omg dude, where the hell did you graduate (if at all ?)
since when is pure water a greenhouse gas ? you seem to pretty sure that all clouds / snow / rain are products of greenhouse effect ?
according to your assumptions, how do you think do the countries near equator survive where tons of water is turning into steam by sun every second... ? billions tons of ocean water is evaporating every year, it seems if as we survive that one... at least we did until your post here...
go calculate how much water evaporates from newyork's high tower buildings every morning when the sun rises...
and fyi: burning gasoline produces tons of water too (gasoline molecul formulas are between C6H14 and C12H26, and a good "medium" compound is C8H18, so if you burn this with oxygen, you get more water molecules than you get CO2), and we have survived that one too, so if we can skip burning the carbon and get rid of massive CO2 production, we're at least one step closer to a cleaner world than we are now.
you definetly over estimate the gas production of cars and underestimate our other bad habits (power stations, local heat stations, you can probably continue the list here...)
i agree that currently hydrogen is mostly extracted from water with power of fossil/nuclear fuel... but it is possible to make hydrogen also with sun/wind power, which doesnt affect the climate in any measurable amount when compared to fossil/nuclear methods.
and as a positive point to all of this, the planet is overcrowded with humans that create pollution on every step that they make. the overgrowing doesnt seem to be slowing down and neither do we speed down the amount of energy we use each day (depressively this number is rising every day). so just face it, we are doomed. if we get lucky, the bird flu will give us a slight break...
you are probably just another one of those who dont read the previous post at all, just pick some words from it and roll on....
i was just noting down that not everything can be free
and the windshield inventing is a very good analogy ffs, if you invent something really good, you would like to make profit from it. people dont sit at biomedic labs from day-to-day to make living from polishing the apothecery floor one week later, they want to patent the stuff they create and make profit from it. in certain very fine lines of programming this should be the same.
people try to climb out of the blue-sky illusion box and check outside the door, there's a real world out there.
assume this for a second, you write something really good, decide that this is nogood for free software movement anyway (lets say some mysterious application that makes windows secure), you invest tons of money into developing its tricky code which is better than anything seen so far. you cross your fingers and make the first release, selling it 25$ a piece. 3 days later a russian schoolboy with a pc emulator starts to sell his version of the thing, it seems that he backtraced your code in the emulator and since it is HIS code now that he wrote (without spending any investments everywhere) he will start to sell it as Igorsky AntiVirus, only 15$ a piece... so without any possibility of patents you are probably in some very deep trouble now. no way even to get the money back that you deserve for inventing the stuff.
dont get me wrong now, i agree that patents on really simple and silly things are crap, serious crap. but on the other side, if nothing can be patented, then the software inventors have no real motivation to invent anything, because they wont earn anything from it (except experience and wisdom).
really difficult technologies should be protected by something, i just dont know if the patent itself is the ultimate thing, but its the closest this far. and a textfile with gpl text doesnt actually protect your code from anything nor will it really protect your investments.
as for the gpl licence, people dont start to dig a hole under the place where you are standing. such changes to the licence sure will look good in the ideological platform but dont make it any easier for the commercial companies like adobe/real/corel etc. to migrate into our linux world.
it may sound good, but it will mostly bring only trouble and commercial people will just roll back from the gpl to something else, probably to something that we dont like.
we all would like to get everything for free, but everything just cant be real.
and as odd as it may sound, not all of us want to live from servicing the software and its usage (at least i dont), cause its bad profit and with a short perspective.
and if anyone within reading radius can tell me how my first post was a troll, please do it:D
>>>> All software should be FREE! >>>> >>>> So we're going to freely share it with everyone we agree with.
----- yea right kiddie, you are probably just another of those free software users who has never spent sleepless night behind a computer trying to make a living from it.
programming is work as is anything else where people use their mind to create something from nothing. now if i really decide to write something for free, then this is *charity*.
would you go to a car factory or to a food market and tell them that "hey dudes, i want your cars/food for free!" , they would be pretty sure to classify you as a nutcase.
opensource free software is great, yes, i like to use it too (heck, i run debian and ubuntu every where i go), but everything has it's limits.
if you invent a superior antiwind shield for automobiles that is 50% better than the ones used right now, would you just go to car makers and say, hey, take it for free ? or would you prefer to charge some millions for it at first ?
it's the same with software, if someone writes code that indexes a database/filesystem 33% faster than anyone could do before, they have the right to ask money for it. weather they do it or not is up to them.
ofcourse if i write a patch or a simple program like some irc client or webserver addon, i dont go running around and screaming patents-profit-yada-yada , but there are pieces of software that deserve patents and i dont think you (according to you attitude here) are in any position to judge the authors of these special software pieces.
summary : free software is great, patenting yellow buttons is bad, patenting really complex pieces of software is actually pretty damn right, not everything you can think of should be free.
i guess you see my point, but i dont think most people do.
ofcourse most of us dont give much thought about the rats/mice/hamsters used in the tests, and sometimes the sacrificing is just necessary to save the healthy animals/humans that have survived so far.
but i for example have a cat at home, i'd rather infect the biologist that wants to experiment himself than my kitten, no matter the purpose.
i guess most people with pets couldn't even think about giving their cats/dogs/birds for some animal testings now would you.
humans are the product of evolution, the choice of nature. why are we so eager to choose by ourselves who survives next instead of letting the nature evolve new better and more resistant lifeforms ?
i guess we're just scared as hell, that over the last few decades our kind has been weakened so much that we would lose the battle. (here comes the planet of the apes...)
but i dont like the fact that they kill hamsters to find out if the cows are ok...
is there really no other way to make these tests than to kill innocent animals ? a hamster may be small but its still torturing and i'm ideologically against it. i wont go shout under their window with a sign in my hand but i definetly dont approve it. if we think it's normal to sacrifice one species animals for the sake of cheaper cow meat, what will keep the aliens from testing on us using our own behaviour as the excuse ?
i dont want to be used & deadly infected for finding out that an examination method is 16/18 % correct, do you ?
actually getting yellow teeth barely is any real concern for the health (it may look ugly but it doesnt kill you)
you should be althrough worried for the calcium levels that you affect with drinking coffee. in many studies coffee has been proved to be responsible for increasing calcium extraction from human body, therefor your teeth and bones will get weaker. this seems to be an individual dependant case however, not everybody is affected in the same range.
drinking enough milk will compensate this anyway, so if you are a real caffeine addict, just make sure you drink enough milk to keep the bones&teeth healthy and wash your teeth enough to keep em white. this way you wont break your bones while raising the coffe cup and wont need to go to dentist after your cup has accidently collided with your teeth.
i love coffee, and there is nothing that keeps me from drinking it. concidering the chances that *vogon* ships may be out here by next thursday doesnt make really worried about the fact that my teeth may get yellow. (i dont like thursdays, seriously i dont like them!)
ps. people who drink caffeine coffee should have their head examined.
i agree with you both, i prefer the goold old lilo too, grub is a nice try to make rocket science out of booting.... but who needs it ?
i dont. i have a reasonable setup in my lilo.conf (failsafe 2.4.x kernel, previous built kernel, current built kernel) and it works like a dream.
installed ubuntu on my laptop, wasted one day to find out how grub works. (could someone ffs write a readable and structured manual for this thing ?). some grub issues are really simple, some others are not.
anyway, i say that lilo works... and grub is usable...
and the author of the article was very sad that he couldnt edit the boot options at start while he booted lilo... this was a serious megalol... didnt he figure out that he could press shift (or whatever the magic key is on his pc) and write the whole boot line by himself ?
writing the line by yourself is as effective as the grub mega-giga shell editor, just without the whistles and bells:D
if you like real old-style , choose lilo, if you want to play with something new , pick grub. if you want to get messy, pick windows boot loader (oh baby)
why are you even bothering to mention the word mainframe?
the system was designed in the beginning of the 90-s
the super mega giga mainframe in front of it is probably smth that works on 486 or even worse, 386 processors (ok ok , i think actually they didnt use intel there but just as a comparision of speed and programming opportunities). even one hp/compaq ipaq handheld has more cpu power with it's 400mhz than this "mainframe".
now 10 years have passed, one mainframe from today can "choke" the hour work of the mainframe used back then, not to mention that software has evolved massivly (anyone besides me remembering running windows 3.1, some kind of modem/telnet hyperterm application and netscape 3 gold?)
get real pople, the stuff is old, it's a wonder it has survived this far. and it has nothing to do with any wireless thing you may encounter(you still need good parallel computing and data storage, therefor something that at least works like a mainframe:D )
at first, mono is no imaginable way more secure than java, java is being tested by millions of programmers, thats why flaws are detected, if mono would have millions of users, it would definetly have an enormous bug database:D
and now to the real world part, what should i do with that thing you call mono or the windows executable on my 104 node sun server ? stick it up it's ventilation shaft ? read my lips : your toy doesnt scale nor probably even run on it.
or should i just try to fit your mono into my mobile phone with 1 meg of ram... i doubt that even the licence agreement of.net itself would fit in there....net and mono are completely different from java in every sense, this is a pointless comparision, just the same as if you would compare a rocket with a jet.
people who cant handle java choose something else. people who dont need java choose something else. i know that java has many flaws but.Net definetly is.Not the answer for most of them. so why go on some fresh born platform when you can choose something that works ?
bush is more similar with adolf than java is with dotNet.
i just guess that actually it doesnt have anything to do with the weather, their windows xp just crashed and now they wait up there until they see longhorn... happy waiting
the last gpl flash thong that i saw had a divizion by zero error in it's sound handling...
the result was that my mozilla tended to crash on every flash page that used flash...:(
i just removed it and am using the macromedia thingy now, if you really want a gpl replacement pls try to avoid stupid errors like divizion by zero and others alike... none will use your plugin if it crashes their browsers:S
i'm affraid that even doom3 doesn't have a "fluid" engine but a ticking one (e.g. 250 ticks are done every second, and each bot/player decides if or not it does a move within some of these ticks).
bots have the same knowledge base (they read the same memory about eachothers and your position) , only some limitations (visuality emulation filtering) on it. on a same machine with a single/dual processor accessing the same memory this technology is pretty fast. and also, bot engines are usually quite simple (they don't have to analyze a visual display to see the enemies, they just have to work on some !cached! matrixes of objects). if every bot would run on it's own memory then the memory latency would punch the whole idea into a big black nothing (the matrixes are quite huge and "links" between machines literally 'sucks' in such unit amounts)
so making the bots run on different threads won't really give you that much cause you'll get latency when talking to each bots and they get latency on "talking" to eachother...
ofcourse it is possible to create one such supergame with a fluid engine and independent smart bots but doom3 surely isn't there yet (no need for it on the marketplace, yet)...
on the other hand, if they would build a machine that has 96 cpu's working on one memory that they all share (and that still has a reasonable speed under such circumstances) it would be veeerryyy impressive to see 94 bots having fun:)
actually it really can't win that many rounds as you may think, as all the cpu's are not directly attached to eachother, enormous latencys are created between them (in terms of computing, not in human terms)...
so basically if it plays one pong at the time, it really can't beat a single chip machine doing the same (as it tries to scale a simple computation over multiple chips it may even be worse)...
but ofcourse if you make it play 96 pongs at the same time... it rocks !
ofcourse... playing 96 doom3-s at the same time would be interesting... (96keyboards & mice needed ?:p)
i live in a small country in northern europe, we aint exactly poor but we earn usually less money here than the european and american workers that have the same job.
most here people dont buy windows here, they use some pirate version or have chosen linux instead. cause they just can't afford to spend money on software. besides the local people here really have no respect for software as a product.
russia is right beside us, people there earn even less. bill gates in his wildest dream can't sell no windows starter edition over here (they have launched it there, but believe me, there is no progress on selling there). i wouldn't wonder if their government would use pirated versions of microsofts tools too.
brazil is somewhat on the same level of economy as russia. a big country, and no money whatsoever (at least on the hands of microsoft's target group).
if you give a brazillian a choice to buy a limited windows version, pirate a windows version or use linux, he will choose one of the two last, no doubt about it.
none is really interested in buying a limited version of windows in a country where a solid worker earns the fee of window's licence in 1-2 months.
bsd licence is even more FREE as the beer in gpl...
so why would u like them to switch down on the freedom level ? so everyone who writes 2-liner patch to the app would have the responsibility to release the "patch" to the public just to apply to the gpl licence ?:p
just go and read both licences (bsd and gpl) , compare them 1:1... and try to figure out why do we need gpl in the first place ?
[zillion projects start out in gpl, and then turn into some kind of commercial crap anyway, change the gpl licence to some form of incorporate free-but-not-free licence etc. , so why bother pushing everything into a gpl that doesnt werk ?]
i don't know what you understand under administrating a box.
from my point of view a normal unix box administration: check a few security patches from the server with one command line, since the rest of the office don't have their own systems but use mine, i'm done with it usually in about 10 seconds...
on windows... let's bring up crashing slow windows update site every second day incase i don't wanna be wormed over...
now if you can't see a difference here, you should get some eyeglasses or smth.
anyway, just to make a point, i'm not bashing at *nix beats m$, i'm just beating the point that administrating a *nix machine has became much easier than administrating windows, just think of all that spyware shit and viruses... wuush:S
(i actually couldn't imagine myself running some anti spyware and antivirus scans every night:S)
anyway, why should i care if 99.99% of the people on earth are stupid enough to buy windows for their money if they could have *bsd or linux for free ?
it's easy... i DON'T care...
if i want to to put up a server, i choose a reasonable amd/linux or amd/*bsd box, if i want to put up a pc for nephew who only wants to play around, i could consider windows.
but where the hell do you come from dear marcus? i wonder if we have TONS of unix specific server software already which basically only works because it's being run on unix, how can everyone's future be in bloody w*nd*ws ? it can't be, someone has to manage the software, and someone has to make improvements to it even if bill gates takes over the world.
considering the major security 'features' that windows has by todays date, a proper investor should be insane if he would set his server software running on windows..
marcus, i think you are a gui lover, go do it, love it , i don't care...
but please don't try to be ultra provisional and generate stupid ideas from the watermark that you saw in the toilet w1nd0ws will never be as popular as it was in 1995-2002... it can only go down from there ( you should at least try to learn a bit about history and evolvment... nothing ever lasts, especially if it is as unstable is the redmond crap )
"To run the build I have, you need about 5mb of memory to display www.google.com."
and can someone remember who was the one who said that 64kb is enough for everything ?
i remember when i used to play around with an Elektronika computer which was built in USSR, it the same massive 64kb of ram and only a floppy drive....
everything that was supposed to work, worked.
ofcourse.. the www wasn't invented just yet... not even mentioning windows or any browsers...
argh these good old days...
anyway... there must be something wrong both with platform and the browser if the simplest page on the net need 5mb to render itself:(
This whole scandal just came up because mcdonalds decided to cut their running costs and close their SpaceDonalds, which would have supplied the spacemen.. ofcourse...
that wouldn't have been healthy but at least we wouldn't have to send up zillion dollar rockets to feed 2 astronauts...
don't forget about the fact that australia is probably producing about 5% of pollution or even less than USA...
if US would accept the protocol, they would save more than australia can pollute at full throttle...
bush is just scared, he knows that americas weak economy wouldn't survive such a hit.
how can someone be so damn dumb that he practically refuses life to his grandchildren ???
yet more, how can someone be against saving the planet anyway, why not just shoot himself at the time being, there's no point to wait until we all run out of oxygen and the warm climate... (maybe you'll miss some first posts on slashdot but who cares ?)
Slashdot Mirror
omg dude, where the hell did you graduate (if at all ?)
... ? billions tons of ocean water is evaporating every year, it seems if as we survive that one ... at least we did until your post here ...
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... but it is possible to make hydrogen also with sun/wind power, which doesnt affect the climate in any measurable amount when compared to fossil/nuclear methods.
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since when is pure water a greenhouse gas ? you seem to pretty sure that all clouds / snow / rain are products of greenhouse effect ?
according to your assumptions, how do you think do the countries near equator survive where tons of water is turning into steam by sun every second
go calculate how much water evaporates from newyork's high tower buildings every morning when the sun rises
and fyi: burning gasoline produces tons of water too (gasoline molecul formulas are between C6H14 and C12H26, and a good "medium" compound is C8H18, so if you burn this with oxygen, you get more water molecules than you get CO2), and we have survived that one too, so if we can skip burning the carbon and get rid of massive CO2 production, we're at least one step closer to a cleaner world than we are now.
you definetly over estimate the gas production of cars and underestimate our other bad habits (power stations, local heat stations, you can probably continue the list here...)
i agree that currently hydrogen is mostly extracted from water with power of fossil/nuclear fuel
and as a positive point to all of this, the planet is overcrowded with humans that create pollution on every step that they make. the overgrowing doesnt seem to be slowing down and neither do we speed down the amount of energy we use each day (depressively this number is rising every day). so just face it, we are doomed. if we get lucky, the bird flu will give us a slight break
you are probably just another one of those who dont read the previous post at all, just pick some words from it and roll on ....
:D
i was just noting down that not everything can be free
and the windshield inventing is a very good analogy ffs, if you invent something really good, you would like to make profit from it. people dont sit at biomedic labs from day-to-day to make living from polishing the apothecery floor one week later, they want to patent the stuff they create and make profit from it. in certain very fine lines of programming this should be the same.
people try to climb out of the blue-sky illusion box and check outside the door, there's a real world out there.
assume this for a second, you write something really good, decide that this is nogood for free software movement anyway (lets say some mysterious application that makes windows secure), you invest tons of money into developing its tricky code which is better than anything seen so far. you cross your fingers and make the first release, selling it 25$ a piece. 3 days later a russian schoolboy with a pc emulator starts to sell his version of the thing, it seems that he backtraced your code in the emulator and since it is HIS code now that he wrote (without spending any investments everywhere) he will start to sell it as Igorsky AntiVirus, only 15$ a piece... so without any possibility of patents you are probably in some very deep trouble now. no way even to get the money back that you deserve for inventing the stuff.
dont get me wrong now, i agree that patents on really simple and silly things are crap, serious crap. but on the other side, if nothing can be patented, then the software inventors have no real motivation to invent anything, because they wont earn anything from it (except experience and wisdom).
really difficult technologies should be protected by something, i just dont know if the patent itself is the ultimate thing, but its the closest this far. and a textfile with gpl text doesnt actually protect your code from anything nor will it really protect your investments.
as for the gpl licence, people dont start to dig a hole under the place where you are standing. such changes to the licence sure will look good in the ideological platform but dont make it any easier for the commercial companies like adobe/real/corel etc. to migrate into our linux world.
it may sound good, but it will mostly bring only trouble and commercial people will just roll back from the gpl to something else, probably to something that we dont like.
we all would like to get everything for free, but everything just cant be real.
and as odd as it may sound, not all of us want to live from servicing the software and its usage (at least i dont), cause its bad profit and with a short perspective.
and if anyone within reading radius can tell me how my first post was a troll, please do it
>>>> All software should be FREE!
>>>>
>>>> So we're going to freely share it with everyone we agree with.
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yea right kiddie, you are probably just another of those free software users who has never spent sleepless night behind a computer trying to make a living from it.
programming is work as is anything else where people use their mind to create something from nothing. now if i really decide to write something for free, then this is *charity*.
would you go to a car factory or to a food market and tell them that "hey dudes, i want your cars/food for free!" , they would be pretty sure to classify you as a nutcase.
opensource free software is great, yes, i like to use it too (heck, i run debian and ubuntu every where i go), but everything has it's limits.
if you invent a superior antiwind shield for automobiles that is 50% better than the ones used right now, would you just go to car makers and say, hey, take it for free ? or would you prefer to charge some millions for it at first ?
it's the same with software, if someone writes code that indexes a database/filesystem 33% faster than anyone could do before, they have the right to ask money for it. weather they do it or not is up to them.
ofcourse if i write a patch or a simple program like some irc client or webserver addon, i dont go running around and screaming patents-profit-yada-yada , but there are pieces of software that deserve patents and i dont think you (according to you attitude here) are in any position to judge the authors of these special software pieces.
summary : free software is great, patenting yellow buttons is bad, patenting really complex pieces of software is actually pretty damn right, not everything you can think of should be free.
i guess you see my point, but i dont think most people do.
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ofcourse most of us dont give much thought about the rats/mice/hamsters used in the tests, and sometimes the sacrificing is just necessary to save the healthy animals/humans that have survived so far.
but i for example have a cat at home, i'd rather infect the biologist that wants to experiment himself than my kitten, no matter the purpose.
i guess most people with pets couldn't even think about giving their cats/dogs/birds for some animal testings now would you.
humans are the product of evolution, the choice of nature. why are we so eager to choose by ourselves who survives next instead of letting the nature evolve new better and more resistant lifeforms ?
i guess we're just scared as hell, that over the last few decades our kind has been weakened so much that we would lose the battle. (here comes the planet of the apes
but i dont like the fact that they kill hamsters to find out if the cows are ok ...
is there really no other way to make these tests than to kill innocent animals ? a hamster may be small but its still torturing and i'm ideologically against it. i wont go shout under their window with a sign in my hand but i definetly dont approve it. if we think it's normal to sacrifice one species animals for the sake of cheaper cow meat, what will keep the aliens from testing on us using our own behaviour as the excuse ?
i dont want to be used & deadly infected for finding out that an examination method is 16/18 % correct, do you ?
oopsie, that last line should be
:)
ps. people who drink caffeine **FREE** coffee should have their head examined.
my mistake, (i even used preview this time, but didnt notice the missing word) sry
actually getting yellow teeth barely is any real concern for the health (it may look ugly but it doesnt kill you)
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you should be althrough worried for the calcium levels that you affect with drinking coffee. in many studies coffee has been proved to be responsible for increasing calcium extraction from human body, therefor your teeth and bones will get weaker. this seems to be an individual dependant case however, not everybody is affected in the same range.
see this link
http://www.cosic.org/coffee-and-health/bone-healt
drinking enough milk will compensate this anyway, so if you are a real caffeine addict, just make sure you drink enough milk to keep the bones&teeth healthy and wash your teeth enough to keep em white. this way you wont break your bones while raising the coffe cup and wont need to go to dentist after your cup has accidently collided with your teeth.
i love coffee, and there is nothing that keeps me from drinking it. concidering the chances that *vogon* ships may be out here by next thursday doesnt make really worried about the fact that my teeth may get yellow. (i dont like thursdays, seriously i dont like them!)
ps. people who drink caffeine coffee should have their head examined.
i agree with you both, i prefer the goold old lilo too, grub is a nice try to make rocket science out of booting .... but who needs it ?
... and grub is usable ...
... this was a serious megalol ... didnt he figure out that he could press shift (or whatever the magic key is on his pc) and write the whole boot line by himself ?
:D
:)
i dont. i have a reasonable setup in my lilo.conf (failsafe 2.4.x kernel, previous built kernel, current built kernel) and it works like a dream.
installed ubuntu on my laptop, wasted one day to find out how grub works. (could someone ffs write a readable and structured manual for this thing ?). some grub issues are really simple, some others are not.
anyway, i say that lilo works
and the author of the article was very sad that he couldnt edit the boot options at start while he booted lilo
writing the line by yourself is as effective as the grub mega-giga shell editor, just without the whistles and bells
if you like real old-style , choose lilo, if you want to play with something new , pick grub. if you want to get messy, pick windows boot loader (oh baby)
ps. freebsd has a cute bootloader too
why are you even bothering to mention the word mainframe?
:D )
the system was designed in the beginning of the 90-s
the super mega giga mainframe in front of it is probably smth that works on 486 or even worse, 386 processors (ok ok , i think actually they didnt use intel there but just as a comparision of speed and programming opportunities). even one hp/compaq ipaq handheld has more cpu power with it's 400mhz than this "mainframe".
now 10 years have passed, one mainframe from today can "choke" the hour work of the mainframe used back then, not to mention that software has evolved massivly (anyone besides me remembering running windows 3.1, some kind of modem/telnet hyperterm application and netscape 3 gold?)
get real pople, the stuff is old, it's a wonder it has survived this far. and it has nothing to do with any wireless thing you may encounter(you still need good parallel computing and data storage, therefor something that at least works like a mainframe
at first, mono is no imaginable way more secure than java, java is being tested by millions of programmers, thats why flaws are detected, if mono would have millions of users, it would definetly have an enormous bug database :D
... i doubt that even the licence agreement of .net itself would fit in there ... .net and mono are completely different from java in every sense, this is a pointless comparision, just the same as if you would compare a rocket with a jet.
.Net definetly is .Not the answer for most of them. so why go on some fresh born platform when you can choose something that works ?
and now to the real world part, what should i do with that thing you call mono or the windows executable on my 104 node sun server ? stick it up it's ventilation shaft ? read my lips : your toy doesnt scale nor probably even run on it.
or should i just try to fit your mono into my mobile phone with 1 meg of ram
people who cant handle java choose something else. people who dont need java choose something else. i know that java has many flaws but
bush is more similar with adolf than java is with dotNet.
i just guess that actually it doesnt have anything to do with the weather, their windows xp just crashed ... happy waiting
...
and now they wait up there until they see longhorn
Need Another Software Asap
the last gpl flash thong that i saw had a divizion by zero error in it's sound handling ...
... :(
... none will use your plugin if it crashes their browsers :S
the result was that my mozilla tended to crash on every flash page that used flash
i just removed it and am using the macromedia thingy now, if you really want a gpl replacement pls try to avoid stupid errors like divizion by zero and others alike
make it work & i'll use it
i'm affraid that even doom3 doesn't have a "fluid" engine but a ticking one (e.g. 250 ticks are done every second, and each bot/player decides if or not it does a move within some of these ticks).
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:)
bots have the same knowledge base (they read the same memory about eachothers and your position) , only some limitations (visuality emulation filtering) on it. on a same machine with a single/dual processor accessing the same memory this technology is pretty fast. and also, bot engines are usually quite simple (they don't have to analyze a visual display to see the enemies, they just have to work on some !cached! matrixes of objects). if every bot would run on it's own memory then the memory latency would punch the whole idea into a big black nothing (the matrixes are quite huge and "links" between machines literally 'sucks' in such unit amounts)
so making the bots run on different threads won't really give you that much cause you'll get latency when talking to each bots and they get latency on "talking" to eachother
ofcourse it is possible to create one such supergame with a fluid engine and independent smart bots but doom3 surely isn't there yet (no need for it on the marketplace, yet)
on the other hand, if they would build a machine that has 96 cpu's working on one memory that they all share (and that still has a reasonable speed under such circumstances) it would be veeerryyy impressive to see 94 bots having fun
actually it really can't win that many rounds as you may think, as all the cpu's are not directly attached to eachother, enormous latencys are created between them (in terms of computing, not in human terms) ...
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... it rocks !
... playing 96 doom3-s at the same time would be interesting ... (96keyboards & mice needed ? :p)
so basically if it plays one pong at the time, it really can't beat a single chip machine doing the same (as it tries to scale a simple computation over multiple chips it may even be worse)
but ofcourse if you make it play 96 pongs at the same time
ofcourse
just wait until some klingons kick his ass for a while until the new episodes/series will start coming :)
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:)
i love the show, because it's different, and it has a good attitude
and never mind the people on the net that there's a planet called earth and that it's lifeforms can be found just out of your door
i live in a small country in northern europe, we aint exactly poor but we earn usually less money here than the european and american workers that have the same job.
most here people dont buy windows here, they use some pirate version or have chosen linux instead. cause they just can't afford to spend money on software. besides the local people here really have no respect for software as a product.
russia is right beside us, people there earn even less. bill gates in his wildest dream can't sell no windows starter edition over here (they have launched it there, but believe me, there is no progress on selling there). i wouldn't wonder if their government would use pirated versions of microsofts tools too.
brazil is somewhat on the same level of economy as russia. a big country, and no money whatsoever (at least on the hands of microsoft's target group).
if you give a brazillian a choice to buy a limited windows version, pirate a windows version or use linux, he will choose one of the two last, no doubt about it.
none is really interested in buying a limited version of windows in a country where a solid worker earns the fee of window's licence in 1-2 months.
bsd licence is even more FREE as the beer in gpl ...
:p
... and try to figure out why do we need gpl in the first place ?
so why would u like them to switch down on the freedom level ? so everyone who writes 2-liner patch to the app would have the responsibility to release the "patch" to the public just to apply to the gpl licence ?
just go and read both licences (bsd and gpl) , compare them 1:1
[zillion projects start out in gpl, and then turn into some kind of commercial crap anyway, change the gpl licence to some form of incorporate free-but-not-free licence etc. , so why bother pushing everything into a gpl that doesnt werk ?]
yeah, and just a re ...
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... let's bring up crashing slow windows update site every second day incase i don't wanna be wormed over ...
... wuush :S
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i don't know what you understand under administrating a box.
from my point of view a normal unix box administration:
check a few security patches from the server with one command line, since the rest of the office don't have their own systems but use mine, i'm done with it usually in about 10 seconds
on windows
now if you can't see a difference here, you should get some eyeglasses or smth.
anyway, just to make a point, i'm not bashing at *nix beats m$, i'm just beating the point that administrating a *nix machine has became much easier than administrating windows, just think of all that spyware shit and viruses
(i actually couldn't imagine myself running some anti spyware and antivirus scans every night
oh ... you are insane ? ok :D
... i DON'T care ...
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... it can only go down from there ( you should at least try to learn a bit about history and evolvment ... nothing ever lasts, especially if it is as unstable is the redmond crap )
anyway, why should i care if 99.99% of the people on earth are stupid enough to buy windows for their money if they could have *bsd or linux for free ?
it's easy
if i want to to put up a server, i choose a reasonable amd/linux or amd/*bsd box, if i want to put up a pc for nephew who only wants to play around, i could consider windows.
but where the hell do you come from dear marcus? i wonder if we have TONS of unix specific server software already which basically only works because it's being run on unix, how can everyone's future be in bloody w*nd*ws ? it can't be, someone has to manage the software, and someone has to make improvements to it even if bill gates takes over the world.
considering the major security 'features' that windows has by todays date, a proper investor should be insane if he would set his server software running on windows
marcus, i think you are a gui lover, go do it, love it , i don't care
but please don't try to be ultra provisional and generate stupid ideas from the watermark that you saw in the toilet
w1nd0ws will never be as popular as it was in 1995-2002
"To run the build I have, you need about 5mb of memory to display www.google.com."
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.. the www wasn't invented just yet ... not even mentioning windows or any browsers ...
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... there must be something wrong both with platform and the browser if the simplest page on the net need 5mb to render itself :(
and can someone remember who was the one who said that 64kb is enough for everything ?
i remember when i used to play around with an Elektronika computer which was built in USSR, it the same massive 64kb of ram and only a floppy drive
everything that was supposed to work, worked.
ofcourse
argh these good old days
anyway
a madman on fire imagining that he can fly like batman ??? .....
c00l
This whole scandal just came up because mcdonalds decided to cut their running costs and close their SpaceDonalds, which would have supplied the spacemen .. ofcourse ...
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that wouldn't have been healthy but at least we wouldn't have to send up zillion dollar rockets to feed 2 astronauts
my gf is already suspicios at every kind of female application names and codenames.
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let me just tell her that i'll spend most of the evening playing around with some susan that just arrived and learning what is she like
does anyone else have issues with female app. names ?
isn't slashdotting the site that actually explains how we have evolved to this slashdot community kind of ironical ?
:)
this would be the same as if we all took trucks to visit the first oil pumping station and we would run out of gas
don't forget about the fact that australia is probably producing about 5% of pollution or even less than USA ...
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... (maybe you'll miss some first posts on slashdot but who cares ?)
if US would accept the protocol, they would save more than australia can pollute at full throttle
bush is just scared, he knows that americas weak economy wouldn't survive such a hit.
how can someone be so damn dumb that he practically refuses life to his grandchildren ???
yet more, how can someone be against saving the planet anyway, why not just shoot himself at the time being, there's no point to wait until we all run out of oxygen and the warm climate