Today, all they would give you is goat.sco -- and I promise you that McBride doesn't like to be the woman. That's your job, my friend. A hello.jpg is YOU.
Even right after the announcement, I was able to get at least the text part of the Apple store page. That says a lot, considering how huge the announcement was...
When it comes to serving static content, that could easily be handled by a 486/25. Seriously.
For static content, your only concern is having sufficient bandwidth.
"How the hell are you gonna install 8GB of RAM in your Xeon and have it recognize it, moron?
How you gonna turn the Xeon into a 64bit CPU that can deal with that much RAM, moron?"
Xeons have supported bank swapping for some time. You can get tens of gigabytes in a box.
"Oh, and how the hell is it faster? The SpecINT and SpecFP numbers are better on the 2Ghz G5."
Normally you show far more than just a pair of test suites. I wouldn't place too much value on just the two scores.
All that said, it's some very impressive hardware, and it's certainly the hottest thing to run Mac OS X on. And the SMP advances they may be pulling from FreeBSD 5 will make Panther *scream*. But it's not fair to say it's unique in the raw performance or maximum memory aspects. The evidence isn't there.
Me, I'll take a quad Xeon for my work, but I'd sure as hell point your average Photoshop, Illustrator, or Premiere user at Apples impressive beast.
"God damnit, stupid people piss me off."
I'm guessing it's more that people who don't agree with you piss you off.:-)
Bad things are happening every day. You don't give up your life and go checking door to door for unjust actions for the rest of your life. But you don't make light of these things when they happen, either.
When somebody's shouting lies about you, while simultaneously trying to steal your property and sell it back to you, humor shouldn't be high up your priority list.
There are times for fun, and there are times for seriously defending what you think is important.
This is a time to take up a rigid position, and this isn't an appropriate area for feel-good games. Put plainly: The world's single most important piece of free software and the future of free software's acceptance are at stake.
Of interest... looking at my web server logs for the torrent above, the overwhelming majority of the users grabbing Mac images via a mostly-Linux news site are running... Windows.
I understand completely though. And I'm not poking fun. After all...
I'd browse about, dreaming of getting out of that as well.:-)
Exactly... looks as if this wasn't really a hack job after all, simply some spyware on the guy's machine. Just imagine if the FBI or whoever had to investigate each and every one of the supposed-hack attempts that people call in?
Not trolling... but there are two sides to everything..
Before writing this off and having a laugh, I'd be sure it wasn't the admin in charge of the ISP's nameserver that had run the spyware!
I know that sounds funny to you, but there are a lot of ISPs using NT, and you should never underestimate the damage potential of a Point-and-Click sysadmin. Hell, ours used to play Quake on the fileserver.
I apologize for the cheap shot. I'm sure what I said about the upgrade strategy isn't universal.
As for the rest however, please help me understand -- if a customer approached IBM ready to buy AIX, would IBM ever push them toward open source? And if so, why? I don't see how it helps the bottom line.
Re:Anti-whore Article Text in case of slashdotting
on
KnoppiXMAME 1.0 Released
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
I'd lurve to see it support DVD media so you can actually put a reasonable collection of ROMs on the disc. Does anyone know if this is doable with the current version?
Some deinterlacers use the InterCine or Messe filters to approximate the data missing in alternate frames. There are other algorithms as well -- most interpolate the existing data to guess what would have been in the missing area, and some do look at previously known data for the missing area as well as analyzing moving ranges in previous/coming frames to guess where edges or patterns would continue.
Looking at the state of deinterlacing technology and some of the "detail enhancing" resizing filters would be a good area for study.
I'd *love* to see this used to help correct data errors in video streams as well. A DirecTV receiver with this built in would be cake++.
Considering that IBM sells solutions powered by Linux. Am I missing something critical here?
I don't think IBM or any of the other old-UNIX-gone-Linux vendors especially prefer Linux. They sell it because customers demand it.
If they had their druthers, they'd still be locking folks into AIX, OS/2, or other solutions they can control. There's a huge benefit to customers making purchasing decisions based on insurmountable need for more of your product, rather than price shopping whenever a cheap new commodity box might lighten a load.
They'd also be quite happy if the software wasn't getting faster instead of slower. It used to be a given that the new versions of your software with new features you need would run slower than the last version, mandating extra hardware upgrades.
So you're like -- interested in all the countless other stories using the Caldera icon, but not the SCO vs IBM stories?
Turn off the Caldera stories in your user preferences, then hush and enjoy your peace while the rest of us keep an eye on the most important thing to happen to free software this century.
Slashdot Mirror
Do patents not expire after 15 years, renewable only once for 15 more?
They would have had the patent, and it would have been gone by 1975. :-)
SPECfp ratings don't matter! Thanks to *mumble* Apple SPECfps are faster per SPEC mark. Stop buying into the SPECfp myth!!!
Eloquent nothing. Linus is direct, no bullshit or flowery talk.
Today, all they would give you is goat.sco -- and I promise you that McBride doesn't like to be the woman. That's your job, my friend. A hello.jpg is YOU.
When it comes to serving static content, that could easily be handled by a 486/25. Seriously.
For static content, your only concern is having sufficient bandwidth.
Please explain how this would be a bad thing.
All that said, it's some very impressive hardware, and it's certainly the hottest thing to run Mac OS X on. And the SMP advances they may be pulling from FreeBSD 5 will make Panther *scream*. But it's not fair to say it's unique in the raw performance or maximum memory aspects. The evidence isn't there.
Me, I'll take a quad Xeon for my work, but I'd sure as hell point your average Photoshop, Illustrator, or Premiere user at Apples impressive beast.
I'm guessing it's more that people who don't agree with you piss you off.Bad things are happening every day. You don't give up your life and go checking door to door for unjust actions for the rest of your life. But you don't make light of these things when they happen, either.
There are times for fun, and there are times for seriously defending what you think is important.
This is a time to take up a rigid position, and this isn't an appropriate area for feel-good games. Put plainly: The world's single most important piece of free software and the future of free software's acceptance are at stake.
I believe the real link is: here.
Back to Super 3D Noah's Ark for me.
I understand completely though. And I'm not poking fun. After all...
I'd browse about, dreaming of getting out of that as well. :-)
Torrent of the index.html and all images is here (panther.torrent) if page gets slashdotted.
If the answer is "nothing," then quit complaining about the color of the giftwrap. Otherwise, lead by example.
I know that sounds funny to you, but there are a lot of ISPs using NT, and you should never underestimate the damage potential of a Point-and-Click sysadmin. Hell, ours used to play Quake on the fileserver.
As for the rest however, please help me understand -- if a customer approached IBM ready to buy AIX, would IBM ever push them toward open source? And if so, why? I don't see how it helps the bottom line.
I'd lurve to see it support DVD media so you can actually put a reasonable collection of ROMs on the disc. Does anyone know if this is doable with the current version?
Looking at the state of deinterlacing technology and some of the "detail enhancing" resizing filters would be a good area for study.
I'd *love* to see this used to help correct data errors in video streams as well. A DirecTV receiver with this built in would be cake++.
Be patient, unlike certain slash editors, who should have made sure the file was actually in the directory they were pointing to. :-)
I don't think IBM or any of the other old-UNIX-gone-Linux vendors especially prefer Linux. They sell it because customers demand it.
If they had their druthers, they'd still be locking folks into AIX, OS/2, or other solutions they can control. There's a huge benefit to customers making purchasing decisions based on insurmountable need for more of your product, rather than price shopping whenever a cheap new commodity box might lighten a load.
They'd also be quite happy if the software wasn't getting faster instead of slower. It used to be a given that the new versions of your software with new features you need would run slower than the last version, mandating extra hardware upgrades.
You also want a "--domains=public.planetmirror.com" in there.
To get all the available material, clip out the slashdot-inserted space in "a ncient" and:
So you're like -- interested in all the countless other stories using the Caldera icon, but not the SCO vs IBM stories?
Turn off the Caldera stories in your user preferences, then hush and enjoy your peace while the rest of us keep an eye on the most important thing to happen to free software this century.
I'll bet you use Mandrake.
High-speed or full-speed?
Maybe you refer to this. I'd love to see somebody with a firm grasp on the laws of the market make comment.
...which is exactly what their president seems to be doing for their corporate image.