is it right to compare several systems of *COMLETELY* differing speeds???
perhaps a single/pair of 1.4GHz athlons against a single/pair of 1.4GHz intel chips maybe with a few thousand dollars' worth of xeon thrown in for a reasonable high-end comparason?
given a reasonable amount of RAM, i find 'make -jN' fastest, where 'N' = number of CPUs +1
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>Paying for software? Come on this is the Linux age. Software wants to be free.
>I have a personal policy, ignore software restrictions whenever I see them.
>GPL, who cares! MS EULA, who cares!
Unlike almost all GPL'd software, games contain a large amount of data as well program code. It is mainly for this that you are paying when you hand over your money at the counter.
I mean, a lot of games companies now are starting to realise that opening up the source code is a Good Thing, but what good is a game without maps/textures/models?
Have you seen the quality of home-coded GPL'd games? They just CAN'T compete with commercial games. They don't have the resources that a properly-funded commercial games house has at its disposal.
> Right now, the cost of an SSL certificate is one of the prices for
> doing business on the internet (in addition to bandwitdh costs),
and of course, what if i just want to run an encrypted web-based email system on my personal box? self-signing is hardly fun with browsers throwing up warnings every time you access it...
> but what would it take to start up another company that issues CAs,
> especially if you want to do it outside of the US?
I've got a question here... I know you can set up HTTPS services using a self-signed certificate if you don't mind browsers screaming at it. However, what if I were to use 2 of my own boxes to create a certificate? Although not "credible" enough for an ecommerce site, would it be fine for personal use?
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Don't forget that under an SMP-aware OS running SMP-optimised processes, 2 x 933MHz can be faster and is much cheaper than a single 1.5GHz chip...
> Considering that the police already have access to all of the footage, it's
> hardly going to change much for them to be able to access it on the move.
> Rather, it will enable them to respond more quickly to criminal acts,
> and hopefully mean they can be stopped quicker
Bullshit. I have a nice mark on my criminal record because the police in Wolverhampton couldn't be arsed to pull out a copy of the recording from in the middle of the city centre which proved that I didn't hit someone (to tell the truth I was so pissed I'd have fallen over trying!) before the court hearing.
Well, that's the version I'd LIKE to believe, but I was actually taken into custody by a policeman friend of the guy that beat me shitless which naturally leads me to other conclusions...
Does anyone else fail to see the point of this? I mean, on most LCD displays, even slowly dragging a window around the screen results in a hideous blur... What's the difference between a 10fps blur and a 50fps blur?
I'm not going to even bother going into the power demand and heat problem...
A "cheap pentium", definitely. Unless you need FPU performance, an ARM chip will whoop the ass of a similarly clocked x86. BUT you can pay under £40 for one of those - how much does the ARM cost, and is the LEG a freebie?;)
Unfortunately, for the price, ARM chips suck for use in workstations. They lack a decent FPU, they're slow, and hideously overpriced.
I'd rather pay (last month's prices) £75 for a celeron 533 than £more for a slower ARM chip.
However, they do come into their own in terms of power consumption, but putting one into an ATX case doesn't really seem to suggest that that's what you really bother about;)
Slashdot Mirror
Ahh, but I imagine the loved ones of anyone trapped in the rubble would be panic-stricken and trying to call their mobile a silly amount of times...
never thought i'd see slashdot slashdotted! :D
is it right to compare several systems of *COMLETELY* differing speeds???
perhaps a single/pair of 1.4GHz athlons against a single/pair of 1.4GHz intel chips maybe with a few thousand dollars' worth of xeon thrown in for a reasonable high-end comparason?
from the reviews i've seen so far, battery life isn't that swuperior to x86 machines....
given a reasonable amount of RAM, i find 'make -jN' fastest, where 'N' = number of CPUs +1
>Paying for software? Come on this is the Linux age. Software wants to be free.
>I have a personal policy, ignore software restrictions whenever I see them.
>GPL, who cares! MS EULA, who cares!
Unlike almost all GPL'd software, games contain a large amount of data as well program code. It is mainly for this that you are paying when you hand over your money at the counter.
I mean, a lot of games companies now are starting to realise that opening up the source code is a Good Thing, but what good is a game without maps/textures/models?
Have you seen the quality of home-coded GPL'd games? They just CAN'T compete with commercial games. They don't have the resources that a properly-funded commercial games house has at its disposal.
imho, you should pay money where money is due
> Right now, the cost of an SSL certificate is one of the prices for
> doing business on the internet (in addition to bandwitdh costs),
and of course, what if i just want to run an encrypted web-based email system on my personal box? self-signing is hardly fun with browsers throwing up warnings every time you access it...
> but what would it take to start up another company that issues CAs,
> especially if you want to do it outside of the US?
I've got a question here... I know you can set up HTTPS services using a self-signed certificate if you don't mind browsers screaming at it. However, what if I were to use 2 of my own boxes to create a certificate? Although not "credible" enough for an ecommerce site, would it be fine for personal use?
Don't forget that under an SMP-aware OS running SMP-optimised processes, 2 x 933MHz can be faster and is much cheaper than a single 1.5GHz chip...
> Considering that the police already have access to all of the footage, it's
> hardly going to change much for them to be able to access it on the move.
> Rather, it will enable them to respond more quickly to criminal acts,
> and hopefully mean they can be stopped quicker
Bullshit. I have a nice mark on my criminal record because the police in Wolverhampton couldn't be arsed to pull out a copy of the recording from in the middle of the city centre which proved that I didn't hit someone (to tell the truth I was so pissed I'd have fallen over trying!) before the court hearing.
Well, that's the version I'd LIKE to believe, but I was actually taken into custody by a policeman friend of the guy that beat me shitless which naturally leads me to other conclusions...
>if you're walking down a public street, you can expect to be seen by anyone. If you're on someone else's property, you can expect to be seen by them.
I expect to be able to scratch my balls when nobody's looking!!!!!
> But of course without a MHz figure, the customers won't know what to buy... :)
without a MHz figure, pc world/tiny/[insert your favourite box-shifter here] won't know what to sell at over-inflated prices...
Don't forget DHCP...
We've got some cheapo ones that have a standard VGA connector, but the better ones use some weird digital plug...
My main interaction with LCD screens (apart from my 266MHz laptop) has been on PIII-800 desktops with £2000 LCD panels and TNT2s.
;)
I wouldn't even bother trying to play anything with more animation than solitaire on it....
*shrug*
I'd like to be proven wrong... but until I see a £300 LCD screen running at 1600x1200 and playing a good game of Q3, I won't be impressed
Does anyone else fail to see the point of this? I mean, on most LCD displays, even slowly dragging a window around the screen results in a hideous blur... What's the difference between a 10fps blur and a 50fps blur?
I'm not going to even bother going into the power demand and heat problem...
actually I do recall somebody once making an entire arc (no hard drive) run from some 9v batteries...
The ARM chip used to be one of the fastest chips around. The Acorn Archimedes A300 when it was released was virtually a supercomputer.
The birth of the StrongARM once again put ARM into the performance tables, but sadly they've done bugger all since.
A "cheap pentium", definitely. Unless you need FPU performance, an ARM chip will whoop the ass of a similarly clocked x86. BUT you can pay under £40 for one of those - how much does the ARM cost, and is the LEG a freebie? ;)
Unfortunately, for the price, ARM chips suck for use in workstations. They lack a decent FPU, they're slow, and hideously overpriced.
;)
I'd rather pay (last month's prices) £75 for a celeron 533 than £more for a slower ARM chip.
However, they do come into their own in terms of power consumption, but putting one into an ATX case doesn't really seem to suggest that that's what you really bother about
except celerons are almost impossible to get hold of here in the uk at the moment unless you're willing to pay shed-loads :(
but does it cook the fish?
just tried to go to http://www.microsoft .com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/LinuxMyths.asp in ie5...
HTTP 500 - Internal server error
ROTFLMAO!