What I'm wondering is what is broken with the whole directory/folder design? I wasn't aware that there was a problem. And what's the alternative... every file is stored on the hard drive in some arbitrary location, and a query is needed for each and every file access? That seems like a *ton* of overhead to fix a problem that just doesn't exist.
Nothing is broken at all. This is just their latest idea to force an upgrade cycle. Filesystems like reiserfs can easily handle millions of files in a directory. I put 100k+ files in a directory in a regular basis and experience no slowdown.
What I've heard described as the database filesystem idea (and keep in mind filesystems are the most simple type of database) was that instead of really having concrete folders you would just query the system, say somethign like, "gimme all the word documents written by sally"... Or, show me all the files I worked on yesterday... That could actually be a bit handy, but turning your OS into a database server seems like a great way to slow down your machine for no good reason.
So I mean, do you *REALLY* need that? I could care less personaly. I keep my files well organized in my home directory/my documents... seems like a much better solution.
So what it really comes down to you're saying, is, are you an idealist or a pragmatist? Face it, PC people were right, and were always right, and you were always paying that 28% markup for slower hardware in a shiny shiny box.
Or does this color the appleIntel story from a few days ago? I was thinking, with this Trusted Computring stuff, sounds like time to jump ship to Apple...but if they switch to intel, there will be no place to hide.
I agree with you... I really dont believe this... however I don't agree that Apple *wouldn't* do it. They've done 2 architecture switches before IIRC?
Allow me to present you with an alternate theory. There is either a *VERY LARGE PROBLEM*, technical, or financial, that is necessitating the move, or some tactical advantadge.
so under large problem -- we know that power consumption (laptops) and frequency scaling have been a problem for G5.
Under tactical, maybe Apple wants to compete with MS for the x86 OS market?
or perhaps IBM is a price barrier to competing with intel machines on price? (price is pretty much the only reason im not using an apple...)
Perhaps, the intel processor *WILL* be G5 compatible. Perhaps *INTEL* wishes to compete with IBM.
In my opinion thats the real problem with GC. its supposed to free us from the free/malloc paradigm but you still have to dereference objects... so I ask everyone whats the difference between Object = Null and free(Object) ?
Sure GC is nice for cleaning up temporary variables, but its terribly expensive and as you say the program can't determine the programmers intent.
I had a similar situation to yours back 3 or 4 years ago when I was a sysadmin... a researcher came to my office and demanded more ram for his computer (this was SUN ram BTW, extremely expensive). Some program he had written was using 2GB of ram (I think his machine had 512M which was a hell of a lot in 2000) and taking 24 hours to run a single simulation... So I got him to walk me through the operation of the program, and we made worst case estimates about all the data structures involved, and basically came up with a worst case of his program requiring about 100 megs of ram. He was processing video frames and on a hunch I said, "how many frames are you processing?"... multiplying the ammount of frames by the data structures storing them, came out to just around 2GB. Basically he was *never* deallocating a single frame structure. He went back to his desk, found a malloc he'd forgotten, and his program ran in 14 minutes after that:) -- long story short, programmers will blame EVERYTHING before themselves (and Im a programmer so its a fair cop).
Same here - in fact I see many reasons not to upgrade.
The biggest one for me is the thread scheduler in XP just seems *different* than the one in win2k. The multitasking in nt/2k was *very* smooth, whereas XP allows programs to grab all the resources and drown the machine.
It can be in some cases. I bought a 20" LCD, and paid 8$ to recycle... not a big deal right? I bought a 2.5" LCD display for a project, and paid I think 6 or 7$ to recycle it, and I only paid 60$ for the LCD... so in that case I think the fee was pretty outrageous.
My question is, what am I getting for my money? They are happy to take my money but what service are they providing in return? Am I entitled to free recylcing service for these LCDs? As far as I can tell its just another tax increase making it harder to live in california:)
I don't know if you tried The Longest Journey. It's an amazing game and a pure graphic adventure. The sequel will apparently have action elements, so I dunno...
I very much enjoyed TLJ although it had some problems, and the voice acting was very strange... it was a very good time. I purchased syberia years ago and havent played it yet... have you heard of this game "Return to Mysterous Island" ? Saw it the other day, looked interesting
You need a new video card. My girlfriend can play this game without any problems at all. Very, very smooth.
I would that I could... its a laptop and thus the videocard is very unreplacable. If memory serves its a Geforce to go 5800 fx or something likething like that.
Interesting to know thuogh:) Ive been putting off buying new machines until the dual core stuff is out
I *believe* some VIA motherboards/chipsets have an entropy source built into the hardware.
The real problem like you say is speed. I have been doing research which requires megs of randomn data per second. However, I can't really get that, so 99% of the computation is wasted:)
Yes! God damnit yes! I buoght a copy of "Psychonauts" (done by the grim fandango guy)... It comes on 4 cds... The game barely runs on my pentium 4 3.2 ghz (which has a farely recent video card). And yet It comes on cds!! Anybody who doesn't have a dvd-rom *DOES NOT* have a computer fast enough to play this game.
This guy has *really* put his finger on exactly whats wrong with videogames.
Maybe it goes back to what you grew up with, but the videogame "Type" that I always loved the most was "Adventure Games". I was a major Sierra and Lucasarts junkie as a kid... I lived for each release of Kings Quest, Monkey Island, Quest for Glory, Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle, etc... then then doom came out (yes I know wold3d was first, but doom was the *BIG* hit) and Adventure games stopped getting made, and videogames got dumbed down forever. Instead of intellecutal challenge and witty writing, we got button mashig, searching for ammo, and looking for what switch opened that door. Grim Fandango (1998) was the last *GREAT* Adventure game. To put it in the words of a friend of mine, "I actually feel a sense of loss that the game is over, like someone has died and won't be a part of my life anymore." Has anybody ever felt that way about a FPS?
My HS band teacher had a saying, "Strong and wrong baby!" He meant, its better to play loud and confident, and mess up now and then, than to play timid and, mess up now and then:)
Don't push your luck buddy. We're already tired of your wares. Ticket sales are down across the board, and so is TV viewership among men 18-30, the most valuable demogrpahic.
Your marketing people are no doubt trying very hard to figure out why this is, but in your hear you know why... Its because everything you're doing is SHIT. Your writers are terrible, your plots hackney, your characters stiff, your actors couldn't act their way out of a paper bag. And yet you expect us to pay $9 for a movie ticket. Same goes with your television shows.
What is this "Reality TV" bullshit? It was cool for about a week, but the joke stopped being funny and you're still telling it. When I see model quality babes eating snails on TV like I did last night. Plus, everytime we *really* like something you kill it! Futrama, Firefly, Family (and what the HELL is american dad BTW?), Enterprise, the list goes on and on.
So when you tell me you can't broadcast your prescious movies on HDTV, I say, "Who the fuck cares?" Only you, my friend:) Yea, we had some good times, Fight Club, Star Wars, Star Trek 6 (the rest sucked), Casablanca, anything by Terry Gilliam (thanks for trying to ruin Brazil BTW), and a handful of other movies... but we just don't care anymore. In the last 75 years of modern movies you've produced a few hundred *really* good movies, and it really seems like the good times are behind us. You haven't captured our imagination in a long time.
So thats it, thanks. The long and short of it is, is we've given up on YOU, because YOU gave up on us a long time ago. Did you know most successful people don't have TV's or very rarely watch them? And btw, ben affleck, ben stiller, and adam sandler are incredible cocks who should never be in a movie again. thanks
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Nothing is broken at all. This is just their latest idea to force an upgrade cycle. Filesystems like reiserfs can easily handle millions of files in a directory. I put 100k+ files in a directory in a regular basis and experience no slowdown.
What I've heard described as the database filesystem idea (and keep in mind filesystems are the most simple type of database) was that instead of really having concrete folders you would just query the system, say somethign like, "gimme all the word documents written by sally" ... Or, show me all the files I worked on yesterday ... That could actually be a bit handy, but turning your OS into a database server seems like a great way to slow down your machine for no good reason.
So I mean, do you *REALLY* need that? I could care less personaly. I keep my files well organized in my home directory/my documents ... seems like a much better solution.
I wonder if apple will make x86 contributions to GCC like they did for powerpc. GCC's intel perfomance leaves a lot to be desired.
Mod this man up. Holy crap I about died laughting.
So what it really comes down to you're saying, is, are you an idealist or a pragmatist? Face it, PC people were right, and were always right, and you were always paying that 28% markup for slower hardware in a shiny shiny box.
Or does this color the appleIntel story from a few days ago? I was thinking, with this Trusted Computring stuff, sounds like time to jump ship to Apple ...but if they switch to intel, there will be no place to hide.
Thats the scariest thing Ive ever heard. Lucikly nobody will stand for it :)
Allow me to present you with an alternate theory. There is either a *VERY LARGE PROBLEM*, technical, or financial, that is necessitating the move, or some tactical advantadge.
so under large problem -- we know that power consumption (laptops) and frequency scaling have been a problem for G5.
Under tactical, maybe Apple wants to compete with MS for the x86 OS market?
or perhaps IBM is a price barrier to competing with intel machines on price? (price is pretty much the only reason im not using an apple...)
Perhaps, the intel processor *WILL* be G5 compatible. Perhaps *INTEL* wishes to compete with IBM.
In my opinion thats the real problem with GC. its supposed to free us from the free/malloc paradigm but you still have to dereference objects... so I ask everyone whats the difference between Object = Null and free(Object) ?
Sure GC is nice for cleaning up temporary variables, but its terribly expensive and as you say the program can't determine the programmers intent.
I had a similar situation to yours back 3 or 4 years ago when I was a sysadmin... a researcher came to my office and demanded more ram for his computer (this was SUN ram BTW, extremely expensive). Some program he had written was using 2GB of ram (I think his machine had 512M which was a hell of a lot in 2000) and taking 24 hours to run a single simulation ... So I got him to walk me through the operation of the program, and we made worst case estimates about all the data structures involved, and basically came up with a worst case of his program requiring about 100 megs of ram. He was processing video frames and on a hunch I said, "how many frames are you processing?" ... multiplying the ammount of frames by the data structures storing them, came out to just around 2GB. Basically he was *never* deallocating a single frame structure. He went back to his desk, found a malloc he'd forgotten, and his program ran in 14 minutes after that :) -- long story short, programmers will blame EVERYTHING before themselves (and Im a programmer so its a fair cop).
The biggest one for me is the thread scheduler in XP just seems *different* than the one in win2k. The multitasking in nt/2k was *very* smooth, whereas XP allows programs to grab all the resources and drown the machine.
I'm gonna feed the troll here. KDE is *UGLY*. If I wanted my ocmputer to look like windows XP, i'd install it.
For the purpose of implementing a VM referenced does mean in use :) Thats about as close to declaring intent as one can get.
It can be in some cases. I bought a 20" LCD, and paid 8$ to recycle ... not a big deal right? I bought a 2.5" LCD display for a project, and paid I think 6 or 7$ to recycle it, and I only paid 60$ for the LCD ... so in that case I think the fee was pretty outrageous.
My question is, what am I getting for my money? They are happy to take my money but what service are they providing in return? Am I entitled to free recylcing service for these LCDs? As far as I can tell its just another tax increase making it harder to live in california :)
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You obviously don't run gentoo :)
Damn, I thuoght I knew my star trek, but I tip my hat to you sir.
I very much enjoyed TLJ although it had some problems, and the voice acting was very strange... it was a very good time. I purchased syberia years ago and havent played it yet... have you heard of this game "Return to Mysterous Island" ? Saw it the other day, looked interesting
I would that I could ... its a laptop and thus the videocard is very unreplacable. If memory serves its a Geforce to go 5800 fx or something likething like that.
Interesting to know thuogh :) Ive been putting off buying new machines until the dual core stuff is out
The real problem like you say is speed. I have been doing research which requires megs of randomn data per second. However, I can't really get that, so 99% of the computation is wasted :)
Yes! God damnit yes! I buoght a copy of "Psychonauts" (done by the grim fandango guy)... It comes on 4 cds... The game barely runs on my pentium 4 3.2 ghz (which has a farely recent video card). And yet It comes on cds!! Anybody who doesn't have a dvd-rom *DOES NOT* have a computer fast enough to play this game.
Maybe it goes back to what you grew up with, but the videogame "Type" that I always loved the most was "Adventure Games". I was a major Sierra and Lucasarts junkie as a kid ... I lived for each release of Kings Quest, Monkey Island, Quest for Glory, Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle, etc ... then then doom came out (yes I know wold3d was first, but doom was the *BIG* hit) and Adventure games stopped getting made, and videogames got dumbed down forever. Instead of intellecutal challenge and witty writing, we got button mashig, searching for ammo, and looking for what switch opened that door. Grim Fandango (1998) was the last *GREAT* Adventure game. To put it in the words of a friend of mine, "I actually feel a sense of loss that the game is over, like someone has died and won't be a part of my life anymore." Has anybody ever felt that way about a FPS?
Were it only so... the thing that bothers me the most is getting children used to being survailed. That has to be the first step
I met him when he appeared on Inside the Actors Studio, nice guy.
Actually it was the best or second best program in the nation dependoing on who you asked :) ...
My HS band teacher had a saying, "Strong and wrong baby!" He meant, its better to play loud and confident, and mess up now and then, than to play timid and, mess up now and then :)
Don't push your luck buddy. We're already tired of your wares. Ticket sales are down across the board, and so is TV viewership among men 18-30, the most valuable demogrpahic.
Your marketing people are no doubt trying very hard to figure out why this is, but in your hear you know why... Its because everything you're doing is SHIT. Your writers are terrible, your plots hackney, your characters stiff, your actors couldn't act their way out of a paper bag. And yet you expect us to pay $9 for a movie ticket. Same goes with your television shows.
What is this "Reality TV" bullshit? It was cool for about a week, but the joke stopped being funny and you're still telling it. When I see model quality babes eating snails on TV like I did last night. Plus, everytime we *really* like something you kill it! Futrama, Firefly, Family (and what the HELL is american dad BTW?), Enterprise, the list goes on and on.
So when you tell me you can't broadcast your prescious movies on HDTV, I say, "Who the fuck cares?" Only you, my friend :) Yea, we had some good times, Fight Club, Star Wars, Star Trek 6 (the rest sucked), Casablanca, anything by Terry Gilliam (thanks for trying to ruin Brazil BTW), and a handful of other movies... but we just don't care anymore. In the last 75 years of modern movies you've produced a few hundred *really* good movies, and it really seems like the good times are behind us. You haven't captured our imagination in a long time.
So thats it, thanks. The long and short of it is, is we've given up on YOU, because YOU gave up on us a long time ago. Did you know most successful people don't have TV's or very rarely watch them? And btw, ben affleck, ben stiller, and adam sandler are incredible cocks who should never be in a movie again. thanks