That makes zero sense. You spend manpower and duplicate effort to support whatever GCC supports plus what it's missing, because you don't like the situation that GCC does not enough manpower?
Why not invest your time in supporting GCC instead?
This PCC thing sounds like a political gesture than anything else. I don't think anything useful will every come out of it.
Indeed, he is quite consistent. Although I may follow Linus more than RMS, I do not respect him less. This is a man with great achievement and his contributions are no way less than Linus. In fact , more.
While preventing piracy is Microsoft's right, it's interesting to see why they only activated this functionality now.
Why not activate it earlier? Then customers would find out pirated copies didn't work earlier. But it wouldn't do much good to Microsoft as those customers might just switch to other alternatives. Now, a customer tries pirated Vista and "ohoo, it works", and happily use it for months, then suddenly it breaks. What are their options? They already put the OS into production, and now caught with their pants off, there is little time to plan for a switchover to another OS, chance is they'd have to buy a genuine version.
I suggest Microsoft turn it on and off every once a while to bring more revenues this way.
I am not getting many spam emails for my hotmail account except those marketing ones from Microsoft itself. I keep this account only because I use msn. I use gmail for real emails. But those Microsoft emails are indeed damn annoying.
I too am disappointed. I can understand why network traffic is affected if multimedia priority is boosted, but a hard-coded limit? Just how stupid is it!
Do they have to throttle disk activity as well? What if two components shooting for "optimal performance" both want to throttle each other?
First of all, I am not so sure what US laws Yahoo! could have violated - complying with subpoena from authorities IS complying with the law, even in the US. Anyone remembering when FBI wanted to ask for search records from Google?
So the only difference is that we think the Chinese government is "evil". However, it then becomes a political question, not a legal question. Officially, US has not put China on the "evil country list", so even on that front it's not a problem.
So I really don't see how Yahoo! could be held legally responsible for this.
If you got a problem with China or any country's policies, take it to the US government or even the UN. It's their job.
Yahoo! is just an individual company. It's not US State Department or any authorities that actually have that kind of duty.
Sure, some closed-mind conservatives say "you always have a choice". Not really. Global economy is here to stay and you'd be wipded out if you refuse to enter the world's biggest market because of ideology. Fortunately, even the US government knows refusing to talk because of political reason is not going to do US any good. Doing business with China has brought US many cheap goods, and it is going to hurt US more than China if we stop it.
Once iPhone is unlocked, there will be much more customers worldwide to buy it, not just AT&T.
TO boost the initial entrance into the market, Apple chose an exclusive carrier, but I don't think it's a long-term strategy. Isn't unlocked iPhone going to give Apple more revenue and market share? Of course right now it's bound by its contract with AT&T so it could not do so yet, but if someone else does it for Apple, why wouldn't Apple secretly love it?
Look, I am not saying there is no bugs, I am just saying what Microsoft said makes sense that it's by design, and some of the behavior is expected, while others NOT.
If you follow Linux scheduler development, you'll often see that it goes through many many iterations (what's the current version for CFS? 20? 30?). Often a change to address one area of performance problems causes a regression in another. Do we then say that CFS is wrong by design?
Scheduler is not rocket sicnece, but careful tuning and extensive testing are needed. I'd rather this be a TECHNICAL thread instead of just mindless bashing from people without a single clue about what it is actually about.
Reading/etc/passwd is necessary for a lot of things, like convert between uid and username, for example. It's not like there is only password in the file. Any person with a bit clue about Unix would know that.
If the poster is not stupid, I'd think the only reason he posted this is because he wanted to promote apparmor. And it's still stupid.
Linux has struggled for years to have a scheduler that does NOT skip audios when CPU hog processes are running. And it's still not there.
Windows puts much more emphasis on the desktop and audio playback has been much smoother. This comes at a cost, of course, as the article says. This is a simple trade-off between interactivity (for desktop) and throughput (for server).
But the throughput is only mostly affected if you actually are fully using the CPU and network bandwidth resources. For most people it is not the case (especially for the slow Internet). But if you are transferring huge data in a LAN, this will show up.
Of course the impact may be not necessarily so big, but by design I don't think it's wrong. It's just a trade off.
Seriously, isn't our country 'By the people for the people'. If the VAST MAJORITY have issues with a law or set or laws or the behavior of a corporate entity in relation to the laws...maybe it's time to rethink those laws or the interpretation of them. Eh?
Maybe it's the time to rethink about voting decisions and sending whom to the office...oh, never mind.
I almost never called a cop. One time I did because neighbor was making noise after midnight, and nothing happened. The second time I wanted someone to mediate between a tenant and a landlord, they wouldn't do it.
The only cases that I actually talked to a policeman were on the highway, and I had to pay hundreds of dollars and time to show up in traffic court.
Oh, and occasional phone calls to ask for a donation. "No thanks, I've paid my fine share of speeding tickets this year."
So don't lecture us what to think about police. We are taxpayers that pay them to do the work for us. We appreciate what they do but that's still their duty, and we'll not look up to them more than they deserve.
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That makes zero sense. You spend manpower and duplicate effort to support whatever GCC supports plus what it's missing, because you don't like the situation that GCC does not enough manpower?
Why not invest your time in supporting GCC instead?
This PCC thing sounds like a political gesture than anything else. I don't think anything useful will every come out of it.
Who invented Internet again?
Well, there is a real market.
Since DELL has been shipping pre-installed Linux PCs, they will eventually favor ATI if it performs better than nVidia due to higher quality drivers.
Indeed, he is quite consistent. Although I may follow Linus more than RMS, I do not respect him less. This is a man with great achievement and his contributions are no way less than Linus. In fact , more.
They are not enemies. We need both.
While preventing piracy is Microsoft's right, it's interesting to see why they only activated this functionality now.
Why not activate it earlier? Then customers would find out pirated copies didn't work earlier. But it wouldn't do much good to Microsoft as those customers might just switch to other alternatives. Now, a customer tries pirated Vista and "ohoo, it works", and happily use it for months, then suddenly it breaks. What are their options? They already put the OS into production, and now caught with their pants off, there is little time to plan for a switchover to another OS, chance is they'd have to buy a genuine version.
I suggest Microsoft turn it on and off every once a while to bring more revenues this way.
I am not getting many spam emails for my hotmail account except those marketing ones from Microsoft itself. I keep this account only because I use msn. I use gmail for real emails. But those Microsoft emails are indeed damn annoying.
And the existence of God cannot be disproven.
Yes, that's why it's not called Science.
I too am disappointed. I can understand why network traffic is affected if multimedia priority is boosted, but a hard-coded limit? Just how stupid is it!
Do they have to throttle disk activity as well? What if two components shooting for "optimal performance" both want to throttle each other?
Torturing prisoners outside US territory has been legal for CIA for a very long time.
First of all, I am not so sure what US laws Yahoo! could have violated - complying with subpoena from authorities IS complying with the law, even in the US. Anyone remembering when FBI wanted to ask for search records from Google?
So the only difference is that we think the Chinese government is "evil". However, it then becomes a political question, not a legal question. Officially, US has not put China on the "evil country list", so even on that front it's not a problem.
So I really don't see how Yahoo! could be held legally responsible for this.
http://courtneymalone.com/2007/08/28/a-note-on-vis ta-network-speed/
I suppose it'd violate both US and China's laws. What's your point again?
From the article, because they'd skip audio?
If you got a problem with China or any country's policies, take it to the US government or even the UN. It's their job.
Yahoo! is just an individual company. It's not US State Department or any authorities that actually have that kind of duty.
Sure, some closed-mind conservatives say "you always have a choice". Not really. Global economy is here to stay and you'd be wipded out if you refuse to enter the world's biggest market because of ideology. Fortunately, even the US government knows refusing to talk because of political reason is not going to do US any good. Doing business with China has brought US many cheap goods, and it is going to hurt US more than China if we stop it.
Once iPhone is unlocked, there will be much more customers worldwide to buy it, not just AT&T.
TO boost the initial entrance into the market, Apple chose an exclusive carrier, but I don't think it's a long-term strategy. Isn't unlocked iPhone going to give Apple more revenue and market share? Of course right now it's bound by its contract with AT&T so it could not do so yet, but if someone else does it for Apple, why wouldn't Apple secretly love it?
And so does AT&T have the right to sue?
Look, I am not saying there is no bugs, I am just saying what Microsoft said makes sense that it's by design, and some of the behavior is expected, while others NOT.
If you follow Linux scheduler development, you'll often see that it goes through many many iterations (what's the current version for CFS? 20? 30?). Often a change to address one area of performance problems causes a regression in another. Do we then say that CFS is wrong by design?
Scheduler is not rocket sicnece, but careful tuning and extensive testing are needed. I'd rather this be a TECHNICAL thread instead of just mindless bashing from people without a single clue about what it is actually about.
Just follow any CFS thread (or any Linux scheduler threads in the archive), the new shiny Linux scheduler.
Reading /etc/passwd is necessary for a lot of things, like convert between uid and username, for example. It's not like there is only password in the file. Any person with a bit clue about Unix would know that.
If the poster is not stupid, I'd think the only reason he posted this is because he wanted to promote apparmor. And it's still stupid.
Linux has struggled for years to have a scheduler that does NOT skip audios when CPU hog processes are running. And it's still not there.
Windows puts much more emphasis on the desktop and audio playback has been much smoother. This comes at a cost, of course, as the article says. This is a simple trade-off between interactivity (for desktop) and throughput (for server).
But the throughput is only mostly affected if you actually are fully using the CPU and network bandwidth resources. For most people it is not the case (especially for the slow Internet). But if you are transferring huge data in a LAN, this will show up.
Of course the impact may be not necessarily so big, but by design I don't think it's wrong. It's just a trade off.
They should have known this earlies, but now it's too late.
I am not so sure about that. I mean, we've had wars for oil that did not even belong to us.
Really? Wow. My undergrad marketing class confirmed everything I'd suspected.
Well, you know whom I'll believe.
Maybe it's the time to rethink about voting decisions and sending whom to the office...oh, never mind.
Time to pick up some really cheap SCO stock!
I almost never called a cop. One time I did because neighbor was making noise after midnight, and nothing happened. The second time I wanted someone to mediate between a tenant and a landlord, they wouldn't do it.
The only cases that I actually talked to a policeman were on the highway, and I had to pay hundreds of dollars and time to show up in traffic court.
Oh, and occasional phone calls to ask for a donation. "No thanks, I've paid my fine share of speeding tickets this year."
So don't lecture us what to think about police. We are taxpayers that pay them to do the work for us. We appreciate what they do but that's still their duty, and we'll not look up to them more than they deserve.