It does not break down. A system at 90% is just as annoying as a video at 90%. I paid for full speed, I want full speed.
"As the mac-buying public has no problem with rosetta slow downs on intel hardware, I imagine they wouldn't have any problems with other slow downs due to emulation layers."
The mac-buying public has no problem with getting less than what they paid for? No... Surely not...
No seriously, I'm well aware of the masses of emu layers Macs *presently* have, as well as all the stupid pissing contests about Windows' legacy software support - when both systems have the same problem.
No, seriously; the mac-PC split in my mind is one of usability versus cost and software availability, and since for me, usability is a nonentity, you know where my dollars lay. I don't hate Apple (though their marketing humans ALL need shot in the face with the largest weapon handy), but I can't justify overpaying for their stuff.
Now you want me to overpay for my computer to support multiple OSes at a performance hit - to what end? So I can run software I've never needed before? Oh Goody Goody Gumdrops.
So yeah. My point is that Virtualization will not destroy the native OS market. Not a chance in hades. Too many performance hounds like myself in the work to cause native to fail to be profitable.
Oh, and if you think that virtualized performance will match native in the future: well, it's possible, but don't think commercial marketing is going to let anyone know; it's in their interests to have there be a compromise in existence so that they can sell you two separate products. And they wouldn't be able to fool you or I, but they absolutely would be able to fool a significant enough chunk of the masses.
but... but... oh, god, I hate environmentalists... but it doesn't PRODUCE any ionizing radiation, aside from gamma stuff that's shielded anyway!
"See that? it's radioactive! don your radiation suits sisters!"
*blinks*
But those things don't *stop* gamma... and... *knocks on the reactor shielding* it's not getting through anyway...
"You're gonna make this place uninhabitable for the next tenthousand years, MURDERER!"
That didn't even make any sense... gamma rads don't hang out like alpha or beta... *brain snaps* ARRGGHHH!! KILL!!! *whips out his 'Environmentally Friendly Shotgun (TM)'*
Actually, it is about causing damage. The mag field does not 'leak' (implying that the magnetic field becomes somehow compromised); instead, it's overcome. The technique doesn't incerease the mag field's strength, but draws off the cause of the 'bursts'. The end result is that the fusion reactor is damaged less, loses less heat/plasma density, gets better efficiencies, and has to be shut down less often.
And, no. You can't have Mr. Fusion in your car. You have to use Budweiser in your Direct Ethanol Fuel Cell - which is fine; if a purpose for Budweiser can be found, it's better than drinking it.
90% normal speed is slow, or at least, slower than optimal. I'm not going to pay for a system that's 10% less than I actually paid for. Try watching a video that's been slowed to 90%, and you'll see what I mean by slow.
So it's like a bridge rectifier in electronics. The source of movement is random, but the structure affected by the movement works in a way that directs the movement.
In biology, the direction of movement is that of survival, ie: that which survives, passes its traits to the next generation. That which does not, does not. It sounds designed, but the beauty of the natural world is that, once you have life (defined as the chemical process in which a molecule can reproduce itself using the compounds found in its environment), you have evolution (because those molecules that can reproduce themselves will continue to do so unless modified by the environment to the point where they cannot, any non-fatal modifications will be passed on to the next generation of compounds).
The eventuality of this is that, once you have life, it's only a matter of time until it's intelligent. This is because intelligence is a survival trait that can hardly be overlooked over the course of billions of years; for example, the ability to recognize that the 5 ton stone rolling your way would probably cause you fatal damage, and the cognizance to move out of the way both stem from intelligence.
The fact that our evolved intelligence has evolved far enough to have us question the existence of a divine creator we came up with thousands of years ago in order to, for the time being, explain where we came from just shows how many wars our species has been through.
Because, in War, the strongest and least stupid usually have the highest survival rate. You know, unless one side is rather arbitrarily killing an entire group of people.
I know of the same Linux user asshattery. It's actually why I say away from the larger distros; the smaller ones expect you not to know where anything is, and so both the users and OS go out of their way to help you out.
And, yes. I'm a linux hacker myself, with a concentration in usability. I WANT my computer to work intuitively, and mine, more and more, is doing so.
By the by, don't tell me Mepis is intuitive. It's intuitive to the guy who wrote it, those of a similar mind, and no one else.
This is true in most cases. But copy a large file to a flash device. You'll note that it's still flashing the 'I'm doing something' light well after your UI says it's done copying. This is due to caching, and I'm pretty sure that all UI copiers should attempt to flush the cache after each action for which there is a single dialog.
It's getting there, though. My girfriend (a mac user and graphic designer) is the person I want to be able to use my version of Slax, so every usability patch I make gets recommended to the main trunk of the project I'm patching.
Yeah, I suggest a lot of things to the Gimp and Jahshaka teams...
Linux was started in 1991 by a Finnish student, Linus Torvalds, who, at first wanted to Build a Better Terminal. This program grew into POSIX-compliance, becoming a Unix. While it worked well on his personal machine, he had distributed the source code under the GNU public license. People started submitting patches to the kernel to add new hardware capabilities, and eventually, Linux had to enlist a few trusted associates to help him screen and select the best packages.
"I should NEVER need to open a console (How often do Windows Users need cmd.exe?)"
I don't know. I use it constantly, but I'm not an average user.
"The user doesn't care about the neat things they can get from/proc/dev and the likes. Hide these."
Very nice. Do you want to do the restructuring work on a good 85% of all open source programs?
"Coming from Windows all of my libraries are in windows\system32 or in the directory of the actual application. Linux could put them in/lib,/usr/lib,/usr/local/lib,/usr/share/lib/, etc, and my application is almost certainly not going to have its own directory."
Depends. Did you specify '--prefix=/opt' when you compiled it? If not, it's going to get integrated into your system. If so, you have available to you a 'portable build'
"Permissions... In windows, if I want to give someone permissions, all I have to do is right click, go to the Permissions tab and add a user, tweak their access. In Linux, it suffers from the Owner/Group paradigm. I shouldn't have to change the user account (add a group to it) to access files."
*blink* I'm very confused here. Window's doesn't have a permissions/owner/users/groups paradigm?
For example, installing Slax linux is actually a bit easier than installing windows (click the 'install' button while you're trying out the OS, and seven or eight minutes later, you have Slax on your HD. Work is in progress to make this automatically windows friendly as well).
I've never actually come across a task done in Windows that I couldn't pull off in Linux. Sure, some require more work than others, but the capability is there. Someone just needs to get it integrated into the way everything else works.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.rpc1.org
Go there and download the RPC-1 firmware for your drive model. Then, fair use or not, you can watch whatever the hell you want on your compy.
*blinks*
*walks away*
Actually, I'm amazed myself. I was going for 'Funny'.
The french stopped protesting nuclear projects long ago. Nowadays, it's only us and the UN.
It does not break down. A system at 90% is just as annoying as a video at 90%. I paid for full speed, I want full speed.
"As the mac-buying public has no problem with rosetta slow downs on intel hardware, I imagine they wouldn't have any problems with other slow downs due to emulation layers."
The mac-buying public has no problem with getting less than what they paid for? No... Surely not...
No seriously, I'm well aware of the masses of emu layers Macs *presently* have, as well as all the stupid pissing contests about Windows' legacy software support - when both systems have the same problem.
No, seriously; the mac-PC split in my mind is one of usability versus cost and software availability, and since for me, usability is a nonentity, you know where my dollars lay. I don't hate Apple (though their marketing humans ALL need shot in the face with the largest weapon handy), but I can't justify overpaying for their stuff.
Now you want me to overpay for my computer to support multiple OSes at a performance hit - to what end? So I can run software I've never needed before? Oh Goody Goody Gumdrops.
So yeah. My point is that Virtualization will not destroy the native OS market. Not a chance in hades. Too many performance hounds like myself in the work to cause native to fail to be profitable.
Oh, and if you think that virtualized performance will match native in the future: well, it's possible, but don't think commercial marketing is going to let anyone know; it's in their interests to have there be a compromise in existence so that they can sell you two separate products. And they wouldn't be able to fool you or I, but they absolutely would be able to fool a significant enough chunk of the masses.
but... but... oh, god, I hate environmentalists... but it doesn't PRODUCE any ionizing radiation, aside from gamma stuff that's shielded anyway!
... *knocks on the reactor shielding* it's not getting through anyway...
"See that? it's radioactive! don your radiation suits sisters!"
*blinks*
But those things don't *stop* gamma... and
"You're gonna make this place uninhabitable for the next tenthousand years, MURDERER!"
That didn't even make any sense... gamma rads don't hang out like alpha or beta... *brain snaps* ARRGGHHH!! KILL!!! *whips out his 'Environmentally Friendly Shotgun (TM)'*
Actually, it is about causing damage. The mag field does not 'leak' (implying that the magnetic field becomes somehow compromised); instead, it's overcome. The technique doesn't incerease the mag field's strength, but draws off the cause of the 'bursts'. The end result is that the fusion reactor is damaged less, loses less heat/plasma density, gets better efficiencies, and has to be shut down less often.
Thus saving millions of dollarpounds each year.
NST is a european web magazine. Of course they're talking euros.
Deuterium, usually. Heavy hydrogen.
And, no. You can't have Mr. Fusion in your car. You have to use Budweiser in your Direct Ethanol Fuel Cell - which is fine; if a purpose for Budweiser can be found, it's better than drinking it.
90% normal speed is slow, or at least, slower than optimal. I'm not going to pay for a system that's 10% less than I actually paid for. Try watching a video that's been slowed to 90%, and you'll see what I mean by slow.
No. I don't need to use another OS today.
"OS virtualization is going to kill off the native OS X software market"
Ahh, and welcome back to another thrilling episode of "doesn't know what the fuck they're on about" theatre!
Honestly. OSV is SLOW compared to native. No one wants slow.
This makes me wonder if a peer-to-peer antispam system is in order. Like anything, it occurs to me that Blue's weakness was its centralization.
Let's see spammers take down a distributed system with a distributed DoS. Somehow, I doubt it's possible.
should probably get started on designing this...
So it's like a bridge rectifier in electronics. The source of movement is random, but the structure affected by the movement works in a way that directs the movement.
In biology, the direction of movement is that of survival, ie: that which survives, passes its traits to the next generation. That which does not, does not. It sounds designed, but the beauty of the natural world is that, once you have life (defined as the chemical process in which a molecule can reproduce itself using the compounds found in its environment), you have evolution (because those molecules that can reproduce themselves will continue to do so unless modified by the environment to the point where they cannot, any non-fatal modifications will be passed on to the next generation of compounds).
The eventuality of this is that, once you have life, it's only a matter of time until it's intelligent. This is because intelligence is a survival trait that can hardly be overlooked over the course of billions of years; for example, the ability to recognize that the 5 ton stone rolling your way would probably cause you fatal damage, and the cognizance to move out of the way both stem from intelligence.
The fact that our evolved intelligence has evolved far enough to have us question the existence of a divine creator we came up with thousands of years ago in order to, for the time being, explain where we came from just shows how many wars our species has been through.
Because, in War, the strongest and least stupid usually have the highest survival rate. You know, unless one side is rather arbitrarily killing an entire group of people.
I'm tall and intelligent with beautiful hair... am I gonna go bald?
I know of the same Linux user asshattery. It's actually why I say away from the larger distros; the smaller ones expect you not to know where anything is, and so both the users and OS go out of their way to help you out.
And, yes. I'm a linux hacker myself, with a concentration in usability. I WANT my computer to work intuitively, and mine, more and more, is doing so.
By the by, don't tell me Mepis is intuitive. It's intuitive to the guy who wrote it, those of a similar mind, and no one else.
*sigh*
Ok, I'll write a kControl applet for it... but you OWE me. The next one you have to write yourself.
???? VFW works well under wine???? are you certain???
"I don't know what's wrong with the previous poster's distro that K3b didn't work right out of the box."
Because in a lot of distros, K3b isn't marked at 'CD authoring'; it's marked as K3b.
Meanwhile, it'd be nice to have K3b integrated as a kpart, activated when you navigate to a blank or unfinished media in an optical drive.
This is true in most cases. But copy a large file to a flash device. You'll note that it's still flashing the 'I'm doing something' light well after your UI says it's done copying. This is due to caching, and I'm pretty sure that all UI copiers should attempt to flush the cache after each action for which there is a single dialog.
It's getting there, though. My girfriend (a mac user and graphic designer) is the person I want to be able to use my version of Slax, so every usability patch I make gets recommended to the main trunk of the project I'm patching.
Yeah, I suggest a lot of things to the Gimp and Jahshaka teams...
He's wrong anyways.
Linux was started in 1991 by a Finnish student, Linus Torvalds, who, at first wanted to Build a Better Terminal. This program grew into POSIX-compliance, becoming a Unix. While it worked well on his personal machine, he had distributed the source code under the GNU public license. People started submitting patches to the kernel to add new hardware capabilities, and eventually, Linux had to enlist a few trusted associates to help him screen and select the best packages.
try: 'which (programname)'
"I should NEVER need to open a console (How often do Windows Users need cmd.exe?)"
/proc /dev and the likes. Hide these."
/lib, /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib, /usr/share/lib/, etc, and my application is almost certainly not going to have its own directory."
I don't know. I use it constantly, but I'm not an average user.
"The user doesn't care about the neat things they can get from
Very nice. Do you want to do the restructuring work on a good 85% of all open source programs?
"Coming from Windows all of my libraries are in windows\system32 or in the directory of the actual application. Linux could put them in
Depends. Did you specify '--prefix=/opt' when you compiled it? If not, it's going to get integrated into your system. If so, you have available to you a 'portable build'
"Permissions... In windows, if I want to give someone permissions, all I have to do is right click, go to the Permissions tab and add a user, tweak their access. In Linux, it suffers from the Owner/Group paradigm. I shouldn't have to change the user account (add a group to it) to access files."
*blink* I'm very confused here. Window's doesn't have a permissions/owner/users/groups paradigm?
That brings to mind an idea, though...
That really depends.
For example, installing Slax linux is actually a bit easier than installing windows (click the 'install' button while you're trying out the OS, and seven or eight minutes later, you have Slax on your HD. Work is in progress to make this automatically windows friendly as well).
Query: like what?
I've never actually come across a task done in Windows that I couldn't pull off in Linux. Sure, some require more work than others, but the capability is there. Someone just needs to get it integrated into the way everything else works.