I've been thinking about a feature for slashcode where posts can be marked as below, but with no karma involved. A poster could mark his own post, or a moderator could use a mod point. Then in preferences, readers could mark these posts -5.
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Instead of focusing on the dangerous space station, we should revive our plans to walk on Mars.
...why?
Do we really need to spent millions (billions?) of $ just for saying "we were on mars"?
I think the money should be used somewhere else where its actually useful.
Space traveling was "cool" some decades ago because it was the first time a human stood on another orb - but right now noone cares.
We already know how it looks on mars, we sent robots there and stuff. And we know there isn't anything actually useful. (Oh, c'mon, i dont think some dead cells which were probably brought from earth anyway are "useful" - would be interessting but it wouldn't legitimate the costs IMHO)
I cant see much difference to seeing how your hamster behaves in zero gravity.
Oh, and i think flying to mars is far more dangerous than living on the ISS:)
I think the reason why they are still profiting is that 99% of their customers dont even know what a bootsector (bootsectortrack... whatever) is and consider DRM as something which protects them from all those evil h4x0rs out there..
I disagree. There is no "operating system" which would be somewhere in the memory no?
You can say the "brain" would be a lot faster if the synapses would be arranged in a more smart way - but you can't call it a brain anymore then.
See... 386 == silicium, p4 == silicium -> 386 == p4?
The human brain isn't really faster than computers.
AFAIK its a *lot* slower.
Its just doing better at some specific tasks. (Like face recognition, speech and stuff)
Tell me, whats the squareroot of 1337?:)
a) windows is, and will always be further along than wine. chasing an API puts you in second place, from the moment you start.
Sure. But developers don't use always the newest APIs with their untested buggy implementations.
Otherwise their products wont run on old machines.
There are still many win98 boxes out there.
And MS still offers IE6 for win98.
And the fact that their software runs fine in wine could aswell attract them to not use the newest apis in near future.
b) vmware can run windows fine. it's not expensive, and it'll run most things better than wine ever will, if you want to actually get some work done (i used it for almost a year to do PCB design and circuit design using protel for uni, and this was on a celeron 366!)
Yes but you actually need a windows copy. This might scare vendors from shipping desktop boxes with linux preinstalled.
"Oh sure, you can run Windows apps, just buy it for $300"
c) killing games is stupid. you're just going to make linux less attractive to developers (who won't give too hoots that we need to bend over backwards to use wine, let alone attempt to get a proper port), and what with added cheat detection, wine will probably get marked as a "cheat" more and more often.
-> WineX?
d) i doubt wine will ever be fully useful for newer games. you're better off just supporting openGL in the first place, simply because wine will need to provide an directx wrapper around openGL anyway.
They already have one and it works. (WineX has got a better one tho)
i just don't see what's right about it. wine won't save you anything, except from RSI, since you won't be using it to do anything but watch games crash and run slowly.
Oh well, right now I'm down and uploading some stuff with eMule without any native dlls... works flawless for me.
And this "slowly" is a myth.
Right now it might be a lil bit slower due to not optimized implementations but after all - Wine Is not aN Emulator.
If you had been paying any attention whatsoever for the last 3 years you would have noticed that most of the websites that were 100% advertising are now out of business.
Well, maybe thats because noone goes on websites composed of 100% ads.;)
I don't think Linux is the right choice.
Even the stable considered kernels contain bugs (do you remember the 2.2 update in the last months?)
I'd feel better if my brain would get repaired by one of these 99.99% relieable boxes.
After all Linux aims to be very fast and so they always hack it and may introduce bugs - as in every other general purpose operating system - I don't care about the new hyperfast VM when the kernel OOPS while fucking in my head...
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They made an execption for their linux drivers. You are allowed to distribute them as long as you dont change them.
Do we really need to spent millions (billions?) of $ just for saying "we were on mars"?
I think the money should be used somewhere else where its actually useful.
Space traveling was "cool" some decades ago because it was the first time a human stood on another orb - but right now noone cares.
We already know how it looks on mars, we sent robots there and stuff. And we know there isn't anything actually useful. (Oh, c'mon, i dont think some dead cells which were probably brought from earth anyway are "useful" - would be interessting but it wouldn't legitimate the costs IMHO)
I cant see much difference to seeing how your hamster behaves in zero gravity.
Oh, and i think flying to mars is far more dangerous than living on the ISS
I think the reason why they are still profiting is that 99% of their customers dont even know what a bootsector (bootsectortrack... whatever) is and consider DRM as something which protects them from all those evil h4x0rs out there..
I disagree. There is no "operating system" which would be somewhere in the memory no?
You can say the "brain" would be a lot faster if the synapses would be arranged in a more smart way -
but you can't call it a brain anymore then.
See... 386 == silicium, p4 == silicium -> 386 == p4?
The human brain isn't really faster than computers. :)
AFAIK its a *lot* slower.
Its just doing better at some specific tasks. (Like face recognition, speech and stuff)
Tell me, whats the squareroot of 1337?
Otherwise their products wont run on old machines. There are still many win98 boxes out there.
And MS still offers IE6 for win98.
And the fact that their software runs fine in wine could aswell attract them to not use the newest apis in near future.
Yes but you actually need a windows copy. This might scare vendors from shipping desktop boxes with linux preinstalled.
"Oh sure, you can run Windows apps, just buy it for $300" -> WineX? They already have one and it works. (WineX has got a better one tho) Oh well, right now I'm down and uploading some stuff with eMule without any native dlls
And this "slowly" is a myth.
Right now it might be a lil bit slower due to not optimized implementations but after all - Wine Is not aN Emulator.
Alright... would someone explain me WHY THE FUCK THIS GETS MODDED -1, FLAMEBAIT AND THE PARENT +3, INSIGHTFUL!?
Oh, and i also wonder why the ``Gays are the "worlds ills"??'' comment was modded to 0, troll.
So, mod me -1, tolerant please.
> Now the Linux is involved, it's suddenly a good > thing? Exactly. ;)
If you had been paying any attention whatsoever for the last 3 years you would have noticed that most of the websites that were 100% advertising are now out of business.
;)
Well, maybe thats because noone goes on websites composed of 100% ads.
I don't think Linux is the right choice.
Even the stable considered kernels contain bugs (do you remember the 2.2 update in the last months?) I'd feel better if my brain would get repaired by one of these 99.99% relieable boxes.
After all Linux aims to be very fast and so they always hack it and may introduce bugs - as in every other general purpose operating system - I don't care about the new hyperfast VM when the kernel OOPS while fucking in my head...