read about it here , has great info about the hardware design, the slick memory architecture and the support form IBM.
GameCube is a really slick box, very efficient and astounding considering that Nintendo just about breaks even with it considering the $200 price tag (and considering that at $100 more, MS is supposedly losing about $150 per xbox).
Overall very impressive. By the way, Rogue Leader is a great game, but one that requires a little work to get into. Quite frankly, flying something at high speeds in a real 3d environment is a little more involved than running around and shooting. I don't think Taco really gave this game a chance, then again he seems to be somewhat of an xbox cheerleader these days.
sorry to be so off-topic but plan9/inferno are just so f*cking cool I couldn't help myself. why don't more linux users check out plan9 - I just downloaded the source and have been reading through it a little. it is just increadibly clean and packed with layer after layer of increadible ideas. for an example - read up on the window system rio, rob pike has a number of great papers on the subject.
why does it seem like djb always comes up when it comes to the subject of how software _should_ be written?
he seems to me like one of the few people who really understands how userland unix programs _should_ look. everything broken into small peices, little utilities written for specific problems. you'll never see djb writing a giant catch all program that uses a mini language and a thousand features (read fetchmail), instead everything is very minimal and has a very simple and difficult to break interface.
it's too bad more people don't do things in the true spirit of unix rather than constantly trying to fight it.
if google only allows positive marks to be given then I see no harm done really. consider microsoft wants some of its pages ranked highly, so it gets the vote out on some of them nice and high. same goes for a group of friends or so. so we might disagree with the actuall quality of the site, but at least we know it is an important one in the eyes of the author.
the problem, is if negative ranking is allowed and you get into a Ximian - KDE kind of situation where one company deliberatly tries to mislead or undervalue a site (or in my case a search criteria). that would be bad - can you imagine some pro choice site - it would get slammed in a minute!
if there are too many highly ranked sites it doesn't really bother me so much, I think the payoff is potentially good though - hopefully when I search for sqsh in the future, I'll get the home page near the first hit that is a little more current.
I heard somewhere that Carnegie used to do the same thing with all of the money he donated for libraries and the like - the catch there was that the money came back to him because they were forced to buy all the steel & books and whatnot from his companies.
>...just the cost of the context switch can be
> enought to deter one from this.
not really - breaking up your app by process adds a few efficiencies with a nice, simple, easy to understand model.
1. multi-processor scaling, generally a no brainer with seperate processes, if they are broken up intelligently
2. reduced memory foot print - well broken up processes mean you don't have to worry about loading up a ton of libraries all at once, you can let the os deal with memory as processes are kicked off and finished
3. security - different processes can be run as untrusting groups, a great boon especially if one processes needs to run as root!
a great example of this is qmail, the original mta that took a monolithic app like sendmail and used the unix process model to break it apart into well defined pieces. the result is a faster, more secure, easier to understand and generally much simpler application.
> But with the G5 around the corner, I think THAT will be THE interresting comparison.
NO it WON'T! the G5 (64bit right?) will be compared against products like amd's hammer, and intel's itanium line. Competition does not stand still, intel _also_ has a next geration chip in the works. So will we hear the same bs about the next chip generation when G5 get's smoked again while still costing twice as much?
this reminds me of how Microsoft always tries to avoid judgement by saying, 'don't look here, everything will be fixed and more in the _next_ release!'
this actually works quite well - I get very few sales calls now, and those that I get are usually from AT&T that claim they are making a special offer from their customers.
yes - but, it is a lot easier to justify a $60 expense on a few clients here and there for a few linux desktops with a solid evaluation from a developer than without
bynari is a real pain to deal with. they offer no evaluation copy and very little in the way of seeing what the real functionality is on their web site.
many posts and e-mails on linuxtoday.com have discussed this but they seem to be more interested in the corperate market.
it might be good for that, but for the home consumer they do make it tough.
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read about it here , has great info about the hardware design, the slick memory architecture and the support form IBM.
GameCube is a really slick box, very efficient and astounding considering that Nintendo just about breaks even with it considering the $200 price tag (and considering that at $100 more, MS is supposedly losing about $150 per xbox). Overall very impressive. By the way, Rogue Leader is a great game, but one that requires a little work to get into. Quite frankly, flying something at high speeds in a real 3d environment is a little more involved than running around and shooting. I don't think Taco really gave this game a chance, then again he seems to be somewhat of an xbox cheerleader these days.
sorry to be so off-topic but plan9/inferno are just so f*cking cool I couldn't help myself. why don't more linux users check out plan9 - I just downloaded the source and have been reading through it a little. it is just increadibly clean and packed with layer after layer of increadible ideas. for an example - read up on the window system rio, rob pike has a number of great papers on the subject.
why does it seem like djb always comes up when it comes to the subject of how software _should_ be written?
he seems to me like one of the few people who really understands how userland unix programs _should_ look. everything broken into small peices, little utilities written for specific problems. you'll never see djb writing a giant catch all program that uses a mini language and a thousand features (read fetchmail), instead everything is very minimal and has a very simple and difficult to break interface.
it's too bad more people don't do things in the true spirit of unix rather than constantly trying to fight it.
if google only allows positive marks to be given then I see no harm done really. consider microsoft wants some of its pages ranked highly, so it gets the vote out on some of them nice and high. same goes for a group of friends or so. so we might disagree with the actuall quality of the site, but at least we know it is an important one in the eyes of the author.
the problem, is if negative ranking is allowed and you get into a Ximian - KDE kind of situation where one company deliberatly tries to mislead or undervalue a site (or in my case a search criteria). that would be bad - can you imagine some pro choice site - it would get slammed in a minute!
if there are too many highly ranked sites it doesn't really bother me so much, I think the payoff is potentially good though - hopefully when I search for sqsh in the future, I'll get the home page near the first hit that is a little more current.
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I heard somewhere that Carnegie used to do the same thing with all of the money he donated for libraries and the like - the catch there was that the money came back to him because they were forced to buy all the steel & books and whatnot from his companies.
> ...just the cost of the context switch can be
> enought to deter one from this.
not really - breaking up your app by process adds a few efficiencies with a nice, simple, easy to understand model.
1. multi-processor scaling, generally a no brainer with seperate processes, if they are broken up intelligently
2. reduced memory foot print - well broken up processes mean you don't have to worry about loading up a ton of libraries all at once, you can let the os deal with memory as processes are kicked off and finished
3. security - different processes can be run as untrusting groups, a great boon especially if one processes needs to run as root!
a great example of this is qmail, the original mta that took a monolithic app like sendmail and used the unix process model to break it apart into well defined pieces. the result is a faster, more secure, easier to understand and generally much simpler application.
h
> But with the G5 around the corner, I think THAT will be THE interresting comparison.
NO it WON'T! the G5 (64bit right?) will be compared against products like amd's hammer, and intel's itanium line. Competition does not stand still, intel _also_ has a next geration chip in the works. So will we hear the same bs about the next chip generation when G5 get's smoked again while still costing twice as much?
this reminds me of how Microsoft always tries to avoid judgement by saying, 'don't look here, everything will be fixed and more in the _next_ release!'
come on, who are they [apple] kidding?
thank you! isn't that obvious?
this actually works quite well - I get very few sales calls now, and those that I get are usually from AT&T that claim they are making a special offer from their customers.
yes - but, it is a lot easier to justify a $60 expense on a few clients here and there for a few linux desktops with a solid evaluation from a developer than without
bynari is a real pain to deal with. they offer no evaluation copy and very little in the way of seeing what the real functionality is on their web site.
many posts and e-mails on linuxtoday.com have discussed this but they seem to be more interested in the corperate market.
it might be good for that, but for the home consumer they do make it tough.
Don't forget that Sybase still has the copyright to T-SQL. There is no such thing as 'MS-SQL' just T-SQL, thought SQL Server is an MS product.
Say what you want about SQL Server, but Sybase is a solid product.