7 GHz!?!? I have serious difficulty believing that.
The next generation consoles aren't due until Christmas season 2005. 7+ ghz will be a reality then, unless you doubt Moore's Law will continue (and I have yet to meet a serious computer engineer working in the field who doesn't think it will hold up for at least the next few years).
The consoles of that period will probably use a lesser part for price reasons (7 ghz will cost approximately $400 at that time, given current trends), but the original poster's estimate is close enough that I don't understand where your disbelief comes from. The next generation consoles will probably push at least 5 ghz for the main CPU. In any case, they'll be a hell of a lot faster than the 1.4 ghz machine, which IS, in fact, destined to failure just like the 'Phantom'.
This sounds like a security nightmare to me. Not because of the 'Open Source' nature of the project, but because the same code will be used in too many places..
Whatever happened to the argument that diverse heterogeneous systems are better from a security standpoint? I guess it only applies when bashing Microsoft?
If you base all of these government systems off of a single Open Source core, a hacker only needs to find a single bug in the core software and he or she has keys to the entire kingdom of federal data on ANYONE!
How about having nothing extra in your toolbar and just use Mozilla instead?
You can hide the Google toolbar so it doesn't take up any real estate. And if it is resource (memory, CPU) usage you're worried about, well XUL and other bits of Netscape add a lot more resource usage than the Google toolbar does to IE.
Note: I have nothing against Mozilla, it is a fine browser, but the 'nothng extra' statement regarding the google toolbar was kind of silly.
They didn't take this step in the right direction; they were dragged. Kicking, screaming and fighting every inch of the way!
Yeah it took them 10 damn years! Oh..Microsoft and security? For a second there I thought you were talking about decent desktop GUI support under Linux!
And, in some cases, people have fairly new and actually quite decent hardware, but when they try to use that hardware under XP, nothing gives. Like, oh, my video card(a GeForce 4 Ti4600) that I can't seem to get to work properly under XP. Even the WQHL drivers from nVidia don't work right under it; in fact, my box claims that they're not WQHL cert.
Thousands of people all over the world (including myself) run XP with GF4 4600s. It isn't Microsoft or Nvidia's fault that you suck at computers and can't make it work.
Did you try calling Microsoft Support? You did BUY that copy of Windows XP, right?
My PC is old? It's a 800MHZ 3 year old Dell. I haven't switched because a) Windows 2000 won't play my games and b) Windows XP has that Product Activation.
The only games Windows 2000 has problems with are old DOS games. It runs games for older Windows releases just fine. And you could run a DOS 'emulator' like DOSBOX on your system and play the DOS games perfectly under Windows 2000 too. Dumbass.
I agree that there are many reasons why this shouldn't be implemented, but there are still ways in which the terrorists could easily carry out their missions, regardless of passenger intent.
One way is if they manage to infiltrate actual terrorist pilots into jobs with commercial carriers, as we've been told their recent plans involve. Once a terrorist gets into the cockpit, it is game-over because the tamper-proof doors we've installed to keep them out will keep them in, no matter how determined the passengers in the cabin are about trying to stop them.
Today's Slashdotting has saved my weak-willed self from spoiling the movie. Hopefully the urge to click through has passed by the time the site is responding...
With Windows and other OSes, there is a clearly defined API that drivers code against to work with the system. In the Windows case this is *required* because the driver authors do not have the Window source code (well, most of them don't). If Linux had something similar to the Windows DDK, this would all be a non-issue as that API would become a clear boundary of where the GPL ends and commercial company lawyers wouldn't have a near-heart-attack worrying about this huge (in Linus' words) 'grey area'.
I know some people just hate the idea of binary drivers to begin with, and if that is your stance, fine; I don't agree, but I understand where you're coming from. But if you're going to allow binary modules (as Linux does), why do it in such a half-assed fashion that a company that might provide a Linux driver can't be sure one way or another how you're going to view their code (exempt from GPL or bound by it)? Either do it right and enforce a clear boundary or just stick with source only drivers.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, Chairman, IBM
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olsen, Founder, Digital Equipment Corporation
I don't think Watson's quote really fits into these sorts of discussions because the entire nature of what a 'computer' is was entirely different when he said it.
Olsen's quote, however, is simple lack of vision since he was addressing fairly modern era PCs directly.
But unless I'm wrong, for Igor to work you need to give it an input which crashes the program, correct?
I don't recall ever getting to the point where I could crash a program at will, with some given input, and yet the bug wasn't fairly obvious and easy to find just from a stack trace and maybe 2-3 minutes of line by line stepping.
Honestly, not to belittle the effort here, but in my experience if you've gotten to the point where you absolutely know that some input to your program will cause a crash it is very easy to find the bug and fix it.
The REAL problem bugs are the ones where the same input on different machines will give different results, or the same input on the same machine will give different results during different runs.
Kinda cool technology, I guess, but speaking as someone who has programmed in C/C++ professionally for about 9 years now, I just don't see this as being useful in 99.99% of debugging cases, and the ones where it might be useful are pretty easy to solve just by tracing the stack once you know what the 'problem' input is.
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Seriously, these file dialogs don't have enough alphablending. While they're at it, they should throw in some lens flare too.
The next generation consoles aren't due until Christmas season 2005. 7+ ghz will be a reality then, unless you doubt Moore's Law will continue (and I have yet to meet a serious computer engineer working in the field who doesn't think it will hold up for at least the next few years).
The consoles of that period will probably use a lesser part for price reasons (7 ghz will cost approximately $400 at that time, given current trends), but the original poster's estimate is close enough that I don't understand where your disbelief comes from. The next generation consoles will probably push at least 5 ghz for the main CPU. In any case, they'll be a hell of a lot faster than the 1.4 ghz machine, which IS, in fact, destined to failure just like the 'Phantom'.
Whatever happened to the argument that diverse heterogeneous systems are better from a security standpoint? I guess it only applies when bashing Microsoft?
If you base all of these government systems off of a single Open Source core, a hacker only needs to find a single bug in the core software and he or she has keys to the entire kingdom of federal data on ANYONE!
You can hide the Google toolbar so it doesn't take up any real estate. And if it is resource (memory, CPU) usage you're worried about, well XUL and other bits of Netscape add a lot more resource usage than the Google toolbar does to IE.
Note: I have nothing against Mozilla, it is a fine browser, but the 'nothng extra' statement regarding the google toolbar was kind of silly.
They didn't take this step in the right direction; they were dragged. Kicking, screaming and fighting every inch of the way!
Yeah it took them 10 damn years! Oh..Microsoft and security? For a second there I thought you were talking about decent desktop GUI support under Linux!
Thousands of people all over the world (including myself) run XP with GF4 4600s. It isn't Microsoft or Nvidia's fault that you suck at computers and can't make it work.
Did you try calling Microsoft Support? You did BUY that copy of Windows XP, right?
The only games Windows 2000 has problems with are old DOS games. It runs games for older Windows releases just fine. And you could run a DOS 'emulator' like DOSBOX on your system and play the DOS games perfectly under Windows 2000 too. Dumbass.
One way is if they manage to infiltrate actual terrorist pilots into jobs with commercial carriers, as we've been told their recent plans involve. Once a terrorist gets into the cockpit, it is game-over because the tamper-proof doors we've installed to keep them out will keep them in, no matter how determined the passengers in the cabin are about trying to stop them.
As I see it the main problem with these drivers is that they are for Linux, and Linux is SUPER GAY.
I would love to see you work towards the 1.0 version of Firebird before posting to Slashdot again. Please set your priorities straight.
About the same amount of time it will take them to finish Perl 6!
Proof that most Linux/GPL people are in it for the no-cost software, and not really for 'freedom'. You damn hippie fucks. GET A JOB!
The GPL is gay and so are you.
I might pay his wife though. I'd have to see a picture first.
Virtual desktops are much older than either KDE or Gnome.
Today's Slashdotting has saved my weak-willed self from spoiling the movie. Hopefully the urge to click through has passed by the time the site is responding...
I know some people just hate the idea of binary drivers to begin with, and if that is your stance, fine; I don't agree, but I understand where you're coming from. But if you're going to allow binary modules (as Linux does), why do it in such a half-assed fashion that a company that might provide a Linux driver can't be sure one way or another how you're going to view their code (exempt from GPL or bound by it)? Either do it right and enforce a clear boundary or just stick with source only drivers.
Viva Linux!
Viva FREE GAMES!
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olsen, Founder, Digital Equipment Corporation
I don't think Watson's quote really fits into these sorts of discussions because the entire nature of what a 'computer' is was entirely different when he said it.
Olsen's quote, however, is simple lack of vision since he was addressing fairly modern era PCs directly.
President Bush is a huge fag.
The MPAA has absolutely nothing to do with it. They do not control the DVD patents and usage fees. Blame the DVD Forum.
I don't recall ever getting to the point where I could crash a program at will, with some given input, and yet the bug wasn't fairly obvious and easy to find just from a stack trace and maybe 2-3 minutes of line by line stepping.
Neat technology, very little real world use. IMO.
The REAL problem bugs are the ones where the same input on different machines will give different results, or the same input on the same machine will give different results during different runs.
Kinda cool technology, I guess, but speaking as someone who has programmed in C/C++ professionally for about 9 years now, I just don't see this as being useful in 99.99% of debugging cases, and the ones where it might be useful are pretty easy to solve just by tracing the stack once you know what the 'problem' input is.
Stop lying you dicksucker.
Shithead.