There's a job opening there, they're getting ready to fire me. Read my slashdot journal to find out why. Oh, what the hell, I can summarize why... they read it too!
It's true that risc vs. cisc doesn't mean a whole lot anymore, but even simpler things like not being choked by shortage of gpr's is nice. SIMD was better on it too. x86 is a lovable hack, but it's still a hack. I hope AMD hijacks it away from Intel, it's the only way it will ammount to anything.
And it might not end up remaining x86, even if it does.
Operating System: A program that provides a user interface and an application interface (which makes it possible for application programs to run) and manages computer system resources.
Some points to consider:
a) Whether or not Windows provides an interface is questionable at best. I suppose once you dig beneath all the contradictions, microsoftisms, and other junk, it's at least possible. b) "makes it possible for applications programs to run" - this generally doesn't apply to windows. At best, it allows them to crawl, like the broken dead things that windows apps are. c) "manages computer system resources" would have to read "mismanages computer system resources" to apply to Windows. d) I'm not fat, dirty, bitchy, or even a "linux only" person. As my original post points out, literally anything is better than windows. Give me DOS any day, Amiga Workbench, even VMS for fuck's sake.
But I'd hardly call it an upgrade, unless windows is being overwritten by a real OS. Upgrade from windows to OSX, upgrade from windows to BSD, upgrade from windows to linux...
Well. Why don't you pick the 604e, and make your pointless comparisons against that too? The Pentium M is 10 times as fast as the 604e!.
Now back to real reality. Clockspeed doesn't mean anything on a modern CPU. IntOps, Flops, and SIMD mean everything. Oh, and having more gpr's than say, a $5 atmel AVR.
That means it's far from conclusive that x86 won the CPU wars, especially considering the variety of jobs a modern computer is tasked with.
I'd gladly take a g5 at half the clockspeed, than I'd take a pentium anything. I just don't like the Apple machine that generally comes with it.
If this isn't the same tired rumor thats been going around for years, look for Intel putting out a line of PPC chips...
Why? Cause they'd be making money off of it. Intel fields about half a dozen archetectures at a time anyway, what's one more?
Not just me then, I was thinking the same as 'a'. Yeh, it would be as big of a switch as moving to IBM and losing altivec, but it would be PPC every bit as much.
Who in the hell would want to limit themselves to 8 general purpose registers and the shriveled little SIMD thing that is the latest incarnation of MMX?
Actually, you come so close to understanding what this is all about.
It's about ICANN getting to sell the same domains again with different TLDs for the same prices.
It won't help with smut-filtering, no one can force people to move to the new TLD (if it was really about that, they'd offer TLD conversion for free, wouldn't they? hell, they'd disallow anyone from registering a.xxx unless they could prove they owned the.com/.net) and no one can even decide where to draw the line anyway.
A computer, on the other hand, could very easily "break down" because you plugged it into the wrong network. If you put the wrong gas into a car, it might not perform as well as it used to. But once you switch back to Premium, everything should be fine again. Install RealPlayer, on the other hand, and suddenly Windows Media Player might not launch when you double click on MP3s anymore.
But non-windows machines don't have these problems, plain and simple. I could plug this slackware laptop into anything, and it's just as safe as if it were sitting behind my firewall machine. I never have to worry about the wrong program opening my files (because I'm typing the name of the program into the command line myself).
And this isn't a linux only thing. You don't have to set up scripts that load iptables if it detects it is plugged in anywhere but the home network. Mac OSX does the usability part fine.
Windows is broken. Horribly. Beyond repair. There is never any good reason to use it, and I have no sympathy for those who do.
* An old xml text webpage of mine, first I clicked on, showed an xlink image. Inline images were the one thing I knew of preventing 100% XML webpages.
* SVG. When I finally converted from seamonkey for all the gorgeous features I didn't realize firefox had, the lack of SVG hurt, hurt badly.
Con:
* Alot of extensions seem to be broken. Waiting for updates will be hard.
* Greasemonkey. Yes, I know it's just another extension, but at work, this one is a lifesaver. Going without it means using IE for our stupid webapps.
* The GrayModern theme is broken. The realization that this theme existed convinced me to switch from seamonkey. God I hate the default theme. (Are there any compatible themes at this point? I'd take anything other than the default!)
Strange:
* Even though it disabled the FavIcon Picker extension, alot of my links still have the icons I set for them. Wondering if a single click on them will undo the handywork.
I've watched Buffy. It was seasons 5 of E:FC, and it tried to be clever about it. Which is even slightly more sickening. Buffy is a soap opera with fantasy subplots. How anyone takes it seriously defies comprehension. The two sluts are fighting vampires, having a discussion on whether Buffy fucked the Anne-Rice-Talamasca-Highlander-Watcher-ripoff character, exchanging glib comments about it in between staking the things.
And if it's not meant to be taken seriously, other shows have done far better at that, too. Red Dwarf, Dr. Who, hell, even Space Quest.
Why can't a dictionary be made of nouns, of verbs? Why can't we have it statistically analyze the grammar for ambiguous words?
Does it only recognize exact matches? Especially with verb conjugation, I'd think any words 80% similar or so should be considered matches. Not all languages are as conjugation happy as latin or spanish or even english, and you often lose some nuanced conjugations when translating from one to the other.
What will be done about idioms? Translating these word for word often makes no sense at all, and for me at least (no idea what the official stance is), I'd rather they substitute in idioms with the same general meaning, but for the culture being translated to.
Does it work on alternate character systems, is it word boundary dependent?
Does it understand punctuation rules, will this post translated to spanish have the upside down question marks where they're supposed to be?
How many of the world's existing languages have enough text for this to even be feasible?
More writers need to get this. Having Tasha Yar show up in that show, just so she can show as her daughter in another episode (intentional or not) was brilliant. It's continuity without the need to tie up every last little loose string.
Same thing with the Millenium Falcon in ep3 that I hear about (haven't seen it). George got something right, even if it was only for a second. That's continuity. Having r2 and c3po in ep1, that's tying up all the loose ends into a big ugly knot.
I was really suprised. I was half expecting Anakin flying around for half the movie in the MF, the way Lucas murders stories.
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There's a job opening there, they're getting ready to fire me. Read my slashdot journal to find out why. Oh, what the hell, I can summarize why... they read it too!
Haha. I hate the place.
Clean architecture.
It's true that risc vs. cisc doesn't mean a whole lot anymore, but even simpler things like not being choked by shortage of gpr's is nice. SIMD was better on it too. x86 is a lovable hack, but it's still a hack. I hope AMD hijacks it away from Intel, it's the only way it will ammount to anything.
And it might not end up remaining x86, even if it does.
I doubt it will kill Apple.
It does have the effect of turning them into something mundane. No longer can I think of them as something special.
I love the PPC, and I lament its absence.
Yeh, it's also a hardware downgrade to go from a rusted out Pinto to a Ferrari.
Operating System: A program that provides a user interface and an application interface (which makes it possible for application programs to run) and manages computer system resources.
Some points to consider:
a) Whether or not Windows provides an interface is questionable at best. I suppose once you dig beneath all the contradictions, microsoftisms, and other junk, it's at least possible.
b) "makes it possible for applications programs to run" - this generally doesn't apply to windows. At best, it allows them to crawl, like the broken dead things that windows apps are.
c) "manages computer system resources" would have to read "mismanages computer system resources" to apply to Windows.
d) I'm not fat, dirty, bitchy, or even a "linux only" person. As my original post points out, literally anything is better than windows. Give me DOS any day, Amiga Workbench, even VMS for fuck's sake.
Wow, I'm being lectured on stupidity from someone not skilled enough to register a slashdot account.
I would try to point out that you're wrong. But the statement is simply too incoherent for me to figure out what it is that you're disputing.
For those that want the short answer on what a "real OS" is... it's any OS that is not Microsoft Windows.
But I'd hardly call it an upgrade, unless windows is being overwritten by a real OS. Upgrade from windows to OSX, upgrade from windows to BSD, upgrade from windows to linux...
This is like a samegrade.
Well. Why don't you pick the 604e, and make your pointless comparisons against that too? The Pentium M is 10 times as fast as the 604e!.
Now back to real reality. Clockspeed doesn't mean anything on a modern CPU. IntOps, Flops, and SIMD mean everything. Oh, and having more gpr's than say, a $5 atmel AVR.
That means it's far from conclusive that x86 won the CPU wars, especially considering the variety of jobs a modern computer is tasked with.
I'd gladly take a g5 at half the clockspeed, than I'd take a pentium anything. I just don't like the Apple machine that generally comes with it.
If this isn't the same tired rumor thats been going around for years, look for Intel putting out a line of PPC chips...
Why? Cause they'd be making money off of it. Intel fields about half a dozen archetectures at a time anyway, what's one more?
Except that it would be about 100 steps backward, compared to the PPC. I'd sooner think Apple was switching to i960 than x86....
Not just me then, I was thinking the same as 'a'. Yeh, it would be as big of a switch as moving to IBM and losing altivec, but it would be PPC every bit as much.
Who in the hell would want to limit themselves to 8 general purpose registers and the shriveled little SIMD thing that is the latest incarnation of MMX?
You tax cheat! Pay your goddamn US taxes already.
Actually, you come so close to understanding what this is all about.
.xxx unless they could prove they owned the .com/.net) and no one can even decide where to draw the line anyway.
It's about ICANN getting to sell the same domains again with different TLDs for the same prices.
It won't help with smut-filtering, no one can force people to move to the new TLD (if it was really about that, they'd offer TLD conversion for free, wouldn't they? hell, they'd disallow anyone from registering a
A computer, on the other hand, could very easily "break down" because you plugged it into the wrong network. If you put the wrong gas into a car, it might not perform as well as it used to. But once you switch back to Premium, everything should be fine again. Install RealPlayer, on the other hand, and suddenly Windows Media Player might not launch when you double click on MP3s anymore.
But non-windows machines don't have these problems, plain and simple. I could plug this slackware laptop into anything, and it's just as safe as if it were sitting behind my firewall machine. I never have to worry about the wrong program opening my files (because I'm typing the name of the program into the command line myself).
And this isn't a linux only thing. You don't have to set up scripts that load iptables if it detects it is plugged in anywhere but the home network. Mac OSX does the usability part fine.
Windows is broken. Horribly. Beyond repair. There is never any good reason to use it, and I have no sympathy for those who do.
Thanks, but no luck there either. It opens all my tabs, but won't load the pages...
I don't keep any in the bookmark menu itself, only as quicklinks. 40 or so, tops (more won't fit).
And they're what, less than a kbyte each? 50k isn't going to murder startup time.
This is it. Doesn't work for me though, I still get the compatibility thing.
Sent you an email, hope you respond.
It's called openvpn. Check it out.
Tried that, and it's not working.
Adblock does work, after updating it. Launchy doesn't seem to work though, period.
Also broken:
Download Statusbar
Favicon Picker
Greasemonkey
Also working:
Flashblock
Gcache
Claims it's working, but doesn't:
SessionSaver
Pro:
* An old xml text webpage of mine, first I clicked on, showed an xlink image. Inline images were the one thing I knew of preventing 100% XML webpages.
* SVG. When I finally converted from seamonkey for all the gorgeous features I didn't realize firefox had, the lack of SVG hurt, hurt badly.
Con:
* Alot of extensions seem to be broken. Waiting for updates will be hard.
* Greasemonkey. Yes, I know it's just another extension, but at work, this one is a lifesaver. Going without it means using IE for our stupid webapps.
* The GrayModern theme is broken. The realization that this theme existed convinced me to switch from seamonkey. God I hate the default theme. (Are there any compatible themes at this point? I'd take anything other than the default!)
Strange:
* Even though it disabled the FavIcon Picker extension, alot of my links still have the icons I set for them. Wondering if a single click on them will undo the handywork.
Is that the island where mammoths may have been walking the earth at the time of Jesus? (Not that I'm a holy roller).
Amazing to think that they were around even then.
I've watched Buffy. It was seasons 5 of E:FC, and it tried to be clever about it. Which is even slightly more sickening. Buffy is a soap opera with fantasy subplots. How anyone takes it seriously defies comprehension. The two sluts are fighting vampires, having a discussion on whether Buffy fucked the Anne-Rice-Talamasca-Highlander-Watcher-ripoff character, exchanging glib comments about it in between staking the things.
And if it's not meant to be taken seriously, other shows have done far better at that, too. Red Dwarf, Dr. Who, hell, even Space Quest.
Some questions:
Why can't a dictionary be made of nouns, of verbs? Why can't we have it statistically analyze the grammar for ambiguous words?
Does it only recognize exact matches? Especially with verb conjugation, I'd think any words 80% similar or so should be considered matches. Not all languages are as conjugation happy as latin or spanish or even english, and you often lose some nuanced conjugations when translating from one to the other.
What will be done about idioms? Translating these word for word often makes no sense at all, and for me at least (no idea what the official stance is), I'd rather they substitute in idioms with the same general meaning, but for the culture being translated to.
Does it work on alternate character systems, is it word boundary dependent?
Does it understand punctuation rules, will this post translated to spanish have the upside down question marks where they're supposed to be?
How many of the world's existing languages have enough text for this to even be feasible?
More writers need to get this. Having Tasha Yar show up in that show, just so she can show as her daughter in another episode (intentional or not) was brilliant. It's continuity without the need to tie up every last little loose string.
Same thing with the Millenium Falcon in ep3 that I hear about (haven't seen it). George got something right, even if it was only for a second. That's continuity. Having r2 and c3po in ep1, that's tying up all the loose ends into a big ugly knot.
I was really suprised. I was half expecting Anakin flying around for half the movie in the MF, the way Lucas murders stories.