Who is slashdot? Slashdot is a person? I'd love to meet him/her/it!
People hold different views, and slashdot, as far as I am aware, has multiple users. To call a group of people hypocrites when they do not even all agree makes no sense.
And lastly...who assigns "respectibility" based on where some person posts? Who HAS respectability?
Fact: Capitalism will never work. I am mainly making a point here how "Socialism" is not really equitable with communism. Many denizens of a country like Sweden, for example, consider themselves members of a socialist state. To US denizens "socialist" is a four letter word. They have heavy employee protection (as many European states do) and an extensive safety net.
Oh, sure, many people consider their economies "capitalist" on these boards, but how capitalist are they really? Capitalism generally derives its benefits from competition and freedom to make private economic decisions, yet we have seen time and time again that in the absence of enforced anti-collusion laws that the powerful will lay down arms to exploit the lower classes with greater ease. You KNOW if it wasn't illegal that businesses would trade in human beings and serfs. It is strange how the extremes suffer markedly similar ailments. Perhaps, as most developed countries have discovered, that a more balanced approach seems to be best. The US prefers a slightly more free market and enjoys growth and economic power as a result, but look at how rich our rich are...and how poor our poor are. The Europeans have a more stagnant economy, but enjoy a higher quality of life on average in many countries....give and take. Any engineer worth his/her salt knows that every implementation comes with advantages and disadvantages that have to be evaluated with some value system.
Java is not that slow. In ye olde days it had a pretty high memory overhead--it still does--but who cares anymore? Memory is cheap and expansive, and (rightly so) people would rather have security and dependability.
I would choose Java over.NET simply because of maturity and to stay away from a dangerous MS. We all know that MS has the balls and the market share to squash an enemy by any means necessary, even if that means doing something nasty with.NET. Sun doesn't even has this option. I'm not sure if they have the balls, but they sure don't have the market share. It is in their interest to make Java a viable competitor, not a tool for entrenchment. Their biggest conflict of interest is probably in offering Java for Linux which competes with Solaris. Obviously they are not in a position to withhold support.
While I don't have extensive experience with it, you could compile your Java into native binaries...see GCJ and JET.
That having been said, I would definitely consider some of the options presented that do not fall in the binary choice you have presented us.
Finally, while I have not done so personally, my cousin's husband works for a company that develops their product in Java, but apparently can, with not too much trouble, use some automated tools to generate C# for the occasional dead-set MS customer than they come upon now and then. I don't know if tools to perform the inverse exist. He made C# translation sound like fairly trivial an issue for them.
Some of these mods are so fantastic, but the overwhelming dominance of CS, I suspect, destroys many a mod's chances of being recognized as such. Sure, not all need huge communities, but unfortunately some are so sparse it's hard to find other players.
There's not much that can be done about it, but it's a shame. Even Quake TF at the height of its dominance didn't have the kind of crushing popularity.
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic or something, but as said before, Bittorrent uses SHA-1, not MD5....
So you are safe downloading linux for now via bittorrent. Besides, the chances of MD5 collisions happening from sheer luck/unluck are very slim. (after all, we've been using it for ages with no reports)
The most dangerous factor to continued use of MD5 are malicious individuals.
I disagree. They could ALREADY sell a MS shell over a *BSD core, just as Apple has. Linux is not their only option, the BSDs are incredibly robust and advanced operating systems and MS wouldn't have to fight the GPL. I would argue that it would be even be an easier transition than using Linux since it's developed by a smaller and more centralized authority rather than total bazaar style development.
I would suspect the reason is applications; Microsoft is making money hand over fist on the current 9x/NT based systems, so why try to fix a system that's already pulling in more dough than the corporation knows what to do with?
Secondly an adoption of a core that was once open source means that without serious overhauling that current *NIX-compatable sources will be (relatively) easy to modify applications to run on "Windows POSIX Edition" That means more applications will be available to your competitors.
Apple had something to gain from this: they have small market share and were switching to a new kernel in OS X, losing their old applications, but started out with a significant boost because *NIX sources were not terribly difficult (relative to *NIXwindows ports) to coax to run on OS X. Microsoft would be doing the opposite, it would be opening a bunch of vital applications to "alternative" operating systems, making them far better competitors and far more lethal to their dominance.
I agree with what you are saying; Google is presented with a binary choice: they can be blocked, or they can cede to the Chinese censor's demands. In one case, all Chinese would lose access to Google to find information they are allowed to access. In the other case, they wouldn't be able to see all results.
People are saying this move is "evil," but wouldn't ensuring deprivation of the Chinese citizens of all the content searchable by Google be counter-productive?
Plus this solution will net some more cash for Google, too. I feel that in this situation both choices are morally on parity, but their monetary gains are not on parity. At that point, the choice becomes obvious for a business.
It WOULD be nice if some certain software company would public the specifications that you KNOW they possess internally to their document format...
I'd go so far to say this should be an act of anti-trust. It'd be like having the phone system work in some undocumented method, so other carriers would have to reverse engineer your system -- and even then, they could only promise that your call would get through to Big Bell (or whoever) customer 90% of the time.
While I generally dislike people who have to go back and clarify their posts, I made this unnecessarily confusing. A better reading would be:
I don't forsee this development -- how are you going to mask the source of a file's IP without bouncing it off other users (big bandwidth usage).
The *IAA would just have to search and check what packets are coming from where, or share and see what packets are going where if we continue to use the direct-P2P model.
If we do go with the bandwidth-expensive (also used by network MUTE) model, it's possible that all users who forward said information may be found guilty in a US (key) court of law, as their voluntary participation on the network could be interpreted as abetting a crime. As a result, everyone on the network may involuntarily become a criminal. (A highly unreasonable ruling in my opinion, but hey, it's the United States after all.)
I don't forsee this development -- how are you going to mask the source of a file's IP without bouncing it off other users (big bandwidth usage).
The *IAA would just have to search and check what packets are coming from where, or share and see what packets are going where. Also, it's possible that all users who forward said information may be found guilty in a US (key) court of law, as their voluntary participation on the network could be interpreted as abetting a crime. (A highly unreasonable ruling in my opinion, but hey, it's the United States after all.)
The AMD chips themselves are perfectly stable, and platforms are very mature. The bug you mention is ancient history and due to a bug in the way the Live! worked. The last great chipset Intel made was the BX.
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Who is slashdot? Slashdot is a person? I'd love to meet him/her/it!
People hold different views, and slashdot, as far as I am aware, has multiple users. To call a group of people hypocrites when they do not even all agree makes no sense.
And lastly...who assigns "respectibility" based on where some person posts? Who HAS respectability?
any computer repair shop should know that _testing_ ram should be a high priority in diagnosing the cause of intermittant crashes.
Really, how often do you see RAM go bad after it has been functioning after a burn-in? Solid state devices are in no hurry to fail.
I would guess that, in most cases, intermittant crashes can be attributed to spyware.
...May I point you to Jake 2 [ http://www.bytonic.de/html/jake2.html ]
the revent JVM also supports OpenGL bindings for java2d.
Java graphics need not be slow. Java need not be slow.
I don't think he's being a food bigot--but he made a good observation. I'm curious myself.
Bandwidth is not the issue; bandwidth is fantastically cheap.
I'm sure you'd love to go back to renting your telephone from Ma Bell.
Tell that to the number theory and crypto guys.
I think you are missing the point. The point is to have more than one method of navigation, not a match-up for exclusivity.
Fact: Capitalism will never work. I am mainly making a point here how "Socialism" is not really equitable with communism. Many denizens of a country like Sweden, for example, consider themselves members of a socialist state. To US denizens "socialist" is a four letter word. They have heavy employee protection (as many European states do) and an extensive safety net.
...give and take. Any engineer worth his/her salt knows that every implementation comes with advantages and disadvantages that have to be evaluated with some value system.
Oh, sure, many people consider their economies "capitalist" on these boards, but how capitalist are they really? Capitalism generally derives its benefits from competition and freedom to make private economic decisions, yet we have seen time and time again that in the absence of enforced anti-collusion laws that the powerful will lay down arms to exploit the lower classes with greater ease. You KNOW if it wasn't illegal that businesses would trade in human beings and serfs. It is strange how the extremes suffer markedly similar ailments. Perhaps, as most developed countries have discovered, that a more balanced approach seems to be best. The US prefers a slightly more free market and enjoys growth and economic power as a result, but look at how rich our rich are...and how poor our poor are. The Europeans have a more stagnant economy, but enjoy a higher quality of life on average in many countries.
I'm not sure what you are talking about...I mean, the example they have on their site is that of the popping of a balloon.
I don't know about you...but this seems pretty fast to me.
There's not much of an algorithm to hack...
psuedorandom number generator which maps the time uniformly over the keys....that's all. And a sufficiently long seed, of course.
Java is not that slow. In ye olde days it had a pretty high memory overhead--it still does--but who cares anymore? Memory is cheap and expansive, and (rightly so) people would rather have security and dependability.
.NET simply because of maturity and to stay away from a dangerous MS. We all know that MS has the balls and the market share to squash an enemy by any means necessary, even if that means doing something nasty with .NET. Sun doesn't even has this option. I'm not sure if they have the balls, but they sure don't have the market share. It is in their interest to make Java a viable competitor, not a tool for entrenchment. Their biggest conflict of interest is probably in offering Java for Linux which competes with Solaris. Obviously they are not in a position to withhold support.
I would choose Java over
While I don't have extensive experience with it, you could compile your Java into native binaries...see GCJ and JET.
That having been said, I would definitely consider some of the options presented that do not fall in the binary choice you have presented us.
Finally, while I have not done so personally, my cousin's husband works for a company that develops their product in Java, but apparently can, with not too much trouble, use some automated tools to generate C# for the occasional dead-set MS customer than they come upon now and then. I don't know if tools to perform the inverse exist. He made C# translation sound like fairly trivial an issue for them.
Some of these mods are so fantastic, but the overwhelming dominance of CS, I suspect, destroys many a mod's chances of being recognized as such. Sure, not all need huge communities, but unfortunately some are so sparse it's hard to find other players.
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I'm not the only one to have noted this phenomenon.
http://www.reallifecomics.com/daily.php?strip_id=
There's not much that can be done about it, but it's a shame. Even Quake TF at the height of its dominance didn't have the kind of crushing popularity.
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic or something, but as said before, Bittorrent uses SHA-1, not MD5....
So you are safe downloading linux for now via bittorrent. Besides, the chances of MD5 collisions happening from sheer luck/unluck are very slim. (after all, we've been using it for ages with no reports)
The most dangerous factor to continued use of MD5 are malicious individuals.
you need a faster processor. I would be quick to guess that the 9600XT is being nicely bottlenecked by tht ancient CPU.
Perhaps you should get your addiction to bad puns addressed...
I disagree. They could ALREADY sell a MS shell over a *BSD core, just as Apple has. Linux is not their only option, the BSDs are incredibly robust and advanced operating systems and MS wouldn't have to fight the GPL. I would argue that it would be even be an easier transition than using Linux since it's developed by a smaller and more centralized authority rather than total bazaar style development.
I would suspect the reason is applications; Microsoft is making money hand over fist on the current 9x/NT based systems, so why try to fix a system that's already pulling in more dough than the corporation knows what to do with?
Secondly an adoption of a core that was once open source means that without serious overhauling that current *NIX-compatable sources will be (relatively) easy to modify applications to run on "Windows POSIX Edition" That means more applications will be available to your competitors.
Apple had something to gain from this: they have small market share and were switching to a new kernel in OS X, losing their old applications, but started out with a significant boost because *NIX sources were not terribly difficult (relative to *NIXwindows ports) to coax to run on OS X. Microsoft would be doing the opposite, it would be opening a bunch of vital applications to "alternative" operating systems, making them far better competitors and far more lethal to their dominance.
I agree with what you are saying; Google is presented with a binary choice: they can be blocked, or they can cede to the Chinese censor's demands. In one case, all Chinese would lose access to Google to find information they are allowed to access. In the other case, they wouldn't be able to see all results.
People are saying this move is "evil," but wouldn't ensuring deprivation of the Chinese citizens of all the content searchable by Google be counter-productive?
Plus this solution will net some more cash for Google, too. I feel that in this situation both choices are morally on parity, but their monetary gains are not on parity. At that point, the choice becomes obvious for a business.
But uh, the camera was terrible!
I certainly wouldn't have kept it.
It WOULD be nice if some certain software company would public the specifications that you KNOW they possess internally to their document format...
I'd go so far to say this should be an act of anti-trust. It'd be like having the phone system work in some undocumented method, so other carriers would have to reverse engineer your system -- and even then, they could only promise that your call would get through to Big Bell (or whoever) customer 90% of the time.
While I generally dislike people who have to go back and clarify their posts, I made this unnecessarily confusing. A better reading would be:
I don't forsee this development -- how are you going to mask the source of a file's IP without bouncing it off other users (big bandwidth usage).
The *IAA would just have to search and check what packets are coming from where, or share and see what packets are going where if we continue to use the direct-P2P model.
If we do go with the bandwidth-expensive (also used by network MUTE) model, it's possible that all users who forward said information may be found guilty in a US (key) court of law, as their voluntary participation on the network could be interpreted as abetting a crime. As a result, everyone on the network may involuntarily become a criminal. (A highly unreasonable ruling in my opinion, but hey, it's the United States after all.)
I don't forsee this development -- how are you going to mask the source of a file's IP without bouncing it off other users (big bandwidth usage).
The *IAA would just have to search and check what packets are coming from where, or share and see what packets are going where. Also, it's possible that all users who forward said information may be found guilty in a US (key) court of law, as their voluntary participation on the network could be interpreted as abetting a crime. (A highly unreasonable ruling in my opinion, but hey, it's the United States after all.)
This would be ideal for the super bowl.
The AMD chips themselves are perfectly stable, and platforms are very mature. The bug you mention is ancient history and due to a bug in the way the Live! worked. The last great chipset Intel made was the BX.
MS sucks.
Okay, that should do it for our quota....