AGP 3.0 In 2002, Intel released the greatest, and probably the last, AGP specification: AGP 3.0. AGP 3.0's major improvement is an 8X speed, boosting the throughput of the AGP bus to slightly over 2 GB/s. Of course, the AGP 3.0 specification includes many other critical improvements, including support for multiple AGP ports, but these extras are transparent from a tech's standpoint.
The person who wrote this has not been reading her other work. Neutral isnt even on the map.
Yeah.... someone who usually writes biased articles can't ever, never, ever write a neutral one again. Slashdot logic at its best. I read the article, it is fairly neutral. Whether or not the advice offered is "excellent" or not may be in question, but it was fairly neutral.
OH... I get it... you took the description of this article to be a description of everything she ever wrote. Kind of like if you are complimented on a task you just performed, it means that everything you've ever done is great or that if you are criticized on a task you just performed, everything you've ever done is crap.
There ought to be a reading comprehension test requirement for posting rights on slashdot... but I guess then there'd be almost no posts.
Asynchronous designs just trade a clock signal for more complicated signalling logic. Async is also a *lot* harder to validate/test/debug. It's fun and neat and has even been used before in production CPUs but there is no guarantee that an asynchronous CPU will be any faster (or slower) than an equivalent synchronous design (especially when considering the development/testing/etc. costs).
I was just thinking... in order to redistribute YOUR code if you use GPL code, you must GIVE UP (some of) your copyrights to your code.
What's to prevent me from writing some modifications to GPL'd code and telling everyone that they must first download the GPL'd code, then download my patch files and recompile? I'm not redistributing GPL code in that situation.
Another thing that is amusing with respect to bands is that man of the bands that the younger crowd tends to associate these days have members that are actually in the age group that they most rebel against. Many of the teens that talk about so-and-so singing things they can relate to are in their 20s, some in their 30s, and even in a few cases in their 40s. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Many times I see some kids doing/saying something and realize that I did the same thing and then I get so embarassed at how stupid/cocky/wrong I was. Sometimes I laugh but sometimes I try really hard to forget. It's just natural and it has happened the same way for as long as people have been having kids I guess.
There are other things that you either forgot or just didn't mention.
Microsoft may not have invented many things, but because of their market share, they have been able to drive the market toward their desired goals (I'm not saying whether this is good or bad, it's just a fact). For example, I remember when every video card had its own driver and you had to look on game boxes to see if the game supported your video card directly or had to default to VESA or just nasty CGA. Microsoft's market weight drove standardization of video card APIs. Once the API was solidified, graphics cards really took off as did the game market. Yes, the video card in your Mac or in your Linux box has hardware designed around supporting Microsoft's APIs. I'm not saying that another company couldn't have done it but Microsoft was the one at the time with the weight and did it.
Look even today at the EFI efforts. Until recently, it has always been basically a non-starter with many companies not taking part in it. However, Microsoft just recently joined the EFI group to participate because they think the time is finally right for their purposes. Because Microsoft joined, other companies are now also taking more interest in EFI and, for the first time in its existance, EFI actually has a chance to become real because everyone has been basically waiting on Microsoft to say that they think it's time for EFI to come into play now. Again, I'm not saying whether this is a good thing or a bad thing or anything about why or how Microsoft has such influence but the fact is that they do have the influence and weight to make hardware standards become real or not.
If you look into many of the technologies in PCs today, whether you like it or not, most/all of it is there because Microsoft decided to either support it or Microsoft was one of the key designers in it (they may have gotten the ideas from somewhere else but they defined it to their likes and that's the way it came out). Look at the hardware standards that have been defined but went unused because of the lack of support by Microsoft... even those standards that were created by even Intel, who makes the CPUs that most PCs use.
Not only these things but because of the standardization of APIs and hardware that Microsoft forced (again, not saying how, why, or good/bad) into the PC, Linux is able to exist. Without that standardization, Linux would not have been able to easily be developed and used like it is today.
Along these same lines, as far as Apple's innovations, compare the number of technologies that started on the Mac and migrated to the PC as compared to the number of technologies that started in the PC and migrated to the Mac. Other than pretty cases, perhaps you could count Firewire, and the GUI... I can't think of any Mac to PC things. PC to Mac, however... graphics cards, PCI, ATA hard drive standards, and soon even the CPU and chipsets.
Like them, love them, or hate them... Microsoft has pretty much defined the modern PC and we are all better for it... even if you are a Linux user because Linux wouldn't exist in anywhere near its current form without them.
This article is only "fantastic" if you are already a "true believer" in what he's already saying. At that point, you are just looking for others to help you validate your own beliefs.
His second paragraph, for example:
More significant, I think, is which 52% they are. At this point, anyone proposing to run Windows on servers should be prepared to explain what they know about servers that Google, Yahoo, and Amazon don't.
Is completely religious. What Google, Yahoo, and Amazon know about their business and why their choices work for them may have zero bearing on what servers YOU need for YOUR work. For example, there may be applications (even legacy ones) that run on some other OS (doesn't have to be Windows) where the application is not OSS and is not available on an OSS OS? I personally know someone who has a bunch of software that he wrote running his own business (quite well, I might add) that is written in a language that he can't find in OSS much less on Linux. Why change? Why would any of those three companies know more about his business than he does? Why would he have to justify his decisions to, well, anyone?
Basically, this article is great if you are already part of the OSS religion. If you view OSS as "just another tool that you can use" then the article is somewhat "meh". Besides, the author doesn't even take into account any other businesses that aren't electronic in nature, such as manufacturing (yeah, you want a bunch of amateurs spread out all over the world trying to assemble cars? the shipping costs of the required parts for one car to all the workers (and back and forth) would cost 10x the amount that a car on the lot today would cost). Yet, the author doesn't make any distinction (perhaps saying that his "research" only applies to businesses that do all of their business online and are basically just information or retailers). Maybe he doesn't realize that there are other businesses out there...
It sounds more like an explanation of human behavior than any "property" of information. People want to gossip. It gives them some sense of feeling important. People will blab about anything whether it is useful (what you call "information") or not (what they saw Joe doing the other night). It isn't that information wants to be "free". It's that humans have an overwhelming urge to feel important by "letting someone in on their secret".
What you are describing is what many who have been on the bad side of gossip would define as a negative psychological trait in humans.
Drink more of that koolaid, bub. Can't let it wear off or you might see the real world. Windows and Linux has users from all walks of life as well, there are just so many of us that we don't feel the need to try to show of the pretty ones to make ourselves feel better. Besides, most of us are too busy getting work done instead of looking at the pretty box.
I agree with you. This is also compounded by the multiple clipboards. Depending on what you are doing, you may have to use one or the other. Control-C works sometimes, Control-V works sometimes, sometimes you have to do it all from menus, sometimes you can do it with your mouse.Cut-n-paste in XWindows has always been pretty much junk and I've been using X since the mid-80s.
No, that's a craptastic analogy. Rationalize it all you want, you're just spewing some hippy garbage that you thought sounded good.
Suppose I discover the cure to cancer and all things that ail you. It's up to me to spread that around. If I decide not to tell anyone, the information (clearly you can't dispute that this is your worthy "information" and not merely valueless facts) goes to the grave with me. At no time was it beating on my head to fall out and roll down some hill.
Stop using analogies to attempt to explain things. They are one of the worst forms of explanation that exists because, no matter what, part of your analogy is simply wrong by definition because if you had a precise description of what you wanted to say, you'd say it and not waste time on stupid analogies.
No. Information being "free" isn't the path of least resistance. Information becoming "free" is a lot more work than information being forgotten or ignored.
Information does nothing without someone doing something with it. If information is there and (the path of least resistance is that) no one does anything with it, it is ignored and/or forgotten.
It's only when someone takes it upon themselves to do something with that information (crack security measures, break into a system, search it out, post it on some boards, gossip, brag about breaking into somewhere and getting some information, etc.) that it becomes "free". That's a lot more work than just doing nothing.
There are tons of morons out there voting for The New Aged GOP and their "conservative family values" and "killing those same families overseas" because "it's the right thing to do!"
Yeah, and the sad thing is that the rest of the morons are voting for The Left Wing Liberals and their "everybody needs to just send all your money in to the government and let us spend it for you because everyone should be completely dependent upon the government for all their needs" and "the rest of the world knows better how we should live so let them govern us" messages.
Exactly. Kerry winning in '04 was the worst thing that could have happened to her because she would have to wait until '12 to run and that might have been too late for her. She's had an eye on the Oval Office ever since she had to leave it when her husband had to.
In the States, the problem isn't that environmentalists don't want nuclear power, the problem is that they don't trust the Bush administration with it.
The environmentalists have been against nuclear energy since before any Bush was in office. It's difficult to sound intelligent when everything you can think of that is negative you attribute to "W".
I've used the same Windows license (valid one) on a machine I've upgraded at least four times to the point where I had to re-register. I used the phone call option once and there wasn't even a human behind it, just recorded prompts then a readout of my new key. The other times I've just told it to update on-line and had no problems (took about 10 seconds maybe each time).
The phone call did take the longest because it depended on a slow analog interface (me).
Wrong. It most certainly can (I'm not saying that this is the case, just showing how you are wrong). Suppose there is a Microsoft kickback on every machine sold with Windows. With the Free OS machine, there is no kickback. So, the hardware cost is the same in both situations but there is a kickback with Windows, which would make the price of the Windows machine cheaper.
I'm not saying this is legal or anything, just giving an example where your logic fails.
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AGP 3.0
In 2002, Intel released the greatest, and probably the last, AGP specification: AGP 3.0. AGP 3.0's major improvement is an 8X speed, boosting the throughput of the AGP bus to slightly over 2 GB/s. Of course, the AGP 3.0 specification includes many other critical improvements, including support for multiple AGP ports, but these extras are transparent from a tech's standpoint.
AGP 3.0 is also known as AGP-8X
The person who wrote this has not been reading her other work. Neutral isnt even on the map.
Yeah.... someone who usually writes biased articles can't ever, never, ever write a neutral one again. Slashdot logic at its best. I read the article, it is fairly neutral. Whether or not the advice offered is "excellent" or not may be in question, but it was fairly neutral.
OH... I get it... you took the description of this article to be a description of everything she ever wrote. Kind of like if you are complimented on a task you just performed, it means that everything you've ever done is great or that if you are criticized on a task you just performed, everything you've ever done is crap.
There ought to be a reading comprehension test requirement for posting rights on slashdot... but I guess then there'd be almost no posts.
to me.
Asynchronous designs just trade a clock signal for more complicated signalling logic. Async is also a *lot* harder to validate/test/debug. It's fun and neat and has even been used before in production CPUs but there is no guarantee that an asynchronous CPU will be any faster (or slower) than an equivalent synchronous design (especially when considering the development/testing/etc. costs).
I was just thinking... in order to redistribute YOUR code if you use GPL code, you must GIVE UP (some of) your copyrights to your code.
What's to prevent me from writing some modifications to GPL'd code and telling everyone that they must first download the GPL'd code, then download my patch files and recompile? I'm not redistributing GPL code in that situation.
You win.
Another thing that is amusing with respect to bands is that man of the bands that the younger crowd tends to associate these days have members that are actually in the age group that they most rebel against. Many of the teens that talk about so-and-so singing things they can relate to are in their 20s, some in their 30s, and even in a few cases in their 40s. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Many times I see some kids doing/saying something and realize that I did the same thing and then I get so embarassed at how stupid/cocky/wrong I was. Sometimes I laugh but sometimes I try really hard to forget. It's just natural and it has happened the same way for as long as people have been having kids I guess.
Too bad you posted anonymously. You deserve some informative mod points.
There are other things that you either forgot or just didn't mention.
Microsoft may not have invented many things, but because of their market share, they have been able to drive the market toward their desired goals (I'm not saying whether this is good or bad, it's just a fact). For example, I remember when every video card had its own driver and you had to look on game boxes to see if the game supported your video card directly or had to default to VESA or just nasty CGA. Microsoft's market weight drove standardization of video card APIs. Once the API was solidified, graphics cards really took off as did the game market. Yes, the video card in your Mac or in your Linux box has hardware designed around supporting Microsoft's APIs. I'm not saying that another company couldn't have done it but Microsoft was the one at the time with the weight and did it.
Look even today at the EFI efforts. Until recently, it has always been basically a non-starter with many companies not taking part in it. However, Microsoft just recently joined the EFI group to participate because they think the time is finally right for their purposes. Because Microsoft joined, other companies are now also taking more interest in EFI and, for the first time in its existance, EFI actually has a chance to become real because everyone has been basically waiting on Microsoft to say that they think it's time for EFI to come into play now. Again, I'm not saying whether this is a good thing or a bad thing or anything about why or how Microsoft has such influence but the fact is that they do have the influence and weight to make hardware standards become real or not.
If you look into many of the technologies in PCs today, whether you like it or not, most/all of it is there because Microsoft decided to either support it or Microsoft was one of the key designers in it (they may have gotten the ideas from somewhere else but they defined it to their likes and that's the way it came out). Look at the hardware standards that have been defined but went unused because of the lack of support by Microsoft... even those standards that were created by even Intel, who makes the CPUs that most PCs use.
Not only these things but because of the standardization of APIs and hardware that Microsoft forced (again, not saying how, why, or good/bad) into the PC, Linux is able to exist. Without that standardization, Linux would not have been able to easily be developed and used like it is today.
Along these same lines, as far as Apple's innovations, compare the number of technologies that started on the Mac and migrated to the PC as compared to the number of technologies that started in the PC and migrated to the Mac. Other than pretty cases, perhaps you could count Firewire, and the GUI... I can't think of any Mac to PC things. PC to Mac, however... graphics cards, PCI, ATA hard drive standards, and soon even the CPU and chipsets.
Like them, love them, or hate them... Microsoft has pretty much defined the modern PC and we are all better for it... even if you are a Linux user because Linux wouldn't exist in anywhere near its current form without them.
Also known as being an hypocrit.
Also known as wanting to have your cake and eat it, too.
Either you believe "information wants to be free" or you don't. Believing it for some things and not others lands you square on the hypocrit marker.
Thanks for playing, try again.
Paul Graham has written a fantastic article...
This article is only "fantastic" if you are already a "true believer" in what he's already saying. At that point, you are just looking for others to help you validate your own beliefs.
His second paragraph, for example:
More significant, I think, is which 52% they are. At this point, anyone proposing to run Windows on servers should be prepared to explain what they know about servers that Google, Yahoo, and Amazon don't.
Is completely religious. What Google, Yahoo, and Amazon know about their business and why their choices work for them may have zero bearing on what servers YOU need for YOUR work. For example, there may be applications (even legacy ones) that run on some other OS (doesn't have to be Windows) where the application is not OSS and is not available on an OSS OS? I personally know someone who has a bunch of software that he wrote running his own business (quite well, I might add) that is written in a language that he can't find in OSS much less on Linux. Why change? Why would any of those three companies know more about his business than he does? Why would he have to justify his decisions to, well, anyone?
Basically, this article is great if you are already part of the OSS religion. If you view OSS as "just another tool that you can use" then the article is somewhat "meh". Besides, the author doesn't even take into account any other businesses that aren't electronic in nature, such as manufacturing (yeah, you want a bunch of amateurs spread out all over the world trying to assemble cars? the shipping costs of the required parts for one car to all the workers (and back and forth) would cost 10x the amount that a car on the lot today would cost). Yet, the author doesn't make any distinction (perhaps saying that his "research" only applies to businesses that do all of their business online and are basically just information or retailers). Maybe he doesn't realize that there are other businesses out there...
Whatever props your self esteem up... If elitism does it for you, well... we'd probably have disagreements on what "real life" means.
It sounds more like an explanation of human behavior than any "property" of information. People want to gossip. It gives them some sense of feeling important. People will blab about anything whether it is useful (what you call "information") or not (what they saw Joe doing the other night). It isn't that information wants to be "free". It's that humans have an overwhelming urge to feel important by "letting someone in on their secret".
What you are describing is what many who have been on the bad side of gossip would define as a negative psychological trait in humans.
Drink more of that koolaid, bub. Can't let it wear off or you might see the real world. Windows and Linux has users from all walks of life as well, there are just so many of us that we don't feel the need to try to show of the pretty ones to make ourselves feel better. Besides, most of us are too busy getting work done instead of looking at the pretty box.
If you do not see any advantages of "single button looks", you're not in Apple's target demographic.
What demographic is that? Those who value form over function?
I think the title of your post should have been "Steve sets up a new Koolaid stand".
I agree with you. This is also compounded by the multiple clipboards. Depending on what you are doing, you may have to use one or the other. Control-C works sometimes, Control-V works sometimes, sometimes you have to do it all from menus, sometimes you can do it with your mouse.Cut-n-paste in XWindows has always been pretty much junk and I've been using X since the mid-80s.
No, that's a craptastic analogy. Rationalize it all you want, you're just spewing some hippy garbage that you thought sounded good.
Suppose I discover the cure to cancer and all things that ail you. It's up to me to spread that around. If I decide not to tell anyone, the information (clearly you can't dispute that this is your worthy "information" and not merely valueless facts) goes to the grave with me. At no time was it beating on my head to fall out and roll down some hill.
Stop using analogies to attempt to explain things. They are one of the worst forms of explanation that exists because, no matter what, part of your analogy is simply wrong by definition because if you had a precise description of what you wanted to say, you'd say it and not waste time on stupid analogies.
No. Information being "free" isn't the path of least resistance. Information becoming "free" is a lot more work than information being forgotten or ignored.
Information does nothing without someone doing something with it. If information is there and (the path of least resistance is that) no one does anything with it, it is ignored and/or forgotten.
It's only when someone takes it upon themselves to do something with that information (crack security measures, break into a system, search it out, post it on some boards, gossip, brag about breaking into somewhere and getting some information, etc.) that it becomes "free". That's a lot more work than just doing nothing.
There are tons of morons out there voting for The New Aged GOP and their "conservative family values" and "killing those same families overseas" because "it's the right thing to do!"
Yeah, and the sad thing is that the rest of the morons are voting for The Left Wing Liberals and their "everybody needs to just send all your money in to the government and let us spend it for you because everyone should be completely dependent upon the government for all their needs" and "the rest of the world knows better how we should live so let them govern us" messages.
Exactly. Kerry winning in '04 was the worst thing that could have happened to her because she would have to wait until '12 to run and that might have been too late for her. She's had an eye on the Oval Office ever since she had to leave it when her husband had to.
Thank you.
In the States, the problem isn't that environmentalists don't want nuclear power, the problem is that they don't trust the Bush administration with it.
The environmentalists have been against nuclear energy since before any Bush was in office. It's difficult to sound intelligent when everything you can think of that is negative you attribute to "W".
I've used the same Windows license (valid one) on a machine I've upgraded at least four times to the point where I had to re-register. I used the phone call option once and there wasn't even a human behind it, just recorded prompts then a readout of my new key. The other times I've just told it to update on-line and had no problems (took about 10 seconds maybe each time).
The phone call did take the longest because it depended on a slow analog interface (me).
Wrong. It most certainly can (I'm not saying that this is the case, just showing how you are wrong). Suppose there is a Microsoft kickback on every machine sold with Windows. With the Free OS machine, there is no kickback. So, the hardware cost is the same in both situations but there is a kickback with Windows, which would make the price of the Windows machine cheaper.
I'm not saying this is legal or anything, just giving an example where your logic fails.