It works on WoW because clients only talk to the server, not to each other.
To use such a solution with Starcraft II, would mean that all game data would pass over the blizzard server. I think this would introduce far to much latency, and having a 4 player lan game, where all player data to to blizzard and back, are not going to work as good as a 'real' lan game.
An interesting thing is, how the hell is this going to work if both players are behind the same nat and thus share the same external ip address.
It was something that newer worked on starcraft 1, where 2 players on the same external ip address simply meant that they could not play against each other on battle.net (But lan worked).
There most likely were no windows firewall when he installed. They first included it with SP2.
And it's almost imposible(Newer seen it done) to install a Windows XP SP1 and then upgrade to SP2 before you get a virus. Been there, failed at doing that, had to do an other reinstall where I first burned SP2, many more patches, and an independent firewall to cd, just to install windows, apply patches and then reinsert network cable.
But now I run Linux so I don't have that kind of problems anymore.
But that logic don't work for most jobs. Let's look at cpus.
Most of the cost of a cpu is research and development. Either direct (Someone from Intel/Amd/Freescale/IBM/Whatever had to design the cpu) or indirect (Most of the cost of a cpu factory, is really the cost of development of the equipment in the factory, not the building itself).
So each time you buy a cpu you pay for a little part of the research done on that cpu. If you buy 100 cpus you pay 100 times as much for the research as the guy who only bought a single cpu. You can say that this is unfair(You both use the same research after all, so why should you pay more?) or fair (You pay for the research in proportion for how much you use it, given that with 100 cpus you use it 100 times as much as the guy with a single cpu).
Just look at most art(Music/Movies/Games and so on) as products with very little margin cost, and very high development+research cost, and you can see that art is currently treated as any other goods produced by our civilization. The fact that the margin cost is so close to 0, that we will call it 0 does not really change anything.
So the real question is: "Should art be treated as any other product"
And the reason you pay your plumber by the hour with no price discrimination for usage is simply that his cost for research and development is 0.
A system with no ip laws would not work in your world. Who would found research+development in for example solar panels, if your competitors could just copy your design when you were done, thus producing cheaper because they did not have as much research+development to pay for as you did.
What would happen in a modern world with no ip protection is that the cost of goods, would be much closer to their Production cost, but that research and development of new goods would be much slower.
I installed it and it almost work. I have oss sound in xmms but it did not install the alsa emulation layer, so now I can't use timidity -(
And what is with the license. People here said that oss V4 were opensource, but the download page say "Open Sound System is now free for personal and non-commercial use" and "The license key is valid for up to 6 months at a time after which you will need to download and install OSS again"
The solution is to remove pulse audio (Google fedora 11 remove pulse audio, there are enough guides and how to) and then fedora 11 will fall back to alsa which work exactly as in fedora 5/6
So does anyone know how to get oss working in Fedora 11?
I am currently stuck with alsa, and after removing pulse audio, anything is more or less working. And xmms can even do it's own software mixing, but I would like to try oss4 so other applications also could do mixing. Does anyone know if there are ossV4 packages for fedora11 out there?
ps: I hate the name oss, it always make me think of "open source software" not an audio stack.
How much (If any?) extra latency does the switch add? It's not the first time someone tries something like this but the latency normally might be so bad that you might just want to buy an other server instead. (Unless it's a database server, because even slow ram is much faster then the disk:}
Single core performance have not just climbed back up, it has increased by a factor of ~3.
If you take a single thread task, and run in on a 3.5GHz Pentium IV, and then run the same task on a new quad core chip form Intel/Amd, then the quad core chilp will finish the task 3 times faster. (Give or take, depending on exact instruction mix, sse usage and so on).
(And yes that is for single core task, if the task were threaded, you might gain a factor of 10).
But even then you might end up with a zero byte file, if your system crashes between the close and rename call. (Or between write and close, or doing write, or well anytime after open).
But I don't really think there might be a zero size file left if the system crashes is such a problem.
But what we really need is a flag to close(Or open) called FLUSH_ON_CLOSE that flushes a file when it's closed. There are so few situations where you would not want to do that, so maybe it should be default, and we could add a DO_NOT_FLUSH_ON_CLOSE.
Bonus points for anyone who can give a realistic use case for DO_NOT_FLUSH_ON_CLOSE
I don't think it's more effective to delay the flush, because you are not going to write anything in/behind the last flushed data block.
Looks interesting but how well does 3d work? It is marked as experimental. And the manual say Direct3D is not yet supported and will be added in a future release But maybe the doc is just out of date?.
It looks interesting, maybe it will save me some rebooting when Civilization V* is released:}
*No eta exists, but most people assume that they are developing it.
I asume that with vm you mean a vm such as vmware/Xen running a full Windows XP/Vista install.
Then there are 3 Reasons: 1: Hardware acceleration of graphics - Might not be needed for all applications but any graphics heavy application will be slow in a vm due to lag of graphics hardware acceleration support.
2: Desktop integration - applications running in wine will open a normal window along the rest of my desktop applications. So you can cut/paste between them, and put them in a beside each other and so on. With a vm, the vm take over the entire screen.
3: I don't want to maintain windows with all that include of patches, setup and av software, just to run a single oddball application.
Think of wine as something that allow you to run the few applications you need, that don't have a linux version, not something that will turn linux into a windows bootloader.
You may not be able to write an application to linux, but most of the rest of the world can do it. Oracle, PostgreSQL,OpenOffice,Java and Firefox to mention some of the bigger known projects which don't have any problem with making a single binary that run on any modern linux distribution.
But all the articles I could find say it was a sparc chip, even before sun bought the company. This is strange because I remember reading a long article about how the chip designers developing niagara were unhappy because sun changed the instruction set for the processor from x86-64 to sparc. (But they could at least keep using their current tools, even if it was not the tools that sun normally used to design chips). But maybe someone(Me??) mixed up chip names.
And there might not be room for an other x86-64 player, but I think there are more room there then in the sparc space. So I think a x86-64 Niagra+transitives sparc->x86 emulator would make a winner because sun could recover some of the extra costs by selling of excess Niagara chips. (Something that is really difficult as long as they are sparc).
If you work for sun can you give the inside story for the UltraSPARC T1 chip?
Was T1 really a x86-64 chip until sun bought the company that designed it and converted it to Sparc? And if so WHY?
If sun had taken the x86 version of T1 given it an hyper transport and sold it to third parties(In the same way that Amd and Intel sell their chips) it might have taken a good part of the server world. Now it's just yet an other effective but far to expensive chip that can't beat Intel/Amd in $/performance for any workload.
Integrated Client-Server solutions for damn near everything your people will ever need - solutions which scale "effortlessly" from the home office to the enterprise
When do they start selling this to normal customers? I have newer seen the word "effortlessly" used to describe sharepoint and exchange before.
But I don't know any small shop which have a DBA. It is almost always the main developer who define the database and write the sql. I currently work in a very small shop(Just me doing development:} so I define the schema, write the sql when needed and do the website/application development. (Mostly in java). Oh and I also install the server(Which is really a virtual server, so we only got 512MB Ram, don't try to run Oracle on that) so I really just want a fire and forget database.
And I run postgresql, not mysql if I can. I really hate the mysql (un)optimizers inability to handle views in a sane way.
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It works on WoW because clients only talk to the server, not to each other.
To use such a solution with Starcraft II, would mean that all game data would pass over the blizzard server. I think this would introduce
far to much latency, and having a 4 player lan game, where all player data to to blizzard and back, are not going to work as good as a 'real' lan game.
An interesting thing is, how the hell is this going to work if both players are behind the same nat and thus share the same external ip address.
It was something that newer worked on starcraft 1, where 2 players on the same external ip address simply meant that they could not play against each other on battle.net (But lan worked).
There most likely were no windows firewall when he installed. They first included it with SP2.
And it's almost imposible(Newer seen it done) to install a Windows XP SP1 and then upgrade to SP2 before you get a virus. Been there, failed at doing that, had to do an other reinstall where I first burned SP2, many more patches, and an independent firewall to cd, just to install windows, apply patches and then reinsert network cable.
But now I run Linux so I don't have that kind of problems anymore.
But that logic don't work for most jobs. Let's look at cpus.
Most of the cost of a cpu is research and development. Either direct (Someone from Intel/Amd/Freescale/IBM/Whatever had to design the cpu) or indirect (Most of the cost of a cpu factory, is really the cost of development of the equipment in the factory, not the building itself).
So each time you buy a cpu you pay for a little part of the research done on that cpu. If you buy 100 cpus you pay 100 times as much for the research as the guy who only bought a single cpu. You can say that this is unfair(You both use the same research after all, so why should you pay more?) or fair (You pay for the research in proportion for how much you use it, given that with 100 cpus you use it 100 times as much as the guy with a single cpu).
Just look at most art(Music/Movies/Games and so on) as products with very little margin cost, and very high development+research cost, and you can see that art is currently treated as any other goods produced by our civilization.
The fact that the margin cost is so close to 0, that we will call it 0 does not really change anything.
So the real question is: "Should art be treated as any other product"
And the reason you pay your plumber by the hour with no price discrimination for usage is simply that his cost for research and development is 0.
A system with no ip laws would not work in your world. Who would found research+development in for example solar panels, if your competitors could just copy your design when you were done, thus producing cheaper because they did not have as much research+development to pay for as you did.
What would happen in a modern world with no ip protection is that the cost of goods, would be much closer to their Production cost, but that research and development of new goods would be much slower.
I installed it and it almost work. I have oss sound in xmms but it did not install the alsa emulation layer, so now I can't use timidity -(
And what is with the license. People here said that oss V4 were opensource, but the download page say
"Open Sound System is now free for personal and non-commercial use" and
"The license key is valid for up to 6 months at a time after which you will need to download and install OSS again"
And the listed price is for oss "49.99$".
The solution is to remove pulse audio (Google fedora 11 remove pulse audio, there are enough guides and how to) and then fedora 11 will fall back to alsa which work exactly as in fedora 5/6
So does anyone know how to get oss working in Fedora 11?
I am currently stuck with alsa, and after removing pulse audio, anything is more or less working. And xmms can even do it's own software mixing, but I would like to try oss4 so other applications also could do mixing. Does anyone know if there are ossV4 packages for fedora11 out there?
ps: I hate the name oss, it always make me think of "open source software" not an audio stack.
How much (If any?) extra latency does the switch add? It's not the first time someone tries something like this but the latency normally might be so bad that you might just want to buy an other server instead. (Unless it's a database server, because even slow ram is much faster then the disk :}
Yes, so just use the tag with mpg4(h.264).
Single core performance have not just climbed back up, it has increased by a factor of ~3.
If you take a single thread task, and run in on a 3.5GHz Pentium IV, and then run the same task on a new quad core chip form Intel/Amd,
then the quad core chilp will finish the task 3 times faster. (Give or take, depending on exact instruction mix, sse usage and so on).
(And yes that is for single core task, if the task were threaded, you might gain a factor of 10).
I may be blind, but I could not find any complain about the Qt event loop there. (Or any reason at all, for their choice of Gtk over Qt).
Citation needed.
Do you have any description about what this problem with the Qt event loop should be?
So you want them to write 3 gui's for their browser. One for gtk+ and one for QT4 and one for motif(Lesstif) ??
But even then you might end up with a zero byte file, if your system crashes between the close and rename call. (Or between write and close, or doing write, or well anytime after open).
But I don't really think there might be a zero size file left if the system crashes is such a problem.
But what we really need is a flag to close(Or open) called FLUSH_ON_CLOSE that flushes a file when it's closed. There are so few situations where you would not want to do that, so maybe it should be default, and we could add a DO_NOT_FLUSH_ON_CLOSE.
Bonus points for anyone who can give a realistic use case for DO_NOT_FLUSH_ON_CLOSE
I don't think it's more effective to delay the flush, because you are not going to write anything in/behind the last flushed data block.
How about you google it. (Hint: It already exists, see for example http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com/2009/05/its-android-time.html)
Qt is lpgl and gpl. What more do you want?
Looks interesting but how well does 3d work? It is marked as experimental. And the manual say
Direct3D is not yet supported and will be added in a future release
But maybe the doc is just out of date?.
It looks interesting, maybe it will save me some rebooting when Civilization V* is released :}
*No eta exists, but most people assume that they are developing it.
I asume that with vm you mean a vm such as vmware/Xen running a full Windows XP/Vista install.
Then there are 3 Reasons:
1: Hardware acceleration of graphics - Might not be needed for all applications but any graphics heavy application will be slow in a vm due to lag of graphics hardware acceleration support.
2: Desktop integration - applications running in wine will open a normal window along the rest of my desktop applications. So you can cut/paste between them, and put them in a beside each other and so on. With a vm, the vm take over the entire screen.
3: I don't want to maintain windows with all that include of patches, setup and av software, just to run a single oddball application.
Think of wine as something that allow you to run the few applications you need, that don't have a linux version, not something that will turn linux into a windows bootloader.
Gnu/Linux is not an operating system either.
"Fedora core 11" is an operation system.
They did. It's called synthesiagame (http://synthesiagame.com) Just bring your own midi music.
You may not be able to write an application to linux, but most of the rest of the world can do it.
Oracle, PostgreSQL,OpenOffice,Java and Firefox to mention some of the bigger known projects which don't have any problem with making a single binary that run on any modern linux distribution.
Sun bought "Afara Websystems" which were designing it. Sun finished the design. See for example
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39154430,00.htm
But all the articles I could find say it was a sparc chip, even before sun bought the company. This is strange because I remember reading a long
article about how the chip designers developing niagara were unhappy because sun changed the instruction set for the processor from x86-64 to sparc. (But they could at least keep using their current tools, even if it was not the tools that sun normally used to design chips).
But maybe someone(Me??) mixed up chip names.
And there might not be room for an other x86-64 player, but I think there are more room there then in the sparc space.
So I think a x86-64 Niagra+transitives sparc->x86 emulator would make a winner because sun could recover some of the extra costs by selling of excess Niagara chips. (Something that is really difficult as long as they are sparc).
But we will newer know.
If you work for sun can you give the inside story for the UltraSPARC T1 chip?
Was T1 really a x86-64 chip until sun bought the company that designed it and converted it to Sparc? And if so WHY?
If sun had taken the x86 version of T1 given it an hyper transport and sold it to third parties(In the same way that Amd and Intel sell their chips)
it might have taken a good part of the server world. Now it's just yet an other effective but far to expensive chip that can't beat Intel/Amd in $/performance
for any workload.
Integrated Client-Server solutions for damn near everything your people will ever need - solutions which scale "effortlessly" from the home office to the enterprise
When do they start selling this to normal customers? I have newer seen the word "effortlessly" used to describe sharepoint and exchange before.
But I don't know any small shop which have a DBA. It is almost always the main developer who define the database and write the sql. I currently work in a very small shop(Just me doing development :} so I define the schema, write the sql when needed and do the website/application development. (Mostly in java). Oh and I also install the server(Which is really a virtual server, so we only got 512MB Ram, don't try to run Oracle on that) so I really just want a fire and forget database.
And I run postgresql, not mysql if I can. I really hate the mysql (un)optimizers inability to handle views in a sane way.