Increased maximum memory helps.
Opteron's extra registers help.
64-bit calculations are easier, they don't have to be put into multiple 32-bit parts.
So...a 32-person bus is just as good as a 64-person bus? It may be harder to design and build, but when you have to move >32 people it's nice to have that big of a bus running around.
What I'm saying is, being 64-bit DOES make you faster. Not twice as fast, but definately faster and more powerful.
Part of the complication of "an advanced tactical figheter" is it's software and control mechanisms. "An advanced tactical fighter" minus computer(s) isn't nearly so complicated.
And that's part of what Brooks was saying. A bridge is a bridge, it doesn't do much but sit there and you can study it really well. The same with a building, or a road, or any other engineering Construct - simple, with relatively few states to study.
A computer system, on the other hand, has near-infinite states, especially when a user is added to the equation. It's pretty much impossible to study and test them all. Read the Mythical Man Month, he talks about all this stuff. Compared to the rest of the plane, the software systems of "an advanced technical fighter aircraft" are tremendously more complex.
Fine. Use windows. I'll admit that the applications aren't available for linux yet. But...don't whine when it breaks or you get a virus.
Some of us switch to linux because it has some nice tools. Some because it's stable. Some cuz we like open source. and some because we want to look l33t. It's a *NIX, too...I happen to like UNIX-ey environments.
I understand your point - but *this* linux zealot is trying to get people to enjoy a whole new computing experience, and also trying to suggest replacements for tools you might miss. Sorry if you are offended, many of us are only trying to help.
XP doesn't like my hardware, it does crash. It has a driver-specific issue. Win98 was a little better. Mandrake 9.0 is much more stable. Yeah, it's just anecdotal, but I can verify these problems. Just because winXP is stable for you doesn't mean its stable for everyone.
Son, I believe that all people were created equal, that no one should be hurt because they believe a certain thing, or are a certain color, and that people have the right to be free to do and act as they please as long as they dont' hurt other people. But these are just my opinions, form your own as you wish.
The above is ridiculous.
You gotta tell your kids about what is right and wrong. Sometimes that includes religion. Teach kids what is right. If your son or daughter decides to grow up and be a neo-nazi l33t script kiddy gay hacker windows user, or whatever and you don't agree with one of those positions, you still gotta love them. You let them make their decisions - because he or she is an adult and they make their own choices.
You're free to try to convince them otherwise, so long as you don't force it on them.
To add a bit more to my post-Microsoft's products make it very easy for the user to do very, very stupid things to their pc's. They also have 95% of all the computer idiots out there running their windows...which again contributes to it looking like microsoft's fault.
Not that linux doesn't let you screw stuff up royally, but you have to have a bit of an idea of what you are doing to get started, which cuts off a lot of the really silly users, and if something is wrong in Linux it's easy enough to get through the abstraction and fix the problem, if you know how. Sometimes in Windows things are just broken...and you just reinstall everything to fix it. *shrug*.
There's a lot of different people here on slashdot. Many are just "me-too"-ers that rant and rave about MS for karma. A lot of FUD gets aimed. I've done it myself, sorry.
However, there are a lot of reasons to hate Microsoft. They've done a lot of bad things and deserve a lot of the negative feelings they get. As far as being unstable, the drivers are still buggy in XP for me, it doesn't like my modern system and still crashes. Maybe it is my hardware, but Mandrake is near perfect. *shrug.*
Ignore the bots. A lot of people in the OSS community don't care too much about Microsoft anyways, they just want good software.
Message client - gaim + msn plugin
File manager - Rox, Konqeror, and i've heard good things about gentoo
Task manager...um...ps? top? the Command Line is your friend.
Quick launch bar - ummm.. ?
Icon editor - gimp? I don't know i'm not a graphics man
Graphics editor - gimp? Others? Mandrake has lots
text editor - gview, if you like vi. Nedit's good.
Linux can do any task you need. It just doesn't have a one-to-one correspondance in tools.
NVIDIA's Gl drivers will break linux randomly. But then again, they're drivers, kernel modules. *shrug*. And bad hardware will make linux crash too. I've done it.
But then again...That's all the problems i've ever had. ever. two. XP just plain doesn't like my system and blows chunks ALL THE TIME, 2K wouldn't install, and 9x craps out about once a day. *shrug*.
I realize all that. But I don't think Saudi Arabia has plans to kill us or take over that section of the world. So the point is...they are playing along with the rest of the world, they aren't threatening everybody. If they were - and they might be going that way, given their recent show of support for Sadam - it wouldn't be unreasonable to think of action there too.
Look! Look! I got modded down because....why? "underrated". ??? Is it cuz I'm taking a disagreeing stance? Some moderators do use mod points to argue, idn'it great?
The war on drugs really limited a lot of drug use. If you are of the opinion that drug use is bad, then the war on drugs did _some_ good. It's too bad that it wasn't 100% successful, kids should find some way to entertain themselves besides killing brain cells...I know kids who don't smoke or drink, but write code or actually learn stuff. Whatta concept.
Now a lot of people are saying that this Iraq stuff is all about oil. I guess you might think that - and Bush's background in oil might make it seem plausible. And yeah, if ol' Saddam does get killed in an upcoming war, and we (USA) do have to manage Iraq for a while, we probably will get better prices on oil and gas.
But it isn't just about oil. If Bush wanted to fight wars over oil, why aren't we attacking every other terrorist-supporting, oil-producing country? Bush hasn't even mentioned it. Why would we give Iraq back to its people, instead of keeping it as a territory? Now THAT would lower oil prices - steal oil from Iraq-as-a-US territory! yay!
In reality, we're just kicking Sadam out, or at least removing his teeth. He's evil, he's fascist, he kills his own people, his own countrymen... He lives in luxury, while his own public starves. He shoots those who disagree with him. You just said something that wasn't very pro-bush, are you dead? Nope. We're not that evil.
It's not about the oil. If you think it is, you are ignoring several major facts. I don't like just sitting by while women, homosexuals, and children are abused, killed, or whatever. Where people are killed for their race. Where the ruler-for-ever seems to hate most of the rest of the world, and would destroy us all if he had the power. That's not cool stuff, dude. I don't think it's just about oil.
ps - OT - breaking into computers isn't terrorism. I don't think it's too legal, but it's not terrorism. I'm not scared, are you? Nobody's dead yet. Now if it comes out that he planned to use the.mil sites' data to kill people...well that's different.
So you can't add attachements using a W3C standard browser because the company that owns the mail site, also owns a competing browser. sounds like a legal problem to me. PS - fake Hotmail into thinking your using IE, and your problem should be solved. There are ways to do it, IIRC, just google for it.
Excellent poing, kalidasa. I was about to say the same thing, but don't have to now. If us IE-bashers were whining about bugs in IE 5.000 that were patched in 5.01, or *gasp% 6.X, we would get yelled at.
Summary: There are securtity bugs in older versions of mozilla. As of now they are patched! Crap-ola! : )
sign up to a security list. plenty of free, easy email readers that *are* secure. If you know that your browser has a problem, either get the patch or switch to something else temporarily. If neccessary, use lynx.:P
For me, it's nice to have an upgrade setup that doesn't require IE.
...but what if the bug is "fixed" by microsoft saying, "you need to upgrade to IE6"?
Last I checked, updating Internet Explorer required you to only upgrade IE, and required you to reboot after install. There isn't much of a comparison there.
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Increased maximum memory helps.
Opteron's extra registers help.
64-bit calculations are easier, they don't have to be put into multiple 32-bit parts.
So...a 32-person bus is just as good as a 64-person bus? It may be harder to design and build, but when you have to move >32 people it's nice to have that big of a bus running around.
What I'm saying is, being 64-bit DOES make you faster. Not twice as fast, but definately faster and more powerful.
However you spell his name, He was fun to read. I liked Job, especially perhaps...but many were very, very good.
Ha ha ha, laugh all you want... but -
Part of the complication of "an advanced tactical figheter" is it's software and control mechanisms. "An advanced tactical fighter" minus computer(s) isn't nearly so complicated.
And that's part of what Brooks was saying. A bridge is a bridge, it doesn't do much but sit there and you can study it really well. The same with a building, or a road, or any other engineering Construct - simple, with relatively few states to study.
A computer system, on the other hand, has near-infinite states, especially when a user is added to the equation. It's pretty much impossible to study and test them all. Read the Mythical Man Month, he talks about all this stuff. Compared to the rest of the plane, the software systems of "an advanced technical fighter aircraft" are tremendously more complex.
did you really mean FF VI?
Fallout 1 and 2 both rock, yes.
Why I'm a Linux user for life
:)
Fine. Use windows. I'll admit that the applications aren't available for linux yet. But...don't whine when it breaks or you get a virus.
Some of us switch to linux because it has some nice tools. Some because it's stable. Some cuz we like open source. and some because we want to look l33t. It's a *NIX, too...I happen to like UNIX-ey environments.
I understand your point - but *this* linux zealot is trying to get people to enjoy a whole new computing experience, and also trying to suggest replacements for tools you might miss. Sorry if you are offended, many of us are only trying to help.
XP doesn't like my hardware, it does crash. It has a driver-specific issue. Win98 was a little better. Mandrake 9.0 is much more stable. Yeah, it's just anecdotal, but I can verify these problems. Just because winXP is stable for you doesn't mean its stable for everyone.
Son, I believe that all people were created equal, that no one should be hurt because they believe a certain thing, or are a certain color, and that people have the right to be free to do and act as they please as long as they dont' hurt other people. But these are just my opinions, form your own as you wish.
The above is ridiculous.
You gotta tell your kids about what is right and wrong. Sometimes that includes religion. Teach kids what is right. If your son or daughter decides to grow up and be a neo-nazi l33t script kiddy gay hacker windows user, or whatever and you don't agree with one of those positions, you still gotta love them. You let them make their decisions - because he or she is an adult and they make their own choices.
You're free to try to convince them otherwise, so long as you don't force it on them.
To add a bit more to my post-Microsoft's products make it very easy for the user to do very, very stupid things to their pc's. They also have 95% of all the computer idiots out there running their windows...which again contributes to it looking like microsoft's fault.
Not that linux doesn't let you screw stuff up royally, but you have to have a bit of an idea of what you are doing to get started, which cuts off a lot of the really silly users, and if something is wrong in Linux it's easy enough to get through the abstraction and fix the problem, if you know how. Sometimes in Windows things are just broken...and you just reinstall everything to fix it. *shrug*.
There's a lot of different people here on slashdot. Many are just "me-too"-ers that rant and rave about MS for karma. A lot of FUD gets aimed. I've done it myself, sorry.
However, there are a lot of reasons to hate Microsoft. They've done a lot of bad things and deserve a lot of the negative feelings they get. As far as being unstable, the drivers are still buggy in XP for me, it doesn't like my modern system and still crashes. Maybe it is my hardware, but Mandrake is near perfect. *shrug.*
Ignore the bots. A lot of people in the OSS community don't care too much about Microsoft anyways, they just want good software.
Message client - gaim + msn plugin
File manager - Rox, Konqeror, and i've heard good things about gentoo
Task manager...um...ps? top? the Command Line is your friend.
Quick launch bar - ummm.. ?
Icon editor - gimp? I don't know i'm not a graphics man
Graphics editor - gimp? Others? Mandrake has lots
text editor - gview, if you like vi. Nedit's good.
Linux can do any task you need. It just doesn't have a one-to-one correspondance in tools.
NVIDIA's Gl drivers will break linux randomly. But then again, they're drivers, kernel modules. *shrug*. And bad hardware will make linux crash too. I've done it.
But then again...That's all the problems i've ever had. ever. two. XP just plain doesn't like my system and blows chunks ALL THE TIME, 2K wouldn't install, and 9x craps out about once a day. *shrug*.
Have you used mplayer yet? Just curious?
# of revisions != rate of improvement.
# of revisions != how good it really is now.
Old DirectX was craptacular, we all agree. new directX is getting there. *shrug*.
I realize all that. But I don't think Saudi Arabia has plans to kill us or take over that section of the world. So the point is...they are playing along with the rest of the world, they aren't threatening everybody. If they were - and they might be going that way, given their recent show of support for Sadam - it wouldn't be unreasonable to think of action there too.
Look! Look! I got modded down because....why? "underrated". ??? Is it cuz I'm taking a disagreeing stance? Some moderators do use mod points to argue, idn'it great?
The war on drugs really limited a lot of drug use. If you are of the opinion that drug use is bad, then the war on drugs did _some_ good. It's too bad that it wasn't 100% successful, kids should find some way to entertain themselves besides killing brain cells...I know kids who don't smoke or drink, but write code or actually learn stuff. Whatta concept.
.mil sites' data to kill people...well that's different.
Now a lot of people are saying that this Iraq stuff is all about oil. I guess you might think that - and Bush's background in oil might make it seem plausible. And yeah, if ol' Saddam does get killed in an upcoming war, and we (USA) do have to manage Iraq for a while, we probably will get better prices on oil and gas.
But it isn't just about oil. If Bush wanted to fight wars over oil, why aren't we attacking every other terrorist-supporting, oil-producing country? Bush hasn't even mentioned it. Why would we give Iraq back to its people, instead of keeping it as a territory? Now THAT would lower oil prices - steal oil from Iraq-as-a-US territory! yay!
In reality, we're just kicking Sadam out, or at least removing his teeth. He's evil, he's fascist, he kills his own people, his own countrymen... He lives in luxury, while his own public starves. He shoots those who disagree with him. You just said something that wasn't very pro-bush, are you dead? Nope. We're not that evil.
It's not about the oil. If you think it is, you are ignoring several major facts. I don't like just sitting by while women, homosexuals, and children are abused, killed, or whatever. Where people are killed for their race. Where the ruler-for-ever seems to hate most of the rest of the world, and would destroy us all if he had the power. That's not cool stuff, dude. I don't think it's just about oil.
ps - OT - breaking into computers isn't terrorism. I don't think it's too legal, but it's not terrorism. I'm not scared, are you? Nobody's dead yet. Now if it comes out that he planned to use the
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin..."
So you can't add attachements using a W3C standard browser because the company that owns the mail site, also owns a competing browser. sounds like a legal problem to me. PS - fake Hotmail into thinking your using IE, and your problem should be solved. There are ways to do it, IIRC, just google for it.
Summary: There are securtity bugs in older versions of mozilla. As of now they are patched! Crap-ola! : )
:D
Hrm. "securtity." So where do i get these "secure titties??"
Excellent poing, kalidasa. I was about to say the same thing, but don't have to now. If us IE-bashers were whining about bugs in IE 5.000 that were patched in 5.01, or *gasp% 6.X, we would get yelled at.
Summary: There are securtity bugs in older versions of mozilla. As of now they are patched! Crap-ola! : )
sign up to a security list. plenty of free, easy email readers that *are* secure. If you know that your browser has a problem, either get the patch or switch to something else temporarily. If neccessary, use lynx. :P
For me, it's nice to have an upgrade setup that doesn't require IE.
Last I checked, updating Internet Explorer required you to only upgrade IE, and required you to reboot after install. There isn't much of a comparison there.
this what you want?
It was for sale on ebay. That's all i could find, though. Google didn't have much, sorry.
I don't like butterscotch, but I do like vanilla. You don't see friggin holy wars over pudding, though, do you?
VANILLA! WHAT!?? WHAT! That's it, I've had it with you vanilla idiots. CARMEL FOREVER!!!
Ahh, but what about CG yoda v. Gandalf. Now that would rock.