Burning fuel while stopped can never be a good thing.
Yeah, right. Try starting and stopping the engine at every stop light when it's forty below zero outside... even aside from the lack of heat inside we quite often see cars that have stalled in those temperatures and simply won't start again.
So, if the problem has already been fixed in another system (So you don't need to tune the kernel scheduling algorithm there... It just works), it is irrelevant whether you actually could tune the kernel scheduling algorithm if you wanted to.
And which OS has magically managed to predict which I/O operations should be given a higher priority over other I/O operations without any user intervention? I don't know about Windows 7, but XP had a choice between 'server mode' and 'desktop mode' and both were equally useless if you copied a large file while using the system.
You can disable swapping in Windows if you have sufficient RAM.
I tried that once on XP and several programs barfed. For example I seem to remember that Premiere simply wouldn't run if you didn't have a swap file, because it did some wacky things with virtual memory allocations; perhaps the newer versions aren't so braindead.
Then there are programs like Firefox, which continually write to sqlite databases, which causes multiple fsync() calls, which will flush the disk cache each time if you're running on an ext3 filesystem. All because NTFS used to eat your bookmarks file if Windows crashed.
You mean an OS like Windows which will swap out the web browser you're using when you copy a big file from one disk to another even though it's far too large for the entire file to fit in the disk cache?
Freedom of speech is about expressing beliefs and opinions and facts, that is what the ruling about "FIRE" is all about you are not free to tell blatant false hoods when they could case clear and present danger.
But didn't the 'fire in a crowded theater' argument originate in a Supreme Court case where the government was trying to justify locking up anti-war protestors in WWI?
Certainly I remember reading that one of the Supreme Court judges who agreed with it later said that it was the worst decision he made in his life.
Hey dumbass !! Did he say ONE Linux would be better? NO !! He said it's FRAGMENTED. That means there are too many. Why does the solution to fragmentation always have to be ONE version instead?
Troll.
So what is the ONE TRUE CORRECT NUMBER of Linux versions? Two? Three? Six? Forty-Two?
What should be the punishment for anyone who decides to release a new distro once we have the ONE TRUE CORRECT NUMBER of distros? Burning at the stake? Removal of git commit privileges?
But can it play fullscreen flash video smoothly yet?
Yes.
Well, Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop certainly doesn't seem to have any problem playing full screen Flash video. However, flash does hog the audio so I have to kill the damn thing if I want to play sound from anything else.
If there's one valid complaint in your post it's the crappy state of audio on Linux.
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The problem is in the fragmentation of distributions and the fragmentation in the GUI.
True. We should only have one auto manufacturer making one model of car too, because having so many companies selling so many different types of car is terribly confusing.
I keep hearing this, but what do you plan on replacing traditional news with?
Nothing?
There's maybe one news story a week that I actually care about outside my own community, so I honestly can't see what I'd miss if 'traditional news' vanished tomorrow. Do I really need to know that the new Celebrity Chainsaw Massacre competitor has a bit of a cold today, or read regurgitated press releases that I could find direct on the web?
That seems to be a bit of a generalisation. Look at all the left wing organisations that run on donations.
Don't a lot of them run on corporate donations and government funding? I know there's been a scandal in the UK recently because so many left-wing 'charities' turn out to get most of their funding from the taxpayer through the British government or the EU.
Here in America, nobody believes in donating money; we are all supposed to be subverting each other, trying to extract as much money from each other as possible. Anything else is clearly "socialism."
From the studies I've seen, the American right give plenty of donations, it's the left who don't believe in donating money. I believe that's generally true across the West, and not really surprising as the right believe in personal responsibility whereas the left believe that 'the government ought to do something about that'.
If AMD gets the jump on Intel by integrating high performance GPUs with high performance CPUs it won't be the first time.
This is not a high-performance GPU; you really can't integrate a high-performance GPU with a high-performance CPU because you'd have to suck 400W of heat out of the monstrous combined chip that would produce _and_ it would then be crippled by the poor memory bandwidth anyway.
No-one is going to buy this chip if they want high-performance 3D, they'll buy a CPU and a discrete graphics card. It's merely providing somewhat better performance than other integrated graphics chipsets, allowing people buying cheap PCs to play a few games at low settings and probably to reduce power usage while playing HD video (since GPUs are typically better at that than CPUs).
Which kind of leaves me wondering what the point is; the primary market is people who want to play games but not enough to actually buy a graphics card which can do so. Maybe it would be beneficial in the laptop market where many systems can't really play any games at all.
If you want 1080p with no fan, just get a Blu-ray player. There's plenty of them that'll play media off the network and Internet (LG has good ones).
Ha... my LG Blu-Ray player has been in for three times for warranty repair and now we're waiting for a replacement unit because they can't fix it, while my $90 unknown-Chinese-brand Blu-Ray player from Walmart works perfectly and is multi-region out of the box.
And our Ion MythTV frontend does have a fan to keep it cool when playing 1080p, but it's inaudible from the sofa.
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Yeah, but why? It sounds like you have hundreds of hours of video stored locally. Do you really watch that much tv?
Buying a few terabytes of disk space is much easier than convincing your girlfriend that she really didn't need to watch that episode of CSI Milton Keynes from last March that you just deleted.
yeah yeah, save me your 'people will use the space they have' argument. It doesn't hold up to reality.
I thought my netbook's 160GB drive would be plenty, but after six months it was down to 8GB free. I thought my laptop's 640GB drive would be plenty, but it's now down to 40GB free, and only after I deleted a few games from Steam. I thought my MythTV server's 3.5TB would be plenty, but it's down to 400GB free.
Most people will end up using most of the disk space they have available, because it's easier than deleting old files.
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More importantly, how much is it in furlongs per fluid ounce?
From what I remember the >70 mpg European Smart cars are diesel, not gasoline.
Burning fuel while stopped can never be a good thing.
Yeah, right. Try starting and stopping the engine at every stop light when it's forty below zero outside... even aside from the lack of heat inside we quite often see cars that have stalled in those temperatures and simply won't start again.
So, if the problem has already been fixed in another system (So you don't need to tune the kernel scheduling algorithm there... It just works), it is irrelevant whether you actually could tune the kernel scheduling algorithm if you wanted to.
And which OS has magically managed to predict which I/O operations should be given a higher priority over other I/O operations without any user intervention? I don't know about Windows 7, but XP had a choice between 'server mode' and 'desktop mode' and both were equally useless if you copied a large file while using the system.
You can disable swapping in Windows if you have sufficient RAM.
I tried that once on XP and several programs barfed. For example I seem to remember that Premiere simply wouldn't run if you didn't have a swap file, because it did some wacky things with virtual memory allocations; perhaps the newer versions aren't so braindead.
Then there are programs like Firefox, which continually write to sqlite databases, which causes multiple fsync() calls, which will flush the disk cache each time if you're running on an ext3 filesystem. All because NTFS used to eat your bookmarks file if Windows crashed.
You mean an OS like Windows which will swap out the web browser you're using when you copy a big file from one disk to another even though it's far too large for the entire file to fit in the disk cache?
In the first world, wearing a tape-player in public is practically a diagnostic signal of mental illness, now, that's how downmarket they are.
I'm pretty sure that my DAT Walkman will still play music better than any MP3 player on the market (at least at typical 100-200kbps MP3 bit-rates).
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- Colin Powell
Colin 'Saddam Hussein has WMDs, honest' Powell. LOL.
The number of addresses available in IPv4 is ACTUALLY NOT 2**32=~4 billion but 2**32 * 2**24 = ~48 trillion addresses.
Good luck NAT-ing four billion IP addresses behind one NAT box which has one IP address and 65536 ports.
I think that the IPv6 space is big enough to give an address to every molecule in the solar system.
Yeah, but there are a lot of other solar systems. That's why I'm switching to IPV7 with 256-bit addresses.
Of course the cross-galaxy ping time is a bit of a problem.
Freedom of speech is about expressing beliefs and opinions and facts, that is what the ruling about "FIRE" is all about you are not free to tell blatant false hoods when they could case clear and present danger.
But didn't the 'fire in a crowded theater' argument originate in a Supreme Court case where the government was trying to justify locking up anti-war protestors in WWI?
Certainly I remember reading that one of the Supreme Court judges who agreed with it later said that it was the worst decision he made in his life.
Hey dumbass !! Did he say ONE Linux would be better? NO !! He said it's FRAGMENTED. That means there are too many. Why does the solution to fragmentation always have to be ONE version instead?
Troll.
So what is the ONE TRUE CORRECT NUMBER of Linux versions? Two? Three? Six? Forty-Two?
What should be the punishment for anyone who decides to release a new distro once we have the ONE TRUE CORRECT NUMBER of distros? Burning at the stake? Removal of git commit privileges?
But can it play fullscreen flash video smoothly yet?
Yes.
Well, Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop certainly doesn't seem to have any problem playing full screen Flash video. However, flash does hog the audio so I have to kill the damn thing if I want to play sound from anything else.
If there's one valid complaint in your post it's the crappy state of audio on Linux.
The problem is in the fragmentation of distributions and the fragmentation in the GUI.
True. We should only have one auto manufacturer making one model of car too, because having so many companies selling so many different types of car is terribly confusing.
I keep hearing this, but what do you plan on replacing traditional news with?
Nothing?
There's maybe one news story a week that I actually care about outside my own community, so I honestly can't see what I'd miss if 'traditional news' vanished tomorrow. Do I really need to know that the new Celebrity Chainsaw Massacre competitor has a bit of a cold today, or read regurgitated press releases that I could find direct on the web?
That seems to be a bit of a generalisation. Look at all the left wing organisations that run on donations.
Don't a lot of them run on corporate donations and government funding? I know there's been a scandal in the UK recently because so many left-wing 'charities' turn out to get most of their funding from the taxpayer through the British government or the EU.
I'm not here to spoon-feed you...oh enough of the condescending comments.
Yet you apparently expect the rest of us to do that for you.
Here in America, nobody believes in donating money; we are all supposed to be subverting each other, trying to extract as much money from each other as possible. Anything else is clearly "socialism."
From the studies I've seen, the American right give plenty of donations, it's the left who don't believe in donating money. I believe that's generally true across the West, and not really surprising as the right believe in personal responsibility whereas the left believe that 'the government ought to do something about that'.
Hopefully that means I'll finally be able to play it on a 64-bit OS...
I think in the GF 3-4 range there were a lot of GF4-mx cards.
These were essentially low-middle end GF3 cards, and for some things my GF2 TI outperformed it (with less CPU to boot).
The 'Geforce 4 MX' was a Geforce 2 in drag, wasn't it?
If AMD gets the jump on Intel by integrating high performance GPUs with high performance CPUs it won't be the first time.
This is not a high-performance GPU; you really can't integrate a high-performance GPU with a high-performance CPU because you'd have to suck 400W of heat out of the monstrous combined chip that would produce _and_ it would then be crippled by the poor memory bandwidth anyway.
No-one is going to buy this chip if they want high-performance 3D, they'll buy a CPU and a discrete graphics card. It's merely providing somewhat better performance than other integrated graphics chipsets, allowing people buying cheap PCs to play a few games at low settings and probably to reduce power usage while playing HD video (since GPUs are typically better at that than CPUs).
Which kind of leaves me wondering what the point is; the primary market is people who want to play games but not enough to actually buy a graphics card which can do so. Maybe it would be beneficial in the laptop market where many systems can't really play any games at all.
If you want 1080p with no fan, just get a Blu-ray player. There's plenty of them that'll play media off the network and Internet (LG has good ones).
Ha... my LG Blu-Ray player has been in for three times for warranty repair and now we're waiting for a replacement unit because they can't fix it, while my $90 unknown-Chinese-brand Blu-Ray player from Walmart works perfectly and is multi-region out of the box.
And our Ion MythTV frontend does have a fan to keep it cool when playing 1080p, but it's inaudible from the sofa.
Yeah, but why? It sounds like you have hundreds of hours of video stored locally. Do you really watch that much tv?
Buying a few terabytes of disk space is much easier than convincing your girlfriend that she really didn't need to watch that episode of CSI Milton Keynes from last March that you just deleted.
yeah yeah, save me your 'people will use the space they have' argument. It doesn't hold up to reality.
I thought my netbook's 160GB drive would be plenty, but after six months it was down to 8GB free. I thought my laptop's 640GB drive would be plenty, but it's now down to 40GB free, and only after I deleted a few games from Steam. I thought my MythTV server's 3.5TB would be plenty, but it's down to 400GB free.
Most people will end up using most of the disk space they have available, because it's easier than deleting old files.