UT (and every other game out there right now) assigns itself (its processer affinity) to the first CPU available. It makes absolutely no use of SMP or parallel execution whatsoever.
So it'll run on CPU 0, and the other 90 bazillion will sit idle.
Interestingly enough, all the gamer kiddies saving up for a shiney new Prescott based P4 with hyper-threading will see no advantage either, for the same reason.
AFAIK, Doom III will actually make use of concurrently executing threads, and there's rumor of a new UT2k3 exe that will, as well.
Programming for parallel CPU's is a whole new ballgame, and the rules are still being written.
> As far as Apple's Switch ads are concerned, it's hard to believe they aren't real. The people get up there and state their name.
No way in hell you're going to convince me Tony Hawk is any more enthusiastic about Macs than he is about "Pizza Bagel-Bites". He's a compensated endorser, as is Kelly Slater. You can see they're trying to target the "young hip" demographic as usual.
And the she-male lawyer who has the 'little network of macs all sending files to each other'? Lawyers are trustworthy now?
Please, give me a break. Marketing is marketing.
Now instead of arguing about which OS/hardware setup we prefer, we're arguing over which bullshit commercials we like better.
If anyone inside Redmond is steamed, it would probably be because of the stock photo.
Sure, she probably was told to 'switch' to XP and write a story about it. But it's the fake picture that was the embarassment. If she used a real photo of herself, it would be dismissed as just another paid advertisement.
> How do we know that any of Apple's "switch" stories aren't simply made up?
Although I think this is all besides the point. I think the 'mistruth' that would piss off the upstairs would be the stock photo they used with the article, not the article itself. That's what left them with egg on their face.
But the stories on all sides are half-truths, basically. They compare Mac OSX to Windows 95/98, not to XP (or even 2000) which would be the fair comparison.
I mean you could compare Windows XP to MacOS 8 and see which one "just works". The only time I was forced to reboot XP was after the service pack install.
Noone's after the truth. Not MSFT nor Apple nor the linux or BSD crowds. They're all simply out to say "mine is better than yours".
And as for Ellen Feiss - yeah, we've all seen a Win98 box freeze or crash, and probably lost some data in the process.. But I've never seen one go BEEP BEEP BEEP or make anything that sounds like that gravelly noise from the back of your throat. (Except a dying hard drive, which AFAIK the almighty Apple is not immune from)
> linux costing more to maintain. bwahaha. in *what* environments???
In environments where noone knows linux, nor wants to be bothered to learn it.
You have your hobbiests/PC geeks on the low end. On the high end you have large companies with IT departments who can afford to pay good linux admins.
In the middle there are countless small to midsized businesses too small to justify a salary to maintain some computers, too big to do without them. This is Windows' stomping ground.
These are the places where Jimmy the shipping guy can double as the computer guy, because he's familiar enough with PCs to solve most problems. Tech support is there for the rest.
Thats the other 95% of the market linux cant touch yet. Thats where the focus needs to be if you want to really hurt microsoft.
IBM sees this, Red Hat sees this, even Microsoft sees this. It's just yer average local/. geek who cant take the blinders off long enough to see the real world.
Actually, for much of the HP-UX code we use where we work, it really was no easier nor harder to port to windows rather than linux.
If the code was written well in the first place, ie; not strapped down with a ton of platform specific stuff, it should be just as easy to port it to whatever you want.
"Easier" then gets decided by the learning curve the users, administrators and management face after the conversion. In our case, our customers wanted windows. Being a for-profit orginization, that's what we gave 'em.
I'm all for commodity hardware and open source software, but shoving our heads up our asses isn't the way to make it happen.
All that stuff about linux costing more to maintain in the long run is true in many environments.
And the only hoochie there was this drugged up kid who kept babbling on about how her term paper going "beep beep beep" even though it was "really good".
The other side of this is when you go to see a movie that you know is goofy fluffball crap, and have a blast with the rest of the jokers making sarcastic comments, getting into popcorn fights, etc, etc..
I don't remember anyone shushing me or my drunken friends at the last Austin Powers movie.
Sometimes the theatre is fun just because its the theater.
ADA 95 was supposed to address the problems I mentioned.
It didn't, at least not enough to save itself. And it's design goals were practically the same as Javas - one common OO-based language for all DoD projects.
It's a wonderful example of government over-engineering.
It was supposed to be an common language for all embedded applications, and it's design goals were object oriented design, orthagonality, and was to promote clear and reusable code. It was to undo the use of dozens of different languages for different tasks.
But the applications were so varied, ADA started being pumped full of hardware-specific and mostly redundant commands, and eventually became a complete bloated mess. So each device had it's own implementation of ADA, and there was barely enough common ground to call it all the same language.
It was supposed to be Java, and it ended up more complicated than the bastard child of FORTRAN and C++, abandoned and raised in the wild by a tribe of assemblers.
No, his point is that it'll preload the page the banner links to, which would look just like a click-thru to the advertising company.
So he gets his 0.005$ per click-through from every mozilla client that views his page, and you pay devote system resources and bandwidth on a link you never wanted to click.
While it could be a good feature, it should be disabled by default, and accessible through the UI.
- add a prefetch tag to the banner ads, making it look as though you'd clicked them.
- prefetch all those pop-up or pop-under ads, so you have a snowballs chance in hell of closing them faster than they can open. (Not all popups are bad - you shouldnt have to disable them completely)
- slashdot trolls embedding prefetch tags into their links to some site that I cant remember right now, something about goats.
There's lots of room for abuse, and it's enabled by default, and can't be easily shut off (easily as in through the UI - not every user is comfortable editting text files). If you think every webmaster can be 'trusted', you're naive.
If you run an intel processor, it systematically shuts down logic thats not in use (fpu, etc), and it has nothing to do with the OS. It will shut itself down, the equivalent of a halt, without the halt.
It just works. Not just as in "simply", just as in "barely".
It's a status symbol. It's worth more money because it costs more money so therefore less will have it. I know it defies logic, but there's a market for that.
How on earth Apple survived when Commodore died is life's greatest mystery.
Perfectly viewable? Maybe in "Links", but surely not in Lynx.
I was trying to grab some tarballs for the one non-gui machine I'm running.. And even the linux related sites are bloated with graphics and doodads. All of the download links would just show or . Sometimes you can decrypt what the file is from the URL, sometimes you cant.
So I had to browse to what I wanted with my wintel box, right click what I needed and "copy shortcut" (because of course they have to rewire the status bar so it wont show the URLs), paste it into a text file, then enter the entire URL into lynx. There are other ways, but that was the path of least resistance.
The console based web browser has gone the way of the dodo. I guess the world ran out of things to say with text, and can only communicate in flash animations and doodles now.
Slashdot Mirror
On the 1.8 clawhammer with software rendering?
About 10.
UT (and every other game out there right now) assigns itself (its processer affinity) to the first CPU available. It makes absolutely no use of SMP or parallel execution whatsoever.
So it'll run on CPU 0, and the other 90 bazillion will sit idle.
Interestingly enough, all the gamer kiddies saving up for a shiney new Prescott based P4 with hyper-threading will see no advantage either, for the same reason.
AFAIK, Doom III will actually make use of concurrently executing threads, and there's rumor of a new UT2k3 exe that will, as well.
Programming for parallel CPU's is a whole new ballgame, and the rules are still being written.
They do (or did) come in those big plastic DVD cases - which are still 2 bucks apiece last time I saw empty ones on the shelves.
I liberated the cases from everyone I knew to stick used (and homeless) ps2/xbox/gamecube games in.
There he is in the photo, between the two transmitter thingies.
Does his thunderbolt attack provide the jiggawatts of power needed?
Can we hit 100Gbps if he evolves into Raichu?
Or, most importantly, will this technology help me catch 'em all?
Maybe she spilled her bong on the keyboard?
And if that was the case, are they trying to tell me that the moving parts (fans, keyboards, harddrives) in a Mac are impervious to failure?
Dear god! That would be dishonest advertising!
> As far as Apple's Switch ads are concerned, it's hard to believe they aren't real. The people get up there and state their name.
No way in hell you're going to convince me Tony Hawk is any more enthusiastic about Macs than he is about "Pizza Bagel-Bites". He's a compensated endorser, as is Kelly Slater. You can see they're trying to target the "young hip" demographic as usual.
And the she-male lawyer who has the 'little network of macs all sending files to each other'? Lawyers are trustworthy now?
Please, give me a break. Marketing is marketing.
Now instead of arguing about which OS/hardware setup we prefer, we're arguing over which bullshit commercials we like better.
"Macs rock because they gots 3r337 c0mm3rc14lz!"
Sheesh.
If anyone inside Redmond is steamed, it would probably be because of the stock photo.
Sure, she probably was told to 'switch' to XP and write a story about it. But it's the fake picture that was the embarassment. If she used a real photo of herself, it would be dismissed as just another paid advertisement.
> How do we know that any of Apple's "switch" stories aren't simply made up?
Although I think this is all besides the point. I think the 'mistruth' that would piss off the upstairs would be the stock photo they used with the article, not the article itself. That's what left them with egg on their face.
But the stories on all sides are half-truths, basically. They compare Mac OSX to Windows 95/98, not to XP (or even 2000) which would be the fair comparison.
I mean you could compare Windows XP to MacOS 8 and see which one "just works". The only time I was forced to reboot XP was after the service pack install.
Noone's after the truth. Not MSFT nor Apple nor the linux or BSD crowds. They're all simply out to say "mine is better than yours".
And as for Ellen Feiss - yeah, we've all seen a Win98 box freeze or crash, and probably lost some data in the process.. But I've never seen one go BEEP BEEP BEEP or make anything that sounds like that gravelly noise from the back of your throat. (Except a dying hard drive, which AFAIK the almighty Apple is not immune from)
Meh. Who even cares anymore?
> linux costing more to maintain. bwahaha. in *what* environments???
/. geek who cant take the blinders off long enough to see the real world.
In environments where noone knows linux, nor wants to be bothered to learn it.
You have your hobbiests/PC geeks on the low end. On the high end you have large companies with IT departments who can afford to pay good linux admins.
In the middle there are countless small to midsized businesses too small to justify a salary to maintain some computers, too big to do without them. This is Windows' stomping ground.
These are the places where Jimmy the shipping guy can double as the computer guy, because he's familiar enough with PCs to solve most problems. Tech support is there for the rest.
Thats the other 95% of the market linux cant touch yet. Thats where the focus needs to be if you want to really hurt microsoft.
IBM sees this, Red Hat sees this, even Microsoft sees this. It's just yer average local
> Lol, what apps are easier from Unix to Windows?
Spoken by a true "IT guy" (and not a coder).
Actually, for much of the HP-UX code we use where we work, it really was no easier nor harder to port to windows rather than linux.
If the code was written well in the first place, ie; not strapped down with a ton of platform specific stuff, it should be just as easy to port it to whatever you want.
"Easier" then gets decided by the learning curve the users, administrators and management face after the conversion. In our case, our customers wanted windows. Being a for-profit orginization, that's what we gave 'em.
I'm all for commodity hardware and open source software, but shoving our heads up our asses isn't the way to make it happen.
All that stuff about linux costing more to maintain in the long run is true in many environments.
"... and then my computer was like beep beep beep and I was waist deep in a Nigerian money-laundering scheme!"
(Ellen Feiss parodies are destined to replace underpants gnome business plans.. Do not resist)
One of our gateway boxes is terribly insecure, and gets these pretty much every day now.
It's usually selling "diplomas from prestigious non-accredited Universities, based on work experience. No testing or coursework required"
I guess not locking down the box, they just assume we'd be stupid enough to fall for it.
Every once in awhile I'll do a
"NET SEND * ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US"
Noone here has a clue what it means or where it came from.
I thought it was a pimp convention!
Boy, was I was wrong.
And the only hoochie there was this drugged up kid who kept babbling on about how her term paper going "beep beep beep" even though it was "really good".
The other side of this is when you go to see a movie that you know is goofy fluffball crap, and have a blast with the rest of the jokers making sarcastic comments, getting into popcorn fights, etc, etc..
I don't remember anyone shushing me or my drunken friends at the last Austin Powers movie.
Sometimes the theatre is fun just because its the theater.
80s?
They said the same about TV in the 40s.
If only there was some kind of law to force us to pay 12$ a seat to see the next craptastic Austin Powers flick.
ADA 95 was supposed to address the problems I mentioned.
It didn't, at least not enough to save itself. And it's design goals were practically the same as Javas - one common OO-based language for all DoD projects.
It's a wonderful example of government over-engineering.
Are you kidding? ADA was an utter failure.
It was supposed to be an common language for all embedded applications, and it's design goals were object oriented design, orthagonality, and was to promote clear and reusable code. It was to undo the use of dozens of different languages for different tasks.
But the applications were so varied, ADA started being pumped full of hardware-specific and mostly redundant commands, and eventually became a complete bloated mess. So each device had it's own implementation of ADA, and there was barely enough common ground to call it all the same language.
It was supposed to be Java, and it ended up more complicated than the bastard child of FORTRAN and C++, abandoned and raised in the wild by a tribe of assemblers.
No, his point is that it'll preload the page the banner links to, which would look just like a click-thru to the advertising company.
So he gets his 0.005$ per click-through from every mozilla client that views his page, and you pay devote system resources and bandwidth on a link you never wanted to click.
While it could be a good feature, it should be disabled by default, and accessible through the UI.
Hmm.. How about web designers that:
- add a prefetch tag to the banner ads, making it look as though you'd clicked them.
- prefetch all those pop-up or pop-under ads, so you have a snowballs chance in hell of closing them faster than they can open. (Not all popups are bad - you shouldnt have to disable them completely)
- slashdot trolls embedding prefetch tags into their links to some site that I cant remember right now, something about goats.
There's lots of room for abuse, and it's enabled by default, and can't be easily shut off (easily as in through the UI - not every user is comfortable editting text files). If you think every webmaster can be 'trusted', you're naive.
Black holes radiate heat? I never heard this.
How? I'm genuinely curious.
> Linux ran at about 78F degrees. Windows ran at about 92F degrees. Same tasks for both.
Same tasks? Pray tell, which tasks? vi vs. MS Word? 78F CPU temp is awful freakin cold. Was linux running in an IGLOO?
You're comparing a linux CLI to Windows with a full GUI, and getting heat of the video card, extra proc time devoted to rendering.
Compare the heat generated in the Q3 timedemo on both, and see if there's a difference with the CPU under a full load. There won't be.
Bah to cooked benchmarks.
Also, I've never seen a CPU vary that much from full idle to a full load.
Either A) Your friend misapplied the ASIII and heatsink, B) Your friend is a liar, or C) You made this shit up knowing a MS slam would get you karma.
If you run an intel processor, it systematically shuts down logic thats not in use (fpu, etc), and it has nothing to do with the OS. It will shut itself down, the equivalent of a halt, without the halt.
Only the Athlons need the archaic halt command.
Nice troll, though.
Check out this hack!
I put a PC card in my Windows laptop!
(That's just to highlight the true idiocy of this story)
Though, most missed the one point here: You can get equal or better results without pissing away 4x the cash on the "Jobs Approved" model.
Frankly, I agree.
Hence Apple's tagline:
It just works.
Not just as in "simply", just as in "barely".
It's a status symbol. It's worth more money because it costs more money so therefore less will have it. I know it defies logic, but there's a market for that.
How on earth Apple survived when Commodore died is life's greatest mystery.
Perfectly viewable? Maybe in "Links", but surely not in Lynx.
I was trying to grab some tarballs for the one non-gui machine I'm running.. And even the linux related sites are bloated with graphics and doodads. All of the download links would just show or . Sometimes you can decrypt what the file is from the URL, sometimes you cant.
So I had to browse to what I wanted with my wintel box, right click what I needed and "copy shortcut" (because of course they have to rewire the status bar so it wont show the URLs), paste it into a text file, then enter the entire URL into lynx. There are other ways, but that was the path of least resistance.
The console based web browser has gone the way of the dodo. I guess the world ran out of things to say with text, and can only communicate in flash animations and doodles now.
OK, OK, my bad - I'd been confused into thinking screens was an x based thingy.
Thank y'all, now mod me down, I didn't want this stinkin karma in the first place.