Its not just performance. SDL's 2D video is a bit too simplistic for its own good. Doing simple things in Direct X isn't easy, but it makes doing hard things doable. That makes it mediocre. Win32, on the other hand, is bad because it makes easy things hard and hard things (layout management!) even harder. POSIX is sweet because it makes easy things easy and hard things tractable.
POSIX rocks. It does in 130 API calls what Win32 does in hundreds more. Its actually one of the most sanely designed "standards" ever implemented. The only decent API Microsoft has ever designed was DirectX, and even that was just mediocre as far as these things go.
If you take a look at the KDE framework, it does enforce a level of UI consistency. Everything is standardized, from configurable toolbars to button sizes, standard layout managers, etc. KDE apps in general are written at a higher level of abstraction than, say, Win32 apps.
The lack of polish in KDE comes not from things looking different, but some poor layout and menu choices on the part of apps. The framework can't do anything about people putting 14 items in a context menu. This is the aspect the KDE people are working on right now, and 3.2 is a major improvement on this. Now that the bulk of the core technology has been built (KDE's architecture won't be fundementally changed in 4.x) its this sort of polish work that will be done.
The Darwin kernel is pure nastiness. Its a kludge-job that they had to do to get over the fundemental performance issues of Mach without changing anything major in the architecture. So you end up with BSD fused to Mach in a schizo "dual kernel" setup.
apt-get install mplayer. (or, if you're so inclined, yum install mplayer or urpmi mplayer). Betcha I can do it faster than Windows user can even get the Windows Update site to load!
A teenager is not a child. He is a teenager, something wholly distinct from either a child or an adult. And the 5 and 8 numbers are entirely arbitrary. In the past, teenagers became men (or women) at 15 or 16, and there is no reason to believe that their maturation process has slowed since then.
As for adding to his burdens: developing one's moral foundation is a principle burden. It would be nice if one's parents could do all that work for a teenager, but they can't. The only thing they can do is provide support and guidance as the teenager works it out themselves.
You don't seem to understand. Its *his* job. Your parents can tell you what you should believe, but they can't tell you why you believe it. Faith isn't simply believing what others tell you to believe --- it has to come from inside.
Having studies the design of the NT kernel (though, I've never had access to the source) I can concur. The original design of the kernel *was* very clean. However, I don't know how much of it has stayed that way. Tons of stuff have been pushed into kernel mode, and stuff like DirectX have broken various abstractions in the kernel and the HAL. The seperation of the various non-kernel kernel-mode components (win32 server) has also gotten rather nebulous.
For one, computer will actually simulate every possible move to ensure there will be no mistaks. >>>>>>>>>>>> But they don't! That's the whole point of pruning! Deciding what parts of the search space not to simulate!
Its not so much a matter of computers doing things one way and humans doing things another way, but a matter of both being bound to the rules of computational theory. There is a large solution space, and both humans and computers have to decide what parts of the solution space to search and what parts to ignore. They have to do this, even if they do not do this in the same way. That's all that pruning the search space really means.
Now, just because you don't do it conciously doesn't mean you don't do it. Your brain does an incredible amount of processing behind your back. Think about visual processing or auditory processing. All of that goes on completely outside of your concious thought.
Let's make sure the foundation is properly shaped befores it has set and its too late...
I'm not saying that a religious foundation is the wrong shape (indeed, I'm not even an athiest myself). My point is that if he doesn't think about why he believes what he does, his faith is hollow.
No, it makes him a teenager. As in he still needs the support of his parents in certain situations, but should quickly be moving towards standing on his own.
Damn this is annoying. The price of this machine doesn't bear any relation to the real world.
First, yes, its cheaper than the competition. It also doesn't do as much. It doesn't use ECC memory, for example, which saves nearly $1M right off the bat. They make up for this by using clever software that checks for data integrity.
Also, this machine doesn't come supported by a company (like the LinuxWorx cluster was) and uses new interconnect technology from Mellanox that the other machines did not havae access to when they were built.
Yes, the G5 is a good deal, especially if you do like they did and get an educational discount ($300 per machine) and don't buy your RAM from Apple. However, that's only because the Opteron is still very overpriced. Once those prices come down, Apple will either have to keep pace, or be out-priced again.
A 13 year old is not a child. A 13 year old is a few precious years away from becoming an adult. Maybe if we developed in children a sense of personal responsibility at an earlier age, we wouldn't have all the problems we do know (smoking, drugs, sex) among people in their early teens.
How about thousands of years of humanity. >>>>>>>>>>> Thousands of years of humanity said that women were inferior to men. We've spent getting over that little issue.
You figured me out. I'm conservative. I value traditional values. Hurry, mod me down for being "close minded" and then kiss my ass. G >>>>>>>>>>> I'd love to. I'm sick of us liberals having to drag your asses kicking and screaming into the future.
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Its not just performance. SDL's 2D video is a bit too simplistic for its own good. Doing simple things in Direct X isn't easy, but it makes doing hard things doable. That makes it mediocre. Win32, on the other hand, is bad because it makes easy things hard and hard things (layout management!) even harder. POSIX is sweet because it makes easy things easy and hard things tractable.
POSIX rocks. It does in 130 API calls what Win32 does in hundreds more. Its actually one of the most sanely designed "standards" ever implemented. The only decent API Microsoft has ever designed was DirectX, and even that was just mediocre as far as these things go.
If you take a look at the KDE framework, it does enforce a level of UI consistency. Everything is standardized, from configurable toolbars to button sizes, standard layout managers, etc. KDE apps in general are written at a higher level of abstraction than, say, Win32 apps.
The lack of polish in KDE comes not from things looking different, but some poor layout and menu choices on the part of apps. The framework can't do anything about people putting 14 items in a context menu. This is the aspect the KDE people are working on right now, and 3.2 is a major improvement on this. Now that the bulk of the core technology has been built (KDE's architecture won't be fundementally changed in 4.x) its this sort of polish work that will be done.
The Darwin kernel is pure nastiness. Its a kludge-job that they had to do to get over the fundemental performance issues of Mach without changing anything major in the architecture. So you end up with BSD fused to Mach in a schizo "dual kernel" setup.
Re-tard. Its Rekall (as in Ree-Call) not Wreck-All.
apt-get install mplayer. (or, if you're so inclined, yum install mplayer or urpmi mplayer). Betcha I can do it faster than Windows user can even get the Windows Update site to load!
A teenager is not a child. He is a teenager, something wholly distinct from either a child or an adult. And the 5 and 8 numbers are entirely arbitrary. In the past, teenagers became men (or women) at 15 or 16, and there is no reason to believe that their maturation process has slowed since then.
As for adding to his burdens: developing one's moral foundation is a principle burden. It would be nice if one's parents could do all that work for a teenager, but they can't. The only thing they can do is provide support and guidance as the teenager works it out themselves.
You don't seem to understand. Its *his* job. Your parents can tell you what you should believe, but they can't tell you why you believe it. Faith isn't simply believing what others tell you to believe --- it has to come from inside.
Having studies the design of the NT kernel (though, I've never had access to the source) I can concur. The original design of the kernel *was* very clean. However, I don't know how much of it has stayed that way. Tons of stuff have been pushed into kernel mode, and stuff like DirectX have broken various abstractions in the kernel and the HAL. The seperation of the various non-kernel kernel-mode components (win32 server) has also gotten rather nebulous.
Yeah, like when you want to change the scheduling algorithm to tune for your servers load. How do you do that in Windows again?
Seriously, though, distros these days ship with all the drivers precompiled. Just use those instead of trying to fight your disto.
For one, computer will actually simulate every possible move to ensure there will be no mistaks.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
But they don't! That's the whole point of pruning! Deciding what parts of the search space not to simulate!
Its not so much a matter of computers doing things one way and humans doing things another way, but a matter of both being bound to the rules of computational theory. There is a large solution space, and both humans and computers have to decide what parts of the solution space to search and what parts to ignore. They have to do this, even if they do not do this in the same way. That's all that pruning the search space really means.
Now, just because you don't do it conciously doesn't mean you don't do it. Your brain does an incredible amount of processing behind your back. Think about visual processing or auditory processing. All of that goes on completely outside of your concious thought.
Thanks for the pointer. I'll try to make some time to read it :)
Let's make sure the foundation is properly shaped befores it has set and its too late...
I'm not saying that a religious foundation is the wrong shape (indeed, I'm not even an athiest myself). My point is that if he doesn't think about why he believes what he does, his faith is hollow.
No, it makes him a teenager. As in he still needs the support of his parents in certain situations, but should quickly be moving towards standing on his own.
Oh, how often have I heard that one.
But, no, no I do not. I accept that there is a possibility, however slim, that I could be very wrong.
They're not entirely biased. A search for Windows sucks seems pretty accurate :)
I've got a 486/33 that's running just fine.
Damn this is annoying. The price of this machine doesn't bear any relation to the real world.
First, yes, its cheaper than the competition. It also doesn't do as much. It doesn't use ECC memory, for example, which saves nearly $1M right off the bat. They make up for this by using clever software that checks for data integrity.
Also, this machine doesn't come supported by a company (like the LinuxWorx cluster was) and uses new interconnect technology from Mellanox that the other machines did not havae access to when they were built.
Yes, the G5 is a good deal, especially if you do like they did and get an educational discount ($300 per machine) and don't buy your RAM from Apple. However, that's only because the Opteron is still very overpriced. Once those prices come down, Apple will either have to keep pace, or be out-priced again.
It might be possible, but its speculation. The person I responded to got angry at someone else based on complete speculation.
A 13 year old is not a child. A 13 year old is a few precious years away from becoming an adult. Maybe if we developed in children a sense of personal responsibility at an earlier age, we wouldn't have all the problems we do know (smoking, drugs, sex) among people in their early teens.
Yes, he's 13. If he hasn't got his own moral foundation by now, he's quickly running out of time.
They post lots of papers related to computer languages here.
Somebody has obviously spent too much time thinking about porn...
How about thousands of years of humanity.
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Thousands of years of humanity said that women were inferior to men. We've spent getting over that little issue.
You figured me out. I'm conservative. I value traditional values. Hurry, mod me down for being "close minded" and then kiss my ass. G
>>>>>>>>>>>
I'd love to. I'm sick of us liberals having to drag your asses kicking and screaming into the future.