Nice tip (It'll try it...do you offer any warranty?)
The world is going towards automated and computer aided investment (CAI (C)), so at some point, only the smartest rulesets owned by BIG corporations and run on MULTIVAC servers will be able to, on average, earn any short term money.
"instead I have to patch 2.4.17 with the RC4 patch"
Just download the.rc3 or 2.4.19-pre1
"I was told that assuming a release is stable... based on how long its been out."
Take the advice, it's a good one. You never know which kernel is best until time has passed. After some time, you will know which kernel is best. That doesn't mean EACH release is stable (ie: perfect).
"I expect more from linux than Microsoft"
Don't expect, contribute. You sure contribute to Microsoft but expect from Linux.
"Linus, show this kid how to rectify an error and do it quickly."
But painting the picture that the Pentium 4 is so very much slower than the Athlon, especially with benchmarks like this, are just plain stupid.
IMHO, i think the post is right in that the comparison was unfair, because a running product is beign compared to a will-be-product. It just ISN'T FAIR.
Second point i think the original poster is right, is that the comparison itself was BIASED, because he is using expensive RAM and doing biased tests running intel optimized stuff. Ie: the test by NATURE is biased.
Third point he made, and i think he is right, is that a 10/20% improvement in speed for a 2666 mhz core and 533 mhz RAM is not GOOD ENOUGH to call that the NEXT GENERATION desktop.
Most guys think like you, so that's why the price swings so much arround a pivotal real price. Pretty much a self explaining autoacomplished prediction.
I'm forced to note that this is called gambling, unless you really know the pivotal point which IMHO nobody knows. It's like Casino, but with more balanced odds. Casino revenues in this game are just the in-out traders comissions.
I have nothing against gambling, except for the fact that this gamble is dangerous for any healthy economy.
IHMO, depends mroe on RAM. The ones that actually need fast HDDs are large database applications. For a game, it's ok to lose some time as long as it fits in memory thereafter.
And this has always been the case for games. I remember playing DOOM in a 386 with 4MB ram and a fast HD (crawled to death), and another 386 with 16MB and a really slow HDD did great (slight delay for initial ap load only).
So, for games, please give me a crappy disk (40% slower is fine) but twice the RAM.
Make Deckard a replicant and his moral victory becomes nothing more than faulty programming.
Strange, i thought just the opposite. That Deckard was more human and a "better" soul that us humans, which are always calculating everything and trying to explot whatever we can. We are selfish bastards even when we do good.
That message reached my heart and moves me some times. Spielberg tryed to do that with AI, but it didn't reach me. AI is too artificialy engeniered. It leaks...BR does not.
Don't need to read 100000 lines (nor 100) to know that i don't want to be universally tracked where ever i go by any goverment or institution.
Next step would be to emmbed a GPS device on your dick so that they can know how many times a day you shag to gather population growth stats (or bribe your wife).
I just find it scary. The economic aspect is less trivial than privacy. If they keep the spending nonsense UK will colapse...
It was supposed to be *funny* not *insigtfull*. Of course, it may be the language gap or me being not funny. Anyway, the G-file is there for anyone to see:)
It has quite a lot of s3m, mods and the like from C64 to console cames music. Top quality. It's better than an MP3 because all the music was tracked at that time, so this makes a lot of sense. They even duplicate artifact effects and the low quality synth generators:)
I recommend it to anyone that's an old school gamer like i was in the happy days of computing...
I specially recommend the COMMANDO (remember?) tune!
This looks like the sendmail or covalent approach to profiting and i find it very encouraging for Open Source in general. It's a Good Thing(R) to have a paid version with extra support and backed up by a real company. I mean, some people just WANT to pay and have something BETTER than average, even if it's not worth the price.
I like it. If i could have a GIMP as good as Photoshop and a Pantone + CYMK plug-in at $100, great, for example...
Software is fine as long as i am not locked into it. I don't feel locked if i can have the source and have the right to modify it myself and sell/use/extend it...
Plus, when I was doing photo retouching for a living, $150 was the target price for a single small retouching/restoration job (about 1 1/2 hours of work).
Now i can understand! Overcharging clients compensates for overpriced software. Where i live, a designer earns like $900 a month (and lives rather well). They usually work 180 hours/month to earn your 6 hour/month salary. Plz tell me which country do you live in so i can tell my fellas to emigrate asap...
Thanks for asking me if i read the book so i could double check on that one: i read it. But i think you are right, he takes the test. Maybe that was on my mind is the part where he's argued about what the test proves: that the test can detect a replicant, but if the test fails, it doesn't necesarilly mean you are human, you could still be a replicant...(and Deckard had to ask 5 fold the usual questions to detect the girl)
I could try and find the interesting parts if someone thinks it's worth the trouble. IMHO it's very clear Deckard is afraid of beign a Replicant...
We'll know the answer when we can finally see the forthcoming "Blade Runner - The Replicant's cut":-)
Yes, Mono is great (no matter that RMS says) but it's also strange that Java maker Sun produces.NET clone from Open Source advocate Ximian...i mean, can't they do it on their own? I don't think we OWE an explanation, but the explanations given seem to naive/simplistic for me at least (The argument goes like: "Hey.NET is cool, SUN guys rock and this is all free")...
I'm a Ximian advocate but the.mono strategy seems like crucial for Ximian in ways i can't yet foresee (and that troubles me).
Anyway, thanks for all the cool stuff you've been doing (like starting gnome!)
Not only Deckard was a replicant, Phillip K. Dick was a replicant. Why else would he be under surveillance by the FBI? There's no file for Deckard though...
I didn't thought about that posibility until i read Phillip K. Dick's "Do...something (strange i can't remember the word...maybe im a replicant myself) dream of electric sheep"...
In the book, Deckard starts doubting where he is or not a replicant. Of course, he never takes the test himself but IMHO that's the ultimate argument of the book.
In the film they give you a clue to it when Deckard is taking the test to our nice and loved brunette replicant...
In the book it's more obvious because he think HE may be a replicant...and he suffers from that though (not only getting killed, but being a fake: which IMHO is what Phillip wants to show with all the animal-loving stuff in the book, which is not reflected in the movie).
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Mhh...I'd suggest something like this which is well under $1000, and scans Film + Prints and has hardware dust & scratch removal BUT...
(and here is the bad part) you don't get scratch removal from prints (because the scanner needs transparent media for the infrared scan pass that detects the scratches). But then again, if you have the negatives it doesn't matter. It will always scan better and remove scratches flawlesly (much better than any Photoshop or software thing)
Commercial hardware is also often worth the price.
Scratches are best removed during the scanning process. Instead of spending $600 for GIMP + Scratch removal, why not buy a...Nikon CoolScan IV ED Film & Slide Scanner at near $600?
2900 dpi resolution
36-bit color depth
USB interface
Amazing "Digital ICE" dust & scratch removal
New Digital "ROC" and "GEM" correct for faded negatives and film grain automatically.
But since you already have access to Photoshop at school, i can understand your point. I mean, if it's free (or freely available), great!
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{offtopic wish} Shame we can't track who said what. Because you know, it'd be great if Gimp grows a lot and goes beyond Photoshop, to lock you out of it. Like many people that spread FUD against Linux, Apache, PHP, Sendmail and everything, and are now profiting from those. {/offtopic}
I know it's offtopic, but forgive me for i can't send an email to this guy. A private message [x] checkbox in slashdot post form would be a great addition though...
So you are telling me half your reasons to spent $600 every two years is because don't have $600 for a nice digital camera (like in 4 megapixels Nikon lenses ones)?
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Nice tip (It'll try it...do you offer any warranty?)
The world is going towards automated and computer aided investment (CAI (C)), so at some point, only the smartest rulesets owned by BIG corporations and run on MULTIVAC servers will be able to, on average, earn any short term money.
Mh, got to off-topic sorry...
Now ... you got me wondering. Which one would you buy?
"instead I have to patch 2.4.17 with the RC4 patch"
.rc3 or 2.4.19-pre1
... based on how long its been out."
Just download the
"I was told that assuming a release is stable
Take the advice, it's a good one. You never know which kernel is best until time has passed. After some time, you will know which kernel is best. That doesn't mean EACH release is stable (ie: perfect).
"I expect more from linux than Microsoft"
Don't expect, contribute. You sure contribute to Microsoft but expect from Linux.
"Linus, show this kid how to rectify an error and do it quickly."
WHAT?
If it fails, make sure you are compiling it, for APM works perfectly. Play with the APM kernel options for buggy motherboards if nothing works.
But painting the picture that the Pentium 4 is so very much slower than the Athlon, especially with benchmarks like this, are just plain stupid.
IMHO, i think the post is right in that the comparison was unfair, because a running product is beign compared to a will-be-product. It just ISN'T FAIR.
Second point i think the original poster is right, is that the comparison itself was BIASED, because he is using expensive RAM and doing biased tests running intel optimized stuff. Ie: the test by NATURE is biased.
Third point he made, and i think he is right, is that a 10/20% improvement in speed for a 2666 mhz core and 533 mhz RAM is not GOOD ENOUGH to call that the NEXT GENERATION desktop.
Most guys think like you, so that's why the price swings so much arround a pivotal real price. Pretty much a self explaining autoacomplished prediction.
I'm forced to note that this is called gambling, unless you really know the pivotal point which IMHO nobody knows. It's like Casino, but with more balanced odds. Casino revenues in this game are just the in-out traders comissions.
I have nothing against gambling, except for the fact that this gamble is dangerous for any healthy economy.
IHMO, depends mroe on RAM. The ones that actually need fast HDDs are large database applications. For a game, it's ok to lose some time as long as it fits in memory thereafter.
And this has always been the case for games. I remember playing DOOM in a 386 with 4MB ram and a fast HD (crawled to death), and another 386 with 16MB and a really slow HDD did great (slight delay for initial ap load only).
So, for games, please give me a crappy disk (40% slower is fine) but twice the RAM.
Make Deckard a replicant and his moral victory becomes nothing more than faulty programming.
Strange, i thought just the opposite. That Deckard was more human and a "better" soul that us humans, which are always calculating everything and trying to explot whatever we can. We are selfish bastards even when we do good.
That message reached my heart and moves me some times. Spielberg tryed to do that with AI, but it didn't reach me. AI is too artificialy engeniered. It leaks...BR does not.
Come on...some companies are dead some others are not...
The people bashing the MPAA aren't nessecarily the ones buying the DVD's
:) (just a joke, eh!). Now, seriously, your point is definitely accurate IMHO...
More likely, they are the ones ripping/trading the DVDs
Don't need to read 100000 lines (nor 100) to know that i don't want to be universally tracked where ever i go by any goverment or institution.
Next step would be to emmbed a GPS device on your dick so that they can know how many times a day you shag to gather population growth stats (or bribe your wife).
I just find it scary. The economic aspect is less trivial than privacy. If they keep the spending nonsense UK will colapse...
Yeah and those are the lucky ones that can find a job. Latin America in general pays about $6/7 an hour...
It was supposed to be *funny* not *insigtfull*. Of course, it may be the language gap or me being not funny. Anyway, the G-file is there for anyone to see :)
It has quite a lot of s3m, mods and the like from C64 to console cames music. Top quality. It's better than an MP3 because all the music was tracked at that time, so this makes a lot of sense. They even duplicate artifact effects and the low quality synth generators :)
I recommend it to anyone that's an old school gamer like i was in the happy days of computing...
I specially recommend the COMMANDO (remember?) tune!
This looks like the sendmail or covalent approach to profiting and i find it very encouraging for Open Source in general. It's a Good Thing(R) to have a paid version with extra support and backed up by a real company. I mean, some people just WANT to pay and have something BETTER than average, even if it's not worth the price.
I like it. If i could have a GIMP as good as Photoshop and a Pantone + CYMK plug-in at $100, great, for example...
Software is fine as long as i am not locked into it. I don't feel locked if i can have the source and have the right to modify it myself and sell/use/extend it...
Everything granted, except the "it's ludicrous to say that "GIMP will eventually beat Photoshop" part. Because it's not ludicrous.
Plus, when I was doing photo retouching for a living, $150 was the target price for a single small retouching/restoration job (about 1 1/2 hours of work).
Now i can understand! Overcharging clients compensates for overpriced software. Where i live, a designer earns like $900 a month (and lives rather well). They usually work 180 hours/month to earn your 6 hour/month salary. Plz tell me which country do you live in so i can tell my fellas to emigrate asap...
Thanks for asking me if i read the book so i could double check on that one: i read it. But i think you are right, he takes the test. Maybe that was on my mind is the part where he's argued about what the test proves: that the test can detect a replicant, but if the test fails, it doesn't necesarilly mean you are human, you could still be a replicant...(and Deckard had to ask 5 fold the usual questions to detect the girl)
:-)
I could try and find the interesting parts if someone thinks it's worth the trouble. IMHO it's very clear Deckard is afraid of beign a Replicant...
We'll know the answer when we can finally see the forthcoming "Blade Runner - The Replicant's cut"
Yes, Mono is great (no matter that RMS says) but it's also strange that Java maker Sun produces .NET clone from Open Source advocate Ximian...i mean, can't they do it on their own? I don't think we OWE an explanation, but the explanations given seem to naive/simplistic for me at least (The argument goes like: "Hey .NET is cool, SUN guys rock and this is all free")...
.mono strategy seems like crucial for Ximian in ways i can't yet foresee (and that troubles me).
I'm a Ximian advocate but the
Anyway, thanks for all the cool stuff you've been doing (like starting gnome!)
Not only Deckard was a replicant, Phillip K. Dick was a replicant. Why else would he be under surveillance by the FBI? There's no file for Deckard though ...
I didn't thought about that posibility until i read Phillip K. Dick's "Do ...something (strange i can't remember the word...maybe im a replicant myself) dream of electric sheep"...
In the book, Deckard starts doubting where he is or not a replicant. Of course, he never takes the test himself but IMHO that's the ultimate argument of the book.
In the film they give you a clue to it when Deckard is taking the test to our nice and loved brunette replicant...
In the book it's more obvious because he think HE may be a replicant...and he suffers from that though (not only getting killed, but being a fake: which IMHO is what Phillip wants to show with all the animal-loving stuff in the book, which is not reflected in the movie).
Mhh...I'd suggest something like this which is well under $1000, and scans Film + Prints and has hardware dust & scratch removal BUT ...
(and here is the bad part) you don't get scratch removal from prints (because the scanner needs transparent media for the infrared scan pass that detects the scratches). But then again, if you have the negatives it doesn't matter. It will always scan better and remove scratches flawlesly (much better than any Photoshop or software thing)
Scratches are best removed during the scanning process. Instead of spending $600 for GIMP + Scratch removal, why not buy a...Nikon CoolScan IV ED Film & Slide Scanner at near $600?
2900 dpi resolution
36-bit color depth
USB interface
Amazing "Digital ICE" dust & scratch removal
New Digital "ROC" and "GEM" correct for faded negatives and film grain automatically.
But since you already have access to Photoshop at school, i can understand your point. I mean, if it's free (or freely available), great!
{offtopic wish}
Shame we can't track who said what. Because you know, it'd be great if Gimp grows a lot and goes beyond Photoshop, to lock you out of it. Like many people that spread FUD against Linux, Apache, PHP, Sendmail and everything, and are now profiting from those.
{/offtopic}
I know it's offtopic, but forgive me for i can't send an email to this guy. A private message [x] checkbox in slashdot post form would be a great addition though...
So you are telling me half your reasons to spent $600 every two years is because don't have $600 for a nice digital camera (like in 4 megapixels Nikon lenses ones)?