There's no case I know of where Windows performs more operations per cycle than both Linux and OSX.
I don't know what you mean exactly with "operations per cycle", however where performance matters to me. The latest release of OS X has a worse I/O scheduler than Windows and Linux (I/O ends up noticeably blocking things on OS X), but it's not noticeable on an SSD. OS X is often slower than Windows and Linux ports of OpenGL applications (lower FPS with the same graphical quality settings). OS X has less throughput than Linux and Windows at file server operations over SMB/CIFS. OS X is slower at verifying application signatures.
I found your argument overly emotional and seemed to lack an objective view.
Aaron was, by every measure, an extraordinarily brilliant individual and we collectively suffered a great loss earlier this year. He was a champion of the kind of freedom that the forefathers of any free country would have themselves admired.
Very emotive argument, however what I have read does not particularly amaze me. Stuff like documenting work created by Dan Libby and Ramanathan V. Guha doesn't seem that brilliant to me.
Were it not for him, we might have been seeing people with ten-year prison sentences for downloading movies by today.
Let's be clear, this was to do with piracy. Not simply downloading something off iTunes.
MIT feared him because because of this brilliance and brazenness. They knew he was on the fast track to upsetting the establishment. Then they continued acting like cowards and looked the other way while the full force of the US Government sought to destroy his life for the "horrible crime" of publicizing publicly-funded research (with an added dose of vindictiveness for doing the same with PACER... also publicly-funded knowledge).
I wouldn't blame MIT for simply avoiding the guy, he clearly was a liability. Also, again another emotive argument, but I don't really see the U.S. government having used stuff such as nuclear weapons.
Aaron, like many of us, was frustrated and angered at how the establishment deliberately moves at a snail's pace and seeks to hold knowledge at ransom.
It is my experience many people don't even want to learn to begin with, perhaps he should have tried to fix the real problem?
if you want to honestly talk about the dangers of exercising the power technology gives you, there's a three-letter government agency I'd like to bring to your attention who's been dangerously and recklessly abusing the power of technology in all sorts of ways.
What danger am I personally in by this U.S. government agency?
Dude. He hid himself in a closet in MIT and illegally downloaded and posted millions of journal articles. He did it on this scale deliberately to call attention to his act. And this was after being unsuccessfully prosecuted for much the same stunt in Chicago a few years before, and then taunting the FBI from his private website.
Then there's the fact that Swartz consulted Lawrence Lessig in advance of the MIT download, and Lessig advised him not to do it.
He did it anyway - and was prosecuted for it! Oh, whoa, poor, poor Aaron being bullied by the big bad Federal Government and MIT! And now he might actually have to go to jail for downloading a few journal articles! Why was he born to live in such an awful world?
3 million plaintext numbers means that Adobe's PCI team rides the short PCI bus to work...
Well, hashing the numbers would be useless because then they couldn't retrieve the numbers to charge against. If they have encryption on the partition on the system where the numbers are stored, I don't understand how that would have helped the situation anymore in this circumstance since usermode applications would access it the same way as unencrypted.
I wonder why HTTPS stuff can't require *two* certificates that validate.
Actually it can, it's called a client side certificate, I have done it in Apache. It requires you generate a certificate for the client, who has to then import it to their browser.
Even better if one of those can be a self-signed one.
You can choose whatever certificate trust chain you want.
o Didn't request you to cite your source, as you requested of the poster to which you were replying, despite your reply having established a source citation criteria.
o Cited my source on work hours.
I don't care if you didn't. I'm not "Jane Q. Public (1010737)", whom was the person offended by being asked for source.
so if you are measuring per hour, Germany wins, but if you are measuring per work week, the U.S. has a 14% advantage due to amount of time worked, and the U.S. wins.
You missed the part of my comment that stated "get more work done than other countries that have longer working hours, such as the USA."
I stated a truth: the statistics that I read said what I claimed they said. Take that for as much or as little evidence as you like. But this is NOT Wikipedia, and this is NOT a scientific forum of debate. You might need a citation, but I am not obligated to spend an hour finding it for you.
The statistics I read said Germans are the most productive per work hour than the rest of the world and get more work done than other countries that have longer working hours, such as the USA.
Really, all the major companies have ported their stuff long ago
I don't know. Most firm specific systems were never ported, they were always direct x. Popular plugins like Adobe Acrobat reader, Silverlight, Unity, Google Earth, Google Talk, Facebook Video and Adobe Shockwave still use NPAPI.
Can you even name as many just as popular or more popular plugins that have been ported?
My workstation was used to build a large product, so lots of concurrent random IO - both reads and writes. The main problem I experienced were occasional stuck filesystem transactions. So basically the system works well, except that when a process tries to access the filesystem it hangs and it lasts for a few minutes. After that everything is normal again. But to be fair to BitterFS I've never lost any data. I see a huge progress here, but I don't think it will be ready for non critical use in one year and it will probably take additional one or two years till it's ready for critical use.
I've been using it on a server (Ubuntu raring) that makes use of Linux Containers on the file system, the Linux Containers themselves are mostly build servers for different distributions (heavy I/O when compiling). I haven't noticed any applications hanging when trying to read/write. I am curious though, how much RAM do you have on your workstation? My server has 24GiB.
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I don't know what you mean exactly with "operations per cycle", however where performance matters to me. The latest release of OS X has a worse I/O scheduler than Windows and Linux (I/O ends up noticeably blocking things on OS X), but it's not noticeable on an SSD. OS X is often slower than Windows and Linux ports of OpenGL applications (lower FPS with the same graphical quality settings). OS X has less throughput than Linux and Windows at file server operations over SMB/CIFS. OS X is slower at verifying application signatures.
Why are you running Windows on Openmoko?
How do you make a sustainable business with costless games? Support contracts?
Like what?
You get fired for not showing up for work.
Grumpy cat, is that you?
I think we need more research to verify this.
I found your argument overly emotional and seemed to lack an objective view.
Very emotive argument, however what I have read does not particularly amaze me. Stuff like documenting work created by Dan Libby and Ramanathan V. Guha doesn't seem that brilliant to me.
Let's be clear, this was to do with piracy. Not simply downloading something off iTunes.
I wouldn't blame MIT for simply avoiding the guy, he clearly was a liability. Also, again another emotive argument, but I don't really see the U.S. government having used stuff such as nuclear weapons.
It is my experience many people don't even want to learn to begin with, perhaps he should have tried to fix the real problem?
What danger am I personally in by this U.S. government agency?
Reposting so this gets seen.
Well, hashing the numbers would be useless because then they couldn't retrieve the numbers to charge against. If they have encryption on the partition on the system where the numbers are stored, I don't understand how that would have helped the situation anymore in this circumstance since usermode applications would access it the same way as unencrypted.
What do you propose they should have done?
How does Krita fair?
I actually know a few people who are mining Bitcoin because they expect to make a profit.
Seems like a pyramid scheme to me.
Or the goal is to make the original creator involved rich, like other schemes.
Or maybe they do, because with out them...
So, what you're saying is. It's obvious he's not a troll, so he doesn't need to explain it.
Actually it can, it's called a client side certificate, I have done it in Apache. It requires you generate a certificate for the client, who has to then import it to their browser.
You can choose whatever certificate trust chain you want.
I don't care if you didn't. I'm not "Jane Q. Public (1010737)", whom was the person offended by being asked for source.
You missed the part of my comment that stated "get more work done than other countries that have longer working hours, such as the USA."
So, no, U.S. didn't win.
I never said "[citation needed]".
The statistics I read said Germans are the most productive per work hour than the rest of the world and get more work done than other countries that have longer working hours, such as the USA.
I don't know. Most firm specific systems were never ported, they were always direct x. Popular plugins like Adobe Acrobat reader, Silverlight, Unity, Google Earth, Google Talk, Facebook Video and Adobe Shockwave still use NPAPI.
Can you even name as many just as popular or more popular plugins that have been ported?
Congratulations, you missed the joke.
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Look whose talking. :)
u mad?
I've been using it on a server (Ubuntu raring) that makes use of Linux Containers on the file system, the Linux Containers themselves are mostly build servers for different distributions (heavy I/O when compiling). I haven't noticed any applications hanging when trying to read/write. I am curious though, how much RAM do you have on your workstation? My server has 24GiB.
Congratulations, you missed the fact that I realized that from the other reply and replied with a relevant joke to that post in kind.
She was hidden in the dancing trees.