why would I want to run the any of the 9x-based Windows? 95 is pretty aweful (compared to what is available now); both 98 and Me have a pretty bloated feel. Unfortunately, the article does not seem to mention any of the new Windows, XP and 2K, which are arguably the best and therefore most desireable. Does anyone know if 2000/XP can be run?
There is more to life than 24/7 parties, booze, football, TV...
Work to better yourself and you help to make the world a better place.
Maybe for you. Why must you insist that everyone have the same values and ambitions that you do? Belive it or not, some people enjoy those things you mentioned, whats wrong with that?
Moreover, some of these can better a person in the right circumstances:
football Professional players, coaches, sportscasters,... all have a personal need to watch/play/discuss/analyze football for hours on end.
booze Brewmasters, wine makers,...
I'm sure that much of the/. community spends large amounts of time using/buy/discussin/etc computers and technology in general (as this is a primary interst), so why is it wrong for someone with another interest to spend time on it? I don't see you complaining about people ignorantly thinking the only thing to life is technology.
I do agree however with you that ignorance is not beneficial to anyone...
Haven't you been watching any scifi movies in the past couple of decades? As I have, I can tell you that this is a very bad idea. Once the computers can do things we don't indend, the will either
1) attempt to destroy us
2) enslave us
3) sell us on ebay
we have seen time and time again that AI is pure evil and no good can come of it.
In reality programmers generally don't actually make use of computers from a percent of time CPU is utilized standpoint. For majority of programming time is spent view/edditing code and the CPU is essentially idle. True while compiling it goes to work, sometimes for hours or days, but it still takes far less time to compile any code than it does to write it.
There are people who do use their cycles.... mp3 rippin' fiends, the divx encoding type, researches, gammers and graphic artists (especially if you count in the video card's work). But for the lonely programmer the CPU is very much like a politician, doing little work most of the time.
oh how true, i have gained all my useful knowledge from/., on the other hand, not doing any homework and only reading/. will allow your resume/college app/... to be
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graphics and engineering apps yes... but word/excel? how would either of these benefit (much) from 64 bit? Unless your word doc or excel spreadsheet is 4 GB+, or microsoft decides to incorporate a 3-D modeling engine into them, 32-bit should be fine.
I would have a difficult time believing the results of any processing that I bartered to get. What types of garuntees would be given on the validity of the data? Since there is the offer of music for CPU cycles (unlike SETI were you only get satisfaction), it will only be a matter of time before people start faking the results to up the number of downloads they can have. It just seems fundamentally flawed to use other peoples cycles when basic workstations are so inexpensive.
In addition, this assumes that the processing can be parallelized, which is not always the case.
It wouldn't have to handle returns - have you ever tried to return a CD because you didn't like the way the songs sounded. as for bitrates, i'm pretty sure that it would be easy to display the bitrate prior to download - napster did this years ago so we could only take +160kbps files
The main feature missing from linux is an MS Office type clippy that provides insightful answers to all my questions - If this were built right into a window manager then linux would have it all:)
Do you really think any of the GTA games are about realistic game play? Seriously, how long would you be able to run around beating old women, stealing cars and breaking every traffic law under the sun?
Making games too realistic has the downside that they're too much like my real life (which is one of the reason I enjoy the non-realistic games).
How is MatLab considered "black box"? Tons of *.m files are included and cover almost every matlab function except for built in routines (i.e. FFT). In addition, most of MatLab's supplied routines fall in the catagory of utility functions. They simply provide you with a solid foundation to start your new research so that you don't have to waste you time reinventing the wheel. If anything MatLab is less black box than C/C++ as the code is more high-level and the source is generally available.
Very profound statement with out any proof or attempt to back it up. Maybe just this one time its the user causing the problem since I and many others have used windows update without too much trouble.
Its a pity we HAVE to have virus software and even its not good enough, you have to constantly update it.
We only have to continually update it since there are continually new threats. If there was a simple way to classify any file/attachment/etc as virus or non-virus then all threats would cease to exist - but in the real world we cannot since those who write/distribute the viruses are too stubborn to include a "virus identifier" in the viruses and there is currently no way to classify we must update to keep ontop of things.
so right, i can't even begin to think how many times i've seen and x-box and though - wow, everst.
i hardly think its fair to compare a mountain and a mod
your one word response is very true. The idea that there should be little to no configurability of a WM is insain. For this to be true there would have to be one _best_ way to have everything setup.
Is there a best way?
Either No: because if there was we wouldn't have KDE, GNOME, IceWM,... since everyone would be using the single _best_ one and the rest would cease to exist since even their developers wouldn't be using it
No: one of the existing WM would be best and all the others would copy it (since it is best for everyone afterall)
Yes: but we haven't found it yet - in which case being able to configure things keeps that search going.
Basically the idea that _all_ users will/should interact in the same way is a bad idea. The more configurable it is the better, as long as system performance doesn't suffer (too much - there has to be some tradeoff).
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or if point A is "living" and point B is "dead".
do we really need to travel this fast (on land), where is there to go?
Agreed, much like using Matlab (which incidentally requires a rudimentary understanding of matrix algebra) - its very fast if used correctly and yet painfully slow when used incorrectly. loops = bad, vectorization = good
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wouldn't it just leave you only able to send ~33million emails?
why would I want to run the any of the 9x-based Windows? 95 is pretty aweful (compared to what is available now); both 98 and Me have a pretty bloated feel. Unfortunately, the article does not seem to mention any of the new Windows, XP and 2K, which are arguably the best and therefore most desireable. Does anyone know if 2000/XP can be run?
just need to know asm (in either case)
Maybe for you. Why must you insist that everyone have the same values and ambitions that you do? Belive it or not, some people enjoy those things you mentioned, whats wrong with that?
Moreover, some of these can better a person in the right circumstances:
- football Professional players, coaches, sportscasters,... all have a personal need to watch/play/discuss/analyze football for hours on end.
- booze Brewmasters, wine makers,
...
I'm sure that much of theI do agree however with you that ignorance is not beneficial to anyone...
Haven't you been watching any scifi movies in the past couple of decades? As I have, I can tell you that this is a very bad idea. Once the computers can do things we don't indend, the will either
1) attempt to destroy us
2) enslave us
3) sell us on ebay
we have seen time and time again that AI is pure evil and no good can come of it.
not likely, remember that apple is a hardware company. Releasing an OS Xish distro for non-apple architecture would only hurt them.
There are people who do use their cycles.... mp3 rippin' fiends, the divx encoding type, researches, gammers and graphic artists (especially if you count in the video card's work). But for the lonely programmer the CPU is very much like a politician, doing little work most of the time.
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your confusing (and i'm not sure how) size [bytes] and launch speed [time].
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graphics and engineering apps yes... but word/excel? how would either of these benefit (much) from 64 bit? Unless your word doc or excel spreadsheet is 4 GB+, or microsoft decides to incorporate a 3-D modeling engine into them, 32-bit should be fine.
Actually you don't have to win the popular vote to win the electroal college, which determines the actual winner
In addition, this assumes that the processing can be parallelized, which is not always the case.
It wouldn't have to handle returns - have you ever tried to return a CD because you didn't like the way the songs sounded. as for bitrates, i'm pretty sure that it would be easy to display the bitrate prior to download - napster did this years ago so we could only take +160kbps files
As i'm sure many others noticed, this amazing formula neglects any movement of the wrist and shoulder.
The main feature missing from linux is an MS Office type clippy that provides insightful answers to all my questions - If this were built right into a window manager then linux would have it all :)
Do you really think any of the GTA games are about realistic game play? Seriously, how long would you be able to run around beating old women, stealing cars and breaking every traffic law under the sun?
Making games too realistic has the downside that they're too much like my real life (which is one of the reason I enjoy the non-realistic games).
How is MatLab considered "black box"? Tons of *.m files are included and cover almost every matlab function except for built in routines (i.e. FFT). In addition, most of MatLab's supplied routines fall in the catagory of utility functions. They simply provide you with a solid foundation to start your new research so that you don't have to waste you time reinventing the wheel. If anything MatLab is less black box than C/C++ as the code is more high-level and the source is generally available.
Very profound statement with out any proof or attempt to back it up. Maybe just this one time its the user causing the problem since I and many others have used windows update without too much trouble.
We only have to continually update it since there are continually new threats. If there was a simple way to classify any file/attachment/etc as virus or non-virus then all threats would cease to exist - but in the real world we cannot since those who write/distribute the viruses are too stubborn to include a "virus identifier" in the viruses and there is currently no way to classify we must update to keep ontop of things.
so right, i can't even begin to think how many times i've seen and x-box and though - wow, everst. i hardly think its fair to compare a mountain and a mod
your one word response is very true. The idea that there should be little to no configurability of a WM is insain. For this to be true there would have to be one _best_ way to have everything setup.
... since everyone would be using the single _best_ one and the rest would cease to exist since even their developers wouldn't be using it
Is there a best way?
Either
No: because if there was we wouldn't have KDE, GNOME, IceWM,
No: one of the existing WM would be best and all the others would copy it (since it is best for everyone afterall)
Yes: but we haven't found it yet - in which case being able to configure things keeps that search going.
Basically the idea that _all_ users will/should interact in the same way is a bad idea. The more configurable it is the better, as long as system performance doesn't suffer (too much - there has to be some tradeoff).
or if point A is "living" and point B is "dead".
do we really need to travel this fast (on land), where is there to go?
or red text on a blue background - talk about comfort.
Agreed, much like using Matlab (which incidentally requires a rudimentary understanding of matrix algebra) - its very fast if used correctly and yet painfully slow when used incorrectly. loops = bad, vectorization = good
It does sound familier - in fact is sounds like someone has watched the beginning of X-Men just a few too many times.