Look at the PC Mark tests (minus the silly graphics tests and the xp startup, app loading tests). Most of the tests are won by wine probably by only a few fractions of a second - half by less than a percentage point. Besides, they're mostly testing either memory management, which Linux generally does better, or CPU, which Wine has a huge advantage in because it's Gentoo and compiled specifically for the system.
Gentoo really does feel faster. Compare say a Debian system (which is compiled purely for stability) to a Gentoo system (which is compiled purely for speed) and the Gentoo system will win. However I still use Debian because I kind of like my stability!
The results aren't exactly surprising - Wine is excelling in what Linux is generally better than Windows in doing - memory management, hard drive speed, and related matters (stressing generally there, because of course different apps give different results). This is Gentoo after all, it's built for speed. Then the heavier the load on the video drivers the more the superiority of the Windows drivers takes hold, so for the graphical stuff things don't work as fast.
And so are the people who had seen the untouched story then supposed to look through the front page, see that the story isn't there anymore and then just assume the story has been invalidated?
This isn't Windows, you don't have to have KDE installed, and if you have KDE installed you don't have to have KHTML installed. Most Linux users this doesn't apply to, since the biggest distributions use Gnome anyway. In fact most vulnerabilities simply don't apply to an average Linux user - even the vulnerabilities in the Kernel - because they're to do with software not installed on their system.
I think you and the grandparent are getting a bit confused here on this issue (though it has been a few years since I studied Cosmology, and I may be wrong here, but I *do* try to keep abreast of the journals and recent discoveries when I have time).
A black hole itself has no temperature and emits no light. It literally can't. Hawking radiation comes from particles from before the event horizon. The actual amount of radiation is insignificant for astronomical black holes since they absorb more radiation from just the cosmic background microwave radiation than is let go through Hawking radiation. It's only really important for quantum black holes.
Stellar-mass black holes pretty much have been proven to come from the death of larger stars, more than about 3-4 stellar masses. Whether it's proven depends on how strict you are with the word "proof". Supermassive black holes *probably* started as stellar black holes, a long long time ago, maybe not. I'm not sure if anyone knows or has given proof, but if they have then I haven't heard about it. I'd like to though!
I'm someone not too long away from graduating in Soft Eng from an Australian university, and I'm sort of getting the opposite feeling to this article here. I think that even with the migrants (and yes there are a lot of them) there may be a shortage of specialised IT workers quite soon. I'm talking about specialised IT workers, not help desk workers or something like that. University enrollments are at a record low of something like 20 years for IT related degrees, my own university is having quite a bit of troubles.
Lets face it here, there will be almost no migrants that aren't from first-world countries that will be as good as the students the top Australian universities should be able to deliver.
Notice, however, (and this is where the mood of this message will suddenly change) that I say "should". I don't think that bringing in migrants is a huge issue, the main problem is that the Howard government seems to be looking at this from almost a capatalistic viewpoint: Migrants from other countries are simply cheaper to produce than graduate university students, so what on earth's the need to fund Universities? A government should be looking after its people, so shouldn't the answer be instead to boost the universities instead of not giving the local students a chance of going to university and simply grabbing people from overseas? One of the bigger reasons for a lack of graduating university students is because the universities simply can't afford to accept as many students as they want. Universities are trying to get around this through many ways. Charles Sturt University, for example, sponsers out their courses to companies like Microsoft and Cisco. Graduating from a Charles Sturt degree gives you an automatic MCSE. My own university simply cuts the amount of students that can attend, so even though I get a high level of education, I had to be in the top 5-10% of Year 12 students to even have a chance of getting in.
Ironically at the time when the politicians went through university in Australia tertiary education was completely paid for by the government.
So to summarise, I don't mind them importing migrants, but they should also look after their own citizens first.
5. More secure? If linux is more secure than Windows then it's only marginal. The difference is the user base. If I were trying to exploit something I'd much rather do so on 90% of the user base than the other 10% (percentages made up). Not to mention ma and pa aren't exactly the most tech savvy of consumers and may not know the importance of a firewall and updating often. Something which most linux users do know.
I always give a bit of a laugh at this argument, and that people actually believe it. I'd like to see you have an experiment as to which could more easily stop a bullet, an apple or a kevlar vest. You'd shoot the apple, it'd blow up into smitherines, then you'd say "If I had shot the kevlar vest then it might have blown up the same way, therefore the apple must be at least as good at stopping bullets as the kevlar vest."
I think that the decline in quality isn't because they have stopped being funny, because that's just untrue. The Simpsons is still very funny. It's just that they seem to have lost the ability to take themselves, and the characters, seriously - they just make gags and bring out their multitude of celebrities, but they don't deal with the serious issues that the Simpsons in their prime did. Though I think Hank Azaria is great, that comment just highlights this.
Do you like Apple as a computer/operating systems/music box manufacturer or as a legal entity. I don't mind Apple as a computer/operating systems/music box manufacturer but I hate Apple as a legal entity. It's not that long ago that they sued their own fans for discovering "trade secrets", and it's also not that long ago that they started sueing CSIRO, a non profit pure science organisation, trying to invalidate a few of their patents relating to wireless networking.
I say fuck Apple, go Burst.com (though I admit, that's my first impression and I haven't read the article!)
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Right, so the installer should be able to handle supercomputers, servers, enterprise networks, phones, and embedded devices all in one. I think you're being slightly too ambitious here, especially considering you're proposing an installer that can fully customise an operating system to exact needs of every computer in the world as a user-friendly option.
Well done, not quite first post but almost. A small critique of your troll, could you please update it to include saying "1% marketshare", and also you could perhaps have a more modern game than Quake 3, especially now that Quake 4 has been released.
Bloody hell I absolutely hate the people who always say "Never use inheritance only use composition". Almost nothing is ever that black and white.
They are different. Both have their uses and both are most powerful in different contexts. Most particularly, with composition you cannot use virtual functions so it's not as easy to modularise the code to implement new objects that can be substituted in. In inheritence it's a lot harder to have a clear understanding of the full class as the class definition is in effect split up all over the code.
For example, I'm currently whipping up a simple GUI library for one of my opengl projects, and in this case I'm using inheritence by having a basic widget class with virtual functions (perhaps Render(), MouseClick() etc) and they are then put in a linked list where for each event I just go through the loop calling the function. With composition you can't do that.
Of course if you did that then you'd be lynched by your shareholders straight away. Europe is a huge market and for a company that mostly relies on a monopoly to boost competitors out, and for a company whose products don't interoperate at all with other products of the same class, even Microsoft wouldn't last very long without Europe.
Why do you say that? In assembler it takes the same amount of instructions (with a, b and c substituted in for the registers):
xor $a, $b xor $b, $a xor $a, $b
compared to
mov $c, $a mov $a, $b mov $b, $c
and takes one less register which could mean a great deal in many programs. It's easy enough to write in comments next to it that you're swapping the two integers. From looking at gcc things are a bit strange when getting into optimisations - it's inconsistant depending on which optimisation you use but that may be my fault of my methodology. Of course I shouldn't have quoted that as a rule since the best way also depends on the context that it's used in.
OK I use Linux and I accept your point, but looking ahead at if (*cough* when *cough*) Linux takes over from Windows in the OEM market or even has slightly equal footing do you think that things will be any different than they are now? Most probably, with the surpreme customisability of Linux things would be worse than the current situation buying a new computer with Windows on it. You'd still need a full reinstall to get things running again!
In my humble opinion, there's bad product placement (see I Robot) but there's also good product placement as well (see Blade Runner). I hate it when advertisers force writers to write their product in the script then portrey it as part of the story, but I don't mind at all having a writer think "OK we have a futuristic setting where I want ads here" and then cutting a deal with the corperations for product placement there.
Even having a car in there where it doesn't matter which car it is, I don't mind them giving the car to the highest bidder, but having the actors say "nothing drives like a Ford!" while they're driving it makes me cringe. Basically as long as it's at the writers convenience it's good, but when it's at the advertisers convenience it's bad.
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Look at the PC Mark tests (minus the silly graphics tests and the xp startup, app loading tests). Most of the tests are won by wine probably by only a few fractions of a second - half by less than a percentage point. Besides, they're mostly testing either memory management, which Linux generally does better, or CPU, which Wine has a huge advantage in because it's Gentoo and compiled specifically for the system.
Gentoo really does feel faster. Compare say a Debian system (which is compiled purely for stability) to a Gentoo system (which is compiled purely for speed) and the Gentoo system will win. However I still use Debian because I kind of like my stability!
The results aren't exactly surprising - Wine is excelling in what Linux is generally better than Windows in doing - memory management, hard drive speed, and related matters (stressing generally there, because of course different apps give different results). This is Gentoo after all, it's built for speed. Then the heavier the load on the video drivers the more the superiority of the Windows drivers takes hold, so for the graphical stuff things don't work as fast.
Congrats to the Wine devs!
And so are the people who had seen the untouched story then supposed to look through the front page, see that the story isn't there anymore and then just assume the story has been invalidated?
Response 5: Doesn't apply to me.
This isn't Windows, you don't have to have KDE installed, and if you have KDE installed you don't have to have KHTML installed. Most Linux users this doesn't apply to, since the biggest distributions use Gnome anyway. In fact most vulnerabilities simply don't apply to an average Linux user - even the vulnerabilities in the Kernel - because they're to do with software not installed on their system.
Another Dupe. Ah well, it's good to have the rootkit jokes back online again.
Sue me.
Don't worry, just wait a while and they'll give you your turn.
I think you and the grandparent are getting a bit confused here on this issue (though it has been a few years since I studied Cosmology, and I may be wrong here, but I *do* try to keep abreast of the journals and recent discoveries when I have time).
A black hole itself has no temperature and emits no light. It literally can't. Hawking radiation comes from particles from before the event horizon. The actual amount of radiation is insignificant for astronomical black holes since they absorb more radiation from just the cosmic background microwave radiation than is let go through Hawking radiation. It's only really important for quantum black holes.
Stellar-mass black holes pretty much have been proven to come from the death of larger stars, more than about 3-4 stellar masses. Whether it's proven depends on how strict you are with the word "proof". Supermassive black holes *probably* started as stellar black holes, a long long time ago, maybe not. I'm not sure if anyone knows or has given proof, but if they have then I haven't heard about it. I'd like to though!
I'm someone not too long away from graduating in Soft Eng from an Australian university, and I'm sort of getting the opposite feeling to this article here. I think that even with the migrants (and yes there are a lot of them) there may be a shortage of specialised IT workers quite soon. I'm talking about specialised IT workers, not help desk workers or something like that. University enrollments are at a record low of something like 20 years for IT related degrees, my own university is having quite a bit of troubles.
Lets face it here, there will be almost no migrants that aren't from first-world countries that will be as good as the students the top Australian universities should be able to deliver.
Notice, however, (and this is where the mood of this message will suddenly change) that I say "should". I don't think that bringing in migrants is a huge issue, the main problem is that the Howard government seems to be looking at this from almost a capatalistic viewpoint: Migrants from other countries are simply cheaper to produce than graduate university students, so what on earth's the need to fund Universities? A government should be looking after its people, so shouldn't the answer be instead to boost the universities instead of not giving the local students a chance of going to university and simply grabbing people from overseas? One of the bigger reasons for a lack of graduating university students is because the universities simply can't afford to accept as many students as they want. Universities are trying to get around this through many ways. Charles Sturt University, for example, sponsers out their courses to companies like Microsoft and Cisco. Graduating from a Charles Sturt degree gives you an automatic MCSE. My own university simply cuts the amount of students that can attend, so even though I get a high level of education, I had to be in the top 5-10% of Year 12 students to even have a chance of getting in.
Ironically at the time when the politicians went through university in Australia tertiary education was completely paid for by the government.
So to summarise, I don't mind them importing migrants, but they should also look after their own citizens first.
Someone has already mentioned the fact that you CAN partition and format drives in the installer, so thats wrong for a start.
Funnily enough, the article mentions it too!
5. More secure? If linux is more secure than Windows then it's only marginal. The difference is the user base. If I were trying to exploit something I'd much rather do so on 90% of the user base than the other 10% (percentages made up). Not to mention ma and pa aren't exactly the most tech savvy of consumers and may not know the importance of a firewall and updating often. Something which most linux users do know.
I always give a bit of a laugh at this argument, and that people actually believe it. I'd like to see you have an experiment as to which could more easily stop a bullet, an apple or a kevlar vest. You'd shoot the apple, it'd blow up into smitherines, then you'd say "If I had shot the kevlar vest then it might have blown up the same way, therefore the apple must be at least as good at stopping bullets as the kevlar vest."
I think that the decline in quality isn't because they have stopped being funny, because that's just untrue. The Simpsons is still very funny. It's just that they seem to have lost the ability to take themselves, and the characters, seriously - they just make gags and bring out their multitude of celebrities, but they don't deal with the serious issues that the Simpsons in their prime did. Though I think Hank Azaria is great, that comment just highlights this.
Do you like Apple as a computer/operating systems/music box manufacturer or as a legal entity. I don't mind Apple as a computer/operating systems/music box manufacturer but I hate Apple as a legal entity. It's not that long ago that they sued their own fans for discovering "trade secrets", and it's also not that long ago that they started sueing CSIRO, a non profit pure science organisation, trying to invalidate a few of their patents relating to wireless networking.
I say fuck Apple, go Burst.com (though I admit, that's my first impression and I haven't read the article!)
Yes Gimp still uses the Gimp Tool Kit.
Right, so the installer should be able to handle supercomputers, servers, enterprise networks, phones, and embedded devices all in one. I think you're being slightly too ambitious here, especially considering you're proposing an installer that can fully customise an operating system to exact needs of every computer in the world as a user-friendly option.
Well done, not quite first post but almost. A small critique of your troll, could you please update it to include saying "1% marketshare", and also you could perhaps have a more modern game than Quake 3, especially now that Quake 4 has been released.
Bloody hell I absolutely hate the people who always say "Never use inheritance only use composition". Almost nothing is ever that black and white.
They are different. Both have their uses and both are most powerful in different contexts. Most particularly, with composition you cannot use virtual functions so it's not as easy to modularise the code to implement new objects that can be substituted in. In inheritence it's a lot harder to have a clear understanding of the full class as the class definition is in effect split up all over the code.
For example, I'm currently whipping up a simple GUI library for one of my opengl projects, and in this case I'm using inheritence by having a basic widget class with virtual functions (perhaps Render(), MouseClick() etc) and they are then put in a linked list where for each event I just go through the loop calling the function. With composition you can't do that.
Of course if you did that then you'd be lynched by your shareholders straight away. Europe is a huge market and for a company that mostly relies on a monopoly to boost competitors out, and for a company whose products don't interoperate at all with other products of the same class, even Microsoft wouldn't last very long without Europe.
besides, just because he's an "expert" doesn't make him always right at every single moment. Even experts make mistakes.
OK I use Linux and I accept your point, but looking ahead at if (*cough* when *cough*) Linux takes over from Windows in the OEM market or even has slightly equal footing do you think that things will be any different than they are now? Most probably, with the surpreme customisability of Linux things would be worse than the current situation buying a new computer with Windows on it. You'd still need a full reinstall to get things running again!
They'd make an artifical Sam Carter
Sorry but you've lost me. Is this a good or a bad thing?
How about the same question with Linux replaced with "the Mac"?
The average mouse IQ lowered by about 5 points.
In my humble opinion, there's bad product placement (see I Robot) but there's also good product placement as well (see Blade Runner). I hate it when advertisers force writers to write their product in the script then portrey it as part of the story, but I don't mind at all having a writer think "OK we have a futuristic setting where I want ads here" and then cutting a deal with the corperations for product placement there.
Even having a car in there where it doesn't matter which car it is, I don't mind them giving the car to the highest bidder, but having the actors say "nothing drives like a Ford!" while they're driving it makes me cringe. Basically as long as it's at the writers convenience it's good, but when it's at the advertisers convenience it's bad.