>It was fast (I don't have numbers, just experience) >It never lost data It handled crashes (or pulling the plug accidentally as was more common) without a hiccup >You could search for things and find them in 1/100th of the time it takes Windows to find things >All that metadata was cool even though I never got around to using it much.
It's sad that BFS is at least 5 years old and I think it's better than anything else out there.
>Also, they have years and years of experience in making movies, which is often more important than who has the fastest servers and the best pixel shaders.
I wouldn't say that ILM has any experience making movies. Lucasfilm has made a bunch of movies. ILM has done the special effects for a lot of movies. But ILM "making movies"? No.
The reason people don't bitch at John McCain about hating Vietnamese is that they kept him in a prison camp for 4 years. They probably killed friends of his.
Never mind that we were over there in their country.
Still though. If anyone keeps me in a cage in the jungle for 4 years? Fuck you.
For most American's, Jews are still that weak ethnic group that we let get killed back 50 years ago. We're still saving them today (if the US cut off the aid, Israel would be gone within a decade).
If we had an Arab sentaor who'd had a Jewish bullet in his ass, I don't think we'd complain that he hated the Jews.
Even if you don't like it, it can do some pretty amazing things easily. If you don't believe me, you've never seem the movies that Alan Kay made in the 70's. He had 10 year olds writing programs which they did simple animation on.
If you read that too fast, read it again. He had 10 year olds writing programs used to make animation.
When I saw that it blew my mind. That's when I really realized that CS hasn't gone anywhere in decades. Hardware has gotten faster but programs haven't moved a Goddamn inch.
My school has a SunRay system (a 4 processor, 4 gig of RAM machine that supports 30 thin clients in a lab). I'm ssh'ed in right now. The sizeof(void*) program reports 32 bits.
This lab was installed about a year ago. Has Sun just become 64bit or is something funny going on?
It's an optimization class. Read the description. Figuring out where to put the bus/subway stop and the traffic lights and the one way streets and everything else. Lots of complex optimization and finding minima.
And if you don't think that finding minima is a huge part of computer science then you're not a computer scientist.
The Elegant Universe is quite excellent. The first half of the book, as it builds up to current string theory, is quite good. It's very readable (AP Physics was as high as I went).
When you get up to 1.5 years, it's not really the OS that will crash. Has your microwave ever crashed? But I bet it has flashed 12:00 sometime in the past 1.5 years.
No matter how good a server farm is, something will happen. Power failure. Fire. Mice chewing wires. A hard drive failure. When somebody guarntees 99.99% uptime, they mean that. They don't mean 100% because shit happens in the real world.
"Ah, but you are tied down; in fact, you're tied down to a pool that includes AMD. I think the point is that AMD is tied to providing for this pool (by sunk R&D, for example) even more strongly than you are tied to buying from it (by Windows)."
You missed my point. Let's say GE decides to use WinNT for their entire company. They now have to use x86 machines, right? But they're GE. They are huge. They could decide to make their own x86 chips (with a fee to Intel, though). They are NOT tied down to Intel or AMD or Cyrix or whomever.
Following the same example, if GE decides to use MacOS, they are screwed. IBM and Motorola won't let them make their own PPC compatible chips. It's a closed standard. They are tied to a manufacturer.
I think Sanders forgot a "commercial" in there, ie "most [commercial] non Microsoft OS only run propritary hardware." This would make sense. AIX runs on PowerPC. Same for MacOS. PowerPC is proprietary. I cannot make a PPC clone if I wanted to. Solaris used to only run on Sparc chips. Same goes for it.
Windows, however, allows me to choose my hardware manufacturer. I can buy NT and then buy any x86 chip (there used to be quite a few) to run it on. I'm not tied down and I think that's what he's getting at.
Linux is the obvious exception. The BSD's are too. They do seem to be rather large exceptions, but what do you want?
You think in the headline they could have mentioned that the article was written by Bruce Perens. This is not journalism; it's an op-ed piece. Don't be so misleading with titles, boys.
cluster of these things? It might equal a whole laptop. Maybe.
Having a laptop might actually make these things useful. Have your laptop be a server and then cart around a few of these to demo a product to a client. They would like your gadgets at least.
It's close. You go around buying and selling drugs. I remember playing this for DOS about 10 years ago. Then the PC version became popular. Now it's the Palm version. My girlfriend admits that she'll go to class and just play Drug Wars the whole time.
Is the fact that Drug Wars is an addicting game ironic?
Maybe it was Skydiver. That was easily one of the best games for the 2600. You push the button to jump, you push down to pop your parachute, then you steer hoping that the wind isn't too bad. Then you had the damn moving landing pads.
Anyone who played it can't tell me they didn't have hours of fun just pounding their jumper into the ground time after time after time. Take away my points - see if I care!
Here's something that struck me. Here's a quote from the legal site on the Universal Music Group's site (see the link in the submitted story)
"IF YOU DO NOT OR CANNOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO USE THE PLAYER OR CONTENT."
They are saying that this is a legal contract. They are saying that if you cannot agree then you are not allowed to use the content (listen to the music). Minors cannot agree to legal contracts. Tell me if my logic fails me, but does that mean that minors can't listen to copyprotected CD's? Shouldn't they be, therefore, prohibited from buying them?
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Honestly, when I used BFS it was pure tits.
>It was fast (I don't have numbers, just experience)
>It never lost data
It handled crashes (or pulling the plug accidentally as was more common) without a hiccup
>You could search for things and find them in 1/100th of the time it takes Windows to find things
>All that metadata was cool even though I never got around to using it much.
It's sad that BFS is at least 5 years old and I think it's better than anything else out there.
>Also, they have years and years of experience in making movies, which is often more important than who has the fastest servers and the best pixel shaders.
I wouldn't say that ILM has any experience making movies. Lucasfilm has made a bunch of movies. ILM has done the special effects for a lot of movies. But ILM "making movies"? No.
Ice Age sucked. I'm glad you accurately called it a little movie.
If seven other techs have done about the same, then you've changed over 1600 batteries (7 + you * 2000).
The reason people don't bitch at John McCain about hating Vietnamese is that they kept him in a prison camp for 4 years. They probably killed friends of his.
Never mind that we were over there in their country.
Still though. If anyone keeps me in a cage in the jungle for 4 years? Fuck you.
For most American's, Jews are still that weak ethnic group that we let get killed back 50 years ago. We're still saving them today (if the US cut off the aid, Israel would be gone within a decade).
If we had an Arab sentaor who'd had a Jewish bullet in his ass, I don't think we'd complain that he hated the Jews.
Every PS2 has 2 USB ports.
Complain to the game makers.
Even if you don't like it, it can do some pretty amazing things easily. If you don't believe me, you've never seem the movies that Alan Kay made in the 70's. He had 10 year olds writing programs which they did simple animation on.
If you read that too fast, read it again. He had 10 year olds writing programs used to make animation.
When I saw that it blew my mind. That's when I really realized that CS hasn't gone anywhere in decades. Hardware has gotten faster but programs haven't moved a Goddamn inch.
"(WYSINWYG, unless you use TeXmacs, but I don't consider that to be a significant sacrifice for the flexibility of a text file.)"
So you're saying either have 8 year olds use Emacs or have them use a program where they don't see what's going to be outputted?
For 8 year olds?
Give me a fucking break.
My school has a SunRay system (a 4 processor, 4 gig of RAM machine that supports 30 thin clients in a lab). I'm ssh'ed in right now. The sizeof(void*) program reports 32 bits.
This lab was installed about a year ago. Has Sun just become 64bit or is something funny going on?
It's an optimization class. Read the description. Figuring out where to put the bus/subway stop and the traffic lights and the one way streets and everything else. Lots of complex optimization and finding minima.
And if you don't think that finding minima is a huge part of computer science then you're not a computer scientist.
The Elegant Universe is quite excellent. The first half of the book, as it builds up to current string theory, is quite good. It's very readable (AP Physics was as high as I went).
I recommend it whole heartedly.
Get a life again.
I honestly can't believe you wrote all that shit that I don't care about.
When you get up to 1.5 years, it's not really the OS that will crash. Has your microwave ever crashed? But I bet it has flashed 12:00 sometime in the past 1.5 years.
No matter how good a server farm is, something will happen. Power failure. Fire. Mice chewing wires. A hard drive failure. When somebody guarntees 99.99% uptime, they mean that. They don't mean 100% because shit happens in the real world.
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It's actually a five picture deal.
Toy Story
A Bug's Life
Toy Story 2
Monsters Inc
and whatever comes out next year
I just did it on my system.
It really works. And it really works fast.
Viva Be.
eat my shit, coward
"Ah, but you are tied down; in fact, you're tied down to a pool that includes AMD. I think the
point is that AMD is tied to providing for this pool (by sunk R&D, for example) even more
strongly than you are tied to buying from it (by Windows)."
You missed my point. Let's say GE decides to use WinNT for their entire company. They now have to use x86 machines, right? But they're GE. They are huge. They could decide to make their own x86 chips (with a fee to Intel, though). They are NOT tied down to Intel or AMD or Cyrix or whomever.
Following the same example, if GE decides to use MacOS, they are screwed. IBM and Motorola won't let them make their own PPC compatible chips. It's a closed standard. They are tied to a manufacturer.
I think Sanders forgot a "commercial" in there, ie "most [commercial] non Microsoft OS only run propritary hardware." This would make sense. AIX runs on PowerPC. Same for MacOS. PowerPC is proprietary. I cannot make a PPC clone if I wanted to. Solaris used to only run on Sparc chips. Same goes for it.
Windows, however, allows me to choose my hardware manufacturer. I can buy NT and then buy any x86 chip (there used to be quite a few) to run it on. I'm not tied down and I think that's what he's getting at.
Linux is the obvious exception. The BSD's are too. They do seem to be rather large exceptions, but what do you want?
You think in the headline they could have mentioned that the article was written by Bruce Perens. This is not journalism; it's an op-ed piece. Don't be so misleading with titles, boys.
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cluster of these things? It might equal a whole laptop. Maybe.
Having a laptop might actually make these things useful. Have your laptop be a server and then cart around a few of these to demo a product to a client. They would like your gadgets at least.
It's close. You go around buying and selling drugs. I remember playing this for DOS about 10 years ago. Then the PC version became popular. Now it's the Palm version. My girlfriend admits that she'll go to class and just play Drug Wars the whole time.
Is the fact that Drug Wars is an addicting game ironic?
Hey, you were 8. I've played it too. It's frig Barnstormer.
Maybe it was Skydiver. That was easily one of the best games for the 2600. You push the button to jump, you push down to pop your parachute, then you steer hoping that the wind isn't too bad. Then you had the damn moving landing pads.
Anyone who played it can't tell me they didn't have hours of fun just pounding their jumper into the ground time after time after time. Take away my points - see if I care!
Here's something that struck me. Here's a quote from the legal site on the Universal Music Group's site (see the link in the submitted story)
"IF YOU DO NOT OR CANNOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO USE THE PLAYER OR CONTENT."
They are saying that this is a legal contract. They are saying that if you cannot agree then you are not allowed to use the content (listen to the music). Minors cannot agree to legal contracts. Tell me if my logic fails me, but does that mean that minors can't listen to copyprotected CD's? Shouldn't they be, therefore, prohibited from buying them?
It sounds ultra stupid, but it's the RIAA.