Because I can view the source code and change the source code, I can introduce a flaw. Yet it would be far less likely for a for-profit closed source project to be swayed by some sort of ulterior motive to include a flaw, because we have seen exactly how ethical and steadfast corporations are in this modern day and age.
It seems that he doesn't acknowledge that the aspect that makes open source secure is that it's hard to have a unified, systematic, malevolent agenda due to the extensive peer review inherit in the system. People who have different agendas or motives than you will be viewing your changes.
While his hypothesized scenario is certainly possible, I wouldn't go so far as to say it is a bane.
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On the other side of the coin, I can't keep a nanny or cleaning lady twelve hours a day for a week without any extra compensation under threat of termination.
Urban Terror is my favorite FPS mod right now. I'm very happy to hear this news, the community, while appropriately sized, could use some more players. Also finding Q3A can be challenging, so it's hard for new people to get into the game. CS-like popularity would detract from the gameplay experience, I think. I try to convert CS-folk as often as possible, having developed a certain aversion to CS sometime around Beta 6 trailing long-standing discontent with the direction weapon balancing was going. It's pretty much AK vs. Colt vs. AWP these days, with little variation in the bulk of the game. I find a lot of variation in load-outs in Urban Terror.
Although there's no storyline, but it's pure gameplay gold. It also has some of the best netcode I've ever seen (or lag-compensation code, I should say.) With low packet loss, it's perfectly possible to pwn with a 700 ping.
Question: what are the spec changes (if any) for the standalone version? What kind of graphical enhancements (if any) are there?
I'm slightly more interested in the other features that ipv6 offers than the increased address space itself, such as increased security, improved routing, and (finally) a mandate to multicast so it'll finally become more useful.
I was under the impression that they meant desktop as in the hardware classification of computer (the things most of us use, not mainframes or supercomputers, etc), not a certain desktop _environment_, the software.
Ipods are not terribly special. While they are rather smallish by a small margin, they also have terrible battery life.
It seems a lot of people like the later incarnations of the Creative Zen for the price/capacity price point. I'm no fan of Creative as a company, but having poked around myself it seems the Zen NX/Xtra are good deals in comparison to the Ipod. IRiver is also good, but about ipod-ishly expensive.
The other cool option is the Rio Karma, which has neat things like a network interface.
But again, I have found no way to get better capacity/price than the Zens.
So, we stiffen copyright law, computer crime law, and all sorts of crime law, only allowing those with millions of dollars to throw around to get away with them, yet many of the more basic crimes (rape, murder, etc) are NOT constantly pushed upwards for sentencing to "deter" these crimes...
Could this trend be because there is no corporate interest in the other crimes? Naaaaah, that couldn't be it.
Or are people just afraid of what they don't understand, as they understand the other two crimes very well?
The internet is good for gaining quick information on a topic to help you look at a library, but that's about all.
If I need to know how tall a mountain is, or how many lines of code are in FreeBSD, then the internet would be my source.
But when writing a research paper, libraries still remain king, especially at universities where they subscribe to many very expensive (too expensive, IMO) journals that contain publications that aren't necessarily on the web.
I don't think I understand -- a majority of the code in Unix is either from Bell labs, or lifted from a BSD project, or coded in-house. (Who *hasn't* borrowed from BSD, except possibly GPL'd stuff since the license doesn't allow that sort of contradiction)
If you are referring to the SCO Linux offering...well, then, yeah. That makes some sense. But SCO Unix is/should be 100% propriety and no GPL'd code.
Note I say should. Companies have a tendency to ignore that, but legally they should not be using GPL's code in Unix.
It may help to think of any rocket-type (and ion, too) propulsion based system like this:
Basically, the center of mass of a fueled up rocket does not change. If you had a rocket at a dead stop and started a burn, you'd throw as much stuff behind you as your displacement was forward. Hence in a simplified 1D rocket model (which is actually pretty close to correct, diffusion is actually pretty minimal) your center of mass never moves.
Arguably, you could say this means that the entire rocket array (fuel and all) never actually moves: just spreads itself out, with the useful "stuff" at one end of the displacement.
Other than the extra memory addressing, I don't see why 64 bit is really such a big deal.
Granted, it doesn't hurt anyone, but the AMD 64-bit processors have many other fine engineering tweaks to make them as fast as they are. I suspect that the main reason for the performance increases in 64 bit mode are (and someone correct me if I'm wrong here) the extra registers that open up in this mode.
So you can address 2^64 bytes of memory, but no one loads them a word at a time anyways, it's all paged over in chunks to predict what you're going to need in registers next.
The main gains, I suspect, are in simply high IPC (which boils down to a lot of optimizations and transistors) and notably the on-die uber low latency (indeed, practically no latency) memory controller. But these don't make a big marketing splash, nor can they be simplified to a nice rally cry. Hell, most of us don't know the entirety of the specific optimizations, but do know that smiply being able to address a bigger word doesn't mean much to most, and thus that the chip can stand on other merits alone.
This is a great chip (once costs get down) but I don't see the rally cry of 64 bit to really mean anything except to servers, to the consumer it will be mostly useless and obsolete by the time we need such vast amounts of memory. (Then again, you never know how far AMD will stretch their cores, which is a very good thing, good motherboards two years ago could run most of the chips up until present day with an update.)
Am I half-correct, delusional, or just plain misinformed and my basic knowledge of machine structures utter crap?
If your scores increase that much, there was either a serious problem in the old version or they are talking out of their ass.
No offense. Yanking a 40% increase in performance on a particular algorithm/binary from an OS change is pretty hard to believe.
There are some exceptions, especially regarding parallel computing when problematic concurrency issues apply, i.e. deadlock and serialization, where the scheduler can make a huge difference....but what exactly are these abstracted metrics measuring?
We may have to eat our words then, as it says here that WITH the permission of congress the states are allowed to charge each other sales tax and duty, and are prohibited otherwise.
Hence, a bill, by congress, may be fair play. But I don't think I have enough information.
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Actually, he's not turning it into work, since work is defined as force * distance or the integration of pressure dV.
He's turning it into a EM wave visable by humans.
I fail to see how his logic works.
Because I can view the source code and change the source code, I can introduce a flaw. Yet it would be far less likely for a for-profit closed source project to be swayed by some sort of ulterior motive to include a flaw, because we have seen exactly how ethical and steadfast corporations are in this modern day and age.
It seems that he doesn't acknowledge that the aspect that makes open source secure is that it's hard to have a unified, systematic, malevolent agenda due to the extensive peer review inherit in the system. People who have different agendas or motives than you will be viewing your changes.
While his hypothesized scenario is certainly possible, I wouldn't go so far as to say it is a bane.
On the other side of the coin, I can't keep a nanny or cleaning lady twelve hours a day for a week without any extra compensation under threat of termination.
You're kidding.
Those were incredible games of the day.
I'm waiting for TURRICAN!
That's one of the most thought out bits of cynicism I have ever read.
Sir, I salute you!
Cough. A notable omission from your list includes, at the very least, University of California at Berkeley.
Shameless plug.
Urban Terror is my favorite FPS mod right now. I'm very happy to hear this news, the community, while appropriately sized, could use some more players. Also finding Q3A can be challenging, so it's hard for new people to get into the game. CS-like popularity would detract from the gameplay experience, I think. I try to convert CS-folk as often as possible, having developed a certain aversion to CS sometime around Beta 6 trailing long-standing discontent with the direction weapon balancing was going. It's pretty much AK vs. Colt vs. AWP these days, with little variation in the bulk of the game. I find a lot of variation in load-outs in Urban Terror.
Although there's no storyline, but it's pure gameplay gold. It also has some of the best netcode I've ever seen (or lag-compensation code, I should say.) With low packet loss, it's perfectly possible to pwn with a 700 ping.
Question: what are the spec changes (if any) for the standalone version? What kind of graphical enhancements (if any) are there?
I'm slightly more interested in the other features that ipv6 offers than the increased address space itself, such as increased security, improved routing, and (finally) a mandate to multicast so it'll finally become more useful.
....actually....
yes. I wish I was kidding.
I was under the impression that they meant desktop as in the hardware classification of computer (the things most of us use, not mainframes or supercomputers, etc), not a certain desktop _environment_, the software.
Buy another brand.
Ipods are not terribly special. While they are rather smallish by a small margin, they also have terrible battery life.
It seems a lot of people like the later incarnations of the Creative Zen for the price/capacity price point. I'm no fan of Creative as a company, but having poked around myself it seems the Zen NX/Xtra are good deals in comparison to the Ipod. IRiver is also good, but about ipod-ishly expensive.
The other cool option is the Rio Karma, which has neat things like a network interface.
But again, I have found no way to get better capacity/price than the Zens.
There is something to be said for putting food on the table.
pr0n.
What else could benchmark transfer rates?
So, we stiffen copyright law, computer crime law, and all sorts of crime law, only allowing those with millions of dollars to throw around to get away with them, yet many of the more basic crimes (rape, murder, etc) are NOT constantly pushed upwards for sentencing to "deter" these crimes...
Could this trend be because there is no corporate interest in the other crimes? Naaaaah, that couldn't be it.
Or are people just afraid of what they don't understand, as they understand the other two crimes very well?
We must crush the word/excel/* format!
At last...we shall have our revenge.
The internet is good for gaining quick information on a topic to help you look at a library, but that's about all.
If I need to know how tall a mountain is, or how many lines of code are in FreeBSD, then the internet would be my source.
But when writing a research paper, libraries still remain king, especially at universities where they subscribe to many very expensive (too expensive, IMO) journals that contain publications that aren't necessarily on the web.
I don't think I understand -- a majority of the code in Unix is either from Bell labs, or lifted from a BSD project, or coded in-house. (Who *hasn't* borrowed from BSD, except possibly GPL'd stuff since the license doesn't allow that sort of contradiction)
If you are referring to the SCO Linux offering...well, then, yeah. That makes some sense. But SCO Unix is/should be 100% propriety and no GPL'd code.
Note I say should. Companies have a tendency to ignore that, but legally they should not be using GPL's code in Unix.
Don't you know? NetBSD already runs on many toaster platforms.
It may help to think of any rocket-type (and ion, too) propulsion based system like this:
Basically, the center of mass of a fueled up rocket does not change. If you had a rocket at a dead stop and started a burn, you'd throw as much stuff behind you as your displacement was forward. Hence in a simplified 1D rocket model (which is actually pretty close to correct, diffusion is actually pretty minimal) your center of mass never moves.
Arguably, you could say this means that the entire rocket array (fuel and all) never actually moves: just spreads itself out, with the useful "stuff" at one end of the displacement.
but really, look at most of these optimizations, most of them have nothing to do with the intrinisic ability to handle 64 bit words.
Other than the extra memory addressing, I don't see why 64 bit is really such a big deal.
Granted, it doesn't hurt anyone, but the AMD 64-bit processors have many other fine engineering tweaks to make them as fast as they are. I suspect that the main reason for the performance increases in 64 bit mode are (and someone correct me if I'm wrong here) the extra registers that open up in this mode.
So you can address 2^64 bytes of memory, but no one loads them a word at a time anyways, it's all paged over in chunks to predict what you're going to need in registers next.
The main gains, I suspect, are in simply high IPC (which boils down to a lot of optimizations and transistors) and notably the on-die uber low latency (indeed, practically no latency) memory controller. But these don't make a big marketing splash, nor can they be simplified to a nice rally cry. Hell, most of us don't know the entirety of the specific optimizations, but do know that smiply being able to address a bigger word doesn't mean much to most, and thus that the chip can stand on other merits alone.
This is a great chip (once costs get down) but I don't see the rally cry of 64 bit to really mean anything except to servers, to the consumer it will be mostly useless and obsolete by the time we need such vast amounts of memory. (Then again, you never know how far AMD will stretch their cores, which is a very good thing, good motherboards two years ago could run most of the chips up until present day with an update.)
Am I half-correct, delusional, or just plain misinformed and my basic knowledge of machine structures utter crap?
Avoid linux programmer mangoo, use *BSD today!
Because the DNA comparison was just too good to be ignored.
For the love of...
If your scores increase that much, there was either a serious problem in the old version or they are talking out of their ass.
No offense. Yanking a 40% increase in performance on a particular algorithm/binary from an OS change is pretty hard to believe.
There are some exceptions, especially regarding parallel computing when problematic concurrency issues apply, i.e. deadlock and serialization, where the scheduler can make a huge difference....but what exactly are these abstracted metrics measuring?
As a instinct, I sense marketing.
We may have to eat our words then, as it says here that WITH the permission of congress the states are allowed to charge each other sales tax and duty, and are prohibited otherwise.
Hence, a bill, by congress, may be fair play. But I don't think I have enough information.