You know, that's what always annoys me about Ratchet & Clank -- people can't be bothered to jump through real lava fields and blow each other up with electric field weapons anymore. They just sit on their lazy backsides and do it on a TV instead of getting out there and really blowing stuff up! Come on people, get up and torch something with your plasma weapons instead of just pretending to on TV!
What's new about this exactly? I have I2O controllers with on-board cache from ten years ago, and we had RAM-based PCI cards for caching back in the nineties on some servers I administered.
So now Intel's just integrating a cheaper I/O cache into the backplane... flash instead of RAM... big deal, and hardly innovative. Its also not going to help streaming data speeds at all, which will always rely on spindle speed, nor random access of changing data for that matter, only data that can be cached -- which is why we've been doing RAM caching for all these years.
Actually I'm quite certain the gp was trying to point out that having 'engineer' in your job title and being a Professional Engineer are completely different things, and that the latter requires a lot more education.
Let me get this straight, Sony actually bothered allowing us to install Linux on the PS3 in the first place and they're no friend to open source or hackers? Since when did the competition let you install any third party software on their machines at all? Sure, it had limitations to protect their investment, but it was an option at all. Now it seems its no longer economical to continue making the device that way but surely someone else recognizes the severely short-sighted Sony-hating required to claim that somehow the only console company to offer Linux support ever (on two of its consoles in a row no less) has some special standing as a parriah to the open source community.
And if this is in any way related to the blimp system they're testing near the Sarnia Canada border (which I'm betting it is), they don't do so well with lightning either.
I'm quite certain the reason why so many people use Firefox instead of the browser that came with their OS is because it does in fact do what they want it to do, making your argument completely bunk.
That said, if you're going to use cute monikers like 'open sores', why don't you bother explaining what ground you have to insult developers that give their product away in a form that you can change any way you like after getting it. There's nothing stopping even Microsoft from changing a few lines in Firefox and re-releasing it to their own customers without this URL bar feature.
Do you get paid to be a shill or do you just do it out of ignorance?
The kernel shouldn't know if you're running on battery IMHO, it should be told by the userspace. What's lacking here are good userspace controls for explaining to the kernel what you want from it, and at that point I'd expect distros to configure the kernels to be properly optimized for those conditions.
Having attended the Ottawa Linux Symposium and heard the finger pointing and ranting about how poorly ACPI (for example) is actually implemented in hardware, and that it only works on Windows because of proprietary drivers, I understand completely why this has been a pain on Linux. Implementing open standards that aren't actually followed by vendors because they can write a Windows driver to fix the problem is a royal pain.
FYI I don't want my computer running in lowest-possible-power-mode when on battery sometimes, because I may be outside where I need the screen brighter (for example).
I won't even ask what security you think is better on Windows.
If I were going to pick a random filesystem that will be readable in 15+ years for such a project, I'd probably put my bets on ISO9660, especially since this is a read-only storage situation.
Even on a normal performance metric, I can't tell you the slim I cited is a better deal than the Apple Mini. My problem is with people who think that the entry point in PC hardware isn't as low as it is.
FYI the Slim is 37.79cm x 10.6cm x 43.31cm at 7.3kg and the Mini is only 5.08 cm x 16.51 cm x 16.51 cm at 1.31 kg. Personally though, I'm tempted by one of these.
One could anonymously "out" you as a child molester (even though you're presumably not) on blogs all over the planet and make you lose all your friends, your job, the trust of your neighbours, etc.
I'm pretty sure you'd be questioning your belief that speech can't take away others' freedom after that experience.
That said, I believe fairly strongly in free speech, but also in limits thereto. No, its not an absolute.
I don't have a problem with your basic points except that you skip one... does the skanky ho have a right to use the judicial system for the sole purpose of exposing the other skanky ho if the first skanky ho had no real desire to continue the case thereafter?
I have a recollection that in some states this would be considered an abuse of the process at least.
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You obviously never played Amplitude or Frequency on the PS2.
Personally, they were much better games than their later Guitar Hero cousins, especially featuring online competition modes.
Unfortunately, they didn't have the gimmick controllers to sell them to the masses.
You know, that's what always annoys me about Ratchet & Clank -- people can't be bothered to jump through real lava fields and blow each other up with electric field weapons anymore. They just sit on their lazy backsides and do it on a TV instead of getting out there and really blowing stuff up! Come on people, get up and torch something with your plasma weapons instead of just pretending to on TV!
What's new about this exactly? I have I2O controllers with on-board cache from ten years ago, and we had RAM-based PCI cards for caching back in the nineties on some servers I administered.
So now Intel's just integrating a cheaper I/O cache into the backplane ... flash instead of RAM ... big deal, and hardly innovative. Its also not going to help streaming data speeds at all, which will always rely on spindle speed, nor random access of changing data for that matter, only data that can be cached -- which is why we've been doing RAM caching for all these years.
Actually I'm quite certain the gp was trying to point out that having 'engineer' in your job title and being a Professional Engineer are completely different things, and that the latter requires a lot more education.
Let me get this straight, Sony actually bothered allowing us to install Linux on the PS3 in the first place and they're no friend to open source or hackers? Since when did the competition let you install any third party software on their machines at all? Sure, it had limitations to protect their investment, but it was an option at all. Now it seems its no longer economical to continue making the device that way but surely someone else recognizes the severely short-sighted Sony-hating required to claim that somehow the only console company to offer Linux support ever (on two of its consoles in a row no less) has some special standing as a parriah to the open source community.
Windows only just did the same thing a month ago. What is this ages thing you speak of?
And if this is in any way related to the blimp system they're testing near the Sarnia Canada border (which I'm betting it is), they don't do so well with lightning either.
Wow, way to troll.
I'm quite certain the reason why so many people use Firefox instead of the browser that came with their OS is because it does in fact do what they want it to do, making your argument completely bunk.
That said, if you're going to use cute monikers like 'open sores', why don't you bother explaining what ground you have to insult developers that give their product away in a form that you can change any way you like after getting it. There's nothing stopping even Microsoft from changing a few lines in Firefox and re-releasing it to their own customers without this URL bar feature.
You missed the pun which was predicated on the previous pun in the g-g-p I believe.
PAE is no more of a hack than the EMS managers many of us used for the better part of a decade to access our RAM back in the earlier DOS/Windows days.
For example to supplement the parent, bo2k isn't exactly hard to find. They have a really huge website with a lot of details on how to use it.
Or a local static?
There's a reason I like Python ... it actually has this type of functionality built into the language.
That aside, I think I last used something like this when I wanted that functionality in C:
int foo()
{
static int i=1;
switch (i)
{
case 1:
i++;
printf("First operation\n");
return i;
case 2:
i++;
printf("Second\n");
return i;
default:
return -1;
}
}
If you were going to do that without goto, use a while with a break instead of ugly nested ifs.
while(1)
{
if (!start_condition) break;
action1();
cleanup1();
if (!test_condition1) break;
action2();
cleanup2();
if (!test_condition2) break;
}
And so on ... it basically gets you exception handling formatted code. Of course, goto is probably still cleaner :)
Because of rolling weight issues on the wheels. It completely ruins the suspension characteristics of your car.
Do you get paid to be a shill or do you just do it out of ignorance?
The kernel shouldn't know if you're running on battery IMHO, it should be told by the userspace. What's lacking here are good userspace controls for explaining to the kernel what you want from it, and at that point I'd expect distros to configure the kernels to be properly optimized for those conditions.
Having attended the Ottawa Linux Symposium and heard the finger pointing and ranting about how poorly ACPI (for example) is actually implemented in hardware, and that it only works on Windows because of proprietary drivers, I understand completely why this has been a pain on Linux. Implementing open standards that aren't actually followed by vendors because they can write a Windows driver to fix the problem is a royal pain.
FYI I don't want my computer running in lowest-possible-power-mode when on battery sometimes, because I may be outside where I need the screen brighter (for example).
I won't even ask what security you think is better on Windows.
You really don't understand the use of comparison in argument, do you?
Mind you, I can think of smarter things to do with water than to use it as propellant in space where it won't be reclaimed by our biosphere.
I made the mistake of sending the Prius vs. Hummer total lifetime pollution article to a tree hugger I know.
Now they're just confused.
I know where to find several, but none of them are at brick and mortar retailers as new devices.
Luckily we have ebay.
I was hoping a two-digit would reply, but we got a 3.
If I were going to pick a random filesystem that will be readable in 15+ years for such a project, I'd probably put my bets on ISO9660, especially since this is a read-only storage situation.
The comment had nothing to do with comparable pricing for comparable hardware, but where 'entry level' begins.
That Mac may be a very good deal for what's included, but my point was that there is an entry level even lower than that.
Even on a normal performance metric, I can't tell you the slim I cited is a better deal than the Apple Mini. My problem is with people who think that the entry point in PC hardware isn't as low as it is.
FYI the Slim is 37.79cm x 10.6cm x 43.31cm at 7.3kg and the Mini is only 5.08 cm x 16.51 cm x 16.51 cm at 1.31 kg. Personally though, I'm tempted by one of these.
One could anonymously "out" you as a child molester (even though you're presumably not) on blogs all over the planet and make you lose all your friends, your job, the trust of your neighbours, etc.
I'm pretty sure you'd be questioning your belief that speech can't take away others' freedom after that experience.
That said, I believe fairly strongly in free speech, but also in limits thereto. No, its not an absolute.
I don't have a problem with your basic points except that you skip one ... does the skanky ho have a right to use the judicial system for the sole purpose of exposing the other skanky ho if the first skanky ho had no real desire to continue the case thereafter?
I have a recollection that in some states this would be considered an abuse of the process at least.