Um.. let me get this strait. You want the extended version now, but you don't get it now so you don't buy it at all. It sounds like you don't really need the DVD or the extended features since you're not buying either.
Many, including myself, are starting to see the introduction of a new CPU socket type as nothing more than a vain attempt to try and keep revenue flowing by trying to persuade us of all the benefits that these new sockets can offer which apparently the old ones can't.
And how long is AMD supposed to stick with DDR1? The socket HAD to change because the memory controler is ON THE CPU. DD2 is of course different because if it was not then it would still be called DDR1 wouldn't it? AMD could have said, sure we have the same socket, it's just that some of our CPUs don't work with it. And if you think Intel is immune to this, then wait until they move their memory controler on the chip - it's comming down the line.
And I'm not sure what your issue is. I can still buy the full range of 939 processors aside from the older really slow ones - just upgraded to a dual core last month. Hell you can still buy socket 754 processors. Socket A was available for YEARS. Unless you can magically pull some statistic out of your hat that shows that Intel hasn't had at least that many sockets, then I'm not sure there's much to complain about. Especially if you want better performance because almost all of AMDs changes (aside from the 754 which is less so) have been due to performence/arcetecture changes.
I think that was part of what the article was inferring. Assuming you had a perfectly optimized kernel and a zillion cores, performance still isn't going to scale all that well. There is just too many bottlenecks all over the way the general purpose PC is designed today. And lets not forget how far behind hard drive tech is dragging compaired to the rest of the system. It's funny because everyone acts like this is so new despite the fact that high end stuff like supercomputers have been dealing with these issues for decades. The PC arcetecture is going to have to change in more than a couple ways, but before that happens everyone is going to have to get used to the fact that their system has more than one core. Maybe that's one of the tricks AMD has up its sleeves. Buying ATI may have been a step towards re-engineering the parts of the PC that are going to be bottlenecks.
True enough. I'm just thinking more along the lines of "going beyond the call of duty". It is up to the disgression of the fireman to go into a situation that poses far more risk than he/she was expected to face. In such a scenario I would still say a fireman is a hero. I definatly agree though that the firemen who died in the trade center are not automatically heros because they happened to be killed, that was a mix of bum luck and being at the wrong place at the wrong time. In a similar event the guy who stopped the subway going under the trade center was labeled a hero because he stopped the subway. Now THAT guy was certainly just doing his job.
All I'm saying is that despite the fact that firemen and police face elevated risks, they can still be heros. Maybe I'm thinking that such people have to go a bit farther in order to be one - out of the ordinary as you say.
... people doing the job they are paid to do (i.e. firemen rescuing people from fires).
Um. No one is forcing them to be a fireman. Is being paid to risk your life a determining factor in whether you are a hero or not? If a man rushes into a building and rescues an old lady. If he is a fireman he is not a hero, if he is a regular civilian then he IS a hero? What if he was a fireman who was not on duty, is he still not a hero because he had special training? Great personal risk I think is more the thing to factor in; not payment.
I have a cellphone which has had that for quite a while so I douldn't say this is new tech. And if you look at most mice, they still build up a deposit of grime from dirt and human skin which doesn't help much at all. If you're going to build a "sanitary" surface with anything to do with a computer, start with the freaking keyboard. One of the biggest problems - especially in business - is that computers are NEVER cleaned. The cleaning lady wont touch your computer, and you're not the cleaning person so you don't clean it either. One thing I sort of dread while being an IT person is touching other people's keyboards and mice. Especially when you have people sneezing all winter and eating potato chips over the keyboard. Yuck.
Not to be jumping on the MS bashing bandwagon here, but what in the hell is this company doing? MS is having enough problems developing software that they have a market stranglehold on - and now often slipping. MS trying to be all hip and trendy is like my grandma doing gangsta rap. The Zune thing is just ill concived and will fail. Same with their online music store for that matter. I am truley at a loss why MS is trying to be Apple all of a sudden. Is the billions of dallars they've made by concentrating on traditional software just too good of a business plan for them?
Exactly. If you want proof of how hard non real fashion is to duplicate in real life, then just look at any costumes made up for anime cons. Not only that but when you stick real people in those costumes the results can be less than flattering. Not that I'm against cosplay or anything, it's just that... well most of us aren't as aestheticly pleasing as anime characters...
Maybe NetBSD would be better off only trying to support the top 10 archetectures. I mean we have to look at reality here, and that is that the NetBSD project is not all that big (compaired to say Linux) and they can't be expected to support absolutely everything. Not only that, but given the obscurity of some hardware makes it rather hard to test in some cases.
Sometimes I think that they might be better off clipping the back end of the support chain of the least supported archs, but I guess it's up to the developers how they want to spend their time. If only 100 people have your kind of machine, and only one guy works on it, then you're just going to have to wait for that one guy to get through all the problems. That's the price you pay for interesting hardware.
I doubt it. I'm sure that 99% of the users most likely to submit any sort of bug already use Firefox. Most people getting onto it now are probably late-commers who just switched because someone convinced them to - typically not very technical users.
Many of these "vulnerabilities" are BS anyway. A significant portion have to do with spoofing and such. My favorite is a page that generates a new window, but you can't tell which tab/window generated the new window. Yeah, that's rocket science - and it's been a vulnerability since Windows 1.0 where you may not be able to tell where ANY window came from.
Not only that but buying a console in order for them to lose money is missing the point of production entirely. By NOT buying the console they recoup NO money. That's not 20% loss, that's 100%. If no one (or not enough people) buys their console they will have PS3 assembly plants sitting idle and that's a LOT of money invested for something to just sit around, and will continually burn up money each day it runs under its target production. The other option is for the production to continue and have them stockpile the PS3 - that creates a whole other slew of problems however.
You know in theory, assuming I'm willing to pay $60 for a game in the first place; I might be okay with this in Grand Turismo provided they made the game cheaper. I mean if they made the game $30 and charged $.50 a car it might not be a bad deal. I'll never drive that crap from Ford even in a video game =) Where that breaks down of course is when this game goes into the bargin bin for $19 - all games seem to hit that price point sooner or later so you're not really saving much.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. There are always people richer than you and not deserving. Scumbags inherit more money than I'll make over my lifetime every day. For anyone who thinks it's unusual that there are people dummber, less ethical and less deserving than you being richer than you, I got one word for you to consider: Lawers.
Well I would think this is a natrual result of the society we've engineered for ourselves. Hard to feel shame when no on every ostracises anyone for anything - even when deserved. Hard to feel guilt when you can absolve yourself of all responsibilities. The last resort is the criminal justice system, but for someone that high up on the totem pole it's hardly a real threat.
Pretty much what I was going to post. It is also similar to what Charles Hannum stated about NetBSD. People seem to be forgetting that all of these projects are driven by people and people NEED leadership. Someone has to take the bull by the horns and keep everyone focused. Just having someone act as a traffic cop is not enough because a project is just treading water at that point.
Crazy as this might sound, this looks like human civilization playing itself out again, this time through software projects. You move from single people, to a tribe with elders - but that only scales so far before you end up needing something like a king. It's sort of scary when you think about where that road might take us though.
Um other distros suffer similar problems. Specially since many packages are universal.
Care to cite a distro where this happens? Redhat, SuSE, Debian... the all have testing before their respective releases to ensure that everything works the way it should.
I'm not defending Gentoo as I have the same problems as yourself. Hell I think they should split the damn tree per arch so I don't have to look at packages that don't even work on my machine. I'm also wondering if they snapshot the tree or not. Sometimes crap is broken and the answer is to "resync the tree". That's not reassuring as far a stability goes; where I can end up with broken crap just because of the random chance I synced at the wrong time.
If you want my opinion, don't even recommend Gentoo to people. I use it myself and am more or less okay with it, but I would never recommend it as a server, or even to other people. If someone wants to try out Linux, there are many more graceful distros for them to choose from. If someone asks me about Gentoo, or what I use I'll tell them about it and why I use it; aside from that I'd rather not referr someone to a distro that has a lot of problems I've had to work though.
Maybe they simply don't show footage of the stronger houses.
Which is exactly right. Many condos are built with concrete and have metal shutters that can survive well over 100Mph winds. But even if every house were built that way, it only takes one house getting destroyed to leave debree strewn all over hell. That and often roofing is the biggest pain. Even some of the best built places still have problems with the roof. In a good hurricane the wind just has to get under one shingle and the entire roof comes off.
Someone actually meantioned that to me one time and it's been a godsend. Every/etc on all my servers have an RCS directory now. Some say rcs is 'antiquated' but it works well and it takes about 10 minutes to learn most of the functionality. Keeping track of changes is easy to cut corners on config files, but RCS makes it so simple that it's almost silly not just to do a quick checkout after a change.
I just hope this fairs a bit better than OpenNTP which I was rather dissapointed in. Hopefully DragonFly NTP will work it's way into the FreeBSD ports collection so I can test it out. I've always been rather happy with the utilites Matt Dillon as worked on.
I would think Nintendo would sell a lot more games than Sony - at least initally. I mean with the new controller it's just begging for all sorts of new ways people would like to try gaming. And that's not counting all the nestalgia gaming that Nintendo is set to cash in on. Some nice titles are upcomming on the PS3 but the launch titles seem a bit like stragglers.
Returning the favor? Then why are they suing Honda? They weren't responsible for the lawsuit against California. They make some of the lowest emmition vehicles available. They get some of the top marks for feul consumption. If they were really SOOOo concerned over global warming then why don't they ban all SUVs? This sort of thing is why this country is so fucked up. Where instead of upholding the law, suits are used for arbitrary bullshit - and that goes for Californa AND the auto manufacterers suits.
That is true to some extent, but there are a lot of opportunities to be had when you're younger. As you age you're a bit less able to cope with the college lifestyle of studying and partying (assuming you do both full tilt). Most older students I knew would forgo one or the other. It's also harder to pick up college age women the older you get (although not impossible).
I think that youth has it's time and that you need to do some things when you're young. Acting like an old fart for the rest of your life is always optional, but it's not like you can go back to high school the same way you did back in your teens.
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Um.. let me get this strait. You want the extended version now, but you don't get it now so you don't buy it at all. It sounds like you don't really need the DVD or the extended features since you're not buying either.
Many, including myself, are starting to see the introduction of a new CPU socket type as nothing more than a vain attempt to try and keep revenue flowing by trying to persuade us of all the benefits that these new sockets can offer which apparently the old ones can't.
And how long is AMD supposed to stick with DDR1? The socket HAD to change because the memory controler is ON THE CPU. DD2 is of course different because if it was not then it would still be called DDR1 wouldn't it? AMD could have said, sure we have the same socket, it's just that some of our CPUs don't work with it. And if you think Intel is immune to this, then wait until they move their memory controler on the chip - it's comming down the line.
And I'm not sure what your issue is. I can still buy the full range of 939 processors aside from the older really slow ones - just upgraded to a dual core last month. Hell you can still buy socket 754 processors. Socket A was available for YEARS. Unless you can magically pull some statistic out of your hat that shows that Intel hasn't had at least that many sockets, then I'm not sure there's much to complain about. Especially if you want better performance because almost all of AMDs changes (aside from the 754 which is less so) have been due to performence/arcetecture changes.
I think that was part of what the article was inferring. Assuming you had a perfectly optimized kernel and a zillion cores, performance still isn't going to scale all that well. There is just too many bottlenecks all over the way the general purpose PC is designed today. And lets not forget how far behind hard drive tech is dragging compaired to the rest of the system. It's funny because everyone acts like this is so new despite the fact that high end stuff like supercomputers have been dealing with these issues for decades. The PC arcetecture is going to have to change in more than a couple ways, but before that happens everyone is going to have to get used to the fact that their system has more than one core. Maybe that's one of the tricks AMD has up its sleeves. Buying ATI may have been a step towards re-engineering the parts of the PC that are going to be bottlenecks.
True enough. I'm just thinking more along the lines of "going beyond the call of duty". It is up to the disgression of the fireman to go into a situation that poses far more risk than he/she was expected to face. In such a scenario I would still say a fireman is a hero. I definatly agree though that the firemen who died in the trade center are not automatically heros because they happened to be killed, that was a mix of bum luck and being at the wrong place at the wrong time. In a similar event the guy who stopped the subway going under the trade center was labeled a hero because he stopped the subway. Now THAT guy was certainly just doing his job.
All I'm saying is that despite the fact that firemen and police face elevated risks, they can still be heros. Maybe I'm thinking that such people have to go a bit farther in order to be one - out of the ordinary as you say.
... people doing the job they are paid to do (i.e. firemen rescuing people from fires).
Um. No one is forcing them to be a fireman. Is being paid to risk your life a determining factor in whether you are a hero or not? If a man rushes into a building and rescues an old lady. If he is a fireman he is not a hero, if he is a regular civilian then he IS a hero? What if he was a fireman who was not on duty, is he still not a hero because he had special training? Great personal risk I think is more the thing to factor in; not payment.
I have a cellphone which has had that for quite a while so I douldn't say this is new tech. And if you look at most mice, they still build up a deposit of grime from dirt and human skin which doesn't help much at all. If you're going to build a "sanitary" surface with anything to do with a computer, start with the freaking keyboard. One of the biggest problems - especially in business - is that computers are NEVER cleaned. The cleaning lady wont touch your computer, and you're not the cleaning person so you don't clean it either. One thing I sort of dread while being an IT person is touching other people's keyboards and mice. Especially when you have people sneezing all winter and eating potato chips over the keyboard. Yuck.
Not to be jumping on the MS bashing bandwagon here, but what in the hell is this company doing? MS is having enough problems developing software that they have a market stranglehold on - and now often slipping. MS trying to be all hip and trendy is like my grandma doing gangsta rap. The Zune thing is just ill concived and will fail. Same with their online music store for that matter. I am truley at a loss why MS is trying to be Apple all of a sudden. Is the billions of dallars they've made by concentrating on traditional software just too good of a business plan for them?
Exactly. If you want proof of how hard non real fashion is to duplicate in real life, then just look at any costumes made up for anime cons. Not only that but when you stick real people in those costumes the results can be less than flattering. Not that I'm against cosplay or anything, it's just that... well most of us aren't as aestheticly pleasing as anime characters...
Maybe NetBSD would be better off only trying to support the top 10 archetectures. I mean we have to look at reality here, and that is that the NetBSD project is not all that big (compaired to say Linux) and they can't be expected to support absolutely everything. Not only that, but given the obscurity of some hardware makes it rather hard to test in some cases.
Sometimes I think that they might be better off clipping the back end of the support chain of the least supported archs, but I guess it's up to the developers how they want to spend their time. If only 100 people have your kind of machine, and only one guy works on it, then you're just going to have to wait for that one guy to get through all the problems. That's the price you pay for interesting hardware.
I doubt it. I'm sure that 99% of the users most likely to submit any sort of bug already use Firefox. Most people getting onto it now are probably late-commers who just switched because someone convinced them to - typically not very technical users.
Many of these "vulnerabilities" are BS anyway. A significant portion have to do with spoofing and such. My favorite is a page that generates a new window, but you can't tell which tab/window generated the new window. Yeah, that's rocket science - and it's been a vulnerability since Windows 1.0 where you may not be able to tell where ANY window came from.
Not only that but buying a console in order for them to lose money is missing the point of production entirely. By NOT buying the console they recoup NO money. That's not 20% loss, that's 100%. If no one (or not enough people) buys their console they will have PS3 assembly plants sitting idle and that's a LOT of money invested for something to just sit around, and will continually burn up money each day it runs under its target production. The other option is for the production to continue and have them stockpile the PS3 - that creates a whole other slew of problems however.
I've never heard of these Japanese boob implants. Do tell.
You know in theory, assuming I'm willing to pay $60 for a game in the first place; I might be okay with this in Grand Turismo provided they made the game cheaper. I mean if they made the game $30 and charged $.50 a car it might not be a bad deal. I'll never drive that crap from Ford even in a video game =) Where that breaks down of course is when this game goes into the bargin bin for $19 - all games seem to hit that price point sooner or later so you're not really saving much.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. There are always people richer than you and not deserving. Scumbags inherit more money than I'll make over my lifetime every day. For anyone who thinks it's unusual that there are people dummber, less ethical and less deserving than you being richer than you, I got one word for you to consider: Lawers.
Well I would think this is a natrual result of the society we've engineered for ourselves. Hard to feel shame when no on every ostracises anyone for anything - even when deserved. Hard to feel guilt when you can absolve yourself of all responsibilities. The last resort is the criminal justice system, but for someone that high up on the totem pole it's hardly a real threat.
Heh... Funny thing about that wikipedia article is the picture (for the megadrive) shows an F-15. Strange that they got those planes mixed up.
Pretty much what I was going to post. It is also similar to what Charles Hannum stated about NetBSD. People seem to be forgetting that all of these projects are driven by people and people NEED leadership. Someone has to take the bull by the horns and keep everyone focused. Just having someone act as a traffic cop is not enough because a project is just treading water at that point.
Crazy as this might sound, this looks like human civilization playing itself out again, this time through software projects. You move from single people, to a tribe with elders - but that only scales so far before you end up needing something like a king. It's sort of scary when you think about where that road might take us though.
Um other distros suffer similar problems. Specially since many packages are universal.
Care to cite a distro where this happens? Redhat, SuSE, Debian... the all have testing before their respective releases to ensure that everything works the way it should.
I'm not defending Gentoo as I have the same problems as yourself. Hell I think they should split the damn tree per arch so I don't have to look at packages that don't even work on my machine. I'm also wondering if they snapshot the tree or not. Sometimes crap is broken and the answer is to "resync the tree". That's not reassuring as far a stability goes; where I can end up with broken crap just because of the random chance I synced at the wrong time.
If you want my opinion, don't even recommend Gentoo to people. I use it myself and am more or less okay with it, but I would never recommend it as a server, or even to other people. If someone wants to try out Linux, there are many more graceful distros for them to choose from. If someone asks me about Gentoo, or what I use I'll tell them about it and why I use it; aside from that I'd rather not referr someone to a distro that has a lot of problems I've had to work though.
Maybe they simply don't show footage of the stronger houses.
Which is exactly right. Many condos are built with concrete and have metal shutters that can survive well over 100Mph winds. But even if every house were built that way, it only takes one house getting destroyed to leave debree strewn all over hell. That and often roofing is the biggest pain. Even some of the best built places still have problems with the roof. In a good hurricane the wind just has to get under one shingle and the entire roof comes off.
Someone actually meantioned that to me one time and it's been a godsend. Every /etc on all my servers have an RCS directory now. Some say rcs is 'antiquated' but it works well and it takes about 10 minutes to learn most of the functionality. Keeping track of changes is easy to cut corners on config files, but RCS makes it so simple that it's almost silly not just to do a quick checkout after a change.
I just hope this fairs a bit better than OpenNTP which I was rather dissapointed in. Hopefully DragonFly NTP will work it's way into the FreeBSD ports collection so I can test it out. I've always been rather happy with the utilites Matt Dillon as worked on.
I would think Nintendo would sell a lot more games than Sony - at least initally. I mean with the new controller it's just begging for all sorts of new ways people would like to try gaming. And that's not counting all the nestalgia gaming that Nintendo is set to cash in on. Some nice titles are upcomming on the PS3 but the launch titles seem a bit like stragglers.
Returning the favor? Then why are they suing Honda? They weren't responsible for the lawsuit against California. They make some of the lowest emmition vehicles available. They get some of the top marks for feul consumption. If they were really SOOOo concerned over global warming then why don't they ban all SUVs? This sort of thing is why this country is so fucked up. Where instead of upholding the law, suits are used for arbitrary bullshit - and that goes for Californa AND the auto manufacterers suits.
Considering how much books cost in college, they seem more than happy to let you take it in the ass...
That is true to some extent, but there are a lot of opportunities to be had when you're younger. As you age you're a bit less able to cope with the college lifestyle of studying and partying (assuming you do both full tilt). Most older students I knew would forgo one or the other. It's also harder to pick up college age women the older you get (although not impossible).
I think that youth has it's time and that you need to do some things when you're young. Acting like an old fart for the rest of your life is always optional, but it's not like you can go back to high school the same way you did back in your teens.
Wait.. I'm color blind. They ALL look yellow!