I just meant to point out that the trailer *does* hint at new exposition of stuff that isn't directly written into the book. There is stuff to get excited about here, even if you've read the books a bazillion times.
Hear, Hear! Graphics really do matter a bit, but pale in comparison to gameplay. MULE is still the best PC game ever, and that was on C64/Atari/NES. They just don't make nonviolent *playable* *multiplayer* games anymore, at least for PC's. Mario Kart 64 was close, though.
...especially if programmers only followed it as closely as doctors do:
"I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion."
Moore's Law is for semiconductor chips, not all technology in general! Bandwidth is generally limited as in transmission line problems by the speed of electrical signals along a line, or in the fiberoptics case, the speed of light along the fiber. *These things don't scale*
The only scaling here is in infrastructure, i.e. more lines next to each other with a faster chip at the end processing all the data. This is expensive and does scale but at a slower rate than Moore's Law for performance and features (read: number of transistors) per cost (read: chip area).
None of these solutions discussed (i.e. remote desktops, thin clients, etc.) would have prevented the situation frenchgates presents, if the computer that needed to be fixed for a week were the one with the critical data on it (i.e. the one serving the remote access).
Hot pluggable RAID mirrors would. So would any other good backup option. Eventually I am sure there will be good alternate solutions, and VNC is a great piece of software, but it is for convenience and portability, not for divorcing oneself from the need to access any particular computer, as is mentioned! Back up your data/apps and take them with you.
I use GNOME at work on a Debian Woody box. I use the GNOME panel and sawfish, and most other GNOME apps. But I use neither GMC nor Nautilus, and I find that the system responds really fast, hogs less RAM, and I don't really miss the icons on the desktop that much.
So everyone, what am I missing here? How do you use these file managers in a way that I would benefit by reconsidering them?
I beg to differ.
I have a Compaq 420CT notebook (486 75MHz) with 20MB ram running Debian Woody just groovy. It has a WD video chipset which works great either as standard VGA (16 colors) or as SVGA (still 640x480 but with 256 colors). X is slow, of course and this article is right on as there's no way I would consider running GNOME or anything that new on it (though I did run Enlightenment DR13 before, and it was actually not too bad!).
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I would love to read the EULA for that one!
Agreed.
I just meant to point out that the trailer *does* hint at new exposition of stuff that isn't directly written into the book. There is stuff to get excited about here, even if you've read the books a bazillion times.
Ok, then...
Explain all the Elrond stuff. He is not in TTT (book) much as you might remember. A siege of Rivendell? That would be a big addition & change!
Hear, Hear! Graphics really do matter a bit, but pale in comparison to gameplay. MULE is still the best PC game ever, and that was on C64/Atari/NES. They just don't make nonviolent *playable* *multiplayer* games anymore, at least for PC's. Mario Kart 64 was close, though.
...especially if programmers only followed it as closely as doctors do:
"I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion."
Moore's Law is for semiconductor chips, not all technology in general! Bandwidth is generally limited as in transmission line problems by the speed of electrical signals along a line, or in the fiberoptics case, the speed of light along the fiber. *These things don't scale*
The only scaling here is in infrastructure, i.e. more lines next to each other with a faster chip at the end processing all the data. This is expensive and does scale but at a slower rate than Moore's Law for performance and features (read: number of transistors) per cost (read: chip area).
None of these solutions discussed (i.e. remote desktops, thin clients, etc.) would have prevented the situation frenchgates presents, if the computer that needed to be fixed for a week were the one with the critical data on it (i.e. the one serving the remote access). Hot pluggable RAID mirrors would. So would any other good backup option. Eventually I am sure there will be good alternate solutions, and VNC is a great piece of software, but it is for convenience and portability, not for divorcing oneself from the need to access any particular computer, as is mentioned! Back up your data/apps and take them with you.
I use GNOME at work on a Debian Woody box. I use the GNOME panel and sawfish, and most other GNOME apps. But I use neither GMC nor Nautilus, and I find that the system responds really fast, hogs less RAM, and I don't really miss the icons on the desktop that much. So everyone, what am I missing here? How do you use these file managers in a way that I would benefit by reconsidering them?
I beg to differ. I have a Compaq 420CT notebook (486 75MHz) with 20MB ram running Debian Woody just groovy. It has a WD video chipset which works great either as standard VGA (16 colors) or as SVGA (still 640x480 but with 256 colors). X is slow, of course and this article is right on as there's no way I would consider running GNOME or anything that new on it (though I did run Enlightenment DR13 before, and it was actually not too bad!).
Cool! Built in lightning rods, too?