There isn't anything spectacularly interesting about it I'm sure. Just simulates a cpu. AMD and INTEL provide such utilities whenever a new cpu comes out. They just shoved them onto a flash rom!:-) Of course, like intel, they proved that this isn't terribly efficient (see: Itanium.)
Very idiotic response. Alot of different types of people like to play paintball.
Do tell, why is it that every time something not-computer-related or something not related to electronics or electronics politics gets posted, someone makes a comment like this? If the editors deem it of interest to them, well geez they are nerds to the nth-degree so by God is qualifies as news for nerds!
No, we do not have a regard for traditional IP laws, we have no regard for improperly used traditioal IP law. If used properly, it protects open-source software. If used improperly, it attempts to jail open-source programmers.
Traditional IP law as I understand it would easily allow DeCSS (especially since a) Johannsen (sic?) was a minor and could not under California law agree to the EULA (and usually such liscenses have a statement about under what laws the EULA operates under.) and b) In the U.S. you can not sign away a legal right. Which reverse engineering is a legal right. It's like liability forms when you go white water rafting, they are useless, they're simply there to attempt to keep you from sueing should you get hurt. You actually still can. This is how a lawyer explained it to me anyhow.:-)
Going from the feel of my butt, not from benchmarks, XFS has been pretty stable on my desktop machine...however i've been experimenting with JFS, ReiserFS and currently ext3 and so far (remember no benchmarks) XFS seems the slowest of the 4:-( Reiser or JFS seem to be the faster 2. None the less, when i get my new cisco dsl router and 24 port bay networks 24 port switch in and i turn my current router into a DNS/webcam/streaming mp3 server XFS will be my FS choice. Thank God for good coders!:-)
that last statement is quite incorrect. At any given second of the day, more people are playing CounterStrike than quake 2,3 and unreal tournment combined...much less just Quake 3!
The issue here is that the Quake games (although I personally would say Unreal Tournament...) is accepted as the most graphically intensive games around. It is THE standard for "quick" benchmarks. People will buy or write off a card based on it's Quake 3 performance...and with Ati's recent driver woes (let's face it they SUCK hard!) having a card with drivers that perform amazing in Quake 3 but nothing else...is extremely suspect. Of course anyone who wants good graphics will buy NVidia anyhow...Ati doesnt provide neough informaion for DRI to write them up a good driver...and NVidia cards have the best linux driver performance and perhaps stability although I don't know that part for sure. Anyhow...I digress.
Correct on the money issue. Money with consoles is made on liscensing. It becomes really really hard to liscense out permission to program for hardware that most of these companies have been programming on for years. With the MS liscensing don't be surprise is they do some stupid stunt like if you don't buy our liscense you cant put on it designed for MS X-Box. They do that, it won't take long for a smart company who puts out good games to say no problem just write on it made for XBox (unliscensed) might get sued, but I can't see how it would hold-up.
The problem with you comment, is that most consoles are placed in such situations in the home. Microsoft SHOULD have accounted for this. (Read: x86 hardware = not good for this application in that respect.) But then again, Microsoft has a bunch of software engineers..in Bill Gates quest for more billions just MAYBE he forgot he needs to higher computer/electrical engineers and thermal/mechanical engineers to do the hardware design...afterwall one who can design software probably can't design hardware!
x86 hardware, particularly at the speeds the X-Box is running gets VERY VERY VERY hot VERY VERY VERY easily. This is especially true of the closed in areas that consoles are almost always placed in! I would place money they dont even have a decent fan on those CPUs! I've seen the kiosks and there is no exhaust port on them...this makes it even more likely to overheat, since it's cycled hot air that is getting exponentially hotter over the cpu assuming they actually have fans running on them.
Anyhow...I said I wouldn't be getting one, and this just confirms my reasoning.
Were it the police, the constitution would provide protection against such searches. However, you are being searched by your employer, who does not to that extent have to abide by the constituion (IOW, you employer government agency or not, does not have gun power and therefore has less limits.) The choice is yours, you can continue with you current job and leave the status quo, continue and try to change things, or quit. No one is forcing you to stay there (unless you are under contract, in which case another point is brought up and they might be in breach of contract.)
IANAL, but IANAI (I am not a lawyer but I am also not an idiot) most of this is common sense.
I'm sorry, but you're wrong here, he solicit's people who have made the jump from development to architecture, not college students and random posters. The hope is that people who truly and honestly have experience will be the ones to reply.
Actually, microkernel does mean something to me, I AM a programmer, and the BSDs are very much different than linux, IMHO. In turn, their uses being very different, deserve their development efforts. I've used BSD personally.
The communist remark deserves no response other than beating you to a bloody pulp were I ever to meet you on the street. Have a nice day.
But hurd and linux are not all that different, their target consumers are the same! Gnome and KDE both have advantages and disadvantages over each other...that's why I use both depending on what I am doing. But who uses hurd and linux on the same machine? Who uses hurd?!
And btw, windows was not an OS unto itself when Linux development began. There was DOS which was never intended to be the permanent OS of the PC.
It's one thing to give a choice whent he choices have clear pros and cons but what are the pros of hurd? Considering the rather lacking driver support it is going to have, et cetera et cetera.
Or perhaps, it's drawing development time away from the linux kernel that let's face it, as great as it is (hmm I've been using since the DAY 2.2.0 came out...and it hasn't once crashed, it uses less cpu et cetera...) needs work! Maybe the HURD developers could help out in linux drivers area...talk about work needed! I'm sure the Xine people wouldn't mind someone making more dvd decoder card output plug-ins for them that's for sure! And my God...3d accelerators...period! But wait, Linux isn't good enough for them, they need to go work on an kernel that virtually no one uses. Call me flame-bait if you like, but logically their work could be put to better use elsewhere!
Aye, but how long do they last and with what success? Look at the demographics! You've mainly RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian and a couple of RedHat derivatives (I'd no longer say Mandrake is...can't use the same packages anymore.) and then there is this tiny portion of other. Sorry, that's like saying Wal-Mart isn't the most used, most powerful, biggest retail chain in the U.S. just because there are still some K-Marts and Woolworth's out there! Perhaps I should say it's like saying that ClearChannel and Cox do not control the radio just because there are still some independants.
Truthfully, this is going to happen again and again in the next few years until the field is dwindled to a few or possibly just one distribution is left. I just hope Mandrake is included. With the state of all things economic there jsut isn't the room for all of these distributions in the financial sense of the word room. Sad thing, but true...just part of capitolism and how it works however.
Mr. Katz, have you ever been to the ghetto? I have! Cabbage Town in Atlanta, is pretty frigen dangerous, they don't like white people and every male and some females, under 40 are packing and shooting, and dealing. Here in Douglasville (Atlanta suburb) the nearest ghetto is not quite that bad, but let's just say our Papa John's doesn't do deliveries there. Just because something is a stereo type, doesn't mean it isn't true, no matter what you'd like to think.
an action like this is just prep for a troop drop...you always soften up the enemy's intelligence capability (cmd ctrs, rdr stations)before you drop your troops in such as airborne divisions...this is how i see it.
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There isn't anything spectacularly interesting about it I'm sure. Just simulates a cpu. AMD and INTEL provide such utilities whenever a new cpu comes out. They just shoved them onto a flash rom! :-) Of course, like intel, they proved that this isn't terribly efficient (see: Itanium.)
Umm I do! I'm sure others do! You also never know...they might end-up selling this.
Very idiotic response. Alot of different types of people like to play paintball.
Do tell, why is it that every time something not-computer-related or something not related to electronics or electronics politics gets posted, someone makes a comment like this? If the editors deem it of interest to them, well geez they are nerds to the nth-degree so by God is qualifies as news for nerds!
One word: xpdf! :-)
No, we do not have a regard for traditional IP laws, we have no regard for improperly used traditioal IP law. If used properly, it protects open-source software. If used improperly, it attempts to jail open-source programmers.
:-)
Traditional IP law as I understand it would easily allow DeCSS (especially since a) Johannsen (sic?) was a minor and could not under California law agree to the EULA (and usually such liscenses have a statement about under what laws the EULA operates under.) and b) In the U.S. you can not sign away a legal right. Which reverse engineering is a legal right. It's like liability forms when you go white water rafting, they are useless, they're simply there to attempt to keep you from sueing should you get hurt. You actually still can. This is how a lawyer explained it to me anyhow.
Why is the above comment modded to zero? It's a relevant informational statement...
That wasn't even funny. Pretty stupid in fact.
Going from the feel of my butt, not from benchmarks, XFS has been pretty stable on my desktop machine...however i've been experimenting with JFS, ReiserFS and currently ext3 and so far (remember no benchmarks) XFS seems the slowest of the 4 :-( Reiser or JFS seem to be the faster 2. None the less, when i get my new cisco dsl router and 24 port bay networks 24 port switch in and i turn my current router into a DNS/webcam/streaming mp3 server XFS will be my FS choice. Thank God for good coders! :-)
that last statement is quite incorrect. At any given second of the day, more people are playing CounterStrike than quake 2,3 and unreal tournment combined...much less just Quake 3!
The issue here is that the Quake games (although I personally would say Unreal Tournament...) is accepted as the most graphically intensive games around. It is THE standard for "quick" benchmarks. People will buy or write off a card based on it's Quake 3 performance...and with Ati's recent driver woes (let's face it they SUCK hard!) having a card with drivers that perform amazing in Quake 3 but nothing else...is extremely suspect. Of course anyone who wants good graphics will buy NVidia anyhow...Ati doesnt provide neough informaion for DRI to write them up a good driver...and NVidia cards have the best linux driver performance and perhaps stability although I don't know that part for sure. Anyhow...I digress.
Or as dumb as associating lack of common sense with complete stupidity. :-)
Correct on the money issue. Money with consoles is made on liscensing. It becomes really really hard to liscense out permission to program for hardware that most of these companies have been programming on for years. With the MS liscensing don't be surprise is they do some stupid stunt like if you don't buy our liscense you cant put on it designed for MS X-Box. They do that, it won't take long for a smart company who puts out good games to say no problem just write on it made for XBox (unliscensed) might get sued, but I can't see how it would hold-up.
The problem with you comment, is that most consoles are placed in such situations in the home. Microsoft SHOULD have accounted for this. (Read: x86 hardware = not good for this application in that respect.) But then again, Microsoft has a bunch of software engineers..in Bill Gates quest for more billions just MAYBE he forgot he needs to higher computer/electrical engineers and thermal/mechanical engineers to do the hardware design...afterwall one who can design software probably can't design hardware!
x86 hardware, particularly at the speeds the X-Box is running gets VERY VERY VERY hot VERY VERY VERY easily. This is especially true of the closed in areas that consoles are almost always placed in! I would place money they dont even have a decent fan on those CPUs! I've seen the kiosks and there is no exhaust port on them...this makes it even more likely to overheat, since it's cycled hot air that is getting exponentially hotter over the cpu assuming they actually have fans running on them.
Anyhow...I said I wouldn't be getting one, and this just confirms my reasoning.
That's about as an intelligent a comment as saying someone with an MBA from Havard is dumb because they don't make good speeches.
Were it the police, the constitution would provide protection against such searches. However, you are being searched by your employer, who does not to that extent have to abide by the constituion (IOW, you employer government agency or not, does not have gun power and therefore has less limits.) The choice is yours, you can continue with you current job and leave the status quo, continue and try to change things, or quit. No one is forcing you to stay there (unless you are under contract, in which case another point is brought up and they might be in breach of contract.)
IANAL, but IANAI (I am not a lawyer but I am also not an idiot) most of this is common sense.
Derek Greene
I'm sorry, but you're wrong here, he solicit's people who have made the jump from development to architecture, not college students and random posters. The hope is that people who truly and honestly have experience will be the ones to reply.
Actually, microkernel does mean something to me, I AM a programmer, and the BSDs are very much different than linux, IMHO. In turn, their uses being very different, deserve their development efforts. I've used BSD personally.
The communist remark deserves no response other than beating you to a bloody pulp were I ever to meet you on the street. Have a nice day.
But hurd and linux are not all that different, their target consumers are the same! Gnome and KDE both have advantages and disadvantages over each other...that's why I use both depending on what I am doing. But who uses hurd and linux on the same machine? Who uses hurd?!
And btw, windows was not an OS unto itself when Linux development began. There was DOS which was never intended to be the permanent OS of the PC.
It's one thing to give a choice whent he choices have clear pros and cons but what are the pros of hurd? Considering the rather lacking driver support it is going to have, et cetera et cetera.
Explain this to me and I'll concede your point.
Derek Greene
That makes absolutely no sense what so ever. Not to mention it lacks logic.
Derek Greene
Or perhaps, it's drawing development time away from the linux kernel that let's face it, as great as it is (hmm I've been using since the DAY 2.2.0 came out...and it hasn't once crashed, it uses less cpu et cetera...) needs work! Maybe the HURD developers could help out in linux drivers area...talk about work needed! I'm sure the Xine people wouldn't mind someone making more dvd decoder card output plug-ins for them that's for sure! And my God...3d accelerators...period! But wait, Linux isn't good enough for them, they need to go work on an kernel that virtually no one uses. Call me flame-bait if you like, but logically their work could be put to better use elsewhere!
Derek Greene
Aye, but how long do they last and with what success? Look at the demographics! You've mainly RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian and a couple of RedHat derivatives (I'd no longer say Mandrake is...can't use the same packages anymore.) and then there is this tiny portion of other. Sorry, that's like saying Wal-Mart isn't the most used, most powerful, biggest retail chain in the U.S. just because there are still some K-Marts and Woolworth's out there! Perhaps I should say it's like saying that ClearChannel and Cox do not control the radio just because there are still some independants.
Derek Greene
Truthfully, this is going to happen again and again in the next few years until the field is dwindled to a few or possibly just one distribution is left. I just hope Mandrake is included. With the state of all things economic there jsut isn't the room for all of these distributions in the financial sense of the word room. Sad thing, but true...just part of capitolism and how it works however.
Derek Greene
i'm in agreement! shoot i'd feel safer if EVERYONE carried one! I'm just being critical of katz idiotic comment!
Mr. Katz, have you ever been to the ghetto? I have! Cabbage Town in Atlanta, is pretty frigen dangerous, they don't like white people and every male and some females, under 40 are packing and shooting, and dealing. Here in Douglasville (Atlanta suburb) the nearest ghetto is not quite that bad, but let's just say our Papa John's doesn't do deliveries there. Just because something is a stereo type, doesn't mean it isn't true, no matter what you'd like to think.
Aye, billionaire yes, but no billionaire can help you none, if you have no country left...
an action like this is just prep for a troop drop...you always soften up the enemy's intelligence capability (cmd ctrs, rdr stations)before you drop your troops in such as airborne divisions...this is how i see it.