marketing, 1$ is a price for a pretty solid firm and simple rod with necessary equipment), they will have enough food for a village for years.
stop the rice ffs. give them fishing rods, give them seeds that they have to plant and can't eat right away. we can't support them forever.
So according to you, the war is over and the last gunshot deaths from Chechnya were just accidents where the locals ran into the bullets that stood in midair while the russian soldiers were not shooting at anyone ?
Oh come on. This as good as "the iraq war is over"... The funny thing is that some americans think the same thing about iraq. But if the war is over, why are people still shooting each-other and dying, in both crisis places ?:)
my first job was given to me thanks to my perl skills. almost a decade ago. but you don't see me bashing it... why ?
to be honest, your fear or dislikeness of perl as the whole is weird to say the least.
i have seen perl code that is a beauty compared to a lot of python crap that my eye has spotted, it's all a matter of style and self control. for the last few years i have kept away from both as much as possible.
python stops to be portable where i need it (if you browse the python docs really deeply you'll start to find a lot of "but"-s in it, also almost every external associative library like python-gtk tends to be stable and available like a striped elephant on a skateboard, mostly you don't have it, and if you get it the version is a mismatch and nothing tends to work as expected) and perl 5.x has a speed and threading issues (aside from ugly as hell 3rd party code).
just don't generalize things here, there are moments when perl kicks the a** of python without blinking the eye and vice versa, and none of the two is a true king (except of clunky syntax where python just owns everyone).
ps. nice jokes larry, but just throw the comic book aside and give us a working perl 6;)
you're correct. i can't really complain. after all it's a free web page from a regular user's point of view.
_however_ i can choose not to donate one penny to wikipedia for a f-up like this. and not because of this single article story, but because of the way it was handled. jim should have brought it out to the open from the start, but no, they just had to do "something" "behind the curtains".
jimbo, stop it right there, before you destroy the wikipedia. if you have troubles with users or their writings, at least explain to people properly what's going on and why. just letting a group of admins silently "kill stuff off" and making it look like some mysterious dark thing does not work in 2007, the only thing that you'll get is resistance.
Turkish: F*ck me, hold tight. What's that? Tommy: It's me belt, Turkish. Turkish: No, Tommy. There's a Skype in your trousers. What's a Skype doing in your trousers? Tommy: It's for protection. Turkish: Protection from what? "Zee Germans"?;-)
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Proper DBAs will just get a major headache from people who read a book and screw up their db servers thinking that now they have "god mode" on.
People, unless you have more experience with databases than "my little php page with mysql", don't touch "real" databases. You will go in with a grand idea that was avoided before by real DBAs that knew where locks, indexes, replications, transactions. backups and failovers matter. Newbies come in, create a shiny little script that makes the rest of server cough blood and die in agony. If they are lucky, the annoying ignorant selfish DBA will come in and rescue the world or they'll just quit.
And the parent comment is not trolling, he's still correct. MySQL is way behind PostgreSQL and other rdbms-es. It did a good jump forward with 5.x releases, but it's still not quite there, and since the old generation DBAs are not going to move to it, MySQL will have to wait until its users catch up to get all the features and fixes in place. DB world is not a place where things happen over night.
Just knowing how to make a select or insert or left join makes you no king in real databases. It's experience, logic, control and flow that matters there.
Seriously. The fact that half of California's west coast is obsessed with aliens taking over the planet does not mean that you have to believe this, this is never going to happen.
Think for more than 5 seconds. Why exactly would aliens want to conquer or destroy us ? If they are really so supreme, we're probably already just their amusement, like the hamsters in your cage at your home. Are you conquering the kindergarten every day just because you can ? No. Earth is not so valuable and we have already over-polluted it, it's like stealing your neighbours garbage can.
If there are superior forces out there, they don't want to have anything to do with us, they just keep away. We are stupid, agressive and spend half/most of our time by looking at electron cannons / lit up liquid crystals and entertain us with that. Our only enemies would be stupid and "advanced" people like ourselves, but they are too far away to reach us within thousands of years.
If there's anything in our solar system worth stealing at all, it's Jupiter. Or our Sun. But definitely not the garbage can that we call home.
but my question is, where is the invention part of the iphone ? seriously, where is it ? can someone give me 1 example that's actually useful in the phone and that apple introduced as first ?
[x] we did have music playing phones before [x] we did have videos playing phones before [x] we did have web browsing phones before [x] we did have locked down phones before [x] we did have quite nice looking phones before [x] we did have overhyped phones before... [x] we did have uncomfortable keyboards before [x] we did have unstable calling quality phones before
so... what exactly... no really, what exactly did the iphone give you ? nokias and sony-ericssons had all these features punched into a phone in the beginning of 2006, some models had partial features from these even before. what the heck ? burn the time magazine, it's just a freaking commercial. a phone with all the features of the iphone was on the market already in 2006.
i'll probably get heavily modded down by "true iPhone fans"... but i don't really care. the phone may be "ok" for apple fans, for me it looks like a heavy rip off (locked software, locket networks...) , some of us just don't want to admit it.
i have 2 laptops, one running on nvidia go6200 graphics and the other running on ati x1400....
it took me a while to get a proper dual screen layout working with ati, and even now i still get occasionally the freezes and cursor defects with ati. hasn't happened to me during the last 2-3 years of nvidia usage, but happens more than once a week on ati under ubuntu.
even the most braindead person having the full specs of nvidia linux driver (unlike ati's, you can get full doc from nvidia's site just like that), you get a proper setup within a day without googling around for what a dmitri or andrew has experimentally found out.
i chose linux as the platform so i could work without worrying about crashes or having to reboot within weeks or months of time, with the crashing ati it's not an option, you won't even last a week if you do anything that involves video streams or opengl. pity.
I for one welcome the geek overlords who show us HTML source and claim it's Python (see the video, "nice work").
But otherwise, thumbs up for OLPC, at least some poor kid will get to play tetris for what it's worth. And if 1 of 1000 kids of them learn to write python, even better.
I know i'm hopelessy outdated and my machine shows:
martin@hope ~ $ uname -a Linux hope 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 #1 Sat Jul 21 22:18:42 EEST 2007 i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-30 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Remove that gentoo notice quickly from your slashdot sig. A man using kernel 0.0.02 versions old is a stable version pimp not a gentoo roller...:p
As for the article:D
Userspace drivers are not really a new groundbreaking idea now are they:D The lists are full of different proposals and attempts over different times, but it's really nice to see that this thing finally got rolling, this may open a lot of closed-source drivers for usage for linux people (a lot of those fancy windows toys).
I don't know which miracle NAND pieces intel has invented this time, but if they still rely on the old reliable technology, it's slow. Yes sure it's faster than spinning around the disk, but i'll just prefer a 64bit amd box stacked up with as much ram as i can get, linux will take care of buffering the fs into there. Regarding the volatile thing, my machine hasn't crashed for a year, and if it crashes really bad, it can even screw up the data in the NAND, so it can't always help me, now can it ?
If you're familiar how electronics works, you obviously understand that really big writes and reads that pass through this unit, will actually slow down, not speed up. You will have the latency of the card in addition to the latency of your hdd.
One more card in your machine is one more thing that can break, and people who have used the NAND units (available so far) a bit more know that at some point they will start to break down. It has been written in their specs too, read those if in doubt.
Perhaps the NAND trick is a great idea for laptops that suspend/resume a lot, but for other machines, just buy the ram. It's probably cheaper, it's faster, it's not locked down behind the iron curtains of Intel, and most importantly, it's already there.
I second that. I'm a devoted fan of my nvidia powered laptop, unlike the integrated intel laptop that i had before, this doesn't stall at weird moments nor do i lag behind the graphics. The dedicated graphics card and it's private memory kick ass already in the usability. I have chosen my next laptop to be ati powered, just to see the difference (amd guys, fix that driver, now !).
And as it may come as a surprise to the thread starter, some people actually do play games with their laptops while on the move, sometimes just to relax, sometimes to beat the highscore of a friend in a public 2D flash game. You don't drag your Xbox on with you everywhere you go. Laptops are portable and therefor there when you need them, but this doesn't mean that they have to lag as hell on an integrated intel chip. Also keep in mind that there's other stuff than games that needs the power of a proper graphics chip with loads of ram.
Thumbs up for intel going public with their drivers, but totally thumbs down on their hardware. Dudes, duuuudes, seriously, you're not even near to nvidia/ati when you have kde running with 25 windows open. Just a scroll somewhere will make the intel cough blood while the ati or nvidia analogue just kicks on like nothing ever happened.
Lagging behind graphics will cut your productivity. Even if it's open source lag.
gecko itself is not the only one to blame, firefox has extra overhead and it's not marginal.
compare the speed of firefox to galeon or epiphany, the two latter just kick firefox's ass.
if you remember, the firefox came out from the browser called phoenix. it's a realy shame, i loved that browser for it's speed and ultrathin gui, now i've got a big messy fx in front of me and am just gazing how much memory one slashdot page can consume. the mozilla people did the very essential thing in software business
if aint broken, fix it until it is !
i can't wait for the promised fx 4.0 and am just very very afraid of what will be released until that rewrite arrives.
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Please be kind enough and show us something that has an open protocol, works as p2p, not proprietary, has 12 million people online and is not being blocked/traffic shaped by your ISP ?
Just maybe, i mean really, just maybe, there is a reason why skype doesn't want everyone on their cake party ?
You also have the option to check out msn's protocol which horribly abused by bots to spread scam and malware, or take a peek at most open source chat clients who's userbase is comparable with the number of students in some major college.
I just see why skype does things the way it does, i'm not saying that it's 100% right, but it is one of the best options out there today.
why are you hiding behind the AC title if there's none around tomorrow to bitch on your real name anyway ? :p
we're all gonna die ... quickly, compile that kernel before the world ends, otherwise we'll evaporate with a buggy one (and that would be a shame).
10th september 2008 - a bad day to quit smoking, drinking, careless sex, drugs, perl coding.
I agree, don't start anywhere.
Having skills in that many languages already means that your concentration is getting fuzzy. The more languages you add the fuzzier it gets.
A superior programmer in 2-3 languages is worth way more than a guy who knows a little about everything.
The "superior" java jobs are already taken, the jobs you would get as a java "freshman" are nowhere where you would like to be. Instead advance yourself in languages you already now and dig more deeply.
Stop throwing around arrows, spears, chairs :)
Throw a BS-Filter :)
Seriously, every time one of the big closed source giants come around to open source, the find a "rebel" from their ranks, the person looks like the ultimate "open source fanatic" from in their own ranks.
Usually the person is a sleek, charming bs-machine. His goal is not to get the company into a open-source-everyone-happy state, he's a peacemaker, a showman. They tell you how much the company wants to move toward open source and how hard it is to do it. They give out empty promises and while they are at it, they actually "consume" you :)
Stop wasting your time on empty hopes about them coming to opensource world and taking you to nirvana. Get to the nirvana yourself, you'll beat them for sure.
Resistance is futile, You will be assimilated -- this did not come from any borgs from out of space, this came from microsoft, oracle, corel and god knows whom else.
my -0x42 cents.
i don't think the paypal integration has been that difficult over here, and we run probably one of the largest shops in the world ...
but then again, can't say that paypal is even near perfect just yet and sometimes their innovations are less than wonderful.
competition is a wonderful thing tho :) i hope amazon puts up a nice fight so we all get a better outcome, which ever it is.
i think you missed his point.
he doesn't care about companies like *insert corporation here*
he wrote the code, he thinks it's good, he shares it. period. finito.
i do the same thing, i don't give a lama's ass about it if m$ft or any other guy comes along and "borrows" it. i don't care.
1 up for the bsd/mit license guys, i'm with you all the way.
Do you honestly think that 99.99% people on the planet care for your bloody gender ? no they don't, they just want your creditcard number, the expiry date and cvc number :)
I have lived all my life with an ID number, and i don't really give a lama's ass about who knows where i'm born or what gender i'm of.
This is probably the stupidest article of the day
I can already imagine the scene.
:-)
... some others fought back and said "oh come on, we will hack it, ha-ha-ha" ... who is laughing now with their several hundred $ investment ?
Poor iPhone shaking on the ground, a running helicopter in the distance.
A fanatic iPhone hacker tries to twiddle with the touch-screen to get the damn big investment to work, next to him stands Jobs in a long latex costume, holding a firmware update next to the hacker's head. He says "Unlock this" and fires the update 1.1.3.
But Neo isn't there, Neo is home, enjoying a simple unlocked phone that has 3G and tons on applications and just works (and it was cheaper)
When iphone came out, a lot of people made the noise "locked phone ? forget it mate, i will go and buy something else"
Wake Up! Apple doesn't count these 18% as users. They count it as consumers but not as users, not as the market place they want to have.
It's too damn simple, can't you fools understand ?
1. Apple sells you a phone, they say it's locked, they say it's fixed networked.
2. Every legal paper along the way tells you it's supposed to be locked down.
3. Now some idiots come along and protest that they can't keep it broken.
4. Profit ? Yes and no.
Apple enjoys the buzz around "locked or unlocked, how exciting", it's probably a minor part of their strategy. They just want to sell you the phones, they don't want you (hackers, crackers or dummy followers) as their main client base.
Bmw counts medium rich people as their "users", not the dumb wit 18 y/o death racers. But they still sell to them.
Microsoft counts companies and honest home users as their clients, not the illegal-copy-using people.
Pharmacies count ill people as their clients, not drug dealers that synthesize addictive drugs out from legal ones.
Why Should Apple Differ or Care ? --> Simple, they don't.
As far as apple cares: you bought a car and you complain that the f*cker can't fly, oh my !
End of story, stop dreaming. This is life, if it's too much for you too take, go play WoW or something.
I have to second that statement.
... it won't work. the "open source" ati driver doesn't support the card, the vesa graphics doesn't manage to display the installer window (because the resolution is too small, probably a vesa bug) and the automatic tool that lets you switch between resolutions and drivers just crashes along.
With the 2 latest releases of Ubuntu :
* Take a shiny new lenovo laptop with ati x1400 graphics and try to "ubuntu it"
* Why why why and why does the default desktop install cd come without a command line installer ? if you can't make X work for everyone, give us the command line installer, ok ?
Now if the LTS comes out with the same "features" towards ati cards (and no workaround to install the native ati driver that at least brings X up), and also skips proper kde support, i'll kick it out from my laptop.
KDE is the only reasonable X window manager for me, i have grown into it through out the years and there's nothing that will make me move towards the clumsy, ugly and slow gnome. If ubuntu says "let's only do gnome officially for a while and let the kde people suffer", i will go and 'suffer' my ati based laptop to gentoo. It works like gold on my secondary and i don't have to be shaking like a madman every 6 months.
And modding the parent down for no obvious reason is a lame move from mods. Stop it dudes, he didn't say anything wrong. LTS is a bad joke as far as i can tell (old packages, old bugs and no real solutions to the bugs because eliminating the bugs would introduce some new ones).
-- i get get-a-bigger-penis pill commercials every day, everywhere, from everywhere, and this is healthcare, kind of
-- i call over skype with my girlfriend, and i don't understand anything, something gets lost in the translation
-- 3 f-n words: WoW
-- see comment #1
-- happening all the time (neither of them is doing anything lately).
i'll make another point.
if you give them a truck load of rice, they'll be hungry tomorrow again.
of course the olpc is no world saver either. but if somebody would tell me let's buy 200 fishing rods for 200$ (in mass marketing, 1$ is a price for a pretty solid firm and simple rod with necessary equipment), they will have enough food for a village for years.
stop the rice ffs. give them fishing rods, give them seeds that they have to plant and can't eat right away. we can't support them forever.
ps. i still want the green toy named xo
So according to you, the war is over and the last gunshot deaths from Chechnya were just accidents where the locals ran into the bullets that stood in midair while the russian soldiers were not shooting at anyone ?
... The funny thing is that some americans think the same thing about iraq. But if the war is over, why are people still shooting each-other and dying, in both crisis places ? :)
Oh come on. This as good as "the iraq war is over"
my first job was given to me thanks to my perl skills. almost a decade ago. but you don't see me bashing it... why ?
;)
to be honest, your fear or dislikeness of perl as the whole is weird to say the least.
i have seen perl code that is a beauty compared to a lot of python crap that my eye has spotted, it's all a matter of style and self control. for the last few years i have kept away from both as much as possible.
python stops to be portable where i need it (if you browse the python docs really deeply you'll start to find a lot of "but"-s in it, also almost every external associative library like python-gtk tends to be stable and available like a striped elephant on a skateboard, mostly you don't have it, and if you get it the version is a mismatch and nothing tends to work as expected) and perl 5.x has a speed and threading issues (aside from ugly as hell 3rd party code).
just don't generalize things here, there are moments when perl kicks the a** of python without blinking the eye and vice versa, and none of the two is a true king (except of clunky syntax where python just owns everyone).
ps. nice jokes larry, but just throw the comic book aside and give us a working perl 6
you're correct. i can't really complain.
after all it's a free web page from a regular user's point of view.
_however_ i can choose not to donate one penny to wikipedia for a f-up like this. and not because of this single article story, but because of the way it was handled. jim should have brought it out to the open from the start, but no, they just had to do "something" "behind the curtains".
jimbo, stop it right there, before you destroy the wikipedia. if you have troubles with users or their writings, at least explain to people properly what's going on and why. just letting a group of admins silently "kill stuff off" and making it look like some mysterious dark thing does not work in 2007, the only thing that you'll get is resistance.
couldn't resist. this is just so "snatch" :
;-)
Turkish: F*ck me, hold tight. What's that?
Tommy: It's me belt, Turkish.
Turkish: No, Tommy. There's a Skype in your trousers. What's a Skype doing in your trousers?
Tommy: It's for protection.
Turkish: Protection from what? "Zee Germans"?
Proper DBAs will just get a major headache from people who read a book and screw up their db servers thinking that now they have "god mode" on.
People, unless you have more experience with databases than "my little php page with mysql", don't touch "real" databases. You will go in with a grand idea that was avoided before by real DBAs that knew where locks, indexes, replications, transactions. backups and failovers matter. Newbies come in, create a shiny little script that makes the rest of server cough blood and die in agony. If they are lucky, the annoying ignorant selfish DBA will come in and rescue the world or they'll just quit.
And the parent comment is not trolling, he's still correct. MySQL is way behind PostgreSQL and other rdbms-es. It did a good jump forward with 5.x releases, but it's still not quite there, and since the old generation DBAs are not going to move to it, MySQL will have to wait until its users catch up to get all the features and fixes in place. DB world is not a place where things happen over night.
Just knowing how to make a select or insert or left join makes you no king in real databases. It's experience, logic, control and flow that matters there.
Dudes ! Stop Watching Movies !
Seriously. The fact that half of California's west coast is obsessed with aliens taking over the planet does not mean that you have to believe this, this is never going to happen.
Think for more than 5 seconds. Why exactly would aliens want to conquer or destroy us ? If they are really so supreme, we're probably already just their amusement, like the hamsters in your cage at your home. Are you conquering the kindergarten every day just because you can ? No. Earth is not so valuable and we have already over-polluted it, it's like stealing your neighbours garbage can.
If there are superior forces out there, they don't want to have anything to do with us, they just keep away. We are stupid, agressive and spend half/most of our time by looking at electron cannons / lit up liquid crystals and entertain us with that. Our only enemies would be stupid and "advanced" people like ourselves, but they are too far away to reach us within thousands of years.
If there's anything in our solar system worth stealing at all, it's Jupiter. Or our Sun. But definitely not the garbage can that we call home.
can't disagree on the fact that the year is over.
...
... what exactly ... no really, what exactly did the iphone give you ? nokias and sony-ericssons had all these features punched into a phone in the beginning of 2006, some models had partial features from these even before. what the heck ? burn the time magazine, it's just a freaking commercial. a phone with all the features of the iphone was on the market already in 2006.
... but i don't really care. the phone may be "ok" for apple fans, for me it looks like a heavy rip off (locked software, locket networks ...) , some of us just don't want to admit it.
but my question is, where is the invention part of the iphone ? seriously, where is it ? can someone give me 1 example that's actually useful in the phone and that apple introduced as first ?
[x] we did have music playing phones before
[x] we did have videos playing phones before
[x] we did have web browsing phones before
[x] we did have locked down phones before
[x] we did have quite nice looking phones before
[x] we did have overhyped phones before
[x] we did have uncomfortable keyboards before
[x] we did have unstable calling quality phones before
so
i'll probably get heavily modded down by "true iPhone fans"
i can only second that.
....
i have 2 laptops, one running on nvidia go6200 graphics and the other running on ati x1400
it took me a while to get a proper dual screen layout working with ati, and even now i still get occasionally the freezes and cursor defects with ati. hasn't happened to me during the last 2-3 years of nvidia usage, but happens more than once a week on ati under ubuntu.
even the most braindead person having the full specs of nvidia linux driver (unlike ati's, you can get full doc from nvidia's site just like that), you get a proper setup within a day without googling around for what a dmitri or andrew has experimentally found out.
i chose linux as the platform so i could work without worrying about crashes or having to reboot within weeks or months of time, with the crashing ati it's not an option, you won't even last a week if you do anything that involves video streams or opengl. pity.
I for one welcome the geek overlords who show us HTML source and claim it's Python (see the video, "nice work").
But otherwise, thumbs up for OLPC, at least some poor kid will get to play tetris for what it's worth. And if 1 of 1000 kids of them learn to write python, even better.
2.6.20 ? dude !!!
:p
:D :D The lists are full of different proposals and attempts over different times, but it's really nice to see that this thing finally got rolling, this may open a lot of closed-source drivers for usage for linux people (a lot of those fancy windows toys).
;)
I know i'm hopelessy outdated and my machine shows:
martin@hope ~ $ uname -a
Linux hope 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 #1 Sat Jul 21 22:18:42 EEST 2007 i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-30 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Remove that gentoo notice quickly from your slashdot sig. A man using kernel 0.0.02 versions old is a stable version pimp not a gentoo roller...
As for the article
Userspace drivers are not really a new groundbreaking idea now are they
Thumbs up Linus
I don't know which miracle NAND pieces intel has invented this time, but if they still rely on the old reliable technology, it's slow. Yes sure it's faster than spinning around the disk, but i'll just prefer a 64bit amd box stacked up with as much ram as i can get, linux will take care of buffering the fs into there. Regarding the volatile thing, my machine hasn't crashed for a year, and if it crashes really bad, it can even screw up the data in the NAND, so it can't always help me, now can it ?
If you're familiar how electronics works, you obviously understand that really big writes and reads that pass through this unit, will actually slow down, not speed up. You will have the latency of the card in addition to the latency of your hdd.
One more card in your machine is one more thing that can break, and people who have used the NAND units (available so far) a bit more know that at some point they will start to break down. It has been written in their specs too, read those if in doubt.
Perhaps the NAND trick is a great idea for laptops that suspend/resume a lot, but for other machines, just buy the ram. It's probably cheaper, it's faster, it's not locked down behind the iron curtains of Intel, and most importantly, it's already there.
I second that. I'm a devoted fan of my nvidia powered laptop, unlike the integrated intel laptop that i had before, this doesn't stall at weird moments nor do i lag behind the graphics. The dedicated graphics card and it's private memory kick ass already in the usability. I have chosen my next laptop to be ati powered, just to see the difference (amd guys, fix that driver, now !).
And as it may come as a surprise to the thread starter, some people actually do play games with their laptops while on the move, sometimes just to relax, sometimes to beat the highscore of a friend in a public 2D flash game. You don't drag your Xbox on with you everywhere you go. Laptops are portable and therefor there when you need them, but this doesn't mean that they have to lag as hell on an integrated intel chip. Also keep in mind that there's other stuff than games that needs the power of a proper graphics chip with loads of ram.
Thumbs up for intel going public with their drivers, but totally thumbs down on their hardware. Dudes, duuuudes, seriously, you're not even near to nvidia/ati when you have kde running with 25 windows open. Just a scroll somewhere will make the intel cough blood while the ati or nvidia analogue just kicks on like nothing ever happened.
Lagging behind graphics will cut your productivity. Even if it's open source lag.
gecko itself is not the only one to blame, firefox has extra overhead and it's not marginal.
compare the speed of firefox to galeon or epiphany, the two latter just kick firefox's ass.
if you remember, the firefox came out from the browser called phoenix. it's a realy shame, i loved that browser for it's speed and ultrathin gui, now i've got a big messy fx in front of me and am just gazing how much memory one slashdot page can consume. the mozilla people did the very essential thing in software business
if aint broken, fix it until it is !
i can't wait for the promised fx 4.0 and am just very very afraid of what will be released until that rewrite arrives.