See, the only problem with your logic is that people who are faster with a mouse and gui are people that don't have to type cryptic and sometimes obscene things into the terminal, such as "man mount" or "sudo ping -f" everyday. People with a GUI can simply go up to a "help" menu and search for "mount", or click the "flood" radio button/checkbox and click a button entitled "ping". It's much more convienient for the average idiot than a daunting command line. Also, people with GUI's tend not to use features such as remote management or shell scripting. Even so, there is a LOT of GUI software that will let you do things like remote management (Netopia's Timbuktu) or shell scripting (applescript).
Scripting GUI's is much akin to writing a shell script; it automates tasks IN A FAMILIAR MANNER so you don't have to do it yourself.
Isn't compression (blowing air ONTO the processor) a HEATING process, whereas expansion (sucking air away FROM the processor) a cooling process? The air at the heatsink will be cooler if you just have the fan suck surrounding air into the heatsink and then through the duct.
Water is only blue because it reflects light from a clear sky. If you look at water on a cloudy day, it's grey, and if there's something odd going on (like the sky is green) then the water will be green.
In resonse to this, I'd like to see the RIAA's lobby get "Slashdotted" with sign-toting protesters, specifically geek protesters. Wouldn't that be so much fun!
Er, don't you think that they would take the time and money to rewrite the applications to use the vector processing thingies? I mean, they're paying a lot of money to use these machines, so it would make sense that they'd shell out a few thousand dollars on the side to make their programs work best.
Take Motorola's Altivec, for example. Apple wrote a bazillion lines of new code to take advantage of Altivec. Yes, Apple could have just stuck with the G3, yes, Apple could have saved a lot in terms of paying programmers, but scrimping on coders means that you don't have the acceleration code necessary to use the CPU to its full potential.
Gah! What I'm trying to say is that when you shell out a lot of $$$ for a computer, you usually try and make the most of your money.
Nah, they're fine. Intel would put a bunch of crap in there, like excel-specific processor calls and then just speed it up to hide their shoddy design....
Hm, then it might be able to fill this fibre pipe! As an offtopic, why the hell are these people developing accessories for computers (like the NIC) that run faster than the busses they are put on!? It's like having a dragster in the busy streets of a major city, they'll never go as fast as specified!
Back to the topic...
Hmm, funny, I've never heard of that before. Sounds promising as long as they can get the idea off the ground and get it accepted by the general public (remember RDRAM?)
I could see it now: *US-controlled fighter is shot by enemy missile*
USPilot324:BS! EnemyPilot:I 0wnz j00 haha USPilot324:STFU EnemyPilot:you lag like a bitch USPilot324:do not! you lag EnemyPilot:you lag, asshole USPilot324:eat shit and die! EnemyPilot:you first
Sigh, nothing like a little friendly banter between opposing forces, eh?
I just work it out the first few times, and when I have something complex(maybe the wrong word like sines, cosines, tangents, pi, or other interesting and insanely long numbers/ratios, I use a calculator. Also, I reccomend Easy Calc, for Palm. It's got a bunch of cool features, and it's GPL'd.
I don't think anyone who has any inkling on how long the nuclear launch codes could tell us, either, so we'll have to guess. I, personally, think they're around 30-40 digits, but hey, I could be wrong.
You, my friend, do not belong at slashdot. Just because someone ported a kernel and some low-level tools to the Wintel platform, it doesn't mean that it comes with: Drivers a GUI Carbon support Cocoa support Framework support OS 8.6+ support
or anything else that comes with OS X. In other words, you can't run, say, iTunes in Darwin for Intel/AMD. I would hope that the Slashdot community would know that a kernel is not all that an operating system is. You, obviously, cannot tell the difference. This would be analogous to say, building a house. Suppose you could make a foundation for a house in a flat, grassy area and build a house on it. This would be OS X. Now, let's say that you could take a barrel of concrete and pour it down a sheer cliff. This sloppy, messy, incoherent splatter would be Darwin for Intel/AMD. Yes, it would be concrete, and yes, it might even mold itself into a semblance of a foundation. BUT, you cannot build a full-fledged house on a sheer cliff with a small, globular, spattered foundation that may not even be in one specific area!
Yep. He should have a tesla coil or something running so it gets a little power. Oh, and shield the innards from the tesla coil. Just expose a little wire for charging. THAT would be cool, a completely wireless webserver, but the power bill would be a bitch.
Thank god for my independently-owned-and-operated cable outfit. They charge a whole lot for regular cable TV, but damn, 1536 kbps down and 256kbps up isn't bad for $35/month.
It's an Integrated Circuit. Basically, integrated circuits are little silicon things wrapped in plastic with pins on them that perform a specific task, instead of the manufacturer having to make a circuit to do that specific task. Plus, most IC's are only a few cents, making it much cheaper than buying the wires, resistors, capacitors, and what-have-you to make up the circuit.
Visually, IC's are those little black things with pins on them.
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They'll be selling more machines, and making more profits, if they don't port it to linux or windows.
See, the only problem with your logic is that people who are faster with a mouse and gui are people that don't have to type cryptic and sometimes obscene things into the terminal, such as "man mount" or "sudo ping -f" everyday. People with a GUI can simply go up to a "help" menu and search for "mount", or click the "flood" radio button/checkbox and click a button entitled "ping". It's much more convienient for the average idiot than a daunting command line. Also, people with GUI's tend not to use features such as remote management or shell scripting. Even so, there is a LOT of GUI software that will let you do things like remote management (Netopia's Timbuktu) or shell scripting (applescript).
Scripting GUI's is much akin to writing a shell script; it automates tasks IN A FAMILIAR MANNER so you don't have to do it yourself.
Wow. I am SO bookmarking that.
Oh, and btw, nice bandwidth pipe you have there. I was getting a nice 300k/sec there.
So, basically, they're providing specific-situation or specific-task distros of linux for a fee? Or what? I couldn't decipher the corporate jargon.
And the attack on the person criticizing Caldera certainly got my hackles up. (If that's a term for being pissed off and defensive)
Isn't compression (blowing air ONTO the processor) a HEATING process, whereas expansion (sucking air away FROM the processor) a cooling process? The air at the heatsink will be cooler if you just have the fan suck surrounding air into the heatsink and then through the duct.
I've never played the fallout series, but I heard they were a great RPG.
Water is only blue because it reflects light from a clear sky. If you look at water on a cloudy day, it's grey, and if there's something odd going on (like the sky is green) then the water will be green.
This water is probably reflecting red light.
In resonse to this, I'd like to see the RIAA's lobby get "Slashdotted" with sign-toting protesters, specifically geek protesters. Wouldn't that be so much fun!
Looters and Vandals and Riots, oh my!
Er, don't you think that they would take the time and money to rewrite the applications to use the vector processing thingies? I mean, they're paying a lot of money to use these machines, so it would make sense that they'd shell out a few thousand dollars on the side to make their programs work best.
Take Motorola's Altivec, for example. Apple wrote a bazillion lines of new code to take advantage of Altivec. Yes, Apple could have just stuck with the G3, yes, Apple could have saved a lot in terms of paying programmers, but scrimping on coders means that you don't have the acceleration code necessary to use the CPU to its full potential.
Gah! What I'm trying to say is that when you shell out a lot of $$$ for a computer, you usually try and make the most of your money.
Nah, they're fine. Intel would put a bunch of crap in there, like excel-specific processor calls and then just speed it up to hide their shoddy design....
Hm, then it might be able to fill this fibre pipe! As an offtopic, why the hell are these people developing accessories for computers (like the NIC) that run faster than the busses they are put on!? It's like having a dragster in the busy streets of a major city, they'll never go as fast as specified!
Back to the topic...
Hmm, funny, I've never heard of that before. Sounds promising as long as they can get the idea off the ground and get it accepted by the general public (remember RDRAM?)
Flash!? Damn, that's gotta be fast to have a BIOS flash parser....
No more dropped frames in my flash games!
I could see it now:
*US-controlled fighter is shot by enemy missile*
USPilot324:BS!
EnemyPilot:I 0wnz j00 haha
USPilot324:STFU
EnemyPilot:you lag like a bitch
USPilot324:do not! you lag
EnemyPilot:you lag, asshole
USPilot324:eat shit and die!
EnemyPilot:you first
Sigh, nothing like a little friendly banter between opposing forces, eh?
I just work it out the first few times, and when I have something complex(maybe the wrong word like sines, cosines, tangents, pi, or other interesting and insanely long numbers/ratios, I use a calculator. Also, I reccomend Easy Calc, for Palm. It's got a bunch of cool features, and it's GPL'd.
I don't think anyone who has any inkling on how long the nuclear launch codes could tell us, either, so we'll have to guess. I, personally, think they're around 30-40 digits, but hey, I could be wrong.
Your title was obviously decieving.
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I admit that I must have fallen for your clever ploy.
Also, you should probably post information that doesn't conflict with your vast knowledge of operating systems.
You, my friend, do not belong at slashdot. Just because someone ported a kernel and some low-level tools to the Wintel platform, it doesn't mean that it comes with:
Drivers
a GUI
Carbon support
Cocoa support
Framework support
OS 8.6+ support
or anything else that comes with OS X. In other words, you can't run, say, iTunes in Darwin for Intel/AMD. I would hope that the Slashdot community would know that a kernel is not all that an operating system is. You, obviously, cannot tell the difference.
This would be analogous to say, building a house. Suppose you could make a foundation for a house in a flat, grassy area and build a house on it. This would be OS X. Now, let's say that you could take a barrel of concrete and pour it down a sheer cliff. This sloppy, messy, incoherent splatter would be Darwin for Intel/AMD. Yes, it would be concrete, and yes, it might even mold itself into a semblance of a foundation. BUT , you cannot build a full-fledged house on a sheer cliff with a small, globular, spattered foundation that may not even be in one specific area!
Yep. He should have a tesla coil or something running so it gets a little power. Oh, and shield the innards from the tesla coil. Just expose a little wire for charging. THAT would be cool, a completely wireless webserver, but the power bill would be a bitch.
slap in the face with a largeish wet fish
***twiztidlojik slaps JaredOfEuropa around with a large trout!
It's a large trout. Go bone up on your mIRC before you post something like that again =D
Thank god for my independently-owned-and-operated cable outfit. They charge a whole lot for regular cable TV, but damn, 1536 kbps down and 256kbps up isn't bad for $35/month.
Well, close enough. It ate rubber, or maybe plastic, which is damned close enough to petroleum for me.
Er, doesn't audiogalaxy have copyright controls? I thought that if you had a copyrighted song, you could always turn it off or something....
Aww, man. Redundancy. Drat. But mine's more informative!
It's an Integrated Circuit. Basically, integrated circuits are little silicon things wrapped in plastic with pins on them that perform a specific task, instead of the manufacturer having to make a circuit to do that specific task. Plus, most IC's are only a few cents, making it much cheaper than buying the wires, resistors, capacitors, and what-have-you to make up the circuit.
Visually, IC's are those little black things with pins on them.
3600rpm
Do they even make slow drives like that anymore?