It's so sweet to see that some people still naively believe in the hoax of democracy and think that they elect the leaders and therefor the new good time will start:)
It doesn't matter what's the name of the player that is sitting on the chair, it matters what is behind him. in united states it's either bad guys who have been paid off by the industry or the other bad guys who have done exactly the same. you can change the name on the chairs every day if you want to, but nothing will change (too little too late).
You already tried it out, some people voted arnold to become the head of california... and guess what, nothing changed (except some ashaming pr events). The parties could aswell put rubber puppets onto the chairs, the effect will remain the same.
And even if through some miracle you could get an independent candidate up there, then most of the time he has to continue or fix up the mess of the previous man at the job. Without the help from a big strong (offpaid) party, he/she doesn't have the time to go to the toilet and therefor the stuff that you elected for, you still won't get:)
Democracy died a long time ago, at least on that side of the atlantic ocean.
for 114$ you can get a via epia motherboard with the cpu, add memory and hdd and boot it up. usual 'integrated everything' onboard, vga out, s-video out, 5.1 audio etc.
150$ for a ~400mhz 64-bit risc cpu powered machine is a robbery in year 2006. even the via epia series will probably be faster.
and ffs s-video ? most chinese people probably have 21" 60hz good old tv-s, can you imagine the impact on their eyes from looking at 640x480pixel image at 60hz with radiation of the old tech tv ?
ofcourse performance wise, geode kicks the butt of via. and most probably, they will both kick the butt of that 64 bit risc thing.
ps. does anyone have a link to a site that sells transmeta cpu's along with motherboards ?
in my company, around 12 desktops, 3 running linux, mighty 25%:)
we got a bunch of linux servers aswell but i don't take these into account. it just depends on the company type that you have and how concerned your workforce is.
yay, input boxes use fixed width font, slashdot doesn't... anyway i' guess you'll understand what i meant (and maybe how wrong i could be on the idea...)
Why do we have to pump water through the microchip ?
Yeah sure, it gives us probably almost the most efficient way to cool things down since water has excellent figures on leading and consuming heat. But it's rather complicated aswell, one problem is stuff can get stuck in the microchannels, the other one is that it has to be really tight and it get's very fragile.
Why won't amd and intel and all the other `hottie makers` just include heatpipes into the design of the cpu ? it would help a lot aswell:)
I will draw an (really advanced:p) figure how'd i do it here :
C - cpu core components x - heatpipe inside cpu H - heatpipes coming out
H H H H xxxxxxxxxxxxx xCCCCCXCCCCCx xxCCCxxxCCCxx xCCCCCxCCCCCx
Now we just have to attach the cooler to the heatpipe's base, if it has it's own compatible heatpipes, it can continue them (infact they could even share the same liquid/gas to transport the heat, it just has to be done very cleanly)
Computers are small, creating direct contact would be rather simple (not simple as do-it-yourself wifi antenna but still, compared to microchannels and water filtering...)
It would have far better heat transmission than the current cpu's that depend on some metal plate being pushed against them and with some luck having some kind of thermal paste between. When you think about the current design, it looks like a gearbox of a mini sitting behind Schumacher.
nope, they are just up to date (too bad it's as "up to date with new viruses" and not "up to date with antivirus libraries").
they use antivirus scanners, they use the firewall and they use malware removers, but you can't cure the cancer (chuck norris still isn't producing tears).
i don't think that the design it has will make it fall apart without electricity. however losing balance is most likely to happen:)
however this is no way going to end the need for wheelchairs, there are far too many people out there who have more serious problems than missing or unfunctional real legs. quite many children with th rh+/- syndrom have serious stability issues so they'd fail to keep balance unless they are in the wheelchair.
people will always need wheelchairs.
and when i'm in a private hospital, i want a sexy nurse to drive me around with the wheelchair not some kind of robotic bumps under me
ps. is it just me or is it a bit interesting that this story came out right after the crippled firewall on windows ? will the robolegs be able to compensate that ?
boy are you lucky that i don't have modpoints on my hands right now.
1ghz ultrasparc III is rather fast and didn't get beaten by amd or intel by a mile when it came out. it's pretty close, and for it's platform design along with the cpu, it's pretty ok.
secondly, if you run 128 threads at the same time, amd and intel will be d.e.a.d. while niagara still kicks around. amd's or intel's dual cores on this will still mean 64 context switches per core while for niagara it would be 4 context switches per core.
smart money votes for the cpu that does the job. if you have a machine that has to handle lots and lots of stuff at the same time, niagara will win while intel and amd are still switching contexts.
ps. you seem to be forgetting about the fact that the memory limitation on regular x86_64's that you can "just buy" is still enormously low compared to the regular sun workstations.
you can't throw your lowmemory applications at the systems and say that damn ultrasparc is slow and x86 is fast, if you run linux on x86_64 with highram enabled, it aint that fast either anymore.
"Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too."
and now it will ship with half of it's firewall turned off...
i have to agree, windows makes me nervous, that's why i keep away from it (and don't waste half of the working day fighting viruses like my colleagues do).
this sounds like... austin powers (now which one is it, spit or swallow ? (o)
ps. democracy in software developement doesn't always pay off, there are quite a bunch of examples where very strongly lead software can make a big hit (i think into the list would fit oracle, skype, and even the very hated and useless windows (if it sells in millions, it is a hit...))
i a gree about the powervirus part. since microsoft has quite a bad backlog on security in the last... emm.. many years, it's quite unlikely that this would bulletproof.
but hey, it's at least it's the first three-dee virus platform:)
very many of todays projects are today started on linux/jboss combo just because of the low startup cost. if the project becomes massive, it will become cheaper to have oracle than maintaining an complicated jboss combination with many dependancies from different software producers.
i don't even see these products in the same league, redhat+jboss isn't really comparable with oracle if you take a look deeper what oracle has to offer. sure it's expensive, but it also does things that aren't that simple in big&complicated solutions. ofcourse for little tasks it's very very much the other way around.
it's not like comparing a little and a big car. it's like comparing a common trucking service versus DHL. with some help from external companies the trucking service can definitely do the same thing, but the cost to run and cost to develope raises exponentially while DHL can keep it reasonable and more controlled.
this is just my opinion, you are free to disagree.
i avoid oracle on every step that i can, i'm not trying to build a telecom here
you will hardly get a 50% gain of overall performance gain:(
the motherboard and disk access will still be slow as hell. but sometimes even a 10% gain in the right place makes you feel a lot better;)/* when are we going to get non spinning storage that beats the %^* out of scsi ? */
well i would use a via epia based box as a replacement for vcr/dvd player;) i'd still use the tv along with it, but i would definitely enjoy the possibilities of a computer at the same time. sure it doesn't do doom3, but if the system needs less than 20W of energy (less than a regular light bulb), it's still a good package. noiseless, what's most important.
hush and tranquil are the ready-to-get boxes out there already. see mini-itx.com if it raises any kind of interest.
there are also intel/amd based miniboxes out there, but those all come with a fan and greater energy consumption, which i just don't need. interesting tho that there are no cheap boxes with amd geode inside, it would make a better job than these via chips do (i guess the same questionmark is about the absence of transmeta based boxes).
Wouldn't be so sure at this point, they are using 4 machines to load-balance a mysql server with 2 storage points ? Perhaps the ultra monkey is a good name for it...
Is it just me or does it seem a bit bad idea in most cases where the data amount is small but traffic is high? The latencies created all over this ultra monkey setup will make it slow, if compared to one smtp box with 2 cpu's and a really good raid card in it, attached to 15k rpm scsi disks, i don't think there's much of a difference in performance for that case (and little data, lots of interaction is the most common thing that you meet with mysql). As for failover, multiple machines sure look great, but right now this scheme here seems to depend on 1 management node, if that one falls down, nothing works and 3 machines stand around scratching their head ? Maybe 2 management nodes and 4+4 machines for loadbalancing/sql nodes would have more impact ? Machines really don't cost much today, having downtime is much more expensive.
People who need it, probably already know how to it. The ones who can't, can makes things even worse.
* innodb and myisam storage engines not supported * to add one node, whole cluster has to restart * fulltext doesn't work * stuff stored in memory * transactions are kept to some level, so a massive power failure doesn't really kill you (it gives you the rope) * The NDB engine does not support foreign key constraints. As with MyISAM tables, these are ignored. * you can have multiple management nodes, i'd suggest you have more than 1 to make failover effective:) * it is advised to keep your transactions short;)
Porting stuff from an existing innodb based application over to this, may be quite an effort.
The mysql doc however contains no word about stored procedures. So i wouldn't bet my 5 cents on it yet.
All-in-all, it's nice to see people sharing knowledge and it's nice to see that people put effort into making mysql as the most common opensource rdb clusterable. My opinion is that perhaps a bit more effort is needed, but at least people are making the steps in the right direction.
there will always be a way to smuggle the childporn around on the net. they can't even stop people from sharing normal movies and music.
i'd say let's just eliminate the problem.
if a man/woman is found watching child porn and satisfying himself with it, or a dealer is cought transmitting, arrest them, if they are found guilty in court , SHOOT THEM! Nobody will miss them. You can do the same with rapists and drug dealers, if the proof and evidence found is clear as crystal.
childporn isn't normal, not by a long shot.
and if everyone you boosts off with "human rights, maybe some of them are not guilty" , i will ask you, if abusing the children for that kind of perverse shit is human ? is it human to leave 99 perverts alive because one of them wasn't guilty ? you have to draw the damn line somewhere.
before you answer to me with a nice trollish attitude, consider the fact that there are zillion horny pervs out there that are trying to buy off your child with candies right there by the playground. do you really want them there ?
for the pervs this would mean a choice between life or childporn. if they choose the second one, they're not worth to live anyway, don't you think ?
"If you need to learn a language to better market yourself, I suggest AJAX."
i almost fall down the bed when i read this. the only language mentioned in the ajax name is javascript. you can be a damn guru of javascript but 99% companies don't hire people for knowing javascript ^^. well xml is also kindof a language, but it's a markup language, i think even my grandmother could pick that up...
i suggest to all `workless` dudes to try out everything you see, sure you can start up with C#,php or/and ajax, but make sure you know what C really can do, what tricks are cool in python and ruby, and why c++ is bad. make a full blown java application and see that on the serverside java is blitzing fast, make a cool oneliner in perl that can format your harddisk to ext2. try to use every database that you see, make hard use of xml and see how slow it really is.
if you can afford it, get a testing machine for home, try to run a every possible combination of operating system/database/language/toolkits that you know. you can't learn this by the books or in the class. books are outdated before they make it out the printing facilty. teachers often only know what they learned 10-20 years ago. for lowend programming nothing really has changed, but for high end, everything has changed:p
in my vision, the it power of year 2006 doesn't reflect in any degrees or single languages that you have learned, it's all about the long time experience and the ability to adopt new things on the run.
there are at least NxN better programmers out there (at least better in their own field) than you are, but luckily for you, half of them only write fortran:p
and get a hobby outside the computers, fishing, basketball, soccer, watching babes, japanese twins, whatever relaxes your mind (and body). the brain works like a win98 machine, you have to restart it sometimes to get past a problem, doing your non-computer hobby is the restart button.
Now that i've driven everyone off to japanese twins and basketball, i can grab your marketshare and live happily everafter (but you still got the fun...)
1280x768 , is that some kind of ultra ultra wide screen ?:p
i've got a widescreen with 1280x800 over here (and luckily on a 15.4" screen, so i can see the pixels too)
i use x11 with 100dpi fonts, usually size 10 or 11... so this means the text is tiny, but that's what i'm used to. maybe at 60 i'd really like to see 2x2 pixels... but until then, hell no.
so basically the thing you want, is full support. someone who would test all the dependancies and stuff when every package is released. and you want it for free.
i wouldn't start my kde if it would look and behave like gnome;)
now about the `issue` itself, redhat is dragging along a bunch of people to push some kind of one-standard-for-all (cough-cough-bs-cough-cough-profite-cough). they want to unify some things (the article didn't really elaborate what...), and therefor make all the stuff more the same.
i don't know about you, but if i'd want everything to look the same, i could aswell choose osx or winblows (nah, not really win, it's not...). i chose linux many years ago because i wanted it to behave like i want it to and to look like i want it to. i don't want my desktop to look'n'feel like it suits a redhat salesman.
i understand that this will help to push linux into the streets blabla, but is this really what we all want ? or is this the beginning of the end of linux as we know it ?
we have seen many items out on the `market` that were supposed to unify and standardize linux (various package managers etc.), none of them have succeeded. for the broadband, i hope it succeeds, for my own's sake, i hope they fail terribly and give it up.
Slashdot Mirror
It's the people that vote for them
:)
... and guess what, nothing changed (except some ashaming pr events). The parties could aswell put rubber puppets onto the chairs, the effect will remain the same.
:)
It's so sweet to see that some people still naively believe in the hoax of democracy and think that they elect the leaders and therefor the new good time will start
It doesn't matter what's the name of the player that is sitting on the chair, it matters what is behind him. in united states it's either bad guys who have been paid off by the industry or the other bad guys who have done exactly the same. you can change the name on the chairs every day if you want to, but nothing will change (too little too late).
You already tried it out, some people voted arnold to become the head of california
And even if through some miracle you could get an independent candidate up there, then most of the time he has to continue or fix up the mess of the previous man at the job. Without the help from a big strong (offpaid) party, he/she doesn't have the time to go to the toilet and therefor the stuff that you elected for, you still won't get
Democracy died a long time ago, at least on that side of the atlantic ocean.
for 114$ you can get a via epia motherboard with the cpu, add memory and hdd and boot it up. usual 'integrated everything' onboard, vga out, s-video out, 5.1 audio etc.
150$ for a ~400mhz 64-bit risc cpu powered machine is a robbery in year 2006. even the via epia series will probably be faster.
and ffs s-video ? most chinese people probably have 21" 60hz good old tv-s, can you imagine the impact on their eyes from looking at 640x480pixel image at 60hz with radiation of the old tech tv ?
ofcourse performance wise, geode kicks the butt of via. and most probably, they will both kick the butt of that 64 bit risc thing.
ps. does anyone have a link to a site that sells transmeta cpu's along with motherboards ?
in my company, around 12 desktops, 3 running linux, mighty 25% :)
we got a bunch of linux servers aswell but i don't take these into account.
it just depends on the company type that you have and how concerned your workforce is.
Your papers please."
Shouldn't that be "Your plastic please" ?
smaller version here then gotta learn to use preview
Why do we have to pump water through the microchip ?
:)
:p) figure how'd i do it here :
...)
Yeah sure, it gives us probably almost the most efficient way to cool things down since water has excellent figures on leading and consuming heat. But it's rather complicated aswell, one problem is stuff can get stuck in the microchannels, the other one is that it has to be really tight and it get's very fragile.
Why won't amd and intel and all the other `hottie makers` just include heatpipes into the design of the cpu ? it would help a lot aswell
I will draw an (really advanced
C - cpu core components
x - heatpipe inside cpu
H - heatpipes coming out
H H H H
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
xCCCCCXCCCCCx
xxCCCxxxCCCxx
xCCCCCxCCCCCx
Now we just have to attach the cooler to the heatpipe's base, if it has it's own compatible heatpipes, it can continue them (infact they could even share the same liquid/gas to transport the heat, it just has to be done very cleanly)
Computers are small, creating direct contact would be rather simple (not simple as do-it-yourself wifi antenna but still, compared to microchannels and water filtering
It would have far better heat transmission than the current cpu's that depend on some metal plate being pushed against them and with some luck having some kind of thermal paste between. When you think about the current design, it looks like a gearbox of a mini sitting behind Schumacher.
5 of my cups of coffee will kill you before parkinson get's a chance to "shake things", so you're right.
Obligatory on the issue and slashdot:
I'd tell you the chances of this story being a dupe, but you wouldn't like it.
Oh, i feel so depressed.
(from the world famous 'linux n00bs guide to the internet')
you don't have to test cutting edge windows software all time either :)
.. doh
being clueless can be bad, but to be narrow minded
nope, they are just up to date (too bad it's as "up to date with new viruses" and not "up to date with antivirus libraries").
they use antivirus scanners, they use the firewall and they use malware removers, but you can't cure the cancer (chuck norris still isn't producing tears).
i don't think that the design it has will make it fall apart without electricity. however losing balance is most likely to happen :)
however this is no way going to end the need for wheelchairs, there are far too many people out there who have more serious problems than missing or unfunctional real legs. quite many children with th rh+/- syndrom have serious stability issues so they'd fail to keep balance unless they are in the wheelchair.
people will always need wheelchairs.
and when i'm in a private hospital, i want a sexy nurse to drive me around with the wheelchair not some kind of robotic bumps under me
ps. is it just me or is it a bit interesting that this story came out right after the crippled firewall on windows ? will the robolegs be able to compensate that ?
boy are you lucky that i don't have modpoints on my hands right now.
1ghz ultrasparc III is rather fast and didn't get beaten by amd or intel by a mile when it came out. it's pretty close, and for it's platform design along with the cpu, it's pretty ok.
secondly, if you run 128 threads at the same time, amd and intel will be d.e.a.d. while niagara still kicks around. amd's or intel's dual cores on this will still mean 64 context switches per core while for niagara it would be 4 context switches per core.
smart money votes for the cpu that does the job. if you have a machine that has to handle lots and lots of stuff at the same time, niagara will win while intel and amd are still switching contexts.
ps. you seem to be forgetting about the fact that the memory limitation on regular x86_64's that you can "just buy" is still enormously low compared to the regular sun workstations.
you can't throw your lowmemory applications at the systems and say that damn ultrasparc is slow and x86 is fast, if you run linux on x86_64 with highram enabled, it aint that fast either anymore.
"Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too."
...
and now it will ship with half of it's firewall turned off
i have to agree, windows makes me nervous, that's why i keep away from it (and don't waste half of the working day fighting viruses like my colleagues do).
i like this markup , closed open source :)
... austin powers (now which one is it, spit or swallow ? (o)
...))
this sounds like
ps. democracy in software developement doesn't always pay off, there are quite a bunch of examples where very strongly lead software can make a big hit (i think into the list would fit oracle, skype, and even the very hated and useless windows (if it sells in millions, it is a hit
as usual, i welcome our new closed open overlords
i a gree about the powervirus part. since microsoft has quite a bad backlog on security in the last ... emm .. many years, it's quite unlikely that this would bulletproof.
:)
but hey, it's at least it's the first three-dee virus platform
i don't think that the car analogy matches here.
very many of todays projects are today started on linux/jboss combo just because of the low startup cost. if the project becomes massive, it will become cheaper to have oracle than maintaining an complicated jboss combination with many dependancies from different software producers.
i don't even see these products in the same league, redhat+jboss isn't really comparable with oracle if you take a look deeper what oracle has to offer. sure it's expensive, but it also does things that aren't that simple in big&complicated solutions. ofcourse for little tasks it's very very much the other way around.
it's not like comparing a little and a big car. it's like comparing a common trucking service versus DHL. with some help from external companies the trucking service can definitely do the same thing, but the cost to run and cost to develope raises exponentially while DHL can keep it reasonable and more controlled.
this is just my opinion, you are free to disagree.
i avoid oracle on every step that i can, i'm not trying to build a telecom here
they should optimize this for gcc & C code compilation.
if that would be the case, perhaps my gentoo machine
would be complete before christmas:)
you will hardly get a 50% gain of overall performance gain :(
;) /* when are we going to get non spinning storage that beats the %^* out of scsi ? */
the motherboard and disk access will still be slow as hell. but sometimes even a 10% gain in the right place makes you feel a lot better
well i would use a via epia based box as a replacement for vcr/dvd player ;) i'd still use the tv along with it, but i would definitely enjoy the possibilities of a computer at the same time. sure it doesn't do doom3, but if the system needs less than 20W of energy (less than a regular light bulb), it's still a good package. noiseless, what's most important.
hush and tranquil are the ready-to-get boxes out there already. see mini-itx.com if it raises any kind of interest.
there are also intel/amd based miniboxes out there, but those all come with a fan and greater energy consumption, which i just don't need. interesting tho that there are no cheap boxes with amd geode inside, it would make a better job than these via chips do (i guess the same questionmark is about the absence of transmeta based boxes).
Wouldn't be so sure at this point, they are using 4 machines to load-balance a mysql server with 2 storage points ? Perhaps the ultra monkey is a good name for it ...
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:) ;)
...
Is it just me or does it seem a bit bad idea in most cases where the data amount is small but traffic is high? The latencies created all over this ultra monkey setup will make it slow, if compared to one smtp box with 2 cpu's and a really good raid card in it, attached to 15k rpm scsi disks, i don't think there's much of a difference in performance for that case (and little data, lots of interaction is the most common thing that you meet with mysql). As for failover, multiple machines sure look great, but right now this scheme here seems to depend on 1 management node, if that one falls down, nothing works and 3 machines stand around scratching their head ? Maybe 2 management nodes and 4+4 machines for loadbalancing/sql nodes would have more impact ? Machines really don't cost much today, having downtime is much more expensive.
People who need it, probably already know how to it. The ones who can't, can makes things even worse.
Picked up some notes from the mysql doc associated with it (available on http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-clus
* innodb and myisam storage engines not supported
* to add one node, whole cluster has to restart
* fulltext doesn't work
* stuff stored in memory
* transactions are kept to some level, so a massive power failure doesn't really kill you (it gives you the rope)
* The NDB engine does not support foreign key constraints. As with MyISAM tables, these are ignored.
* you can have multiple management nodes, i'd suggest you have more than 1 to make failover effective
* it is advised to keep your transactions short
Porting stuff from an existing innodb based application over to this, may be quite an effort.
The mysql doc however contains no word about stored procedures. So i wouldn't bet my 5 cents on it yet.
All-in-all, it's nice to see people sharing knowledge and it's nice to see that people put effort into making mysql as the most common opensource rdb clusterable. My opinion is that perhaps a bit more effort is needed, but at least people are making the steps in the right direction.
I still love postrgres
actually if i'd go down with 99 perverts, i wouldn't blink an eye.
there will always be a way to smuggle the childporn around on the net. they can't even stop people from sharing normal movies and music.
i'd say let's just eliminate the problem.
if a man/woman is found watching child porn and satisfying himself with it, or a dealer is cought transmitting, arrest them, if they are found guilty in court , SHOOT THEM! Nobody will miss them. You can do the same with rapists and drug dealers, if the proof and evidence found is clear as crystal.
childporn isn't normal, not by a long shot.
and if everyone you boosts off with "human rights, maybe some of them are not guilty" , i will ask you, if abusing the children for that kind of perverse shit is human ? is it human to leave 99 perverts alive because one of them wasn't guilty ? you have to draw the damn line somewhere.
before you answer to me with a nice trollish attitude, consider the fact that there are zillion horny pervs out there that are trying to buy off your child with candies right there by the playground. do you really want them there ?
for the pervs this would mean a choice between life or childporn. if they choose the second one, they're not worth to live anyway, don't you think ?
"If you need to learn a language to better market yourself, I suggest AJAX."
i almost fall down the bed when i read this. the only language mentioned in the ajax name is javascript. you can be a damn guru of javascript but 99% companies don't hire people for knowing javascript ^^. well xml is also kindof a language, but it's a markup language, i think even my grandmother could pick that up
i suggest to all `workless` dudes to try out everything you see, sure you can start up with C#,php or/and ajax, but make sure you know what C really can do, what tricks are cool in python and ruby, and why c++ is bad. make a full blown java application and see that on the serverside java is blitzing fast, make a cool oneliner in perl that can format your harddisk to ext2. try to use every database that you see, make hard use of xml and see how slow it really is.
if you can afford it, get a testing machine for home, try to run a every possible combination of operating system/database/language/toolkits that you know. you can't learn this by the books or in the class. books are outdated before they make it out the printing facilty. teachers often only know what they learned 10-20 years ago. for lowend programming nothing really has changed, but for high end, everything has changed
in my vision, the it power of year 2006 doesn't reflect in any degrees or single languages that you have learned, it's all about the long time experience and the ability to adopt new things on the run.
there are at least NxN better programmers out there (at least better in their own field) than you are, but luckily for you, half of them only write fortran
and get a hobby outside the computers, fishing, basketball, soccer, watching babes, japanese twins, whatever relaxes your mind (and body). the brain works like a win98 machine, you have to restart it sometimes to get past a problem, doing your non-computer hobby is the restart button.
Now that i've driven everyone off to japanese twins and basketball, i can grab your marketshare and live happily everafter (but you still got the fun
1280x768 , is that some kind of ultra ultra wide screen ? :p
... so this means the text is tiny, but that's what i'm used to. maybe at 60 i'd really like to see 2x2 pixels ... but until then, hell no.
i've got a widescreen with 1280x800 over here (and luckily on a 15.4" screen, so i can see the pixels too)
i use x11 with 100dpi fonts, usually size 10 or 11
so basically the thing you want, is full support. someone who would test all the dependancies and stuff when every package is released. and you want it for free.
good luck, i hope you get a ferrari for free too.
i wouldn't start my kde if it would look and behave like gnome ;)
...), and therefor make all the stuff more the same.
...). i chose linux many years ago because i wanted it to behave like i want it to and to look like i want it to. i don't want my desktop to look'n'feel like it suits a redhat salesman.
now about the `issue` itself, redhat is dragging along a bunch of people to push some kind of one-standard-for-all (cough-cough-bs-cough-cough-profite-cough). they want to unify some things (the article didn't really elaborate what
i don't know about you, but if i'd want everything to look the same, i could aswell choose osx or winblows (nah, not really win, it's not
i understand that this will help to push linux into the streets blabla, but is this really what we all want ? or is this the beginning of the end of linux as we know it ?
we have seen many items out on the `market` that were supposed to unify and standardize linux (various package managers etc.), none of them have succeeded. for the broadband, i hope it succeeds, for my own's sake, i hope they fail terribly and give it up.