How would you train all those people to recognize every copyrighted item? Just every copyrighted piece of music would be impossible. A computer is going to have a lower error rate on this than any group of humans.
The T1 had a single FPU shared among 8 cores.. The T3 (and T2) has an FPU per core.
Still, your point about ray-tracing is probably valid, compared to other processors available. If I had a heavily threaded application, I would definitely want to look at T-series SPARCs.
I have some 1920x1200 16:10 monitors for exactly that reason... I was holding onto a couple 4:3 for exactly the reason you mention, but with 1200 vertical pixels i was finally swayed... plus it was getting harder to find good 4:3 monitors.
In particular, 16:9 is terrible for old FPS games.
Your work on this is fascinating to me, thank you for sharing it. I watched the entire talk. The crypto part really is an embarrassment for Sony. For me, It'll be interesting to see a Linux and homebrew software with full RSX access, which for a lot of people was the original goal of hacking on the PS3 to begin with.
I buy music on Amazon, and once iTunes offered DRM-free tracks that became an option as well (since I mostly listen on linux boxes). I don't think of this as a moral issue, it's a convenience. The bitrates are good, and less work even than torrents. For $1/song, the money really doesn't seem like a big issue. I still buy CDs that I rip myself from time to time, but more and more I'm just using the online stores.
I've managed AIX in the distant past. What have they improved recently? My experience in the 4.3 time frame was not good. I got stuck with a handful of boxes (S80s) in what was at the time an all HP-UX and Solaris shop. Granted, I hate all GUI management tools and found ODM distasteful (both the idea and the implementation). However you sound like someone who has been around a bit, what's good about 6 that would be worth looking into?
As an alternative for those who don't have a separate partition, but have the space for it, I'd highly recommend trying VMWare out. I suppose it's possible it doesn't work, but everything else I've tried on vmware lately (from workstation to ESX) has worked fine.
If it's economically feasible in this case, I would suggest a better disk subsystem. The more spindles, the better. Something fibre channel, if possible. A memory size large enough to get to a supercached state will certainly help, but disks are cheap in quantity and using more of them in a RAID configuration is an orthodox solution to high service times.
Second, it's Cisco's right to do what they want with his research, since he did *break the law* in order to release it ( decompiling code + license agreement -> ?=( ).
I'm not a lawyer of course, but a license agreement is essentially a contract, right? Aren't you implying that he committed a crime, when this is perhaps a breach of contract? I could be mistaken.
Even if it was a crime, does that really give Cisco any rights to his work at all?
I think both of these articles have problems. After ESR subjected his readers to that CUPS rant I couldn't put my finger on it. After this I think I know why it bothers me. He basically assumes that the skills used in writing code are the same skills that a system administrator has. The truth is of course more complicated than that. There is perhaps some overlap. I've done both for years, but quite a bit more SA work than programming, and what programming I have done wasn't really for "end users", mostly for myself or fellow SAs.
Oh, and saying that good UI design is an art is kind of a cop out, an excuse to avoid the study of how people interact with their computers. In short, an excuse to avoid thinking with some hand waving about artistic talent. If I think they're serious, I flinch when people call their code "art", too. Art should evoke an emotional response, mostly I get intellectual stimulation from it.
One final note. If you don't like the UI, then perhaps it's time to write a better one? No one forcing you to use it as-is. People are going to assume that's a troll, but I don't care. You have the code, you have literally millions of lines of readable code to teach yourself from, so go forth and design something better. As it is, most of linux development has been rightly directed toward creating a clone of unix, not windows. I like unix the way it is, and will happily go on running my dozens of xterms. If someone feels it's lacking, they're supposed to do something about it, talking isn't going to get it done.
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How would you train all those people to recognize every copyrighted item? Just every copyrighted piece of music would be impossible. A computer is going to have a lower error rate on this than any group of humans.
I was surprised to find out not long ago that you no longer have to pay. I don't pay them anything and I'm using IMAP with mutt to read yahoo mail.
Still not sure when this change was made but I suspect it was fairly recent (within the last couple of years, max).
I also use E16, for about 12 years now. Also on Gentoo.
The T1 had a single FPU shared among 8 cores.. The T3 (and T2) has an FPU per core.
Still, your point about ray-tracing is probably valid, compared to other processors available. If I had a heavily threaded application, I would definitely want to look at T-series SPARCs.
That's not a bad feature for a mail client at all.
I intentionally reply in email to people who send me facebook messages. Facebook is so primitive compared to even old email clients.
I have some 1920x1200 16:10 monitors for exactly that reason... I was holding onto a couple 4:3 for exactly the reason you mention, but with 1200 vertical pixels i was finally swayed... plus it was getting harder to find good 4:3 monitors.
In particular, 16:9 is terrible for old FPS games.
Your work on this is fascinating to me, thank you for sharing it. I watched the entire talk. The crypto part really is an embarrassment for Sony.
For me, It'll be interesting to see a Linux and homebrew software with full RSX access, which for a lot of people was the original goal of hacking on the PS3 to begin with.
before realizing that soon the desktop would be irrelevant
[citation needed]
Sounds like mobile hype.
I believe this is the reason things like focuswriter exist. I am not a writer, but I can certainly understand removing distractions.
I buy music on Amazon, and once iTunes offered DRM-free tracks that became an option as well (since I mostly listen on linux boxes). I don't think of this as a moral issue, it's a convenience. The bitrates are good, and less work even than torrents. For $1/song, the money really doesn't seem like a big issue. I still buy CDs that I rip myself from time to time, but more and more I'm just using the online stores.
I call it being practical.
I wish there was a simpler way to undo moderation.
I've managed AIX in the distant past. What have they improved recently? My experience in the 4.3 time frame was not good. I got stuck with a handful of boxes (S80s) in what was at the time an all HP-UX and Solaris shop. Granted, I hate all GUI management tools and found ODM distasteful (both the idea and the implementation). However you sound like someone who has been around a bit, what's good about 6 that would be worth looking into?
Bah, HP-UX 10.20:
6:08pm up 1828 days, 4:06, 3 users, load average: 0.62, 0.59, 0.51
One of my favorites. You're welcome.
I think you mean "Superiority", by Arthur C. Clarke.
As an alternative for those who don't have a separate partition, but have the space for it, I'd highly recommend trying VMWare out. I suppose it's possible it doesn't work, but everything else I've tried on vmware lately (from workstation to ESX) has worked fine.
Sarcasm detector explodes.
If it's economically feasible in this case, I would suggest a better disk subsystem. The more spindles, the better. Something fibre channel, if possible. A memory size large enough to get to a supercached state will certainly help, but disks are cheap in quantity and using more of them in a RAID configuration is an orthodox solution to high service times.
Second, it's Cisco's right to do what they want with his research, since he did *break the law* in order to release it ( decompiling code + license agreement -> ?=( ).
I'm not a lawyer of course, but a license agreement is essentially a contract, right? Aren't you implying that he committed a crime, when this is perhaps a breach of contract? I could be mistaken.
Even if it was a crime, does that really give Cisco any rights to his work at all?
I think both of these articles have problems. After ESR subjected his readers to that CUPS rant I couldn't put my finger on it. After this I think I know why it bothers me. He basically assumes that the skills used in writing code are the same skills that a system administrator has. The truth is of course more complicated than that. There is perhaps some overlap. I've done both for years, but quite a bit more SA work than programming, and what programming I have done wasn't really for "end users", mostly for myself or fellow SAs.
Oh, and saying that good UI design is an art is kind of a cop out, an excuse to avoid the study of how people interact with their computers. In short, an excuse to avoid thinking with some hand waving about artistic talent. If I think they're serious, I flinch when people call their code "art", too. Art should evoke an emotional response, mostly I get intellectual stimulation from it.
One final note. If you don't like the UI, then perhaps it's time to write a better one? No one forcing you to use it as-is. People are going to assume that's a troll, but I don't care. You have the code, you have literally millions of lines of readable code to teach yourself from, so go forth and design something better. As it is, most of linux development has been rightly directed toward creating a clone of unix, not windows. I like unix the way it is, and will happily go on running my dozens of xterms. If someone feels it's lacking, they're supposed to do something about it, talking isn't going to get it done.