IMO properly locking a datastructure is way easier than IPC. Than again damn near anything is easier than IPC. Whenever I think of the whole fork/exec/wait/pipe situation I shudder in fear.
"In other words, silly debates about defining and quantifying the margins of something have no bearing on its actual existence."
Are you saying that becuase we can not immediately change the law we should not discuss the philosophy or the reasoning behind it? This is an internet forum, a place for discussion. We are not in a court room or a police station.
Ok lets assume you have a small/medium size problem.
-rent a dedicated server for a month for 150 bucks, have control over your system, solve your problem as many times as you want, etc.
-pay a dollar/PERPROCESSOR/PERHOUR for a one time shot, while sharing resources with everyone else, while not having control over the system, etc.
Im thinking the first option would be really worth it.
The only situation where a service like this would be useful is if someone needs a HUGE amount of processing power, but only once every couple years. $1/per processor/hour adds up really fast compared to cost of hardware and power.
Isn't the point of super computers, and clusters to do something really fast. This means having a custom system, and custom code, custom network setup, etc, for your problem.
If you can solve your problem in an hour anyway, I dont think its worth the time to have a grid computer do it. You might as well just run it on your own system, however big.
Becuase most computer users dont have an understanding of a "command", or a "terminal". That also requires the person to know exactly what "PROGRAMX" is. When someone types something wrong they get a funky error message and get confused.
Compare that to doubleclicking the install file, clicking next -> next -> next -> done.
Hate to tell you, but most people cant install windows either. It takes a geek to do that also.
Me: Ok, insert your windows cd into your computer, restart. Them: I see windows again Me: Ok, go into the bios by pressing delete when your computer is restarting. Them: Um, can you just come over?
The quality of the operating system is not dependant on wether or not the user can figure out how to start installing it.
2) Stop trying to defend what is really racism (there are Chinese people who have lived there whole lives in America and I am sure would not like to be paid less just becuase of their race) with economics.
ah but you forget the most important point... useability.
The goal for whoever came up with zones was probably something along the lines of, "lets make security as easy as humanly possible". Adding options in IE that actually relate to real networking would be out of the question then. Then users would start thinking to themselves, "what does this all do, I dont understand this, im fustrated, I dont like this". Something which microsoft would never permit.
Please. Forgetting to turn off anonymous logins to a PUBLICLY AVAILABLE http/ftp server is just stupid. Thats like me sending a link to someone... and putting secret stuff on the webpage.. then suing whoever looks at it becuase I forgot to turn on htaccess.
Who the hell would use an operating system from these people?
Your Just not getting it. Read the above posts carefully. Read the notification carefully. The bottom line is that while assembling, nasm can be tricked into doing things that it shouldn't do.
I think your sort of correct. Its not like I would put a 3d interface in an office and expect productivity to increase. However.. I think its stupid to completely write off the whole Idea of a 3d interface just becuase it hasn't been used widely yet.
Take a look in our past. Computer interfaces started out with the command line. Would you be happy only using the command line? Then we moved to a basic color "form" style interface. Would you be happy using that? Then we added more intense graphics and windows. This is where we are now. You honestly think that will be the last user interface we ever see?
What if in some point in the future we can interface to our computer easily with a glove? Perhaps with our own thoughts even. Do you think a flat 2d interface will still be the best? The only way to make the future happen, is to do it today.
Wow... mods are just as retarted as you are. Even the old version E16 had the features you are talking about, and it did them damn well also. I would say there are way more options to configure Enlightenment than any other desktop. With a little setup, you can make Enlightenment the best interface you have ever used.
things I would like to see 1) reorginize the configuration menus(a little on the confusing side) 2) have e16 keyconfig and menuconfig come built in
IMO enlightenment is sort of like debian, it goes a little slow, but damn when the thing finally comes out, it is impressive.
Wow, I am not sure how you got marked informative. It must be becuase you made a long post.
You and the grandparent are talking about two different things. You are talking about security, admins controlling what users do. The grandparent is talking about ease of use for installing things locally. THOSE ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS! For example, what if the admin wants to install something locally, and not system wide.
If you want to control what the users of a system are doing, use quotas, use AFS, use dirrectory permissions, use fancy firewall rulesets, etc. None of these things have anything to do with being able to install things in a local dirrectory.
If steam is ported to linux, perhaps more vendors will consider making cross platform games. Of course there is the whole market share thing, but its sure a step in the right direction.
I think I should send a link to this article to my linux friends who are playing hl2.
Either your retarted or you replied to the wrong post.
The grandparent is talking about some people wanting highways for easy access to the "wilderness", and response is...
"If you think people are going to get hurt from this, let's compare how many people are hurt by this to how many people are hurt by people hunting in person"
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To bad there is no sheep population in wisconsin. You should have said cows or something.
Your a troll, and I'm biting.
Kevin was arrested for ip spoofing. Do you know what that is? Can you do that? Probably not, so please shut up.
I have to disagree with you.
IMO properly locking a datastructure is way easier than IPC. Than again damn near anything is easier than IPC. Whenever I think of the whole fork/exec/wait/pipe situation I shudder in fear.
I think most of that has been done in java, and probably that process is patented also.
I usually don't comment about grammar or spelling, but what is "entertaing"?
"In other words, silly debates about defining and quantifying the margins of something have no bearing on its actual existence."
Are you saying that becuase we can not immediately change the law we should not discuss the philosophy or the reasoning behind it? This is an internet forum, a place for discussion. We are not in a court room or a police station.
I have seen a repair installation eat data on a hard drive more than once, its not reliable.
Ok lets assume you have a small/medium size problem.
-rent a dedicated server for a month for 150 bucks, have control over your system, solve your problem as many times as you want, etc.
-pay a dollar/PERPROCESSOR/PERHOUR for a one time shot, while sharing resources with everyone else, while not having control over the system, etc.
Im thinking the first option would be really worth it.
The only situation where a service like this would be useful is if someone needs a HUGE amount of processing power, but only once every couple years. $1/per processor/hour adds up really fast compared to cost of hardware and power.
Isn't the point of super computers, and clusters to do something really fast. This means having a custom system, and custom code, custom network setup, etc, for your problem.
If you can solve your problem in an hour anyway, I dont think its worth the time to have a grid computer do it. You might as well just run it on your own system, however big.
"Fighting it? If it caused any problems, they can uninstall it"
You understand that sp2 made some windows unbootable on some computers right? Its pretty hard to remove software if you cant boot.
Becuase most computer users dont have an understanding of a "command", or a "terminal". That also requires the person to know exactly what "PROGRAMX" is. When someone types something wrong they get a funky error message and get confused.
Compare that to doubleclicking the install file, clicking next -> next -> next -> done.
Hate to tell you, but most people cant install windows either. It takes a geek to do that also.
Me: Ok, insert your windows cd into your computer, restart.
Them: I see windows again
Me: Ok, go into the bios by pressing delete when your computer is restarting.
Them: Um, can you just come over?
The quality of the operating system is not dependant on wether or not the user can figure out how to start installing it.
1) Try using line breaks.
2) Stop trying to defend what is really racism (there are Chinese people who have lived there whole lives in America and I am sure would not like to be paid less just becuase of their race) with economics.
If my understand is correct, which I think it might be, then you are completely wrong.
Quantum encryption is not about exchanging keys, its not even encryption in its normal sense. What it really is, is secure trasmission.
Secure meaning, nobody can read this data during transmission other than the reciever without it being physically impossible to notice.
Why wouldn't these huge starts turn into black holes?
ah but you forget the most important point... useability.
The goal for whoever came up with zones was probably something along the lines of, "lets make security as easy as humanly possible". Adding options in IE that actually relate to real networking would be out of the question then. Then users would start thinking to themselves, "what does this all do, I dont understand this, im fustrated, I dont like this". Something which microsoft would never permit.
"IBM exploited a bug...."
Please. Forgetting to turn off anonymous logins to a PUBLICLY AVAILABLE http/ftp server is just stupid. Thats like me sending a link to someone... and putting secret stuff on the webpage.. then suing whoever looks at it becuase I forgot to turn on htaccess.
Who the hell would use an operating system from these people?
Your Just not getting it. Read the above posts carefully. Read the notification carefully. The bottom line is that while assembling, nasm can be tricked into doing things that it shouldn't do.
I think your sort of correct. Its not like I would put a 3d interface in an office and expect productivity to increase. However.. I think its stupid to completely write off the whole Idea of a 3d interface just becuase it hasn't been used widely yet.
Well IMO beefed up hardware for beefed up tools and utilites is ok. Requiring faster hardware becuase of poorly written software is not ok.
Take a look in our past. Computer interfaces started out with the command line. Would you be happy only using the command line? Then we moved to a basic color "form" style interface. Would you be happy using that? Then we added more intense graphics and windows. This is where we are now. You honestly think that will be the last user interface we ever see?
What if in some point in the future we can interface to our computer easily with a glove? Perhaps with our own thoughts even. Do you think a flat 2d interface will still be the best? The only way to make the future happen, is to do it today.
Wow... mods are just as retarted as you are. Even the old version E16 had the features you are talking about, and it did them damn well also. I would say there are way more options to configure Enlightenment than any other desktop. With a little setup, you can make Enlightenment the best interface you have ever used.
things I would like to see
1) reorginize the configuration menus(a little on the confusing side)
2) have e16 keyconfig and menuconfig come built in
IMO enlightenment is sort of like debian, it goes a little slow, but damn when the thing finally comes out, it is impressive.
Wow, I am not sure how you got marked informative. It must be becuase you made a long post.
You and the grandparent are talking about two different things. You are talking about security, admins controlling what users do. The grandparent is talking about ease of use for installing things locally. THOSE ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS! For example, what if the admin wants to install something locally, and not system wide.
If you want to control what the users of a system are doing, use quotas, use AFS, use dirrectory permissions, use fancy firewall rulesets, etc. None of these things have anything to do with being able to install things in a local dirrectory.
If steam is ported to linux, perhaps more vendors will consider making cross platform games. Of course there is the whole market share thing, but its sure a step in the right direction.
I think I should send a link to this article to my linux friends who are playing hl2.
Either your retarted or you replied to the wrong post.
The grandparent is talking about some people wanting highways for easy access to the "wilderness", and response is...
"If you think people are going to get hurt from this, let's compare how many people are hurt by this to how many people are hurt by people hunting in person"