The problem is that you need a couple of dozen 468 to theoretically get the performance of a recent chip on a certain, narrow class of tasks, and for the time and effort it takes to get the whole thing running, you could easily afford to simply buy a brand new system, not to talk of the amount of power all those old ones together would consume.
Bah! power? 95% (made up number) of the slashdot reader base doesn't care about the power usage of there clusters. Because they are loaded? no. Befause they are 12 and mommy and daddy pay those bills.
Thats right. When XBox ships you will _not_ be able to say "the games on my PC look better because my video card is better". It wont be. THe games _might_ look better but that would only be because of piss-poor programming on the part of the xbox programmers.
Or the more obvious: TV's flat suck. (well, the XBR400's are good, but still no monitor)
Name three countries whose official language is English and which use "color". Heck, name two. There are oodles more that use "colour". Of course, "colour" is a perverse Gallic invasion, with no place in Latin. So even though you're in the minority countrywise, you can have philological correctness on your side.
Asking how the performance is as compared to Linux (pick one, there is only 75) is going to make people go crazy...... but personally,........ BSD is almost as fast as Linux (again, pick one) but 10 times more stable. And yes, you can run Xfree86 (including Gnome, KDE, E, whatever else you want, on it.
heh... It's free give it a shot, if you like Unix, you may end up liking it more than Linux.
My old TI994/a still runs all the X10 stuff in a summer house in NC. I'm still able to dial into the 300 baud modem, turn the lights on and off from TX. not a business use, but it's been running the same software since 1980.
Linux does have a home. It will always have a home, and this home is growing. BSD(net-open-free-bsdi-whatever) also. Solaris, even NT. But trying to use any of the above for something they're not ready for is just as silly at thinking Linux will take over Micro$oft in the workstation or server market. The hype surrounding Linux is fun, Linux is fun, but would I use Linux for anything other than fun? Today, no. Tomorrow, maybe. Think about it.
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The problem is that you need a couple of dozen 468 to theoretically get the performance of a recent chip on a certain, narrow class of tasks, and for the time and effort it takes to get the whole thing running, you could easily afford to simply buy a brand new system, not to talk of the amount of power all those old ones together would consume.
Bah! power? 95% (made up number) of the slashdot reader base doesn't care about the power usage of there clusters. Because they are loaded? no. Befause they are 12 and mommy and daddy pay those bills.
Thats right. When XBox ships you will _not_ be able to say "the games on my PC look better because my video card is better". It wont be. THe games _might_ look better but that would only be because of piss-poor programming on the part of the xbox programmers. Or the more obvious: TV's flat suck. (well, the XBR400's are good, but still no monitor)
Probably 99% of it burns up in the atmosphere (AHHH...The Atmosphere...AHHHH). thank you, I just spat beer all over my laptop.
Is that there is no such thing as a digital modem. You'll have to leave that part out of your design. -- --atdot
OK, good point. Name one country whose official language is English and uses "colour"
hehehehe
there may be one out there, but I cannot think of it.
@.
Name three countries whose official language is English and which use "color". Heck, name two. There are oodles more that use "colour".
Of course, "colour" is a perverse Gallic invasion, with no place in Latin. So even though you're in the minority countrywise, you can have philological correctness on your side.
for that matter, name one country.
be carefull not to show too much ignorance
@.
Asking how the performance is as compared to Linux (pick one, there is only 75) is going to make people go crazy...... but personally, ........ BSD is almost as fast as Linux (again, pick one) but 10 times more stable. And yes, you can run Xfree86 (including Gnome, KDE, E, whatever else you want, on it.
heh... It's free give it a shot, if you like Unix, you may end up liking it more than Linux.
just a thought....
@.
My old TI994/a still runs all the X10 stuff in a summer house in NC. I'm still able to dial into the 300 baud modem, turn the lights on and off from TX. not a business use, but it's been running the same software since 1980.
--atdot
While I'm never one to bash linux, or even NT for that matter (ok, maybe a little), The last post looks pretty funny to me:
couldn't have done it without us? sounds a little like BSD envy to me.
all in good fun, all in good fun......
--atdot
(bsdie)
Linux does have a home. It will always have a home, and this home is growing. BSD(net-open-free-bsdi-whatever) also. Solaris, even NT. But trying to use any of the above for something they're not ready for is just as silly at thinking Linux will take over Micro$oft in the workstation or server market. The hype surrounding Linux is fun, Linux is fun, but would I use Linux for anything other than fun? Today, no. Tomorrow, maybe. Think about it.
--@.