While this little clip attempts to prove a point, actually watching it is akin to being tied to the back of a bulldozer as it drives 50 miles down an unpaved road.
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Meh. To me, it comes down to:
How much a burner costs
How much the media costs
How many commercial players will support burned movies of format x
I don't know about evolution specifically... hell, my little blurb is coming from a windows world, but I figure programmers are programmers and they tend to make the same mistakes.
For example, if your firefox directory is read only, it takes MINUTES to fire up. Allow write access, it loads in a handful of seconds. Doing a little digging, it seems it is trying to open all of these config files for read/write... and when it fails, it tries a few more times. Then some of them get copied to $temp$ so that they CAN be opened for read/write, even though YOU LIKELY WON'T EVEN BE WRITING TO THEM. All it would take is a "if CantOpenConfigFileWithReadWrite(...) OpenConfigFileForReadOnly(...);"
And I use firefox as an example, but just about every application seems to have the same issues. This may be where Evolution is at.
You know the REAL problem here? Is they DON'T work for you, and they don't really CARE what you say you want. And the kicker is, they will likely STILL get reelected.
I mean, I have to go out of my way already to get a board that "supports" PATA. Hell, the last board I bought with PATA ports WOULDN't BOOT them... BY DESIGN. Even then, you'll get some RAID capability on the SATA ports, but not PATA.
Ok, you are a typical idiot, but I will even elaborate with a story.
I had a girlfriend in high school. We dated for a little over three years. Being young and nieve, I always wanted to be with her. Before I go further, she was heavy... ~5' 6", 200lbs. I was 5' 7", 130lbs. After school, she would WALK from her house to pick me up, we would WALK back to her house, she would WALK me home, then WALK home herself. Now this is the part where you have to pay attention. I am not exaggerating in the slightest... in my parents car, one way to her house was 6.2 miles. We walked on the very sidewalks along said roads. That is almost 25 miles of walking... in ONE DAY. And we did this practically EVERY DAY (I liked the sex, she was needy). And here is the best part... she never ate lunch at school. She usually had dinner at my house.
She never lost an ounce of weight. She went through a lot of shoes though.
Eat less and excersize more doesn't always cut it. First hand I have SEEN this.
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That sounds like dirty lawyer logic.
Next you'll argue that reverse engineering a virus is a violation of the DMCA.
Ill be the first to say it. Who the fuck cares. The problem is being delt with.
You know what? If you all actually cared, you'd be spending less time on WoW, and more time writing your senators/organizing festivals to educate the public/burning crosses/whatever it takes. It is obvious the court system doesn't have a clue about the whole picture... how many of them do you think read slashdot a day? Probably -2. They need to get the info from somewhere. Make it common knowledge.
I don't know about you, but my wireless router won't even work with my laptop when on different sides of the house. Perhaps a long string of relay squirrels is the answer?
According to a previous MS annoucement, there will be no more Windows 32bit operating systems
a href="http://www.betanews.com/article/Windows_Serv er_2008_The_Last_32bit_Operating_System/1179359920 ">http://www.betanews.com/article/Windows_Server_2 008_The_Last_32bit_Operating_System/1179359920
"Windows Server 2008 is the last 32-bit operating system that we'll produce," Laing then pronounced. "Post-2008, we will transition to 64-bit. Many Microsoft products are becoming 64-bit only today, because they're realizing the benefits of 64-bit computing. Exchange Server 2007, Windows Compute Cluster Server, and Windows Server Virtualization are all 64-bit only today, because they give significant benefits."
I have NO idea what Google has recently done, but their search now completely blows. They seemed to have trimmed their database, but FAR to aggressively. I have been noticing a lot of searches that should bring up thousands of pages, bring back maybe a couple, if any. Here is my most recent example (about a Thinstall variable):
Also, http://groups.google.com/groups?q=DirectoryIsolati onMode returns NOTHING. Not only did I used to get results from groups for this search, but I have a hard time believing that no one in the history of Thinstall asked a relevent question on a news group about this variable.
Do you actually KNOW how hard it is to pack up an move to another country? I personally would love to leave the USA, but I have to get apply for, WAIT, and pay for a passport. Then I have to find a country that will take me. Most require you to have a certain reserve of money AND a job lined up to even stay there... then you have anywhere from 5 to 10 years where you have to maintain employment to be even considered for citizen ship... and I don't know about you, but my entire professional career, the longest job I had was ~2 year. That's just the way it works... which is why you need a fat cash reserve, just in case you don't always have a job to go to.
It's simple. If you see the change, then in the future, he DID make the change. Just like in Bill and Ted, he wouldn't have gotten his dad's keys if he didn't go back in time, from the future of that point.
Migrating a whole process is much simpler than a thread anyway. Each process has memory space that needs copied to the node it is migrating to. In the case of threads, the whole processes memory space will have to be copied to each node that would run a thread... and then you need some sort of concurrency mechanism so that changes by one thread in memroy is made on every node that shares a thread.
ANd I cant claim that I know what I am talking about, but it seems that OpenMosix was akin to Beowulf clustering... wherein the application needs to be aware (or a library abstraction) that it is working in a cluster.
OpenSSI, however, works transparently to the userland, at least. Got a program that spawns bunches of processes? OpenSSI.
But don't get too excited. This is NOT exactly like SMP. Unlike multiple physical processors that can actually have threads of x application running on different procs, OpenSSI only migrates processes. So your super multithreaded game wont magically work better.
Probably the same way you can still run DirectX 3 games on DirectX 9. The COM ideology is once you create an interface, if you need to add or change functionality, you create a new interface, rather than changing the old... and interface is seperate from implementation. I don't see why this can't be a general good rule of programming.
I see where your going... "Stop using media player". But the fact remains, media player will launch in a fraction of a second, on a locked down no-permission-to-wipe-your-ass install of XP, where something like winamp actually takes MINUTES to launch when you can't write to its directory.
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While this little clip attempts to prove a point, actually watching it is akin to being tied to the back of a bulldozer as it drives 50 miles down an unpaved road.
I don't know about evolution specifically... hell, my little blurb is coming from a windows world, but I figure programmers are programmers and they tend to make the same mistakes.
For example, if your firefox directory is read only, it takes MINUTES to fire up. Allow write access, it loads in a handful of seconds. Doing a little digging, it seems it is trying to open all of these config files for read/write... and when it fails, it tries a few more times. Then some of them get copied to $temp$ so that they CAN be opened for read/write, even though YOU LIKELY WON'T EVEN BE WRITING TO THEM. All it would take is a "if CantOpenConfigFileWithReadWrite(...) OpenConfigFileForReadOnly(...);"
And I use firefox as an example, but just about every application seems to have the same issues. This may be where Evolution is at.
You know the REAL problem here? Is they DON'T work for you, and they don't really CARE what you say you want. And the kicker is, they will likely STILL get reelected.
Yeah, just like your cell phone that should have a charge for x hours really keeps a charge of about .75x after a year of wear.
You'll be cutting it close buddy. Not to mention when you are stuck behind a pileup with no way to get off that current road.
I mean, I have to go out of my way already to get a board that "supports" PATA. Hell, the last board I bought with PATA ports WOULDN't BOOT them... BY DESIGN. Even then, you'll get some RAID capability on the SATA ports, but not PATA.
You can't predict the behavior of the former just from knowing the individual behaviors of the latter.
Yes I can. I'm psychic... Dennis.
Ok, you are a typical idiot, but I will even elaborate with a story. I had a girlfriend in high school. We dated for a little over three years. Being young and nieve, I always wanted to be with her. Before I go further, she was heavy... ~5' 6", 200lbs. I was 5' 7", 130lbs. After school, she would WALK from her house to pick me up, we would WALK back to her house, she would WALK me home, then WALK home herself. Now this is the part where you have to pay attention. I am not exaggerating in the slightest... in my parents car, one way to her house was 6.2 miles. We walked on the very sidewalks along said roads. That is almost 25 miles of walking... in ONE DAY. And we did this practically EVERY DAY (I liked the sex, she was needy). And here is the best part... she never ate lunch at school. She usually had dinner at my house.
She never lost an ounce of weight. She went through a lot of shoes though.
Eat less and excersize more doesn't always cut it. First hand I have SEEN this.
That sounds like dirty lawyer logic.
Next you'll argue that reverse engineering a virus is a violation of the DMCA.
Ill be the first to say it. Who the fuck cares. The problem is being delt with.
You know what? If you all actually cared, you'd be spending less time on WoW, and more time writing your senators/organizing festivals to educate the public/burning crosses/whatever it takes. It is obvious the court system doesn't have a clue about the whole picture... how many of them do you think read slashdot a day? Probably -2. They need to get the info from somewhere. Make it common knowledge.
I don't know about you, but my wireless router won't even work with my laptop when on different sides of the house. Perhaps a long string of relay squirrels is the answer?
Someone want to buy me one? The only thing I have to trade for it is nothing... but I got a whole lot of it.
Think of it like this... HTML is the idiots way out of writing GUI code
According to a previous MS annoucement, there will be no more Windows 32bit operating systems
v er_2008_The_Last_32bit_Operating_System/1179359920 ">http://www.betanews.com/article/Windows_Server_2 008_The_Last_32bit_Operating_System/1179359920
a href="http://www.betanews.com/article/Windows_Ser
"Windows Server 2008 is the last 32-bit operating system that we'll produce," Laing then pronounced. "Post-2008, we will transition to 64-bit. Many Microsoft products are becoming 64-bit only today, because they're realizing the benefits of 64-bit computing. Exchange Server 2007, Windows Compute Cluster Server, and Windows Server Virtualization are all 64-bit only today, because they give significant benefits."
I have NO idea what Google has recently done, but their search now completely blows. They seemed to have trimmed their database, but FAR to aggressively. I have been noticing a lot of searches that should bring up thousands of pages, bring back maybe a couple, if any. Here is my most recent example (about a Thinstall variable):
M ode - returns 8 hits. The most useful link off the search is https://thinstall.com/help/index.php?attributes_in i2.htm. In itself, this isn't very useful, but the link on the page - https://thinstall.com/help/index.php?isolationmode s.htm is what I would be looking for... but if you notice, this is NOT one of the 8 links google returns.
i onMode returns NOTHING. Not only did I used to get results from groups for this search, but I have a hard time believing that no one in the history of Thinstall asked a relevent question on a news group about this variable.
http://www.google.com/search?q=DirectoryIsolation
Also, http://groups.google.com/groups?q=DirectoryIsolat
Do you actually KNOW how hard it is to pack up an move to another country? I personally would love to leave the USA, but I have to get apply for, WAIT, and pay for a passport. Then I have to find a country that will take me. Most require you to have a certain reserve of money AND a job lined up to even stay there... then you have anywhere from 5 to 10 years where you have to maintain employment to be even considered for citizen ship... and I don't know about you, but my entire professional career, the longest job I had was ~2 year. That's just the way it works... which is why you need a fat cash reserve, just in case you don't always have a job to go to.
It's simple. If you see the change, then in the future, he DID make the change. Just like in Bill and Ted, he wouldn't have gotten his dad's keys if he didn't go back in time, from the future of that point.
Now I have a place to get my numbers for srand()!
Migrating a whole process is much simpler than a thread anyway. Each process has memory space that needs copied to the node it is migrating to. In the case of threads, the whole processes memory space will have to be copied to each node that would run a thread... and then you need some sort of concurrency mechanism so that changes by one thread in memroy is made on every node that shares a thread.
ANd I cant claim that I know what I am talking about, but it seems that OpenMosix was akin to Beowulf clustering... wherein the application needs to be aware (or a library abstraction) that it is working in a cluster.
OpenSSI, however, works transparently to the userland, at least. Got a program that spawns bunches of processes? OpenSSI.
But don't get too excited. This is NOT exactly like SMP. Unlike multiple physical processors that can actually have threads of x application running on different procs, OpenSSI only migrates processes. So your super multithreaded game wont magically work better.
Probably the same way you can still run DirectX 3 games on DirectX 9. The COM ideology is once you create an interface, if you need to add or change functionality, you create a new interface, rather than changing the old... and interface is seperate from implementation. I don't see why this can't be a general good rule of programming.
Welcome to Open Source... more specifically the GPL. I can take Linux, a plethora of free GNU tools, and call it Ubuntu.
Good job I am a software developer and not an English teacher isn't it?
I don't think so.
I see where your going... "Stop using media player". But the fact remains, media player will launch in a fraction of a second, on a locked down no-permission-to-wipe-your-ass install of XP, where something like winamp actually takes MINUTES to launch when you can't write to its directory.
Media Player already asks me if I want to "purchase" the mp3 Im playing... even when it came from my own cds.