It's a bit of an odd buy, considering nVidia's chipsets contributed so much toward the rise of the Athlon and are still (afaik) the lead in performance chipset-wise. But I guess if they merge their teams (or at least make them consult eachother a lot) we could see some perf improvements.
I wouldn't mind seeing a mini-gpu inside of the CPU dedicated to massive vector ops - it would certainly blow the pants off SSE2 for larger datasets (video/sound codecs?). Of course stuff can already use the GPU but I bet plain CPU instructions would make it a lot simpler!
So the long and short of it is that it is not obvious that threads are faster than independent processes. In fact if you really want to scale, processes are likely to be faster.
I'm not arguing on threads or processes, I don't care about that. Just that 2 threads will be more performant than 200 threads on a 2 cpu machine. And apparently modern production web daemons agree with me.
If you're going to be serving more than a few connections at a time, it's easy for threads to eat monstrous amounts of resources. It's better if you can handle network connections via a single thread.
I disagree. While using a single thread per connection is definately a retarded way to go, making I/O operations asynchronous and handling callbacks via a thread pool is definately the fastest and most efficient way to build a scalable daemon today. And once you get used to the idea, it is even much easier than using select()/poll()-based approaches. (disclaimer: I have no experience doing this in Linux)
If anyone is interested I have been slowly piecing together a library to make this easier for Windows developers.
PHP is relatively fast, simple, syntactically straightforward, and easy to work with. This makes it a good choice for a variety of web applications, though obviously not always the best choice. For some of us, getting the job done is more important than feeling like an elite hax0r.
If you only ever have one machine, good for you. If you don't need to have plans to maintain your code, doubly good for you!
But porting PHP apps across developers or machines with even slightly different versions or configurations is a PITA that developers *should not have to deal with*. The spaghetti code that PHP seems to encourage in a lot of people just isn't worth the pain, and almost any developer who's done serious non-web programming will tell you that. It's not about being elite, it's about knowing how immature of a language PHP is. PHP is good for simple pages, but other sites should seriously move to something else until the framework matures a lot.
Needles do suck, but so do drills. I know the sound and vibration are psychological disasters for a lot of people.
I recently had some weird issue and my dad (a dentist) used a laser instead of a drill. While you still need topical or local anaesthetic, there is no vibration or high pitched screeches - just a fast clicking noise. Another plus is you can have gum burnt away with a laser instead of watching a scalpel go into your mouth (and the pain afterward of waiting for cuts to heal).
Apparently for many things it is just as effective or better than a drill. I wonder how this plasma needle compares.
Don't forget about the P-P-P-Powerbook. The very active forum member who gave the scammer the fake powerbook suddenly disappeared not to long after the website was made.
Not to mention that IPv6 and fiber can be completely unrelated. The reports seem to assume that the fiber is needed for IPv6 and couldn't be used for IPv4.
AFAIK you can't get sued for patent abuse if you only release the source code - at least, this seems to be the consensus with a lot of MP3 libraries. So maybe distros like Gentoo will get the last laugh after all.
I hope they apply a strong hash - I certainly wouldn't want to be the victim of a collision. Which also makes me wonder - though some hashes havn't been broken yet they likely will be in the future - does this mean pedos will get off scott free because it might have just been a collision?
I never get it - people bitch that consumer pcs are way too overpowered for the average joe. So Microsoft uses all that extra power to better the user experience and people switch to bitching about that! Vista certainly uses more resources, but it puts them to good use.
The stuff you mentioned is pretty nice, but my favorite new feature (beyond the 3D interface) is the automatic per-connection tcp optimizations that try to get you good transfer rates at any latency. Now if only they'd un-retard TransmitFile() so that we could get top efficiency in the ever-increasing number of P2P apps.
The nagging sudo dialogs in the current betas will be worked out I'm sure. The only thing I don't like about Vista is the snakeoil mandatory x64 driver signing. I wonder if whoever's idea that was realises that any malicious person can get a cert (just have to pay, what, $200?) and users will *never* check who signs stuff. More likely they will think it takes care of security for them and that anything signed is good.
you wrote complex svg drawings in a simple xml editor? got a screen shot of this masterpiece?
Nope. I wrote simple svg in an xml editor and previewed it in Batik while writing. Why? Because Inkscape produced rather odd and bloated code that made it hard to understand just by reading the xml. Maybe this new version has better output, I havn't used it for a few months. I'm not expecting perfection, but for simple stuff it's reasonable to expect Inkscape (or anything else) to produce readable output.
you link to an MS app that can't output to SVG in an article about an application that is for greating SVG graphics? I've been on slashdot for 8 years, and I never truely believed in astroturfing until your post.
I mention a alternative I found better for vector graphics, and even caveated that it doesn't support SVG and that is what sucks about it. It's called "discussion". Feel free to bring your own alternatives and experiences to the table. But because I mention a Microsoft product in good light I must be trolling, right? FYI, Expression was a Creature House product. MS only recently acquired it.
I tried Inkscape but was ultimately disappointed at the SVG it produced, and went for writing mine in a simple xml editor.
I've found Expression Graphic Designer to be pretty awesome, though it doesn't produce SVG so its usefulness stops after making exportable graphics and stuff to stick in XAML.
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Quake is 10
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My first 3d accel card was a Diamond Voodoo Banshee. Top of the line card, for $150. Playing GLQuake with it was incredible.
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Quake is 10
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Yup, back with Doom the serial cable was god! The endless co-op games of Doom and Quake were awesome - no matter how many times you'd gone though the game, it was still fun if you had a buddy plastering baddies guts next to you. That ended with Quake, though. Quake 2's co-op felt somehow lacking.
I wish ID would go back to their roots and stop making these single player tech demos:(
The single-player was fun, but the real accomplishment of Quake is bringing in the era of deathmatch.
And it's still alive and.. well.. ok, so it's just twitching. I got this game the week it came out (wow, I was 10yo then) and havn't stopped playing since. Connect to oc9.org with your QuakeWorld client for some fun:)
It's the arcade-ish physics meant to run on 10 year old cpus that differenciates the game from modern ones, and actually makes the game more fun to play. Your skill in multiplayer depends a lot on mastering the physics that will let you go 10x your normal speed if you let it (there is no spoon!). Be sure to check out QdQwav if you havn't already seen it.
I'll bite. I think most people agree copyright infringment is wrong and should be delt with somehow.
What they don't agree with is the *AA treating all their customers like criminals with (sometimes really nasty) copy protection that the real criminals know how to get past anyway.
Or the *AA creating ridiculous numbers and blaming all losses (even stuff thats not a real loss, like them missing their target growth) on copyright infringment, regardless of how crappy a product is.
Ot them using mafia tactics of "I don't have much proof and might not win in court, but I'll drown you in legal fees if you don't pay $3000 for something we think you did."
Steam is a good *optional* idea. Easy, automatic upgrades are nice. Being able to download the game to any vacation PC so long as I have my login is great!
What sucks is knowing the game probably won't run in 10 or 15 years time when I want to trigger some nostalgia, due to Steam going under or simply losing interest in supporting older games and not offering the download anymore.
People cam/telesync/telecine the movie, and finally a dvd ripped version comes along later. This happens to every movie, why is this news. Even if this was unique to DaVinci Code, this doesn't belong on the front page of/.
When can I get this in my optical mouse? I'll surely p4wn all those 13yos!
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Creative Sues Apple
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Not very surprising. Will probably be modded flamebait, but..
Creative is used to having a hold on their market and killing off competition (ie, SoundStorm) by buying out companies or technologies they depend on. The result is them making sub-quality products and incremental upgrades that are *just* good enough for people to bother, and selling them for top dollar. And then shafting the customer with bad support on all but their latest product line.
So I can see why they don't know how to play fair and compete. They don't know how to handle Apple any other way.
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It's a bit of an odd buy, considering nVidia's chipsets contributed so much toward the rise of the Athlon and are still (afaik) the lead in performance chipset-wise. But I guess if they merge their teams (or at least make them consult eachother a lot) we could see some perf improvements.
I wouldn't mind seeing a mini-gpu inside of the CPU dedicated to massive vector ops - it would certainly blow the pants off SSE2 for larger datasets (video/sound codecs?). Of course stuff can already use the GPU but I bet plain CPU instructions would make it a lot simpler!
Windows has had correct async support for sockets, files, and pipes ever since winnt. Pipes are usually the method of choice for IPC.
This is not about how cheap threads/forking is. It's about how much context switches you want to waste when you shouldn't be.
I disagree. While using a single thread per connection is definately a retarded way to go, making I/O operations asynchronous and handling callbacks via a thread pool is definately the fastest and most efficient way to build a scalable daemon today. And once you get used to the idea, it is even much easier than using select()/poll()-based approaches. (disclaimer: I have no experience doing this in Linux)
If anyone is interested I have been slowly piecing together a library to make this easier for Windows developers.
Pick your poison: antlions or Shai-Hulud.
If you only ever have one machine, good for you. If you don't need to have plans to maintain your code, doubly good for you!
But porting PHP apps across developers or machines with even slightly different versions or configurations is a PITA that developers *should not have to deal with*. The spaghetti code that PHP seems to encourage in a lot of people just isn't worth the pain, and almost any developer who's done serious non-web programming will tell you that. It's not about being elite, it's about knowing how immature of a language PHP is. PHP is good for simple pages, but other sites should seriously move to something else until the framework matures a lot.
I must have wasted a lot of time going through UO dungeons with friends. That game was fun.
Their late attempts at 3d have been laughable at best, and they rarely give any new gameplay. Hopefully they can make it great again.
Needles do suck, but so do drills. I know the sound and vibration are psychological disasters for a lot of people.
I recently had some weird issue and my dad (a dentist) used a laser instead of a drill. While you still need topical or local anaesthetic, there is no vibration or high pitched screeches - just a fast clicking noise. Another plus is you can have gum burnt away with a laser instead of watching a scalpel go into your mouth (and the pain afterward of waiting for cuts to heal).
Apparently for many things it is just as effective or better than a drill. I wonder how this plasma needle compares.
Don't forget about the P-P-P-Powerbook. The very active forum member who gave the scammer the fake powerbook suddenly disappeared not to long after the website was made.
Not to mention that IPv6 and fiber can be completely unrelated. The reports seem to assume that the fiber is needed for IPv6 and couldn't be used for IPv4.
AFAIK you can't get sued for patent abuse if you only release the source code - at least, this seems to be the consensus with a lot of MP3 libraries. So maybe distros like Gentoo will get the last laugh after all.
I hope they apply a strong hash - I certainly wouldn't want to be the victim of a collision. Which also makes me wonder - though some hashes havn't been broken yet they likely will be in the future - does this mean pedos will get off scott free because it might have just been a collision?
I never get it - people bitch that consumer pcs are way too overpowered for the average joe. So Microsoft uses all that extra power to better the user experience and people switch to bitching about that! Vista certainly uses more resources, but it puts them to good use.
The stuff you mentioned is pretty nice, but my favorite new feature (beyond the 3D interface) is the automatic per-connection tcp optimizations that try to get you good transfer rates at any latency. Now if only they'd un-retard TransmitFile() so that we could get top efficiency in the ever-increasing number of P2P apps.
The nagging sudo dialogs in the current betas will be worked out I'm sure. The only thing I don't like about Vista is the snakeoil mandatory x64 driver signing. I wonder if whoever's idea that was realises that any malicious person can get a cert (just have to pay, what, $200?) and users will *never* check who signs stuff. More likely they will think it takes care of security for them and that anything signed is good.
Nope. I wrote simple svg in an xml editor and previewed it in Batik while writing. Why? Because Inkscape produced rather odd and bloated code that made it hard to understand just by reading the xml. Maybe this new version has better output, I havn't used it for a few months. I'm not expecting perfection, but for simple stuff it's reasonable to expect Inkscape (or anything else) to produce readable output.
I mention a alternative I found better for vector graphics, and even caveated that it doesn't support SVG and that is what sucks about it. It's called "discussion". Feel free to bring your own alternatives and experiences to the table. But because I mention a Microsoft product in good light I must be trolling, right? FYI, Expression was a Creature House product. MS only recently acquired it.
I tried Inkscape but was ultimately disappointed at the SVG it produced, and went for writing mine in a simple xml editor.
I've found Expression Graphic Designer to be pretty awesome, though it doesn't produce SVG so its usefulness stops after making exportable graphics and stuff to stick in XAML.
My first 3d accel card was a Diamond Voodoo Banshee. Top of the line card, for $150. Playing GLQuake with it was incredible.
Yup, back with Doom the serial cable was god! The endless co-op games of Doom and Quake were awesome - no matter how many times you'd gone though the game, it was still fun if you had a buddy plastering baddies guts next to you. That ended with Quake, though. Quake 2's co-op felt somehow lacking.
:(
I wish ID would go back to their roots and stop making these single player tech demos
The single-player was fun, but the real accomplishment of Quake is bringing in the era of deathmatch.
And it's still alive and.. well.. ok, so it's just twitching. I got this game the week it came out (wow, I was 10yo then) and havn't stopped playing since. Connect to oc9.org with your QuakeWorld client for some fun :)
It's the arcade-ish physics meant to run on 10 year old cpus that differenciates the game from modern ones, and actually makes the game more fun to play. Your skill in multiplayer depends a lot on mastering the physics that will let you go 10x your normal speed if you let it (there is no spoon!). Be sure to check out QdQwav if you havn't already seen it.
I'll bite. I think most people agree copyright infringment is wrong and should be delt with somehow.
What they don't agree with is the *AA treating all their customers like criminals with (sometimes really nasty) copy protection that the real criminals know how to get past anyway.
Or the *AA creating ridiculous numbers and blaming all losses (even stuff thats not a real loss, like them missing their target growth) on copyright infringment, regardless of how crappy a product is.
Ot them using mafia tactics of "I don't have much proof and might not win in court, but I'll drown you in legal fees if you don't pay $3000 for something we think you did."
Steam is a good *optional* idea. Easy, automatic upgrades are nice. Being able to download the game to any vacation PC so long as I have my login is great!
What sucks is knowing the game probably won't run in 10 or 15 years time when I want to trigger some nostalgia, due to Steam going under or simply losing interest in supporting older games and not offering the download anymore.
People cam/telesync/telecine the movie, and finally a dvd ripped version comes along later. This happens to every movie, why is this news. Even if this was unique to DaVinci Code, this doesn't belong on the front page of /.
So what happens to all the bits of glass and palladium after it releases its hydrogen load?
Obviously, it gets recycled into Aero Glass and Trusted Computing.
When can I get this in my optical mouse? I'll surely p4wn all those 13yos!
Not very surprising. Will probably be modded flamebait, but..
Creative is used to having a hold on their market and killing off competition (ie, SoundStorm) by buying out companies or technologies they depend on. The result is them making sub-quality products and incremental upgrades that are *just* good enough for people to bother, and selling them for top dollar. And then shafting the customer with bad support on all but their latest product line.
So I can see why they don't know how to play fair and compete. They don't know how to handle Apple any other way.