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I quite agree. I don't use windows at all at home, and wood gladly but a linux game. For this reason I even paid thru the nose for the linux box version of Q3 instead of buying the cheaper windows version and downloading. I wanted to give them some way of knowing it was worth their while producing the linux port, which it is harder to do if everyone buys the windows version..
You are mistaken. It's Windows Media that does that. And anyway, this is a subjective test - what matters is what people say sounds better. You could also say the test was flwad cos they only chose people who liked listening to music with tin cans on their ears - it just wouldn't matter!
In the USA we are busy trying to censor Napster,Kazaa and programs that are peer to peer.
In theory, yes. However only in theory. The difference lies in what is considered illegal. File sharing is considered illegal in the USA because it infringes the rights of the person who created what you are sharing, and does so in all circumstances except where that person has given explicit right to redistribute (think GPL), whether that person be a large multinational (Microsoft) or some poor bloke coding in his basement. The US government has a duty to protect the interests of the copyright holders, in exactly the same way that it has a duty to protect the right to share files that are meant to be shared, for example GPLed code, or BSD license code. They are not trying to stop you sharing, they are trying to stop you sharing what you are not supposed to share. The fact that people may consider that the US government exercises the protection unfairly is a different matter, but you at least have the right to say so.
In China free speech is considered illegal because it might harm the governing few. Think this is unfair? Tough. Say this is unfair? Go to jail.
I'll agree that things don't always happen as planned, but if peer to peer networks never got their hands dirty sharing things that people didn't have the right to share, they would never ever have attracted the wrath of the RIAA and MPAA, or at least not in such a way. Back in the days, anonymous FTP sites never interested anyone because 99% of what was on them was "free" anyway. The reason that p2p networks are targeted is simply because 99% of what is "shared" on them shouldn't be.
I'd agree with almost all of what you say. iSCSI for a number of reasons isn't going to be what you boot your OS from (notably as you say it moves reliability problems to the network, and we all know how well they work:) ).
However the point about them not being bootable is rather moot, i feel. For many of the reasons you yourself mention, iSCSI right now ain't gonna be what you put your system on, it's mass shared data storage, it's prone to network problems etc etc. Most servers are going to load their system from local disks and then, and only then, access the data on the iSCSI.
Just to put a bit of perspective on the 'not bootable' and 'not reliable' and 'disk before net storage driver' comments.
Nor have I ever understood the difference between a "Storage Area Network" and a "pre-packaged Novell file server with all permissons set to RWX", except that the SAN is priced 10 times higher!
I suspect that is because you don't know what a SAN is.
Seeing as OSX is NeXTStep, he isn't contradicting himself at all.
Lest we forget how anal a NeXT fan can be..;-)
I guess if MacOSX is the future in the way that NeXT was, we can expect they'll do nothing with it for 10 years sell it on for a huge lump of cash and it'll still be the future...
We have a saying - MacOS is the future, and will always remain so:-)
MacOS the Future? Steve Jobs? Is that you? Great to see you again Steve... I haven't spoken to you since, err, well when you were saying much the same thing about NeXT:-D
In my experiencing, Warp 4 runs better in low memory systems (less than 64MB) than Linux + X does. I have a 40MB laptop that runs OS/2 great but Linux won't install on it.
Out of interest, what linux distros have you tried? 40Mb is more than enough for most, except the heavier eye-candy ones (RH, SuSE and MDK spring to mind). A little slackware or debian should run just great with 40Mb.
I use a Sony DSC-P1 with a memory stick with no problems under Linux, just hook it up and mount it as a DOS disk.
Is there a point I have missed concerning your hatred of memory sticks?
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He's thinking of RA1D - redundant array of 1 disk:-D
But then where would my poor mpec4 joke be? :-)
...you can put opec out of business.
:-)
And create mpec. or even mpec4
In a bid to silence the many critics of Slashdot's poor editorial team, the decision has been made to radically alter the editorial style of the articles. So, hyperlinks in the featured stories will now not only be underlined, as per usual with links, and italic, but will also be bold .
That'll shut 'em up.
People of faith have been mocked for centuries
:-)
And you were counting on Slashdot to stop the rot?
Most of them need to look up dictionary in a bookshop first;-)
I quite agree. I don't use windows at all at home, and wood gladly but a linux game. For this reason I even paid thru the nose for the linux box version of Q3 instead of buying the cheaper windows version and downloading. I wanted to give them some way of knowing it was worth their while producing the linux port, which it is harder to do if everyone buys the windows version..
You are mistaken. It's Windows Media that does that. And anyway, this is a subjective test - what matters is what people say sounds better. You could also say the test was flwad cos they only chose people who liked listening to music with tin cans on their ears - it just wouldn't matter!
The reasons can be endless - deafness (as you said), screaming children, cheap hifi (or worse the 5 dollar speakers for computers)....
:)
Anyone who has their computer linked to a less than cheesy hifi knew this already... Story is -1 redundant? :)
In the USA we are busy trying to censor Napster,Kazaa and programs that are peer to peer.
In theory, yes. However only in theory. The difference lies in what is considered illegal. File sharing is considered illegal in the USA because it infringes the rights of the person who created what you are sharing, and does so in all circumstances except where that person has given explicit right to redistribute (think GPL), whether that person be a large multinational (Microsoft) or some poor bloke coding in his basement. The US government has a duty to protect the interests of the copyright holders, in exactly the same way that it has a duty to protect the right to share files that are meant to be shared, for example GPLed code, or BSD license code. They are not trying to stop you sharing, they are trying to stop you sharing what you are not supposed to share. The fact that people may consider that the US government exercises the protection unfairly is a different matter, but you at least have the right to say so.
In China free speech is considered illegal because it might harm the governing few. Think this is unfair? Tough. Say this is unfair? Go to jail.
I'll agree that things don't always happen as planned, but if peer to peer networks never got their hands dirty sharing things that people didn't have the right to share, they would never ever have attracted the wrath of the RIAA and MPAA, or at least not in such a way. Back in the days, anonymous FTP sites never interested anyone because 99% of what was on them was "free" anyway. The reason that p2p networks are targeted is simply because 99% of what is "shared" on them shouldn't be.
Duh, free, except for bandwidth costs is reasonable.
Grr. It's not up to you how they distribute it, that is my point.
And worry about == and = if you want but until the the "three bar equal sign" is on my keyboard, I'm gonna do what i want.
No it isn't. Go and read the GPL. This really gets me... people thinking GPL==free downloads on the net.
Maybe you know ehat I've done wrong.
:-)
Easy this one. You put BeOS on it...
You suspect wrong, dude. I have been cutting through marketroid speak for more than 20 years.
:-)
That's great - but do you not think you might have cut a little too far?
I'd agree with almost all of what you say. iSCSI for a number of reasons isn't going to be what you boot your OS from (notably as you say it moves reliability problems to the network, and we all know how well they work:) ).
However the point about them not being bootable is rather moot, i feel. For many of the reasons you yourself mention, iSCSI right now ain't gonna be what you put your system on, it's mass shared data storage, it's prone to network problems etc etc. Most servers are going to load their system from local disks and then, and only then, access the data on the iSCSI.
Just to put a bit of perspective on the 'not bootable' and 'not reliable' and 'disk before net storage driver' comments.
Nor have I ever understood the difference between a "Storage Area Network" and a "pre-packaged Novell file server with all permissons set to RWX", except that the SAN is priced 10 times higher!
I suspect that is because you don't know what a SAN is.
Seeing as OSX is NeXTStep, he isn't contradicting himself at all. ;-)
:-)
Lest we forget how anal a NeXT fan can be..
I guess if MacOSX is the future in the way that NeXT was, we can expect they'll do nothing with it for 10 years sell it on for a huge lump of cash and it'll still be the future...
We have a saying - MacOS is the future, and will always remain so
Of course, as they say, MacOS on anything else would just be OS :-)
MacOS the Future? Steve Jobs? Is that you? Great to see you again Steve... I haven't spoken to you since, err, well when you were saying much the same thing about NeXT :-D
Damn me not to use preview - 1 5uXor5. skr1p7, 1 m3n7.
u r3411y r 1337, u s|r1p7 1n C++ :-)
In my experiencing, Warp 4 runs better in low memory systems (less than 64MB) than Linux + X does. I have a 40MB laptop that runs OS/2 great but Linux won't install on it.
Out of interest, what linux distros have you tried? 40Mb is more than enough for most, except the heavier eye-candy ones (RH, SuSE and MDK spring to mind). A little slackware or debian should run just great with 40Mb.
I use a Sony DSC-P1 with a memory stick with no problems under Linux, just hook it up and mount it as a DOS disk. Is there a point I have missed concerning your hatred of memory sticks?
doghty at school used to tell us his dad had a 2 wheel drive motorbike. Your not doghty are you???
This could be a good place to start your research...