Everybody is different. Grandparent may or may not be stuck up about it, but some people really are asexual (or close to it). A lot of people drift that way as they get older, too, due to hormonal changes.
I think sex is great, but I can see some people going "ehh".
Although it's interesting that girls would pick boys dumber than they are to have sex (the male data is highly dependent on how the girls pick them).
I'd really like to hear a female opinion on this.
My blunt guess is that someone smarter than you is harder to predict and control, which can screw with your sense of security. Similarly, you might get the impression that your man is "settling" for you and would be more likely to abandon you when you lose your other feminine "assets".
But that might be overthinking it; maybe women just want masculine guys -- according to the article, dumber guys tend to be more masculine. We provide the beef, they provide the brains. Something like that.
There's no profit in Linux games. John Carmack also said back then that releasing Q3A for Linux saw no profit
You say you have most Loki titles so I assume you will be familiar with this.
Q3A was originally released for Windows in time for Christmas. As I recall, I could not find a copy of Q3A-Linux in a retail store until early March. Partly because Loki really wanted to ship the thing in a tin box that I could not care less about, and perhaps other reasons as well. Meanwhile, Id released Linux executables that would work with their Windows version.
How many fools (besides me) are going to wait around to buy Loki's product to "show their Linux support"?
There may be no profit in Linux games, but as far as I am concerned, Carmack's observation is merely a reflection of the fact that Loki butchered the Q3A-Linux release.
In particular, some of the more obscure drivers. Sorry I do not have source on me at the moment, I'm thinking of an older ethernet driver that I needed to get working on a different arch, that used uncommented hard-coded values everywhere to do its work. The serial drivers were also ugly at the time: despite the presence of a "generic" serial driver (thx to Alan Cox?), several of its siblings still did the cutn'paste thing, probably due to lack of interest in cleaning them up.
In the PC architecture case, attempting to design your code based on the number of cores in your target hardware just leads to a twisted and therefore bad and also non-portable design
Additionally, at least for "embarrassingly parallel" problems, it is easy enough to get the number of online processors at runtime, and (slightly harder) make the program use that information to decide how many worker threads to use.
It may be a non-planet, but none of the Kuiper belt objects have been studied yet, and Pluto is a start.
It doesn't negate your point, but Triton (moon of Neptune) was studied by Voyager 2, and is quite likely a captured KBO. I imagine Pluto will look a lot like it.
-- Slow boot: It would be nice if OSes (including Linux) would take more responsibility (I'm aware of upstart and initng). It is a difficult enough problem that the hardware solution may arrive more quickly.
-- Capacity: In the long term, I agree enough is never enough. For a particular system, I don't think it applies: even an 8GB hard drive connected to an original 8088 IBM PC is wasted (if you could make it work at all). *If* PRAM can scale well enough to stay ahead of "the curve", it will work out. Otherwise, you are correct. I could also see a PRAM main drive + auxiliary HDDs to hold your extensive (insert favorite pastime here) collection.
-- Reliability, heat, power draw, speed, capacity, price: My priorities differ, but I understand your position.
Hmmm... I think your argument ignores boot times. If all you have is volatile RAM and slow disk, your boot times go into the crapper. (This ignores the recently-announced flash-hybrid HDDs, but ummm isn't the flash part a "3rd-stage paging device"?)
Besides the reliability improvement another poster mentioned, PRAM also should have lower power draw, and less heat, than an equivalent HDD or hybrid setup. Also, HDDs aren't ramping up their performance like they once were (but if PRAM gave them an incentive to ramp up faster, that would be nice.)
Lastly, if I can get enough PRAM for a reasonable price, it doesn't matter if I can get 20x the capacity with an HDD (or even hybrid), simply because I don't need the extra capacity.
You're pointing to the fact that a mini hasn't gone from CD to C2D as proof as a lack of "updates", but the pro going from quad-core to eight-core isn't? Why is one processor upgrade a "rev" and the other not?
Point. However, to be fair, adding more cores is not apples-to-apples with a CD -> C2D upgrade. In the former, your programs run quicker (maybe). In the latter, you can run an entire additional class of (64-bit) apps. This is particularly important since Leopard is supposed to have real 64-bit support.
"...the list of games that really use four cores is approximately zero."
Do you play chess? Many chess engines will use as many cores as they can get (leaving out the fact that it could probably still beat you with just one).
The ubuntu installer is slick, but it is by no means foolproof.
I sat through a (newbie) friend's Dapper install just days ago, after he said it froze on him. This was the 2nd install attempt on a hard drive previously loaded w/windows.
This time, (and he said it got much farther) the installer froze for quite a while at 84%... something about a mirror list? This was for 10-15 min or so. It unstuck itself just after I fired up the web browser to see if anybody else had reported this.
The install then completed. After reboot, I couldn't apt-get basic things like 'build-essential'; this turned out to be because/etc/apt/sources.list was messed up -- all the "us.archive.ubuntu.(whatever)" lines had been commented out by the installer (the comments said it couldn't verify them, or something). When I uncommented those lines, that repository appeared to be having problems. Removing the "us." bit from all the lines fixed that.
He was also annoyed that his screen resolution couldn't be tweaked from the GUI beyond 1024x768, which I fixed by mucking with his xorg.conf file.
What really annoys me, is when people spend 3 paragraphs complaining about missing definitions, yet fail to include those definitions in their post!
Anybody can complain about missing information. Here, for example, you have gone on and on about WGA and what it might mean. But does anyone know what WGA means at the end of your post? Noooo!
Next time, before you gripe about people wasting 13+ hours of "collective/. reading time", consider the time you might be wasting yourself. And yes, this post is a joke.
The only safe way to work around the interference issues would be to have wired backup controls, and at that point you've made the wireless system redundant anyway, because it's only advantageous if you can eliminate the wires.
I thought most production wired systems had (triple?) redundancy. If you could replace at least some of the "backup" wires with a wireless system, you might still save some weight.
Also, if your friend is calling in sick to his job, its because he hates it, not because he loves wow. Don't let him get fired, inspire him to quit with dignity and find something more meaningful to him.
(minor nitpick:) if he can, he should find something more meaningful, *then* quit with dignity. Maybe focusing on a job hunt in his precious free time will help break his WOW crack habit, too.
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What the? No, just making an observation (and talking smack). I didn't actually mean to hurt your feelings. Sorry.
It works the other way too. "I may be dumb, but this guy is a fucking moron!"
I think sex is great, but I can see some people going "ehh".
That might be a step up for you
I'd really like to hear a female opinion on this.
My blunt guess is that someone smarter than you is harder to predict and control, which can screw with your sense of security. Similarly, you might get the impression that your man is "settling" for you and would be more likely to abandon you when you lose your other feminine "assets".
But that might be overthinking it; maybe women just want masculine guys -- according to the article, dumber guys tend to be more masculine. We provide the beef, they provide the brains. Something like that.
There's no profit in Linux games. John Carmack also said back then that releasing Q3A for Linux saw no profit
You say you have most Loki titles so I assume you will be familiar with this.
Q3A was originally released for Windows in time for Christmas. As I recall, I could not find a copy of Q3A-Linux in a retail store until early March. Partly because Loki really wanted to ship the thing in a tin box that I could not care less about, and perhaps other reasons as well. Meanwhile, Id released Linux executables that would work with their Windows version.
How many fools (besides me) are going to wait around to buy Loki's product to "show their Linux support"?
There may be no profit in Linux games, but as far as I am concerned, Carmack's observation is merely a reflection of the fact that Loki butchered the Q3A-Linux release.
In general, the "not-sexy" stuff.
In particular, some of the more obscure drivers. Sorry I do not have source on me at the moment, I'm thinking of an older ethernet driver that I needed to get working on a different arch, that used uncommented hard-coded values everywhere to do its work. The serial drivers were also ugly at the time: despite the presence of a "generic" serial driver (thx to Alan Cox?), several of its siblings still did the cutn'paste thing, probably due to lack of interest in cleaning them up.
What piece of software exactly uses the 'nuclear' clause and hinders you with development?
Additionally, at least for "embarrassingly parallel" problems, it is easy enough to get the number of online processors at runtime, and (slightly harder) make the program use that information to decide how many worker threads to use.
It doesn't negate your point, but Triton (moon of Neptune) was studied by Voyager 2, and is quite likely a captured KBO. I imagine Pluto will look a lot like it.
If you don't get it by February 14th, I would call the parties in question.
-- Capacity: In the long term, I agree enough is never enough. For a particular system, I don't think it applies: even an 8GB hard drive connected to an original 8088 IBM PC is wasted (if you could make it work at all). *If* PRAM can scale well enough to stay ahead of "the curve", it will work out. Otherwise, you are correct. I could also see a PRAM main drive + auxiliary HDDs to hold your extensive (insert favorite pastime here) collection.
-- Reliability, heat, power draw, speed, capacity, price: My priorities differ, but I understand your position.
Besides the reliability improvement another poster mentioned, PRAM also should have lower power draw, and less heat, than an equivalent HDD or hybrid setup. Also, HDDs aren't ramping up their performance like they once were (but if PRAM gave them an incentive to ramp up faster, that would be nice.)
Lastly, if I can get enough PRAM for a reasonable price, it doesn't matter if I can get 20x the capacity with an HDD (or even hybrid), simply because I don't need the extra capacity.
Point. However, to be fair, adding more cores is not apples-to-apples with a CD -> C2D upgrade. In the former, your programs run quicker (maybe). In the latter, you can run an entire additional class of (64-bit) apps. This is particularly important since Leopard is supposed to have real 64-bit support.
Do you play chess? Many chess engines will use as many cores as they can get (leaving out the fact that it could probably still beat you with just one).
The logical reason to create wealth is to avoid a sucky situation, ie not knowing how you're going to get your next meal...
As for having sex and playing baseball, you might ask yourself how many people on slashdot do that? Looks like you're in the minority, friend :)
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/02/sen_stevens_h ilariou.html
I sat through a (newbie) friend's Dapper install just days ago, after he said it froze on him. This was the 2nd install attempt on a hard drive previously loaded w/windows.
This time, (and he said it got much farther) the installer froze for quite a while at 84% ... something about a mirror list? This was for 10-15 min or so. It unstuck itself just after I fired up the web browser to see if anybody else had reported this.
The install then completed. After reboot, I couldn't apt-get basic things like 'build-essential'; this turned out to be because /etc/apt/sources.list was messed up -- all the "us.archive.ubuntu.(whatever)" lines had been commented out by the installer (the comments said it couldn't verify them, or something). When I uncommented those lines, that repository appeared to be having problems. Removing the "us." bit from all the lines fixed that.
He was also annoyed that his screen resolution couldn't be tweaked from the GUI beyond 1024x768, which I fixed by mucking with his xorg.conf file.
Anybody can complain about missing information. Here, for example, you have gone on and on about WGA and what it might mean. But does anyone know what WGA means at the end of your post? Noooo!
Next time, before you gripe about people wasting 13+ hours of "collective /. reading time", consider the time you might be wasting yourself. And yes, this post is a joke.
I thought most production wired systems had (triple?) redundancy. If you could replace at least some of the "backup" wires with a wireless system, you might still save some weight.
I completely agree with you, but there are a lot of Yanni fans out there who might think otherwise :-P
I'm trying like mad, but they're all smart enough to stay the hell away :)
(minor nitpick:) if he can, he should find something more meaningful, *then* quit with dignity. Maybe focusing on a job hunt in his precious free time will help break his WOW crack habit, too.
I haven't been keeping up. What card/chipset can you get the fastest "non-proprietary" performance out of these days?
It used to be Matrox's line ... a long time ago. I saw a posting elsewhere on this site claiming the radeon r200 chipset drivers were pretty sharp.
If you really want to look at it that way, think about how it would "help" MS lose an MS Office sale.