"good" evidently does not mean what you think it does.
Nvidia Linux drivers are diabolical, as in "work of the devil" and
I am bitterly disappointed. The devil (and presumably Microsoft, if a different entity) may well be pleased.
If your server handles anything worth actual money, OpenBSD on Sparc64 is the way to go. Of course you might need to know what you are doing, and have confidence that Sparc hardware will survive under Oracle (that is the toughest requirement of all).
Lileth? The PDP-11 was a hardware Fortran machine, and C was its assember! What does that have to do with the price of fish?
Realistically, if these guys ide of the relative complexity of logic makes them think that Add is 3 gates (per bit), but divide is 6, then they should not even be designing softwatre.
Hint: divide can be implemented in a wide variety of gates, but for words longer than abuot 2 bits, there is likely to be an enormous difference in speed (like 10^6) between implementations using 6 gates and ones using 10B^2 gates (where B is width of operands in bits).
(A real expert will havev a more accurate figure).
I once implemented a divide in hardware (FPGA) by using look up tables to find the logs of the numbers, subtracting them, and looking up the antilog (it had to be fast),
Interestingly "Stephen Ward - the Musical" has just opened in the West End.
Personally, I can't wait for a musical version of the Lady Chatterly's Lover trial - perhaps featuring the cast of Mama MIa? (Cast of Umoja might be more fun!)
put it another way: WinXP is still roughly three times as popular as Win8, and even Unity is probably more popular than WIn8 but no meaningful is data available.
Here in Europe, most Christians believe, in your terms, that the picture of God as an elderly jewish gentleman sitting on a cloud (played by Orson Wells) is a useful way of anthorpomorphising nature to explain the universe to children, and a more adult belief system is, as described in John 1: (to quote a previous AC) God is Physics. Physics is God. Immutable, with no beginning or end.. In the phrase traditionally translated as "In the beginning, the word was with God, and the the Word was God" the word for "word" in the original Greek is Logos, which does indeed mean "word" but also is our modern word "logic" and means, in modern terms, "the laws of physics and maths". Additionally, the Bible teaches that the creative force that determines which of many possible transitions occur, and when (explained in science as not specifically predictable, but only statistically so) is love, and that the way to happiness is through pleasing others. These are a useful thing to know in your every day life, but not learned in Science lessons.
About 47% of Europeans think that US Republicans have yet to descend from the apes. A further 40% think they have yet to descend from pond slime.
the NSA is NOT using any of this to prosecute Americans in American courts,
Probably not - they are on good terms with GCHQ, who will have explained to them that the trick is to use this data to find out what they CAN use against you.
Computers were developed during WW2 in the UK (Character based) for cracking German codes, and in the US for designing the Atomic bomb (numerical). The UK machines were all destroyed at the end of the war, and the development teams scattered. The individuals went on to develop machines that were oriented to business activities until the 60's when the goverment trashed the credibility of the UK efforts, while in the US, private inustry (IBM, CDC, etc) went on to sell the US government its own technology.
"it could transfer all the current from the low impedance side of the circuit to the high impedance side of the circuit"What does that even mean?? It does no such thing.
Because the first devices were junction transistors, early explanations were often around the common base configuration, in which this explanation is marginally appropriate.
My Mum was upgraded from a tube based IBM709 to a transistorised 7090 (same archtecture and instruction set) and not only was more reliable, it was also faster (when not IO bound). (1969) She now used a Macbook Pro.
With proprietary operating systems, I kinda feel there needs to be a greater understanding of the consequences of handing your testicles to a company that has to make a profit to survive.
Print this, frame it, and nail it to the boss's door (or pin it to his back).
People who are still using XP day-to-day are idiots and Microsoft shouldn't encourage them.
I have a computerised embroidery sewing machine that cost about $3,000 and the software that controls it only runs on XP.
There is a newer version of thes ame machine that has win8 drivers, but it costs near $7,000 and my existing pattern library would not migrate without huge amnounts of work. The sewing machine is good for another 30 years (will outlive me) but I have to keep XP to run it - of course XP is on a T series Thinkpad, and is not connected to the internet. However, the lesson is learned - no one in MY house will every buy into Windows dependency ever again, and if I ever buy another embroidery machine, it sure as hell won't rely on closed source software. My 86 year old mother just migrated to Apple because she found Windows unuseable. Both my sons use Apple, and most of the in-laws use Ubuntu. MS is losing support rapidly inmy family:-)
Have you ever used Amazon's web sites? The UI looks great, but too often the "buy now" button is missing, the OS you are using is not tested, and your browser is incompatible (regardless of the fact that you tried three browsers on each of four OS's). It keeps offering you stuff you already bought so dont need, or includes one similar buzz-word, but is completely unrelated. "You had a leg amputation yeterday - why not try a head amputation today?"
As for AWS - after three weeks of Googling, I still could not work out how to work it, and I have been remotely managing servers in colos for over ten years. Private enterprise4 may be the answer, but Amazon is not.
And dont talk to me about Oracle - the thought gives me pains in all the diodes in my left leg.
So did the governments of Soviet Russia during the so called war communism period.
Yes, its fine to deliver 100 tons of shoes by making 100 identical shoes left that weigh one ton each!
State control apparatus always slides downwards into a pit of sewage because no one gains from doing a job better than the next guy, but many benefit from doing it worse, and anyone doing anything in a new way is undermining the status quo, and by implication undermining the government,
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I don't know how either of define "hack", but "crashes every day" is not a symtom of a satisfactory piece of software
"good" evidently does not mean what you think it does.
Nvidia Linux drivers are diabolical, as in "work of the devil" and I am bitterly disappointed. The devil (and presumably Microsoft, if a different entity) may well be pleased.
You will never get ME with sugar and power ... chocolate, OTOH
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They are not even remotely comparable:
The Philips machine did everything I wanted (dont watch Hollywood movies, never did)
The Winmo5 device never really worked properly for 24 consecutive hours.
I run Mediatomb too. Works Great with my 40" Samsung TV, and various Android things: Nexus, Samsung, etc. Using it as I type this.
If your server handles anything worth actual money, OpenBSD on Sparc64 is the way to go. Of course you might need to know what you are doing, and have confidence that Sparc hardware will survive under Oracle (that is the toughest requirement of all).
In the UK reading the GP post probably qualifies you as "havng information likely to be of use to a terrorist".
Realistically, if these guys ide of the relative complexity of logic makes them think that Add is 3 gates (per bit), but divide is 6, then they should not even be designing softwatre.
Hint: divide can be implemented in a wide variety of gates, but for words longer than abuot 2 bits, there is likely to be an enormous difference in speed (like 10^6) between implementations using 6 gates and ones using 10B^2 gates (where B is width of operands in bits).
(A real expert will havev a more accurate figure).
I once implemented a divide in hardware (FPGA) by using look up tables to find the logs of the numbers, subtracting them, and looking up the antilog (it had to be fast),
Personally, I can't wait for a musical version of the Lady Chatterly's Lover trial - perhaps featuring the cast of Mama MIa? (Cast of Umoja might be more fun!)
Perhaps you might want to visit the US and Europe. Churchill may have said "divided by a common language" but there is more to it than that.
put it another way: WinXP is still roughly three times as popular as Win8, and even Unity is probably more popular than WIn8 but no meaningful is data available.
Bon't forget VMS (Ptrobably an off-shoot of Druidism) or RSX (modern form of Nerthe).
CPM anyone?
About 47% of Europeans think that US Republicans have yet to descend from the apes. A further 40% think they have yet to descend from pond slime.
Probably not - they are on good terms with GCHQ, who will have explained to them that the trick is to use this data to find out what they CAN use against you.
Computers were developed during WW2 in the UK (Character based) for cracking German codes, and in the US for designing the Atomic bomb (numerical). The UK machines were all destroyed at the end of the war, and the development teams scattered. The individuals went on to develop machines that were oriented to business activities until the 60's when the goverment trashed the credibility of the UK efforts, while in the US, private inustry (IBM, CDC, etc) went on to sell the US government its own technology.
Because the first devices were junction transistors, early explanations were often around the common base configuration, in which this explanation is marginally appropriate.
My Mum was upgraded from a tube based IBM709 to a transistorised 7090 (same archtecture and instruction set) and not only was more reliable, it was also faster (when not IO bound). (1969) She now used a Macbook Pro.
People who actually do work still want keyboards (and see no reason to buy a new one while the screens are all stupid move-watchiing aspect ratios).
Goatse.sx - You must be new here.
Print this, frame it, and nail it to the boss's door (or pin it to his back).
I have a computerised embroidery sewing machine that cost about $3,000 and the software that controls it only runs on XP.
There is a newer version of thes ame machine that has win8 drivers, but it costs near $7,000 and my existing pattern library would not migrate without huge amnounts of work. The sewing machine is good for another 30 years (will outlive me) but I have to keep XP to run it - of course XP is on a T series Thinkpad, and is not connected to the internet. However, the lesson is learned - no one in MY house will every buy into Windows dependency ever again, and if I ever buy another embroidery machine, it sure as hell won't rely on closed source software. My 86 year old mother just migrated to Apple because she found Windows unuseable. Both my sons use Apple, and most of the in-laws use Ubuntu. MS is losing support rapidly inmy family :-)
OTOH think how much you could get opensource programmers to do to Linux with that much money :-)
As for AWS - after three weeks of Googling, I still could not work out how to work it, and I have been remotely managing servers in colos for over ten years. Private enterprise4 may be the answer, but Amazon is not.
And dont talk to me about Oracle - the thought gives me pains in all the diodes in my left leg.
Yes, its fine to deliver 100 tons of shoes by making 100 identical shoes left that weigh one ton each!
State control apparatus always slides downwards into a pit of sewage because no one gains from doing a job better than the next guy, but many benefit from doing it worse, and anyone doing anything in a new way is undermining the status quo, and by implication undermining the government,