> it's OS X's quartz rendering. There's going to be a performance hit for all that eye candy no matter what kind of hardware it's running on.
Quartz uses the GPU for all the eyecandy (well, almost) - It shouldn't have ANY effect on the CPU speeds. Translucency composition, Gradients are all in the GPU - CPU is not used for those things.
While windows feels snappy, try running a background compile.... OS X will not skip a hearbeat
I think a healthy system should have place for somewhere between 5 and 10 parties, ranging from greens, labour, religion based, conservative, liberals, etc. You will probably require a coalition to rule the country, but that is the whole idea of democracy: to make compromises between the various wishes from society.
That's till you end up with a Coalition government. India has a coalition government with at least 7 parties in the ruling side and around 13 opposing. The result is a confusing mess where no-one can take any strong decisions for the good of the people.
A coalition is an endless stream of appeasments to allies....
for your good, what you need is Benevolent Dictator... but it might be too bad for the rest of the world .
Of course, unless you consider all those hours
you pored over google results and irc chats about
*that* bug in the 2.2 kernel, waay back in '99.
I've invested too much time and effort in Linux to consider it "Free" in an economic sense. But , yeah it pays to be the admin , not developers.
But, I've sent my share of patches....
Of course GSM was digital, YTF couldn't they route those 52 byte voice packets over UDP or something ?. Maybe aggregate them into 1500 byte blocks and push over ethernet or the equivalent with ATM ?.
VoIP works , but I don't see the point for mobiles to run a full IP stack. (oh, yeah I work on a phone with an IP stack and it drains the battery like HELL when in packet services mode).
> Hmm, looks like a mix of chimps and gorillas, but bigger... Chimpzilla
There is a documented case of a chimpanzee that walked on two legs all the time - Humanzee .
Was suspected to be a mixture - which raised real ethical and moral questions . But turns out to be a mutated chimp which might be an extinct subspecies ?.
> An ape capable of killing lions ran away after a peek--that must have been one ugly face!
Most apes are curious creatures , the ones which are more intelligent are more cautious observers than curious imitators.
A strange creature that walks on two feet, carries a metal paddle that kills , and kills adult elephants is a creature to be afraid of (oh, I'm talking about the average african explorer).
Truthfully speaking , any sufficently intelligent species which closely observes humans in actions have everything to be afraid of them . Lions are comparitively innocous compared to a human . Even tigers turn tail and run from humans looking at them (or relatively good facsimilies of a face).
It takes brains, learning and experience to figure that out .
When my company started putting "Best Viewed in Firefox/Mozilla" on the intranet . I knew that the browser wars are over.
Microsoft may be able to do something however late it is (see.NET and Java)... but I suspect Mozilla's not as slow as Java in responding , especially when it's Microsoft
Linux comes from a tech-savvy community who enjoy making fun of and exploiting bad code/design by others (yeah, some are Elitist Bastards.. but that comes with the territory).
Windows comes from a company that believes in making money and releasing on particular dates , not to mention interested in selling updates as well.
Which one do you think will be more secure ?. Do I decide because it's been hacked by the hackers (white hats rule !) or because it passed an agressive regression test cycle written by incompetent morons who are more interested in the money ?.
A few years back (waaay back in '99) when I first encountered GNU/Linux (my first guru is now a board member of FSF India) , the system was frayed round the edges and center . But 4 years down the line with Suse and IBM cracking down on the quality factor - the tide is turning. Both of them have a regression test suite and quality control for the PHB perspective - but Microsoft too has people poking holes in it (unfortunately those are not white hats).
All that said - if Linux wasn't GPL , we'd have 10 forks each calling IBMLinux, FreeLinux , OpenLinux, DragonflyLinux... each working on different directions to do the same thing (and I'm not talking about just package managers). (Much as I approve of the BSD attitude, it doesn't translate well into a commercial scenario, unlike GPL'd stuff).
> When Microsoft fouls up, we all get mad because we've maybe paid too much money for the product/license to begin with so we believe it should function better than a free solution. Sadly the opposite is often more true!
I've seen the "You Get What You Pay For" attitude work the wrong way for most managers who have no idea about the technology involved . Sadly this includes the hidden costs as well - Unix was high-tech because it needed an admin who pulled half that of the CEO , recently it's been "only Damn commie hippies use Leenux" (with apologies to RMS) . This is true to the survival of Technical Primadonnas as well as Microsoft's products. Foe example my project uses Redhat 9.0 - because that's what the IT guys paid for , what they don't know is that the servers run on a gentoo chroot on the same box (compiled with everything but) .
The difference with the Perl solution is very simple, they put out a new release or patch. A patch I can read, inspect and understand , maybe even adapt a little so that my product works. It's not like put these bits here and those bytes there and the binaries are patched.
The great thing about FOSS is that bad code never lives long . Of course that's the difference between a successful project and an unsuccessful one:).
> But I personally have worked as both a telco and a data tech and I think that traditional PBX'es are still more bulletproof than newer VoIP packages. If I'm wrong I'd be happy to hear...
VoIP boxes more often that not, run on traditional OSes . We'll see a switch to reliability when the OS specializes for VoIP . Our office uses Cisco and Ericsson VoIP phones for longdistance calls and it is very reliable (more reliable than the &*#$% MS Exchange email servers).
Essentially most people seems to be running a hard-board Linux install on flash for these VoIP systems - which is IMHO a mistake . There is a reason why IOS router is more stable than a Linux router. Specialization and removal of features irrelavant to current operation .
But I can see a near future when a custom built OS (like MovieOS .. *snigger*?) specializing on VoIP software. Then we'll see the system work . Oh, not to mention a parallel/high-priority network in office to prevent the bittorrent user in the next cubicle from jittering your calls .
Remember all our mobile phones are software and do use digital audio . You don't call them unreliable, do you ?.
> I'm an Electronics Engineer and I'd never trust a drive-by-wire car. Things go wrong; you have to have some sort of mechanical over-ride for a life-critical system like a car.
Makes me wonder what a Mechanical Engineer thinks about the car:). I suppose this is a very common attitude ?. I'm a computer engineer and I don't take my credit card even near the PC... I unplug my PC often when I don't need the network , run rsync of the critical data into around 13 machines on the network and keep a printed copy of my ssh keys when I go on vacation.. But I don't worry about my bike or it's engines or the office lifts.. Maybe the more you know how it works, more you are afraid it might fail ?.
Did you ever notice that the popular website names often have nothing to do with what they are really are ?. of course they in turn get added to the vocabulary... but see the examples.
Google -- a huge number , and nothing to do with searching, per se
Amazon -- WTF does Amazon have to do with book, rather supply the wood ?
Slashdot what does "Slashdot" mean actually ?. "Slashdotted" ? (ok, sourceforge makes sense for one).
Very few of the "meaningfully" named sites have taken off in a big way (HoTMaiL.com is an excellent example). often a single syllable catchy name is all it takes:).
> but would what happen if two objects referenced each other but nothing else referenced them. Would gc know to follow the links between the two and see that nothing in the main app is using them?
The main app is all the object traceable from the root set. Read
this for a quick view. Essentially the rootset is part of a graph of objects and the rest can be free'd .
> As usual, no one will do anything serious until there is a major incident (involving loss of life), after which "computer security" will be beat into our skulls every minute of every day
Don't look now...that guy walking down the street with the gameboy...... he's a hacker... children , run inside..
You see, what that will do is take the internet back 10-15 years... instead of "real" protection. Not to mention attack a few countries because their routers were used for something...
Slashdot Mirror
Quartz uses the GPU for all the eyecandy (well, almost) - It shouldn't have ANY effect on the CPU speeds. Translucency composition, Gradients are all in the GPU - CPU is not used for those things.
While windows feels snappy, try running a background compileI think a healthy system should have place for somewhere between 5 and 10 parties, ranging from greens, labour, religion based, conservative, liberals, etc. You will probably require a coalition to rule the country, but that is the whole idea of democracy: to make compromises between the various wishes from society.
That's till you end up with a Coalition government. India has a coalition government with at least 7 parties in the ruling side and around 13 opposing. The result is a confusing mess where no-one can take any strong decisions for the good of the people.
A coalition is an endless stream of appeasments to allies....for your good, what you need is Benevolent Dictator ... but it might be too bad for the rest of the world .
Are you confusing America with the World again ?...
Might have been true in 1940 , but recent events have proved that America is not THE WORLD .Volunteers needed :)
Linux - priceless .
Of course, unless you consider all those hours you pored over google results and irc chats about *that* bug in the 2.2 kernel, waay back in '99.
I've invested too much time and effort in Linux to consider it "Free" in an economic sense. But , yeah it pays to be the admin , not developers.But, I've sent my share of patches
Of course GSM was digital, YTF couldn't they route those 52 byte voice packets over UDP or something ?. Maybe aggregate them into 1500 byte blocks and push over ethernet or the equivalent with ATM ?.
VoIP works , but I don't see the point for mobiles to run a full IP stack. (oh, yeah I work on a phone with an IP stack and it drains the battery like HELL when in packet services mode).
There is a documented case of a chimpanzee that walked on two legs all the time - Humanzee .
Was suspected to be a mixture - which raised real ethical and moral questions . But turns out to be a mutated chimp which might be an extinct subspecies ?.
Most apes are curious creatures , the ones which are more intelligent are more cautious observers than curious imitators.
A strange creature that walks on two feet, carries a metal paddle that kills , and kills adult elephants is a creature to be afraid of (oh, I'm talking about the average african explorer).
Truthfully speaking , any sufficently intelligent species which closely observes humans in actions have everything to be afraid of them . Lions are comparitively innocous compared to a human . Even tigers turn tail and run from humans looking at them (or relatively good facsimilies of a face).
It takes brains, learning and experience to figure that out .Also make sure your tinfoil hat is securely attached to your cranial cavity
> Yeah, but how much thinner will your wallet be?
:)
I use a credit card, you insensitive clod
just keeping with the tradition
When my company started putting "Best Viewed in Firefox/Mozilla" on the intranet . I knew that the browser wars are over .
.NET and Java) ... but I suspect Mozilla's not as slow as Java in responding , especially when it's Microsoft
Microsoft may be able to do something however late it is (see
> about face
.
Depends on how much I paid for it
When I pay to get a commercial app server, I expect stability, reliabilty and security . But when I download a 1.0 beta release, I get what I'm told.
when "You get what you pay for" becomes "You think you got what you paid for" it's called "Idiot Tax"
Linux comes from a tech-savvy community who enjoy making fun of and exploiting bad code/design by others (yeah, some are Elitist Bastards .. but that comes with the territory).
... each working on different directions to do the same thing (and I'm not talking about just package managers). (Much as I approve of the BSD attitude, it doesn't translate well into a commercial scenario, unlike GPL'd stuff).
Windows comes from a company that believes in making money and releasing on particular dates , not to mention interested in selling updates as well.
Which one do you think will be more secure ?. Do I decide because it's been hacked by the hackers (white hats rule !) or because it passed an agressive regression test cycle written by incompetent morons who are more interested in the money ?.
A few years back (waaay back in '99) when I first encountered GNU/Linux (my first guru is now a board member of FSF India) , the system was frayed round the edges and center . But 4 years down the line with Suse and IBM cracking down on the quality factor - the tide is turning. Both of them have a regression test suite and quality control for the PHB perspective - but Microsoft too has people poking holes in it (unfortunately those are not white hats).
All that said - if Linux wasn't GPL , we'd have 10 forks each calling IBMLinux, FreeLinux , OpenLinux, DragonflyLinux
I've seen the "You Get What You Pay For" attitude work the wrong way for most managers who have no idea about the technology involved . Sadly this includes the hidden costs as well - Unix was high-tech because it needed an admin who pulled half that of the CEO , recently it's been "only Damn commie hippies use Leenux" (with apologies to RMS) . This is true to the survival of Technical Primadonnas as well as Microsoft's products. Foe example my project uses Redhat 9.0 - because that's what the IT guys paid for , what they don't know is that the servers run on a gentoo chroot on the same box (compiled with everything but) .
The difference with the Perl solution is very simple, they put out a new release or patch. A patch I can read, inspect and understand , maybe even adapt a little so that my product works. It's not like put these bits here and those bytes there and the binaries are patched.
The great thing about FOSS is that bad code never lives long . Of course that's the difference between a successful project and an unsuccessful one :).
> File sharers don't want to make a buck out of the files they share. If they do, they should be punished.
... real Piracy .
..oh, wait that's not illegal yet !.
If they do - that's what I'd call piracy
Not borrowing a friend's disk to play on your player
I'd read that as more of a "Love DRM or Steve Ballmer gets it" ...
VoIP boxes more often that not, run on traditional OSes . We'll see a switch to reliability when the OS specializes for VoIP . Our office uses Cisco and Ericsson VoIP phones for longdistance calls and it is very reliable (more reliable than the &*#$% MS Exchange email servers).
Essentially most people seems to be running a hard-board Linux install on flash for these VoIP systems - which is IMHO a mistake . There is a reason why IOS router is more stable than a Linux router. Specialization and removal of features irrelavant to current operation .
But I can see a near future when a custom built OS (like MovieOS .. *snigger*?) specializing on VoIP software. Then we'll see the system work . Oh, not to mention a parallel/high-priority network in office to prevent the bittorrent user in the next cubicle from jittering your calls .
Remember all our mobile phones are software and do use digital audio . You don't call them unreliable, do you ?.> So if there are 10 people who get bad notices, did they really send out infringment notices to 10 million people?
If they had that many validated email addresses - they'd be the king of spam !!.
Makes me wonder what a Mechanical Engineer thinks about the car :). I suppose this is a very common attitude ?. ... I unplug my PC often when I don't need the network , run rsync of the critical data into around 13 machines on the network and keep a printed copy of my ssh keys when I go on vacation .. But I don't worry about my bike or it's engines or the office lifts .. Maybe the more you know how it works, more you are afraid it might fail ?.
I'm a computer engineer and I don't take my credit card even near the PC
Ignorance is bliss ;)
Today ?.
- Google -- a huge number , and nothing to do with searching, per se
- Amazon -- WTF does Amazon have to do with book, rather supply the wood ?
- Monster -- Monster ?. and jobs ?.
- Ebay would BuyHere.com sounded better ?
- Slashdot what does "Slashdot" mean actually ?. "Slashdotted" ? (ok, sourceforge makes sense for one).
Very few of the "meaningfully" named sites have taken off in a big way (HoTMaiL.com is an excellent example). often a single syllable catchy name is all it takes> but would what happen if two objects referenced each other but nothing else referenced them. Would gc know to follow the links between the two and see that nothing in the main app is using them?
The main app is all the object traceable from the root set. Read this for a quick view. Essentially the rootset is part of a graph of objects and the rest can be free'd .
> Selling software is no different from selling anything else
...
... rest is stupid people.
Software is not sold, it is licensed to the End User
and that's the root of half the evil I see in software
> Most of the computers on the Internet could be compromised within minutes just by ordinary browsing
... at the same time.
... :)
That's like everyone in the world getting hit by lightning
Btw, last year my machine was hit by lightning
> As usual, no one will do anything serious until there is a major incident (involving loss of life), after which "computer security" will be beat into our skulls every minute of every day Don't look now ...that guy walking down the street with the gameboy... ... he's a hacker ... children , run inside ..
You see, what that will do is take the internet back 10-15 years ... instead of "real" protection. Not to mention attack a few countries because their routers were used for something ...