A couple of points, IE is not just bundled with windows, it has been made part of the OS, thus when a hole is found in IE, it is a hole in the OS. Secondly if your main problem with Firefox is that you are getting popups, as opposed to the routine discovery of root access exploits with IE then your laughing.
Okay heres the kicker, I don't need it. My nvidia cards work wonderfully well under Linux (better FPS running UT2004 under FC2 than Win2k) and my other boxes either run win2000 or command line linux.
By the way, those performance benchmarks you pointed out are at least two years old, they might want to update them if they want to push this technology.
I have no idea what "Scitech is doing" as before now I have never heard of them. From a brief glimpse at the link in your sig, they are adding another step between a command being issued by the user and it being acted on by the OS.
So called "unified" driver schemes such as this, can never match, nor exceed a well written native driver for an OS. A native driver does not suffer from the penalty of having a middle man manage the calls between itself and the OS/hardware, and this is going to be the same problem with software and any middle man layer, just look at wine or Java or Mono.
So what you want is a layer above the OS but below the apps, designed by a comittee of competing OS producers that allows all apps to work on all OS's? And all of this without any sort of speed/grunt hit when doing the translations between the app/layer/OS?
I guess in a perfect world this might be possible but in the real world its not going to happen.
Interest Rates fell because just before Howard was elected the world economy picked up, and Keating had instituted most of the economic policies Howard likes to claim as his own. Just remember Australias highest Interest rates weren't under Keating in the early nineties, they were under Howard in the early eighties.
Government Spending through blatant bribes is up yes. It has gotten to the point where they don't even try to hide the fact that the so called "Family Payments" are anything but a bribe.
As for the trade deficits, Howard and co bashed Keating over the head with the "Banana Republic" comments back when the deficit was no where near as bad as it is today, but suddenly having a massive trade deficit is a sign of a healthy economy, not a signal that things might be starting to overheat.
For most Australians, so long as their home loans don't go up (whoops John, Reserve Bank managed to let that one go didn't they), they don't really care about issues such as due process or concepts such as International co-operation. They have been conditioned to accept what the government says because if they didn't then Interest rates might rise and nasty people who want to stop government funding of private schools at the expense of state schools might get into government.
The only reason Howard got in to government the first time, was because the Australian people were sick of Keatings arrogance and blamed him for the "Recession we had to have", not because they felt that Howard was some sort of Messiah. The fact he has been continually reelected can be put down to two things, an ineffectual opposition (the Labor party has pretty much self destructed) and Howards ability to play the lowest common denominator.
What data did they steal, and how is this going to monetarily affect the school?
As far as I can tell, all that was accessed was the potential students Application Result letter, so the student knew whether he/she had been rejected or not.
Sheesh a little bit of perspective might be in order here.
So what you are saying is that a volunteer effort to build software should bow down to their new Hardware Building Overlords and completely change the way they have been successfully doing things for the past god knows how long?
Yeah this will work, especially considering the linux kernel is being used more and more by hardware manufacturers to build their new whiz bang toys.
Heres a little clue for the hard of thinking, "Choice good, lead to innovation in pursuit of customer, Monopoly bad, lead to Windows ME".
As a fellow australian, I agree, there is much about Australia that makes it "Gods own", but lately I have noticed a creeping feeling of americanisation, and not the good stuff like a bill of rights. Instead we get American style lawsuites where peoples stupidity can earn them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
2. Get sentenced to 7 years in a place where the seasons were the wrong way round, you were thousands of miles from England and the guards were the dregs of the British army.
Australia was only a paradise island for a little while, now we're becoming Mini-US.
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A couple of points, IE is not just bundled with windows, it has been made part of the OS, thus when a hole is found in IE, it is a hole in the OS. Secondly if your main problem with Firefox is that you are getting popups, as opposed to the routine discovery of root access exploits with IE then your laughing.
IE is a huge collection of cludges and hacks tied directly into the OS.
Firefox and Mozilla have had the benefit of learning from the copious mistakes of both Microsoft and the old Netscape browsers.
As opposed to
[Thick Australian Accent] Fosters, Australian for sheeps piss we sell to the Yanks
[/Thick Australian Accent]
Sorry wouldn't that be:
MS to devolopers, developers, developers! Developers, developers, developers!
Dance monkey boy dance!
Okay I read the review, and I couldn't help but feel the guy writing the review is either a budding art critic, or an interior decorator.
Also I wonder how many people go to rubbermagazine.com and are a little disappointed when they get there.
Damn you mean I am meant to take things on face value, judge a book by its cover and believe the hype?
So thats what I have been doing wrong all this time.
The last time I played D&D we didn't need no stinking miniatures, just some paper, dice and a shit load of caffinated beverages.
Imagination is a wonderful thing.
Okay heres the kicker, I don't need it. My nvidia cards work wonderfully well under Linux (better FPS running UT2004 under FC2 than Win2k) and my other boxes either run win2000 or command line linux.
By the way, those performance benchmarks you pointed out are at least two years old, they might want to update them if they want to push this technology.
As I said before, a unified driver scheme that relies on anything but native system calls is not going to have the same sort of performance.
If you can show me an independant report saying that their scheme works as well as a native driver then sure I will admit it works.
However until then Im sorry but Im going to stick with that I know.
Way to refute his argument with well thought out reasoning and intelligent remarks, dude.
You thoroughly rule dude </sarcasm>
I have no idea what "Scitech is doing" as before now I have never heard of them. From a brief glimpse at the link in your sig, they are adding another step between a command being issued by the user and it being acted on by the OS.
So called "unified" driver schemes such as this, can never match, nor exceed a well written native driver for an OS. A native driver does not suffer from the penalty of having a middle man manage the calls between itself and the OS/hardware, and this is going to be the same problem with software and any middle man layer, just look at wine or Java or Mono.
So what you want is a layer above the OS but below the apps, designed by a comittee of competing OS producers that allows all apps to work on all OS's? And all of this without any sort of speed/grunt hit when doing the translations between the app/layer/OS?
I guess in a perfect world this might be possible but in the real world its not going to happen.
- Interest Rates fell because just before Howard was elected the world economy picked up, and Keating had instituted most of the economic policies Howard likes to claim as his own. Just remember Australias highest Interest rates weren't under Keating in the early nineties, they were under Howard in the early eighties.
- Government Spending through blatant bribes is up yes. It has gotten to the point where they don't even try to hide the fact that the so called "Family Payments" are anything but a bribe.
- As for the trade deficits, Howard and co bashed Keating over the head with the "Banana Republic" comments back when the deficit was no where near as bad as it is today, but suddenly having a massive trade deficit is a sign of a healthy economy, not a signal that things might be starting to overheat.
- For most Australians, so long as their home loans don't go up (whoops John, Reserve Bank managed to let that one go didn't they), they don't really care about issues such as due process or concepts such as International co-operation. They have been conditioned to accept what the government says because if they didn't then Interest rates might rise and nasty people who want to stop government funding of private schools at the expense of state schools might get into government.
The only reason Howard got in to government the first time, was because the Australian people were sick of Keatings arrogance and blamed him for the "Recession we had to have", not because they felt that Howard was some sort of Messiah. The fact he has been continually reelected can be put down to two things, an ineffectual opposition (the Labor party has pretty much self destructed) and Howards ability to play the lowest common denominator.Damn and me without mod points.
Ah well heres a couple of zen mod points +2 Zing
What data did they steal, and how is this going to monetarily affect the school?
As far as I can tell, all that was accessed was the potential students Application Result letter, so the student knew whether he/she had been rejected or not.
Sheesh a little bit of perspective might be in order here.
Damn and me without my mod points
Im sorry I thought it was going to be a story about somebody infringing or potentially infringing my rights online, obviously I was mistaken.
So what you are saying is that a volunteer effort to build software should bow down to their new Hardware Building Overlords and completely change the way they have been successfully doing things for the past god knows how long?
Yeah this will work, especially considering the linux kernel is being used more and more by hardware manufacturers to build their new whiz bang toys.
Heres a little clue for the hard of thinking, "Choice good, lead to innovation in pursuit of customer, Monopoly bad, lead to Windows ME".
Try saying that in Wales and see how long it takes before someone pops you one.
My grandfather is welsh and the only reason he doesn't know any welsh is because of a campaign by the poms to eradicate the language.
Like it or not, Welsh is the native tongue, English is an import brought in during the conquests.
As a fellow australian, I agree, there is much about Australia that makes it "Gods own", but lately I have noticed a creeping feeling of americanisation, and not the good stuff like a bill of rights. Instead we get American style lawsuites where peoples stupidity can earn them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Shouldn't be,April in Canberra is still very early Autumn.
Mind you if it is we can always put the dunk tank on the top of the parliament house and let all the hot air warm the water.
More likely
1. Steal a loaf of bread
2. Get sentenced to 7 years in a place where the seasons were the wrong way round, you were thousands of miles from England and the guards were the dregs of the British army.
Australia was only a paradise island for a little while, now we're becoming Mini-US.
Nice, sorry about the post but I get tired of seeing threads that basically run like a couple of six year olds.
There was also the one where Marvin kidnaps Bugs and makes him a plaything for his alien Sasquatch thing.
Best quote: "I shall love him, and pet him and I shall call him George"
Whoa way to refute his statement with well thought out arguments and examples dude !