What secrets are there to give away with the documentation necessary to fully implement drivers? Would somebody please summarize this? As I understand it, making a driver is mostly knowing what values to put in a number of memory-mapped registers and when to do it.
If CPU speed is irrelevant to processor power, then why do we keep talking about it?
It's not irrelevant if you don't make stupid architectural changes specifically designed to raise the clock speed, like Intel did with Prescott. It's not everything, but it's still something.
His premise is that Windows is more user-friendly for him. His reasoning is that configuration of a Linux system must involve an endless number of shell-issued commands. I argue that these textual configuration commands, for the most part on a well-integrated distro, are not required, since they can be done by front-ends. Sure, if you need to tweak something, you have to go digging in the configuration area---that happens in both environments.
It is traditional for Linux and other UNIX-like OSes to be configured manually. It can still be done so. However, as something like OS X or a well-integrated distro can show, you don't need to anymore.
As for the ad hominem:
I can handle insanely bad spelling, grammar, and style. I can handle Microsoft apologists. I can handle immaturity. But once I read the letters "MCSE", that was the spark in the powder room.
I probably knew at the time that he would be modded down, but I just couldn't resist applying a formal, systematic beat-down. I've already gotten myself in trouble at another forum for doing such a thing.:D
If commercial PC gaming tanks, non-commercial efforts will receive at least some of that talent.
One thing that will never be true about a console (because as I see it, it is the differentiating charicteristic) is that you can easily develop for it. Console development always involves buying a special box, and a special this, and a special that, and so on. Furthermore, the mod programmers won't be able to cross over without gargantuan support from various companies; and in that case, it really depends on who's running the show. Epic's Make Something Unreal contest was very well done, while the prototype for a company fucking things up is Valve. You-know-what wasn't the same after Valve came into that picture, and all the true gamers were driven away.
And my sleeping medicine is starting to kick in. Ooo... wavy screen... ^____^ It's funny how the bars are shrinking and growing... ok bybye now!
I did read one stat one where which said somrhthing like 66% of linux workstations use a cracked copy of windows.
Non-sequitur.
I find windows easy to use and install, call me a point a click nub, but if i can do alot without having to remember commands, it works in my favor.
Appeal to tradition.
What happens when say, a linux company starts comming as big as Microsoft, are they being as bad
Appeal to fear.
and lets be honest, alot of windows problems are C++ buffer over runs which as it fault of the languge, not the programming,
False premise.
also being the most widly used OS its bound to have more holes discoverd as more people (like 12 year olds now can get on net and learn how to crack programs and find security holes) are doing it on windows systems.
Red herring.
Also another side and my second closing (lol) is that Microsoft does alot of good. Gates give the most to charity (i think he gives the most in the world),
Appeal to wealth and honor by association.
there traninig scheme is good with alot of people doing, I for 1 am starting my MCSE in september, and have a big reasearch department,
Untenable appeal to authority.
look a mobile computing, wireless, the whole wireless home idear with windows media centre.
Meaningless statement.
I wonder how much of the advanced we have today, would be here without MS.
If I do something stupid (real-life example: rm -rf/mnt/floppy/ * when the CWD is ~): Hands into face. Scream or cry.
If the system does something stupid that makes me lose data (hasn't happened since I switched): Hit the machine. Hit something else. Repeat until tired.
Had this person not been exposed to D&D, he would have expressed his wish to kill in some other way.
I can't quite refine this one, but: If one has natural musical talent but no formal training and no wide exposure to many different forms of expression, one will make music according to pre-existing patterns and experimentation.
Have you ever tried to build GNOME?! Just take a look at the build scripts for the two in Slackware. KDE has a unified build script. GNOME is a dependency nightmare.
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What secrets are there to give away with the documentation necessary to fully implement drivers? Would somebody please summarize this? As I understand it, making a driver is mostly knowing what values to put in a number of memory-mapped registers and when to do it.
Will they extend the TCP/IP evil bit to the filesystem as well?
No, let's just all start paying with $2 bills.
Oh, not really. I've heard of a few people even getting to 3GHz with Winchester (the previous core) on air.
If CPU speed is irrelevant to processor power, then why do we keep talking about it?
It's not irrelevant if you don't make stupid architectural changes specifically designed to raise the clock speed, like Intel did with Prescott. It's not everything, but it's still something.
Multipliers on AMD processors are unlocked in the downward direction.
I should hope that they would check each page for trolling before going gold. Even if this is an enormous number.
We need it ASAP. This foolishness has to stop.
Special exception: Individuals (and I personally don't count corporations as individuals) may sell patents to corporations.
We still need big-time patent reform. There's no talking your way around the problem.
I'm worried, though, what happens if Microsoft "wins" the market.
Mass seppuku.
As I interpret that:
:D
His premise is that Windows is more user-friendly for him. His reasoning is that configuration of a Linux system must involve an endless number of shell-issued commands. I argue that these textual configuration commands, for the most part on a well-integrated distro, are not required, since they can be done by front-ends. Sure, if you need to tweak something, you have to go digging in the configuration area---that happens in both environments.
It is traditional for Linux and other UNIX-like OSes to be configured manually. It can still be done so. However, as something like OS X or a well-integrated distro can show, you don't need to anymore.
As for the ad hominem:
I can handle insanely bad spelling, grammar, and style. I can handle Microsoft apologists. I can handle immaturity. But once I read the letters "MCSE", that was the spark in the powder room.
I probably knew at the time that he would be modded down, but I just couldn't resist applying a formal, systematic beat-down. I've already gotten myself in trouble at another forum for doing such a thing.
If commercial PC gaming tanks, non-commercial efforts will receive at least some of that talent.
One thing that will never be true about a console (because as I see it, it is the differentiating charicteristic) is that you can easily develop for it. Console development always involves buying a special box, and a special this, and a special that, and so on. Furthermore, the mod programmers won't be able to cross over without gargantuan support from various companies; and in that case, it really depends on who's running the show. Epic's Make Something Unreal contest was very well done, while the prototype for a company fucking things up is Valve. You-know-what wasn't the same after Valve came into that picture, and all the true gamers were driven away.
And my sleeping medicine is starting to kick in. Ooo... wavy screen... ^____^ It's funny how the bars are shrinking and growing... ok bybye now!
I did read one stat one where which said somrhthing like 66% of linux workstations use a cracked copy of windows.
Non-sequitur.
I find windows easy to use and install, call me a point a click nub, but if i can do alot without having to remember commands, it works in my favor.
Appeal to tradition.
What happens when say, a linux company starts comming as big as Microsoft, are they being as bad
Appeal to fear.
and lets be honest, alot of windows problems are C++ buffer over runs which as it fault of the languge, not the programming,
False premise.
also being the most widly used OS its bound to have more holes discoverd as more people (like 12 year olds now can get on net and learn how to crack programs and find security holes) are doing it on windows systems.
Red herring.
Also another side and my second closing (lol) is that Microsoft does alot of good. Gates give the most to charity (i think he gives the most in the world),
Appeal to wealth and honor by association.
there traninig scheme is good with alot of people doing, I for 1 am starting my MCSE in september, and have a big reasearch department,
Untenable appeal to authority.
look a mobile computing, wireless, the whole wireless home idear with windows media centre.
Meaningless statement.
I wonder how much of the advanced we have today, would be here without MS.
Historian's fallacy and/or hindsight.
Got any more fallacious thinking?
I see a mouth moving, but no meaningful words are coming out. Strange...
Leopard?
Cheetah?
Jaguarundi? (I know, too close to Jaguar...)
And after looking it up:
Puma (can't believe I forgot this one)
Serval
and some others that nobody knows.
I've been doing that ever since.
If I do something stupid (real-life example: rm -rf /mnt/floppy/ * when the CWD is ~): Hands into face. Scream or cry.
If the system does something stupid that makes me lose data (hasn't happened since I switched): Hit the machine. Hit something else. Repeat until tired.
If the system just crashes: Meh. I can fix this.
Consumers lose. EA won't lose as badly as it should. A few lawyers walk away with assloads of cash.
Justice will not be served.
Had this person not been exposed to D&D, he would have expressed his wish to kill in some other way.
I can't quite refine this one, but: If one has natural musical talent but no formal training and no wide exposure to many different forms of expression, one will make music according to pre-existing patterns and experimentation.
Is this example not similar?
technicality
Have you ever tried to build GNOME?! Just take a look at the build scripts for the two in Slackware. KDE has a unified build script. GNOME is a dependency nightmare.
Does this mean that KDE will now get installed in /usr though?
Without a bridge, how do we get even a portion of the change-fearing masses?
Proof of concept, with no payload and ability to spread scaled down, and easy to remove.
I think they've been "Tocque"-ing up a bit too much.