You obviously don't know anything about modern Unix systems. Directories have not been sequential lists in a LONG time. Get your head out of the sand. B-trees and lots of other data structures have been used before Mr Bill started working on DOS!
Well, I can't speak for Unix but most people on linux use ext2/3 even though others are available (but not as widely supported). My vote for "coolest" linux filesystem is reiserfs. The plugin system for V4 may lead to developments rivaling MS's next-gen (longhorn) filesystem.
I know, but my point is that alchemy still (800 years later) isn't desirable or economically viable. I know we *could* make a settlement on the moon, but why and at what cost?
I don't really want to pony up for a moon base, do you?
What's with all these music services tied to specific players? What a stupid idea. I'll never buy music in a format for which there are only a few manufacturers. I rather buy and rip CD's (as stupid and inefficient as that is in this networked era.)
Whether it's Dell's official policy or a direct consequence of their official policies, what's the difference? I'd rather buy from somebody with good service than somebody who has "good service" written in some official policy somewhere, and ignores it.
I don't see how breaking Apple's DRM weakens his case. Stopping his activities would be tantamount to agreeing that they're illegal. Self-sensorship due to bullying is almost as bad as losing outright. You don't see Microsoft halting shipments of Windows just because the DOJ accuses them of violating antitrust law. Instead they stood and fought.
Can a play a photorealistic video game on a computer that's small, cheap, and runs cool? No. How about fast realtime encoding of a high-definition video stream? Again, no. Wake me up when processors don't need improvement. I'll believe it when I see it.
It's not a big stretch for them to feel releasing driver code is a risk, as anyone who gets it from them could easily use it to operate outside of spec.
It's no different than selling cars that can exceed the speed limit. My compliance with FCC regulations is not Intel's concern.
Mostly agreed, but IMHO the Compact Disc is the best audio format that ever was, or ever will be, in the forseeable future: an unencrypted audio channel for each ear, with as much fidelity as humans can percieve.
The DVD was never close to comparable - single channel, highly compressed and encrypted video with only enough resolution to cover a little bit of your visual field. The DVD is NOT the "final format" for video in the way that CD is for audio.
If I asked you to "save me a seat," would I be implying that all the seats were about to be destroyed? To most people I think "saving the planet" just means keeping the air and water clean etc. so we can live here comfortably.
Sure there are a few kooks advocating human extinction so the planet can live for its own sake but nobody is listening to them.
hy was DeCSS developed for Linux? Because there was nothing else available to do the job. In case anybody has been living in a cave for the past..... well, however long it was..... here's the background.
I have my own little DeCSS story from just last night. My brother (living in another state) called because he couldn't play a DVD on his computer. He had the software on Windows to play it, but it would bomb out and refuse to play because the TV-Out on the card was enabled. Huh? Where is it written you can't use a computer to play DVDs to a television? But he just wanted to watch on the computer, so he hunted around and we couldn't find any option to disable the TV out. (He has an integrated video card; I doubt if it even has a TV out connector anyways).
Fortunately as an apprentice computer nerd he already had an installation of Linux. I suggested he avoid all the BS by installing mplayer, which he did, and it worked. My relatives visiting at his place were mighty impressed.
I also use DeCSS-derived products to copy movies to my laptop hard drive, so I can put an extra battery in the drive bay, and save on the power and noise of the DVD-Rom when flying.
I think this is neat. They are apparently releasing the map data itself, not just the pretty pictures. This means that the map is usable for research. There are lots of things you could look at, from average network distance between nodes to routing redundancy and who knows what else. Since it's open source, maybe others can come along and improve it, perhaps associating the nodes with geographical location.
I suppose diebold is to blame, but what about our government? Why are our tax dollars going towards a product that is all wrong for the application?
The govt. should contract to have the voting software written, so it is govt. owned and open source. I don't want my tax dollars wasted pumping up Diebold from now until the rest of eternity, and more importantly I want vote integrity - not just actual integrity, but also public confidence. They should form an oversight committe for this voting software contract. Reputable scientists from academia and industry would come out of the woodwork to join the committee and help insure votes are counted right.
A script kiddie might still attack you because he's just a brute forcer. Anybody with brains won't trust your server's self-identification... so who are we fooling here?
Here's a link which addresses that (although I don't think most Christians would agree that keeping the Sabbath is no longer a commandment... unless you count the fact that most of us keep it on Sunday rather than Saturday as it used to be).
Yes, God forbid that a company that produces classy software like Qt should ever make any money whatsoever from it. However, when you compare Gnome to Qt you realise just how bloody awful free software can be.
Hmm, I think you're comparing to the wrong thing. You can get the whole MS developer studio for less than $2000 and you don't pay any royalties for the widgets.
Actually I believe the advantage Suns brings to hardware is in a lot of thoroughput. That's partially why they can offer slow CPUs. Their main market is servers which aren't typically CPU bound as much as I/O bound.
"We didn't want a fast CPU anyhow!" how's that for sour grapes? If CPU speed didn't matter in SUNs business, they wouldn't offer their servers with so many CPUs. Maybe a small handful for redundancy, but not 106 processors! The fact is SUN *can't* offer slow CPUs... not unless they're happy losing money. There just isn't room for more than 2 or 3 high-end processor manufacturers, and SUN isn't one of them.
I like having my own email server at home because I can make up a different email address each time I give one out - any email address I want, since it's at my own domain. This is the key to my spam filtering.
As for maintainence, there isn't any. I set up exim two or three years ago and have hardly touched it since.
Uh, yes it does, if you're talking about running the *same* chip design at 40% higher clock (as in this case). It's not like shrinking chip somehow makes it use more cycles per instruction.
Sure, the overall system performance won't improve by 40% without 40% faster RAM, HDD, etc... but you did say "processor speed."
The "Megahertz Myth" is itself becoming a myth, as people use it to dismiss huge differences in clock speed. None of the mainstream architectures differ by all THAT much (as much as say, a factor of 2) in cycles per instruction, except maybe for vector processors on certain very specific tasks.
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I don't really want to pony up for a moon base, do you?
How do you nkow powered flight is the right analogy, and not alchemy?
What's with all these music services tied to specific players? What a stupid idea. I'll never buy music in a format for which there are only a few manufacturers. I rather buy and rip CD's (as stupid and inefficient as that is in this networked era.)
Whether it's Dell's official policy or a direct consequence of their official policies, what's the difference? I'd rather buy from somebody with good service than somebody who has "good service" written in some official policy somewhere, and ignores it.
I don't see how breaking Apple's DRM weakens his case. Stopping his activities would be tantamount to agreeing that they're illegal. Self-sensorship due to bullying is almost as bad as losing outright. You don't see Microsoft halting shipments of Windows just because the DOJ accuses them of violating antitrust law. Instead they stood and fought.
Can a play a photorealistic video game on a computer that's small, cheap, and runs cool? No. How about fast realtime encoding of a high-definition video stream? Again, no. Wake me up when processors don't need improvement. I'll believe it when I see it.
The DVD was never close to comparable - single channel, highly compressed and encrypted video with only enough resolution to cover a little bit of your visual field. The DVD is NOT the "final format" for video in the way that CD is for audio.
If I asked you to "save me a seat," would I be implying that all the seats were about to be destroyed? To most people I think "saving the planet" just means keeping the air and water clean etc. so we can live here comfortably.
Sure there are a few kooks advocating human extinction so the planet can live for its own sake but nobody is listening to them.
Fortunately as an apprentice computer nerd he already had an installation of Linux. I suggested he avoid all the BS by installing mplayer, which he did, and it worked. My relatives visiting at his place were mighty impressed.
I also use DeCSS-derived products to copy movies to my laptop hard drive, so I can put an extra battery in the drive bay, and save on the power and noise of the DVD-Rom when flying.
I think DeCSS is great.
I think this is neat. They are apparently releasing the map data itself, not just the pretty pictures. This means that the map is usable for research. There are lots of things you could look at, from average network distance between nodes to routing redundancy and who knows what else. Since it's open source, maybe others can come along and improve it, perhaps associating the nodes with geographical location.
The govt. should contract to have the voting software written, so it is govt. owned and open source. I don't want my tax dollars wasted pumping up Diebold from now until the rest of eternity, and more importantly I want vote integrity - not just actual integrity, but also public confidence. They should form an oversight committe for this voting software contract. Reputable scientists from academia and industry would come out of the woodwork to join the committee and help insure votes are counted right.
A script kiddie might still attack you because he's just a brute forcer. Anybody with brains won't trust your server's self-identification... so who are we fooling here?
Here's a link which addresses that (although I don't think most Christians would agree that keeping the Sabbath is no longer a commandment... unless you count the fact that most of us keep it on Sunday rather than Saturday as it used to be).
Most of the rules you cite are from the "Law of Moses," which according to the New Testament was fulfilled by Jesus Christ and is no longer in effect.
Every product on earth that costs money has that "guarantee." Are you really saying nobody sells junk?
As for maintainence, there isn't any. I set up exim two or three years ago and have hardly touched it since.
Good. I'm right handed and I'd rather have something optimized for me.
"then someone will come up with a list of all the idiotic things that have been said so far"
Sure, the overall system performance won't improve by 40% without 40% faster RAM, HDD, etc... but you did say "processor speed."
The "Megahertz Myth" is itself becoming a myth, as people use it to dismiss huge differences in clock speed. None of the mainstream architectures differ by all THAT much (as much as say, a factor of 2) in cycles per instruction, except maybe for vector processors on certain very specific tasks.