For geeks writting OSS this is absolutely harmless... in fact i can see this being a good thing. If they're the only company allowed to use super cookies and have auto-censorship then the world is a better place:D
This really isn't news. It must be that time of the year when a new bill is being introduced. As a shocking rebuttle I could come out and say they're loosing 10 billion a year from puting out crap like pluto nash and some other films i've never seen and can't remember.
Cost of gaming is a big one! Back in the day games could be had for a fraction of the $80 dollar super titles out nowadays. Then there's the hideous expense of the console or computer itself.
While i cannot yet bench that much I do enjoy long runs, weightlifting, hockey, and just about any other sport. I don't train as heavy as i used to for hockey now that i'm engineering student, but i do train to stay healthy, happy, and for fun. Don't eat fast food either unless i have to.
I totally agree with you about how people in general are disgustingly unhealthy. There are "10" kinds of people in this world, those who live a healthy lifestyle and those who will have heart disease and other serious issues.
GCC and the Binutils and BSD's and all the rest have been around since the days of windows. The linux kernel itself is around the age of the NT kernel. Gnome is pretty young but the stable base is quite old. As you can see they're very mature and powerful and used everywhere. Even macos uses gcc, darwin, and the bsd utils. The solaris servers even have gcc. Embedded systems often use gcc.
Huge difference between a library and a web browser. In a normal operating system (read: every other one out there) the libraries (renderer) and the application (web browser) are entirely seperate entities.
I think SQL-Lite is a horrible idea. I would have loved for Firefox to use Xbel for the bookmarks format just as konqueror and others. It's a simple, standard, xml file format for bookmarks. Would make my job of synchronization much easier.
The win32 frameworks don't mesh well with any other systems' development model.
Or even mesh well with themselves. Windows programming is a nightmare! MFC = crap. Winapi = crap. And WinForms while more usable = crap because its extremely incomplete.
FYI: The first user on the machine (the one who installed it) has administrative access. If you add a user later you can check/uncheck that privelage while you're creating the user (or after obviously).
Of course its nothing more than a press release but there are numerous questions it raises:
1) What limitations are there on calculations. A GPU is not as general as a cpu and it would probably suck when dealing with branches especially when they aren't independant.
2) How much faster could this actually be. Is it simply a matter of looking to the future? (ie: we can already run with Aniso and AA and high resolutions so 5 years from now they'll be "overpowered"). IMO the next logical step is full fledged HDR and then more polygons.
3) What is exactly expected of these. General physics shouldn't be, but i can understand if they do small effects here or there.
KDE and Gnome have many applications making use of ruby, python, and mono. There are also many thousands of applications running on java. Bitorrent was in fact written in python. The underlying libraries are all done in c/c++. The graphical applications can be written in whatever makes the life of the developer easier without any "bloated" consequences. As is, almost all desktop applications (native or not) don't even come near taxing the CPU. They sit idly on various system queues and let the underlying libraries do the heavy lifting.
Best live.com! Why? It got past the loading stage. I'm glad they chose a light and simple interface. Speedy as hell even under a/.'ing. Maybe they don't index as much as google yet but the search itself seemed reasonable. Google really shines when it comes to finding obscure things.
... if they zone out [as detected by brainwave activity], the videogame doesn't respond any more' This is supposed to help the patient increase the ability to focus and concentrate."
Sounds like lag to me which is just a cruel joke. The best thing to help me concentrate is... hey look boobies! Maybe if there was a chick in the game who walked by and randomly flashed here and there... PROFIT!
While lots of it is polished and well done there are too many broken things.
Blam, liferea (crashes a lot), theme glitches (Expected), and tons of various other problems. I'm still finding issues esp on the amd64 branch.
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Send them to amsterdam's red light district. Maybe once they lose their virginity they will finally get a life!
I am truly amazed with this marvelous technology. Watching tv via cable!? Whoda thunk!
For geeks writting OSS this is absolutely harmless... in fact i can see this being a good thing. If they're the only company allowed to use super cookies and have auto-censorship then the world is a better place :D
This really isn't news. It must be that time of the year when a new bill is being introduced. As a shocking rebuttle I could come out and say they're loosing 10 billion a year from puting out crap like pluto nash and some other films i've never seen and can't remember.
Try doing any sort of VLSI on a windows machine. HA! Not gonna happen. Tons of engineering apps are still running on solaris/linux workstations.
Every journal and conference i know of has a latex template. I don't know anyone personally using anything else. Its insane!
Cost of gaming is a big one! Back in the day games could be had for a fraction of the $80 dollar super titles out nowadays. Then there's the hideous expense of the console or computer itself.
Tanenbaum is that you? I'm still afraid no one is listening!
While i cannot yet bench that much I do enjoy long runs, weightlifting, hockey, and just about any other sport. I don't train as heavy as i used to for hockey now that i'm engineering student, but i do train to stay healthy, happy, and for fun. Don't eat fast food either unless i have to.
I totally agree with you about how people in general are disgustingly unhealthy. There are "10" kinds of people in this world, those who live a healthy lifestyle and those who will have heart disease and other serious issues.
GCC and the Binutils and BSD's and all the rest have been around since the days of windows. The linux kernel itself is around the age of the NT kernel. Gnome is pretty young but the stable base is quite old. As you can see they're very mature and powerful and used everywhere. Even macos uses gcc, darwin, and the bsd utils. The solaris servers even have gcc. Embedded systems often use gcc.
The law was made during the cold war, a time of great secrecy itself. They were fighting a very well organized, highly trained, and intelligent foe.
Huge difference between a library and a web browser. In a normal operating system (read: every other one out there) the libraries (renderer) and the application (web browser) are entirely seperate entities.
I think SQL-Lite is a horrible idea. I would have loved for Firefox to use Xbel for the bookmarks format just as konqueror and others. It's a simple, standard, xml file format for bookmarks. Would make my job of synchronization much easier.
sudo -s dude! It's basically the same thing as su.
The win32 frameworks don't mesh well with any other systems' development model.
Or even mesh well with themselves. Windows programming is a nightmare! MFC = crap. Winapi = crap. And WinForms while more usable = crap because its extremely incomplete.
FYI: The first user on the machine (the one who installed it) has administrative access. If you add a user later you can check/uncheck that privelage while you're creating the user (or after obviously).
Of course its nothing more than a press release but there are numerous questions it raises:
1) What limitations are there on calculations. A GPU is not as general as a cpu and it would probably suck when dealing with branches especially when they aren't independant.
2) How much faster could this actually be. Is it simply a matter of looking to the future? (ie: we can already run with Aniso and AA and high resolutions so 5 years from now they'll be "overpowered"). IMO the next logical step is full fledged HDR and then more polygons.
3) What is exactly expected of these. General physics shouldn't be, but i can understand if they do small effects here or there.
For some reason as I was reading i imagined User had an australian accent.
I can't believe you forgot carbon nanotubes! Those little fuckers will be used for everything from buildings to circuits.
KDE and Gnome have many applications making use of ruby, python, and mono. There are also many thousands of applications running on java. Bitorrent was in fact written in python. The underlying libraries are all done in c/c++. The graphical applications can be written in whatever makes the life of the developer easier without any "bloated" consequences. As is, almost all desktop applications (native or not) don't even come near taxing the CPU. They sit idly on various system queues and let the underlying libraries do the heavy lifting.
Try to get your software published in a journal and get it out to conferences. I've seen it work with a project in the lab i work in.
Best live.com! Why? It got past the loading stage. I'm glad they chose a light and simple interface. Speedy as hell even under a /.'ing. Maybe they don't index as much as google yet but the search itself seemed reasonable. Google really shines when it comes to finding obscure things.
... if they zone out [as detected by brainwave activity], the videogame doesn't respond any more' This is supposed to help the patient increase the ability to focus and concentrate."
Sounds like lag to me which is just a cruel joke. The best thing to help me concentrate is... hey look boobies! Maybe if there was a chick in the game who walked by and randomly flashed here and there... PROFIT!
While lots of it is polished and well done there are too many broken things. Blam, liferea (crashes a lot), theme glitches (Expected), and tons of various other problems. I'm still finding issues esp on the amd64 branch.