Welcome to the stock market reality. Fundamentals are only one factor driving it; perception - and even more important - perceptions of everybody elses perceptions are just as important (in the short to medium term at least).
It showed Quake running for nine minutes _with_ a heatsink, but no fan. It means the CPU still get some cooling, though convection currents isn't enough.
A failing fan is a lot more probable problem than a heatsink falling off, and is more important to guard against. And if my heatsink fell off, it's going to hit my videocard (possibly damaging it, or shorting it), which is quite a bit more expensive than the CPU in any case...
Well, it does show the need to do a more careful retest; Toms CPU:s could be from a faulty batch, there could be motherboard-related differences, there could be lots of reasons for the discrepancies.
The best independent data should always be taken with a grain of salt, not because you wouldn't trust the source, but because only one datapoint is not enough for verification.
A 'vertical search' is probably searching within that organizations websites; a large org, like a university can easily have tens of thousands of webpages and searchable documents, spread out over dozens, even hundreds of large and small servers all over the campus. My guess is this service is aimed at them - it's probably worth a bit of money to avoid having to implement your own internal search.
/Janne
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Hmm.. I've never seen anybody use them in Sweden, and most consumer electronics stores seem to carry only one or two token models. I think their success is somewhat spotty in Europe as well.
A bad idea right now to be sure, but for the long haul, having exemptions for net trading is maybe not such a good idea. It does penalize local merchants, and gives rise to a whole lot of unnecessary transports. Some framework is needed so that local governments can decide on this without creating scewed markets (just deciding whether taxes should be paid at the salesman's or customer's jurisdiction would go a long way).
You set the fonts in the Gnome Control Center (Evolution uses gtkhtml, which in turn is configured from there, as there are a number of programs that tuse it for html rendering).
It's a large (and potentially _very_ large) installation we are talking about, in an organisation with some special needs and a cadre of IT staff on hand for problems. Chances are they will roll their own distro for internal use. Sure, companies like SuSE might get to bid on doing part of the transition, but I believe they are a big enough organisation to benefit from their own distro.
You misread the article... The discussion was about replacing the 5000 seats in the Bundestag (approx. house of representatives); the $116 million figure was the projected savings if the entire federal government were to switch.
It'd be a remarkably efficient federal government to need just 5000 desktops...:)
Except that then there's latencies in the Mach kernel to worry about.
Agreed, a microkernel _should_ have a lot less latency due to its organisation (though I have heard differently about Mach). I really should take a better look at the internal architecture.
Have a company sponsor you with cat-5 cabling and cable pipes. Then declare a "Plant A Cable" field day in the entire district, spread the kids out evenly along that 45 mile stretch with shovels and pickaxes, and let them dig! Or you could have a chain-gang-themed masquerade, and have them in striped shirts and fake manacles, with a price to the class with the best costumes.
Linux is fully preemptible, and has always been. This is about being preemptible while executing in the kernel. I have no idea if OSX allows this or not - it's BSD based, so probably no, but then Mach is involved someway or other, so maybe. It would be interesting to know.
It's from Bonet (www.bonet.se). I think the service is available in any reasonably densely populated area (at least Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö/Lund, Borlänge/Falun).
Bredbandsbolagets deal is very nice - if you can get it, which most people doesn't seem to be able to. The good thing about Bonet is that the landlord doesn't have to have a deal with the company; it's a deal strictly between you and Bonet.
I used to have a student connection here in Lund, but when I moved, I needed a replacement, and this is a decent substitute, even if it is slower and more expensive than what I had in my student apartment.
This is not from the formerly state-owned telco - their deal is 512kbits, dunamic IP, for around $30.
This is from a smaller company specializing in ADSL. As far as I've been able to determine, as long as you're technically eligible (within a set distance from a switch and no filters in betwwen), you can get it.
I get ADSL (500Kbits out, 2.5Mbits in), static IP, allowed to set up any server for non-commercial use and no cap, for $25 a month. Other offers in Sweden - while not quite as good - are comparative to this.
Yes, I'm quite serious. I have several friends that run Linux, and several people at my dapartment at the university, as well as at a small company I also work for, run Linux. No one runs any java apps. Two of my friends use Java in classes, so they have the VM (and development packages) installed, but they never use it for anything but class projects.
I had a JVM installeed for a while recently, as I tried to run a roleplaying accessory (pcgen) written in Java, but it was just far too slow to be useful, so I removed the stuff again.
So, Java isn't a part of XP. So what, it isn't a standard part of Linux either, and nobody's complaining about that. Of course, I don't personally know of anybody that does run Java apps on the desktop...
Have you seen the commentary arguing that this, BTW, is a good thing for Java? It avoids having to write for an outdated version, as people will get the latest version when (if) they install the VM.
But the interface between humans and automobiles is pretty much a solved problem, and nobody seems to spend much time speculating on what a paradigm change in automobile control would be like.
SAAB has been doing some experiments trying to get away from steering wheels, replacing it with a stick by your hand instead. The reason is that the wheel causes a good deal of damage in an accident (even with airbags); and it's stopping some people with reduced mobility to drive, even though they would otherwise be perfectly capable of it.
Except that the eye isn't all that accurate. You can generally get a resolution of about 1 degree, no more. It's because the fovea (the sharp area of the eye) is about 1.5 degrees, and the eye will skip around slightly all the time within that area (the visual system needs a bit of movement at all times).
You can probably do a decent interface using that kind of accuracy, but you won't be doing any kind of precision work.
Nope. It will have a role in niche applications, but I don't see it ever being the dominant method of interaction. A couple of reasons:
Imagine a large room full of office workers. Now, imagine the same room with every worker talking to his wordprocessor or spreadsheet, trying to make him or herself heard over all the others, getting irritated and fatigued because of the constant noise of everybody else talking to their computers.
Imagine trying to do some work in an airport or on an airplane. Now, imagine trying to do the work using your voice _without_ other people hearing the budget details for your company or hearing the steamy endearments you will be mailing to your spouse.
Imagine talking. Now, imagine constantly talking all day, every day. Some actors and singers get permanent damage to their vocal cords - and they've had professional coaching and access to medical services. It could become RSI for your throat.
While the game market is very small on Linux (at least for another year or two), and many game writers on Linux are hobbyists that probably won't be inclined or able to pay the seat licenses for your compiler, there are other, related fields where such a compiler can be of great use. Renderfarms, for instance, are moving over to Linux more and more, and would be a natural target for your product.
Even greater would be if your compiler could be adapted for scientific work (I have a colleague who seems to be willing to sell his firstborn to speed up his object recognition software). Those kinds of applications (lots and lots of filters) should be natural targets for you compiler as well, if precision can be controlled.
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Welcome to the stock market reality. Fundamentals are only one factor driving it; perception - and even more important - perceptions of everybody elses perceptions are just as important (in the short to medium term at least).
/Janne
It showed Quake running for nine minutes _with_ a heatsink, but no fan. It means the CPU still get some cooling, though convection currents isn't enough.
A failing fan is a lot more probable problem than a heatsink falling off, and is more important to guard against. And if my heatsink fell off, it's going to hit my videocard (possibly damaging it, or shorting it), which is quite a bit more expensive than the CPU in any case...
/Janne
Well, it does show the need to do a more careful retest; Toms CPU:s could be from a faulty batch, there could be motherboard-related differences, there could be lots of reasons for the discrepancies.
The best independent data should always be taken with a grain of salt, not because you wouldn't trust the source, but because only one datapoint is not enough for verification.
/Janne
Do we speak english here at Slashdot anyore?
"anyore"?
/Janne
A 'vertical search' is probably searching within that organizations websites; a large org, like a university can easily have tens of thousands of webpages and searchable documents, spread out over dozens, even hundreds of large and small servers all over the campus. My guess is this service is aimed at them - it's probably worth a bit of money to avoid having to implement your own internal search.
/Janne
Hmm.. I've never seen anybody use them in Sweden, and most consumer electronics stores seem to carry only one or two token models. I think their success is somewhat spotty in Europe as well.
/Janne
A bad idea right now to be sure, but for the long haul, having exemptions for net trading is maybe not such a good idea. It does penalize local merchants, and gives rise to a whole lot of unnecessary transports. Some framework is needed so that local governments can decide on this without creating scewed markets (just deciding whether taxes should be paid at the salesman's or customer's jurisdiction would go a long way).
OK, I'm ready to get flamed...
/Janne
You set the fonts in the Gnome Control Center (Evolution uses gtkhtml, which in turn is configured from there, as there are a number of programs that tuse it for html rendering).
/Janne
It's a large (and potentially _very_ large) installation we are talking about, in an organisation with some special needs and a cadre of IT staff on hand for problems. Chances are they will roll their own distro for internal use. Sure, companies like SuSE might get to bid on doing part of the transition, but I believe they are a big enough organisation to benefit from their own distro.
You misread the article... The discussion was about replacing the 5000 seats in the Bundestag (approx. house of representatives); the $116 million figure was the projected savings if the entire federal government were to switch.
:)
It'd be a remarkably efficient federal government to need just 5000 desktops...
/Janne
Except that then there's latencies in the Mach kernel to worry about.
Agreed, a microkernel _should_ have a lot less latency due to its organisation (though I have heard differently about Mach). I really should take a better look at the internal architecture.
/Janne
Have a company sponsor you with cat-5 cabling and cable pipes. Then declare a "Plant A Cable" field day in the entire district, spread the kids out evenly along that 45 mile stretch with shovels and pickaxes, and let them dig! Or you could have a chain-gang-themed masquerade, and have them in striped shirts and fake manacles, with a price to the class with the best costumes.
Or maybe not.
/Janne
Yes, yes, but does Darwin preempt _running in the kernel_? It's not the same thing.
"Fully preemptive multitasking" is about preempting userland programs - and Linux (and other Unices) has had this since day one.
/Janne
Linux is fully preemptible, and has always been. This is about being preemptible while executing in the kernel. I have no idea if OSX allows this or not - it's BSD based, so probably no, but then Mach is involved someway or other, so maybe. It would be interesting to know.
/Janne
It's from Bonet (www.bonet.se). I think the service is available in any reasonably densely populated area (at least Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö/Lund, Borlänge/Falun).
Bredbandsbolagets deal is very nice - if you can get it, which most people doesn't seem to be able to. The good thing about Bonet is that the landlord doesn't have to have a deal with the company; it's a deal strictly between you and Bonet.
I used to have a student connection here in Lund, but when I moved, I needed a replacement, and this is a decent substitute, even if it is slower and more expensive than what I had in my student apartment.
/Janne
This is not from the formerly state-owned telco - their deal is 512kbits, dunamic IP, for around $30.
This is from a smaller company specializing in ADSL. As far as I've been able to determine, as long as you're technically eligible (within a set distance from a switch and no filters in betwwen), you can get it.
/Janne
I get ADSL (500Kbits out, 2.5Mbits in), static IP, allowed to set up any server for non-commercial use and no cap, for $25 a month. Other offers in Sweden - while not quite as good - are comparative to this.
/Janne
I see you have never dropped a watch into a glass of juice...
On the positive side, it gave me an excellent excuse to get a new watch.
/Janne
Yes, I'm quite serious. I have several friends that run Linux, and several people at my dapartment at the university, as well as at a small company I also work for, run Linux. No one runs any java apps. Two of my friends use Java in classes, so they have the VM (and development packages) installed, but they never use it for anything but class projects.
I had a JVM installeed for a while recently, as I tried to run a roleplaying accessory (pcgen) written in Java, but it was just far too slow to be useful, so I removed the stuff again.
/Janne
So, Java isn't a part of XP. So what, it isn't a standard part of Linux either, and nobody's complaining about that. Of course, I don't personally know of anybody that does run Java apps on the desktop...
Have you seen the commentary arguing that this, BTW, is a good thing for Java? It avoids having to write for an outdated version, as people will get the latest version when (if) they install the VM.
/Janne
...until it runs down.
/Janne
But the interface between humans and automobiles is pretty much a solved problem, and nobody seems to spend much time speculating on what a paradigm change in automobile control would be like.
SAAB has been doing some experiments trying to get away from steering wheels, replacing it with a stick by your hand instead. The reason is that the wheel causes a good deal of damage in an accident (even with airbags); and it's stopping some people with reduced mobility to drive, even though they would otherwise be perfectly capable of it.
/Janne
Except that the eye isn't all that accurate. You can generally get a resolution of about 1 degree, no more. It's because the fovea (the sharp area of the eye) is about 1.5 degrees, and the eye will skip around slightly all the time within that area (the visual system needs a bit of movement at all times).
You can probably do a decent interface using that kind of accuracy, but you won't be doing any kind of precision work.
/Janne
Nope. It will have a role in niche applications, but I don't see it ever being the dominant method of interaction. A couple of reasons:
Imagine a large room full of office workers. Now, imagine the same room with every worker talking to his wordprocessor or spreadsheet, trying to make him or herself heard over all the others, getting irritated and fatigued because of the constant noise of everybody else talking to their computers.
Imagine trying to do some work in an airport or on an airplane. Now, imagine trying to do the work using your voice _without_ other people hearing the budget details for your company or hearing the steamy endearments you will be mailing to your spouse.
Imagine talking. Now, imagine constantly talking all day, every day. Some actors and singers get permanent damage to their vocal cords - and they've had professional coaching and access to medical services. It could become RSI for your throat.
/Janne
While the game market is very small on Linux (at least for another year or two), and many game writers on Linux are hobbyists that probably won't be inclined or able to pay the seat licenses for your compiler, there are other, related fields where such a compiler can be of great use. Renderfarms, for instance, are moving over to Linux more and more, and would be a natural target for your product.
Even greater would be if your compiler could be adapted for scientific work (I have a colleague who seems to be willing to sell his firstborn to speed up his object recognition software). Those kinds of applications (lots and lots of filters) should be natural targets for you compiler as well, if precision can be controlled.
/Janne