Who's the fool now? The 3400 rating is actually based upon the performance of a 1ghz Thunderbird IIRC. So a 2000 would be roughly the equivavelent of a 2ghz Thunderbird, NOT a 2ghz Pentium 4, even though the processor is actually running at 1.6ghz.
But don't take it from me. From the horses mouth:
Section 2 The Model number
The model number is fairly straight forward the numeric code of the Core ID will give you the model number. In the case of the newer Athlon XP's it will be the PR rating of the CPU. For example the AMD Barton 3200+ would have 3200 as its model number and not its operating MHz. The older CPU's such as the Thunderbird and the Duron which do not have PR ratings will have their operating speed in the model number section. A Thunderbird 1.4Ghz will have a model number of 1400.
That means that for every great app, there is likely to be nearly 100x more terrible apps for Windows than for the other operating systems. Its like the Playstation. Because Sony has the greater market, they also have the larger number of terrible games. An operating system does not make an application good or bad, regardless of whether pretty widgets are in the toolbar. Personally there are quite a few Windows applications that I could not live without that do not have any sort of linux equivalent good enough to allow me to switch.
Here are a few:
Mp3tag (Best tagger out there) Photoshop Illustrator Reason Ableton Live Reaktor Sound Forge Picasa2 CDex Alcohol 120% GAMES GAMES GAMES GAMES
I could go on, but the fact of the matter is that at the very least Linux needs to start getting some serious sound applications for me to make the switch. I used to dual boot, but in the end it was such a pain anytime I wanted to play a game or work on some music that I gave up and stuck with the one environment that has all of my needs satisfied. MacOS is kind of interesting and has all the audio software I would ever need, but at what cost? More expensive hardware and about 0 games I'd be interested in. For what I didn't have to pay for my copy of windows, I'd be awfully hard pressed to start paying apple for an OS update every 6 months.
My point is that its not the platform that it is the problem its just that a lot of lazy and piss poor developers tend to flock to the platform that is the most popular. To be perfectly honest, if you want a great example of a platform that has a lot of god awful software, just take a look at linux and the bazillion apps that never got past their second alpha prerelease.
Hell, just look at how many system tools are included in distributions that are not even version 1 yet. Granted I've had very few problems with a lot of the console tools I've used, but after a while you start to realize that a little bit of polish goes an awful long ways. For instance, apt-get:
aptluna:~# apt-get -version apt 0.5.28.6 for linux i386 compiled on Mar 22 2005 07:17:03
Granted apt is about as solid as a console tool can get, but version.5? Why not just make it version 1 and clean up any nagging bugs? Unless, of course, they plan on adding more features on their roadmap.
I love how when I look for linux apps in sourceforge, a great deal of what I find that would be interesting to use is at version.01 and such. Not even a tenth of a final version. Granted I know that open source projects move slowly, but why even bother advertising your project when it isn't even 1/10th of the way done?
I know people here resent it being called open sores software, but in too many cases, calling it open sores would almost be a compliment.
In a lot of ways I think that the above is true. However, I don't really know if the hive mentality would ever really truly fit for humans though as they tend to show many more tendancies towards the herd or the pack mentality. Once you start thinking of most humans as sheep, the world starts making more sense and starts becoming a lot more depressing. Face it. People just don't want to think about the world and what is going on in it. I know that there are exceptions, but most people do not want the responsibility that comes with knowledge of their world and are much more content sitting in the comfort of their low crime cookie-cutter suburb watching network television than worrying about all hte really terrible things that are happening to people all over the globe.
Hell, if people would just start thinking of how much freaking garbage they produce on a weekly basis and the big fucking hole in the woods that someone dug and lined with plastic to dump it all...oh hell, what's the fucking use?
The queen also can produce both males and potentially other queens. In bees, when another queen is hatched and matured it will likely challenge the existing queen and the winner will continue the hive. Survival of the fittest indeed. I'd imagine it works similarily with ants. The queen is usually the key because she makes all the other ants. What is different here is that the queen is cloning herself and so are the males, that is, if they can prove this theory. Perhaps the fireants are evolving into a super colony themselves.
That is correct. They are also sterile too AFAIK. I believe that the workers are by definition female, but incapable of reproducing. The male ants really only exist to mate with the queen to create more female workers. I'm sure they have some other small functions, but not much else. In the event of a queen dying in a bee's nest, I believe that the male bees have a way of producing another female queen, but I forget how it works. (Its been years since I read about bees)
Bees and ants are some of the most fascinating creatures on the planet in a lot of ways. They almost seem to posess a collective conscious and part of that is the ability for them to communicate with each other in a rapid efficient manner.
Basically the queen in a nest of either species exists mostly to reproduce. Everything else exists to support that. The workers take care of and feed their larvae young. Ever see ants carrying little white things that look like rice? That is them moving their larvae about. The nests they build are amazingly well developed. Ditto for bees.
If you ever get a chance you should search google for bits of info on the supercolony of ants that has pretty much migrated across huge swaths of europe. It seems that the colony is completely interconnected as the ants all cooperate. In a lot of ways, it is the Borg of ant colonies.
Bugs are weird. Lets hope they never start hating humans. We'd lose really quick.
Not many people can compete with amazon on the scale that it does business. I believe that its secret is its supply and distribution chain. The can offer things for a lot cheaper than retail (compare best buy online with amazon one day) as well as have it out the door immediately. For instance, I ordered a digital camera for $180 that was retailing for $300. The order was shipped from Kentucky (guess they have more than one distribution center) and arrived at my house 2 days later. Shipping with two shippers involved was only $20. Amazon had it at their wharehouse docks on Sunday, before Fedex and UPS could pick up the order.
So, to summarize, Amazon is pretty cheap and gets their stuff shipped fast. Why wouldn't I keep buying from them? I agree that they didn't have much of a business plan when they started, but the factory production line styled assembly of people's orders was fairly innovative at the time and allowed the company to scale fairly well. Remember that a lot of dotcoms just didn't scale well and were never designed to get the kind of traffic in orders and sales that they ended up getting. It should be no suprise that they all failed where amazon succeeded because Bezos saw the growth possibilities and planned accordingly.
For what it's worth, amazon should have gone out of business a long time ago, but thanks to some questionable investing, they had enough liquidity to stay afloat in the red for the what, 2 or 3 years that it took for them to hone their business model into something that actually works and is profitable. Many dotcoms just didn't have the budgeting expertise necessary to keep themselves afloat to make their ideas work. They all blew their wad early and the Vulture Captitalists all started circling.
So, I wouldn't go and say that amazon did the same thing that all the other startups did and, even if I am wrong and they did, they were successful eventually which is something that none of those failed startups can ever claim.
Where is Enuch? This story would be perfect for s/he to spew forth his/her insanity about transcending humanity. If you are curious, just check out his user name and history. For once s/he could be on topic!
Yeah, I was just had today and I was picking through this guys history and found your comment. If it makes you feel any better my response to his terrible sig caused his post to be modded to -1 and I got +4 informative so far for just writing the flame. =)
Anyways, just wanted you to know that you weren't the only one and for the record, AFAIK, you cannot spoof the slashcode into displaying nothing on a badly formed URL. The least it will display is either a charachter (it ignores whitespaces) or just simply http or whatever you put in the href in quotes. I guess it is possible to try a buffer overflow or something, but I'm guessing that it has probably already been tried and that they likely do checks against that sort of thing, much in the way that they check for too many caps, etc.
Your signature is fucking obnoxious. That is by far the most piss-poor attempt at karma whoring I have ever seen on slashdot. Why don't you just fucking beg for mod points while you are at it. If I were Newton, I'd have YOU drawn and quartered for being the sad wannabe slashdot troll that you are.
Because that would be awesome. Just imagine. I could finally fulfill my lifelong dream of unleashing a freakin army of cockroach piloted helicopters with freakin lasers. One billion dollars never seemed so close and so far away than it does right now.
Too much anime is certainly cliched to HELL and back.
Blue hair. Check. School girls with gigantic breasts. Check. Everyone looks like they are 14 or younger. Check. Big robots. Check. Oversized, western styled eyes. Check. Small overly cute inexplainable cat-like animals with blue fur. Check.
I mean, who is this stuff really supposed to appeal to? As an adult, I find that most anime is waaay to cheesy or childish for my likings. Clearly I'm not going to like Sailor Moon or the millions of copycats. The few good examples of what anime should be are few and far between. The first ninja scroll comes to mind as well as Ghost in the Shell. Cowboy Bebop was fantastic in so many ways. I did like Gundam and yes, even Gundam Wing was SPECTACULAR IMHO. The constant struggles over the validity of war were great in Wing. I also really liked Akira, though I thought the ending was entirely too bizarre and over the top.
Don't get me wrong. I love the Japanese vision of the future. In a lot of ways, I think they are indeed the most foward thinking people on the planet, but even their concept of what the future will look like is now so cliched, it has become thouroughly predictable. I mean it was great 10 years ago when I first started watching anime, but now I look at the series that some of the anime channels are showing on cable and every single last one of them is terrible.
Sorry. I was cranky and quick on the trigger. I'm real sick of all the slashdot whiners and complainers. Please accept my apology. I will now bow my head in shame for a while.
Yeah. They need to divvy out mod points a little more. The few times that I get them I end up using them all on modding trolls and idiots who say "mod me down, but..."
I get moderator points like once every few weeks to a month or so. I guess if you meta-moderate you get better chances of getting points, but you think that someone with excellent karma and a good posting record would get points more often.
Yeah. They need to divvy out mod points a little more. The few times that I get them I end up using them all on modding trolls and idiots who say "mod me down, but..."
I get moderator points like once every few weeks to a month or so. I guess if you meta-moderate you get better chances of getting points, but you think that someone with excellent karma and a good posting record would get points more often.
Come on. A book review is an advertisement? Get a fucking clue. Just because a review endorses a product does not mean that they paid for that endorsement (I realize there are exceptions *cough*Tom's Hardware*cough*) It was a detailed review to boot! In case you didn't know, reviews are there to let people know what a product is like, therefore providing a service to people that may find the information useful.
If you are looking just to bitch about slashdot, you could easily find better things to complain about. Next time don't waste my bandwith (and time) with your idiotic comments.
Mailservers are complex that is why. Just take a look at Exim to see what happens when a mailserver gets a bit too complex. In Exim you have this whole transport pipeline that the message must pass through before it gets delivered. Along the way you can change headers, filter for spam, virus check and about a million other things including sender id.
Thankfully (at least in debian) it comes with a script that will do quite a few basic configurations after asking a few questions. Your e-mail needs may not be as complex as others, but when a site needs a an e-mail server to handle 10,000+ e-mails an hour, streamlining and tweaking the process allows things to be much smoother. I admit I am not anywhere near an expert when it comes to SMTP servers, but I can see the value in wanting to make things run smooth and streamlining the process is a part of that.
Personally, I've found that postfix is pretty easy to set up and maintain compared to other daemons out there. As far as I am concerned, anything has to be better than configuring Sendmail, though I guess it has become a lot more secure over the years.
I'm sure others will have a lot more to say on this subject.
It is indeed true. Don't start out a post with "You can mod me down" or "I'm sure I'll be modded down for this" either. Statements like that will autmatically cause you to be modded down.
The game boy castlevanias are pretty good. I'd definately recommend checking them out. Also the metroid games are also very awesome. 2D platforming bliss for sure. From what it looks like, the new Castlevania for DS will be 2D as well and use the touch screen for magic spell casting. I don't think they are planning on abandoning 2D castlevania since the 2D games tend to sell a great deal better than the 3D ones.
Its true. For reference. I opened up Half-Life 1 (an old game by today's standards) and indeed it has 9-10 threads running at all times. Clearly, as you say, one of those threads is going to be doing most of the heavy lifting.
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Who's the fool now? The 3400 rating is actually based upon the performance of a 1ghz Thunderbird IIRC. So a 2000 would be roughly the equivavelent of a 2ghz Thunderbird, NOT a 2ghz Pentium 4, even though the processor is actually running at 1.6ghz.
But don't take it from me. From the horses mouth:
Section 2 The Model number
The model number is fairly straight forward the numeric code of the Core ID will give you the model number. In the case of the newer Athlon XP's it will be the PR rating of the CPU. For example the AMD Barton 3200+ would have 3200 as its model number and not its operating MHz. The older CPU's such as the Thunderbird and the Duron which do not have PR ratings will have their operating speed in the model number section. A Thunderbird 1.4Ghz will have a model number of 1400.
Lets look at some statistics.
.5? Why not just make it version 1 and clean up any nagging bugs? Unless, of course, they plan on adding more features on their roadmap.
.01 and such. Not even a tenth of a final version. Granted I know that open source projects move slowly, but why even bother advertising your project when it isn't even 1/10th of the way done?
Marketshare for Desktop OS
Windows ~90%
MacOS ~5%
Linux ~3%
That means that for every great app, there is likely to be nearly 100x more terrible apps for Windows than for the other operating systems. Its like the Playstation. Because Sony has the greater market, they also have the larger number of terrible games. An operating system does not make an application good or bad, regardless of whether pretty widgets are in the toolbar. Personally there are quite a few Windows applications that I could not live without that do not have any sort of linux equivalent good enough to allow me to switch.
Here are a few:
Mp3tag (Best tagger out there)
Photoshop
Illustrator
Reason
Ableton Live
Reaktor
Sound Forge
Picasa2
CDex
Alcohol 120%
GAMES GAMES GAMES GAMES
I could go on, but the fact of the matter is that at the very least Linux needs to start getting some serious sound applications for me to make the switch. I used to dual boot, but in the end it was such a pain anytime I wanted to play a game or work on some music that I gave up and stuck with the one environment that has all of my needs satisfied. MacOS is kind of interesting and has all the audio software I would ever need, but at what cost? More expensive hardware and about 0 games I'd be interested in. For what I didn't have to pay for my copy of windows, I'd be awfully hard pressed to start paying apple for an OS update every 6 months.
My point is that its not the platform that it is the problem its just that a lot of lazy and piss poor developers tend to flock to the platform that is the most popular. To be perfectly honest, if you want a great example of a platform that has a lot of god awful software, just take a look at linux and the bazillion apps that never got past their second alpha prerelease.
Hell, just look at how many system tools are included in distributions that are not even version 1 yet. Granted I've had very few problems with a lot of the console tools I've used, but after a while you start to realize that a little bit of polish goes an awful long ways. For instance, apt-get:
aptluna:~# apt-get -version
apt 0.5.28.6 for linux i386 compiled on Mar 22 2005 07:17:03
Granted apt is about as solid as a console tool can get, but version
I love how when I look for linux apps in sourceforge, a great deal of what I find that would be interesting to use is at version
I know people here resent it being called open sores software, but in too many cases, calling it open sores would almost be a compliment.
In a lot of ways I think that the above is true. However, I don't really know if the hive mentality would ever really truly fit for humans though as they tend to show many more tendancies towards the herd or the pack mentality. Once you start thinking of most humans as sheep, the world starts making more sense and starts becoming a lot more depressing. Face it. People just don't want to think about the world and what is going on in it. I know that there are exceptions, but most people do not want the responsibility that comes with knowledge of their world and are much more content sitting in the comfort of their low crime cookie-cutter suburb watching network television than worrying about all hte really terrible things that are happening to people all over the globe.
Hell, if people would just start thinking of how much freaking garbage they produce on a weekly basis and the big fucking hole in the woods that someone dug and lined with plastic to dump it all...oh hell, what's the fucking use?
No wonder people get depressed.
The queen also can produce both males and potentially other queens. In bees, when another queen is hatched and matured it will likely challenge the existing queen and the winner will continue the hive. Survival of the fittest indeed. I'd imagine it works similarily with ants. The queen is usually the key because she makes all the other ants. What is different here is that the queen is cloning herself and so are the males, that is, if they can prove this theory. Perhaps the fireants are evolving into a super colony themselves.
That is correct. They are also sterile too AFAIK. I believe that the workers are by definition female, but incapable of reproducing. The male ants really only exist to mate with the queen to create more female workers. I'm sure they have some other small functions, but not much else. In the event of a queen dying in a bee's nest, I believe that the male bees have a way of producing another female queen, but I forget how it works. (Its been years since I read about bees)
Bees and ants are some of the most fascinating creatures on the planet in a lot of ways. They almost seem to posess a collective conscious and part of that is the ability for them to communicate with each other in a rapid efficient manner.
Basically the queen in a nest of either species exists mostly to reproduce. Everything else exists to support that. The workers take care of and feed their larvae young. Ever see ants carrying little white things that look like rice? That is them moving their larvae about. The nests they build are amazingly well developed. Ditto for bees.
If you ever get a chance you should search google for bits of info on the supercolony of ants that has pretty much migrated across huge swaths of europe. It seems that the colony is completely interconnected as the ants all cooperate. In a lot of ways, it is the Borg of ant colonies.
Bugs are weird. Lets hope they never start hating humans. We'd lose really quick.
Not many people can compete with amazon on the scale that it does business. I believe that its secret is its supply and distribution chain. The can offer things for a lot cheaper than retail (compare best buy online with amazon one day) as well as have it out the door immediately. For instance, I ordered a digital camera for $180 that was retailing for $300. The order was shipped from Kentucky (guess they have more than one distribution center) and arrived at my house 2 days later. Shipping with two shippers involved was only $20. Amazon had it at their wharehouse docks on Sunday, before Fedex and UPS could pick up the order.
So, to summarize, Amazon is pretty cheap and gets their stuff shipped fast. Why wouldn't I keep buying from them? I agree that they didn't have much of a business plan when they started, but the factory production line styled assembly of people's orders was fairly innovative at the time and allowed the company to scale fairly well. Remember that a lot of dotcoms just didn't scale well and were never designed to get the kind of traffic in orders and sales that they ended up getting. It should be no suprise that they all failed where amazon succeeded because Bezos saw the growth possibilities and planned accordingly.
For what it's worth, amazon should have gone out of business a long time ago, but thanks to some questionable investing, they had enough liquidity to stay afloat in the red for the what, 2 or 3 years that it took for them to hone their business model into something that actually works and is profitable. Many dotcoms just didn't have the budgeting expertise necessary to keep themselves afloat to make their ideas work. They all blew their wad early and the Vulture Captitalists all started circling.
So, I wouldn't go and say that amazon did the same thing that all the other startups did and, even if I am wrong and they did, they were successful eventually which is something that none of those failed startups can ever claim.
Where is Enuch? This story would be perfect for s/he to spew forth his/her insanity about transcending humanity. If you are curious, just check out his user name and history. For once s/he could be on topic!
He had actually gotten modded up. I think my comment got him modded down, at the expense of some karma. Oh well. :)
Yeah, I was just had today and I was picking through this guys history and found your comment. If it makes you feel any better my response to his terrible sig caused his post to be modded to -1 and I got +4 informative so far for just writing the flame. =)
Anyways, just wanted you to know that you weren't the only one and for the record, AFAIK, you cannot spoof the slashcode into displaying nothing on a badly formed URL. The least it will display is either a charachter (it ignores whitespaces) or just simply http or whatever you put in the href in quotes. I guess it is possible to try a buffer overflow or something, but I'm guessing that it has probably already been tried and that they likely do checks against that sort of thing, much in the way that they check for too many caps, etc.
Cheers.
Your signature is fucking obnoxious. That is by far the most piss-poor attempt at karma whoring I have ever seen on slashdot. Why don't you just fucking beg for mod points while you are at it. If I were Newton, I'd have YOU drawn and quartered for being the sad wannabe slashdot troll that you are.
Because that would be awesome. Just imagine. I could finally fulfill my lifelong dream of unleashing a freakin army of cockroach piloted helicopters with freakin lasers. One billion dollars never seemed so close and so far away than it does right now.
Thank you Captain Obvious.
Too much anime is certainly cliched to HELL and back.
Blue hair. Check.
School girls with gigantic breasts. Check.
Everyone looks like they are 14 or younger. Check.
Big robots. Check.
Oversized, western styled eyes. Check.
Small overly cute inexplainable cat-like animals with blue fur. Check.
I mean, who is this stuff really supposed to appeal to? As an adult, I find that most anime is waaay to cheesy or childish for my likings. Clearly I'm not going to like Sailor Moon or the millions of copycats. The few good examples of what anime should be are few and far between. The first ninja scroll comes to mind as well as Ghost in the Shell. Cowboy Bebop was fantastic in so many ways. I did like Gundam and yes, even Gundam Wing was SPECTACULAR IMHO. The constant struggles over the validity of war were great in Wing. I also really liked Akira, though I thought the ending was entirely too bizarre and over the top.
Don't get me wrong. I love the Japanese vision of the future. In a lot of ways, I think they are indeed the most foward thinking people on the planet, but even their concept of what the future will look like is now so cliched, it has become thouroughly predictable. I mean it was great 10 years ago when I first started watching anime, but now I look at the series that some of the anime channels are showing on cable and every single last one of them is terrible.
Sorry. I was cranky and quick on the trigger. I'm real sick of all the slashdot whiners and complainers. Please accept my apology. I will now bow my head in shame for a while.
Mark it down on your calender boys. Today is a fine moment in Slashdot history.
A CONVICTED monopolist would never use his money to lobby his government to restrict or deny markets to his only real competition. NEVER!
Now that's funny.
Yeah. They need to divvy out mod points a little more. The few times that I get them I end up using them all on modding trolls and idiots who say "mod me down, but..."
I get moderator points like once every few weeks to a month or so. I guess if you meta-moderate you get better chances of getting points, but you think that someone with excellent karma and a good posting record would get points more often.
Yeah. They need to divvy out mod points a little more. The few times that I get them I end up using them all on modding trolls and idiots who say "mod me down, but..."
:)
I get moderator points like once every few weeks to a month or so. I guess if you meta-moderate you get better chances of getting points, but you think that someone with excellent karma and a good posting record would get points more often.
Oh well, time to metamoderate I guess.
Come on. A book review is an advertisement? Get a fucking clue. Just because a review endorses a product does not mean that they paid for that endorsement (I realize there are exceptions *cough*Tom's Hardware*cough*) It was a detailed review to boot! In case you didn't know, reviews are there to let people know what a product is like, therefore providing a service to people that may find the information useful.
If you are looking just to bitch about slashdot, you could easily find better things to complain about. Next time don't waste my bandwith (and time) with your idiotic comments.
I'll bite.
Mailservers are complex that is why. Just take a look at Exim to see what happens when a mailserver gets a bit too complex. In Exim you have this whole transport pipeline that the message must pass through before it gets delivered. Along the way you can change headers, filter for spam, virus check and about a million other things including sender id.
Thankfully (at least in debian) it comes with a script that will do quite a few basic configurations after asking a few questions. Your e-mail needs may not be as complex as others, but when a site needs a an e-mail server to handle 10,000+ e-mails an hour, streamlining and tweaking the process allows things to be much smoother. I admit I am not anywhere near an expert when it comes to SMTP servers, but I can see the value in wanting to make things run smooth and streamlining the process is a part of that.
Personally, I've found that postfix is pretty easy to set up and maintain compared to other daemons out there. As far as I am concerned, anything has to be better than configuring Sendmail, though I guess it has become a lot more secure over the years.
I'm sure others will have a lot more to say on this subject.
It is indeed true. Don't start out a post with "You can mod me down" or "I'm sure I'll be modded down for this" either. Statements like that will autmatically cause you to be modded down.
The game boy castlevanias are pretty good. I'd definately recommend checking them out. Also the metroid games are also very awesome. 2D platforming bliss for sure. From what it looks like, the new Castlevania for DS will be 2D as well and use the touch screen for magic spell casting. I don't think they are planning on abandoning 2D castlevania since the 2D games tend to sell a great deal better than the 3D ones.
As if a million souls cried out "worst. joke. evah!"
Its true. For reference. I opened up Half-Life 1 (an old game by today's standards) and indeed it has 9-10 threads running at all times. Clearly, as you say, one of those threads is going to be doing most of the heavy lifting.