It's a be late to be modded up or down but anyway, here we go:
The CGI affects are good, they make most of the movie. Acting is wooden, Palpatine is the most enjoyable of them all until he shows his bad side which is mostly expressed by his bad teeth.
Chewbacca does the Tarzan cry and gets on top of a ship by swinging on a rope. We get three seconds of Jar-Jar at the end but he makes no sounds.
The movie was heavily helped by the 21 meter (yard) wide screen that made the graphics look spectacular. I can't really tell how it feels to see it on a smaller screen when you get to pay more attention to the actors.
We get all this discussions about the conflict between KHTML and Safari. AFAIK Safari runs only on OSX that only runs on a proprietary platform from the Apple company. No matter how beautiful that interface might be, for me and most of the planet it is insignificant. We all laught when Bill's demo crashes and Steve gets it right but afterwards most of us go and buy a PC.
I think right now in the browser area the most important issues are ignored: there is still very difficult to make any application in a browser as functional as a native application.
There is still time until Microsoft puts out their own solution for the FOS world to push forward something that would become widely accepted and eventually turn into a standard. Otherwise we will soon be stuck with whatever Microsoft throws at us. Be it good or bad we can surely guess that it will be in their tight control.
His file systems are not encrypted. Guess the swap file is not encrypted either. And he leaves the computers in the house when he goes out. And I bet his smart cards are not edible.
I know about the old Slashdot joke about BSD dying but I think Sun should release a distribution of Java for BSD. BSD's can make great servers and Java on that platform could open the way for many enterprise solutions.
the cheaper ones have the memory controlled by one processor and the other processor gets to the memory via the first one over hypertransfer e.g Tyan Tomcat, Tyan Tiger
the more expensive ones that give each processor its own memory (NUMA), eg Tyan Thunder
The cheap dual mobo will be easily beaten by the dual core as the communication between the two cores has been optimized by AMD.
With the expensive mobo things are not so simple. In theory the dual mobo should be better but this depends on how NUMA aware is the OS. AFAIK only the latest XP has this and some Linux kernels. If the OS is not NUMA aware the performance of the NUMA setup is not significantly better than the one with shared memory access. More information here
OTOH I would expect the dual cores to fit inside a dual processor motherboard and thus offer even more power.
Galileo learned what he did through study and could prove it.
Actually Galileo did base some of his argumentation on some episode in the Bible which he claimed fully demonstrated that the earth was round. The church asked him to stop using this as a scientific argument and to base his demonstration on real astronomical observations. Galileo refused and the trial ensued.
While truth cannot contradict truth the message of the Bible is one of a spiritual nature. The descriptions of the physical world simply reflect the common scientific knowledge of the time when the text was written. On the other hand while our technological knowledge has progressed a lot our human nature is still the same and the spiritual message is still actual.
You have a pope, prophets, apostles, cardinals, bishops and priests.
Don't forget all the various orders each one with it's specific rule (licence).
But maybe that's just me.
The general confusion comes from ESR's text, The Cathedral and the Bazaar. In there he compares the cathedral with closed source. But in reality most churches were built with donated money and were destined for the general use of the public. Most of the paintings in medieval cathedrals that you can still see today are contributed by various associations or individuals.
The bazaar on the other hand was, is and will always be about money.
Free software is nothing new or surprising for a catholic. You have a short life here on earth and you must do your best to contribute to god's creation.
Could somebody patent the act of patenting and put an end to this? Or patent the act of suing people for all possible future patents? I am sure that if things like the one in the story can be patented you should be able to work out a paradox and halt the system.
Most of you have probably experienced "DLL hell" at some point and will look with suspicion on something that has the potential of being a "plug-in hell."
I think we already passed the potential phase a long time ago. After a while you either give up installing the latest milestone or give up your added plugins.
None of these studies that compare non-free software to free software mentions anything about freedom.
We get long discussions about TCO and security and others but never about what we are allowed to do with the software.
The problem with freedom is that it's difficult to explain to people that never experienced it. As the old joke goes when the american explained to the russian that in the USA you can criticize the president as much as you like the russian replied: you can criticize the american president in Soviet Russia as well, there's no restrictions on that.
If people are stupid enough to pay money for something like this, maybe they deserve to loose their money.
Every single crook out there claims he is a honest man only collecting a tax on stupidity. That does not make him less of a crook, he's just a crook with a lame excuse.
But if we know of somebody being scammed and deliberately do not warn them that makes us crooks as well.
I don't think that supplying all your personal information to Big Brother is a good thing. I know that here people always cheer for Google and boo Microsoft but this is a scary future.
I am hoping that with the arrival of broadband we can get to run our own web, email and im servers and not rely on the ISP for anything more than the transport layer.
Google should only have access to information you want to be public and nothing more.
How would you feel if someone criticized stuff YOU made in a public forum
You can learn to appreciate that, just start a project at Sourceforge. After a year or so of regular releases you will be happy with any comments at all.
buying "Mac OS X for x86", running it on some homebuilt shitbox
There's no need to buy it, you can download BSD for free. Which does run on almost any x86 machine.
Quite likely the rest of the OSX code could be made to run on most modern graphic adapters but as it is not free code it would have to be rewritten.
I think the main reason why OSX will not run on x86 is because not many people care about it, not because it is hard to port. Windows and Linux are sufficient for almost everybody.
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The CGI affects are good, they make most of the movie. Acting is wooden, Palpatine is the most enjoyable of them all until he shows his bad side which is mostly expressed by his bad teeth.
Chewbacca does the Tarzan cry and gets on top of a ship by swinging on a rope. We get three seconds of Jar-Jar at the end but he makes no sounds.
The movie was heavily helped by the 21 meter (yard) wide screen that made the graphics look spectacular. I can't really tell how it feels to see it on a smaller screen when you get to pay more attention to the actors.
Oh hold on, this is not coming from the Cannes festival...
I think right now in the browser area the most important issues are ignored: there is still very difficult to make any application in a browser as functional as a native application.
There is still time until Microsoft puts out their own solution for the FOS world to push forward something that would become widely accepted and eventually turn into a standard. Otherwise we will soon be stuck with whatever Microsoft throws at us. Be it good or bad we can surely guess that it will be in their tight control.
When it rains almost every day you have the perfect excuse to stay indoors in front of the computer.
You southerners lost the war, live with it. And with that goes away the pretense that you can fight your government.
This is just an amateur paranoid.
I know this is offtopic but does anyone have any statistics about the geographical location of Slashdotters?
I know about the old Slashdot joke about BSD dying but I think Sun should release a distribution of Java for BSD. BSD's can make great servers and Java on that platform could open the way for many enterprise solutions.
Children.
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the cheaper ones have the memory controlled by one processor and the other processor gets to the memory via the first one over hypertransfer e.g Tyan Tomcat, Tyan Tiger
- the more expensive ones that give each processor its own memory (NUMA), eg Tyan Thunder
The cheap dual mobo will be easily beaten by the dual core as the communication between the two cores has been optimized by AMD.With the expensive mobo things are not so simple. In theory the dual mobo should be better but this depends on how NUMA aware is the OS. AFAIK only the latest XP has this and some Linux kernels. If the OS is not NUMA aware the performance of the NUMA setup is not significantly better than the one with shared memory access. More information here
OTOH I would expect the dual cores to fit inside a dual processor motherboard and thus offer even more power.
Actually Galileo did base some of his argumentation on some episode in the Bible which he claimed fully demonstrated that the earth was round. The church asked him to stop using this as a scientific argument and to base his demonstration on real astronomical observations. Galileo refused and the trial ensued.
While truth cannot contradict truth the message of the Bible is one of a spiritual nature. The descriptions of the physical world simply reflect the common scientific knowledge of the time when the text was written. On the other hand while our technological knowledge has progressed a lot our human nature is still the same and the spiritual message is still actual.
Because McDonalds and Coca-Cola were not invented yet.
Oh, you mean 15 foot tall?
Well, I'm sure this will be discussed in much more detail on Monday when the dupe will be posted.
Don't forget all the various orders each one with it's specific rule (licence).
But maybe that's just me.
The general confusion comes from ESR's text, The Cathedral and the Bazaar. In there he compares the cathedral with closed source. But in reality most churches were built with donated money and were destined for the general use of the public. Most of the paintings in medieval cathedrals that you can still see today are contributed by various associations or individuals.
The bazaar on the other hand was, is and will always be about money.
Free software is nothing new or surprising for a catholic. You have a short life here on earth and you must do your best to contribute to god's creation.
Could somebody patent the act of patenting and put an end to this? Or patent the act of suing people for all possible future patents? I am sure that if things like the one in the story can be patented you should be able to work out a paradox and halt the system.
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The original joke was about Microsoft airbags asking the user to validate.
Not true. FOSS people get together much better than competing companies. At least that's my conclusion from the last FOSDEM.
Most of you have probably experienced "DLL hell" at some point and will look with suspicion on something that has the potential of being a "plug-in hell."
I think we already passed the potential phase a long time ago. After a while you either give up installing the latest milestone or give up your added plugins.
We get long discussions about TCO and security and others but never about what we are allowed to do with the software.
The problem with freedom is that it's difficult to explain to people that never experienced it. As the old joke goes when the american explained to the russian that in the USA you can criticize the president as much as you like the russian replied: you can criticize the american president in Soviet Russia as well, there's no restrictions on that.
For a short second I thought that Duke Nukem Forever has been released.
Every single crook out there claims he is a honest man only collecting a tax on stupidity. That does not make him less of a crook, he's just a crook with a lame excuse.
But if we know of somebody being scammed and deliberately do not warn them that makes us crooks as well.
I am hoping that with the arrival of broadband we can get to run our own web, email and im servers and not rely on the ISP for anything more than the transport layer.
Google should only have access to information you want to be public and nothing more.
You can learn to appreciate that, just start a project at Sourceforge. After a year or so of regular releases you will be happy with any comments at all.
For those that did not RTFA:
For female readers of Slashdot:
There's no need to buy it, you can download BSD for free. Which does run on almost any x86 machine.
Quite likely the rest of the OSX code could be made to run on most modern graphic adapters but as it is not free code it would have to be rewritten.
I think the main reason why OSX will not run on x86 is because not many people care about it, not because it is hard to port. Windows and Linux are sufficient for almost everybody.