Photoshop will expand itself to consume all the free resources of a Quad-Core G5 with 4.5 GB of ram (assuming you're doing anything more complicated than what you can do with MS Paint), you REALLY want to avoid running too many other applications while running Photoshop.
A while back Slashdot posted some articles which confirmed that RIAA's profits were up, but their growth was slower than the rest of the economy so they use that to say their profits are 'down'. I think the last article I saw Slashdot post about it was several months ago.
Apparently the average Joes really like their crippled phones and their single-source philosophy.
Damn straight, if Joe Sixpack was interested in having a PDA he would have gotten one. Honestly I use Verizon and have had GOOD experience since I got a non-LP phone (went with the samsung flip phone, I know 2 other people with it and they all love it, as do I). Not everyone wants a 'smart phone' (any device with 'smart' in its name is instantly not smart).
Actually you can apply gravity to objects if you set them to Physical. Of course if everything was physical then all of the flying cities would come crashing to the ground and a lot of the realistate in Second Life would be lost (unless you put a script on every object in the air that just constantly set their position, which would look horrible since everything would stutter, and the grid would probably explode in a beautiful, yet deadly, fire ball.
RTFA. Massive parts of them were copy and pasted (the entire first paragraph is the same except 1 useless sentence is added at the end, and 'pthreads' is changed to 'win32 threads' near the end, then the middle section is pretty much the same as well with the reason for pthreads being better now being the reason why pthreads are worse.
Maybe he did change his opinion between the two articles. If so, it'd be nice to know why he did, such as what opened his eyes, which would be REALLY informative (especially if it turned out to be a free laptop... *cough*).
The problem isn't the change of opinion. The problem is the article is almost completely copy and pasted, as well as using the EXACT same reasons first why pthreads are better, and then in the newer one those reasons are why pthreads are worse. Now if the author pointed out his previous article (or just that he was originally a fan of pthreads) and explained why his opinion changed (such as what he learned between the 2 articles), THEN that would be an interesting read. But now both articles are just useless, since they use the exact same reasoning and logic, except with the opposite conclusion.
$1,500,000,000.00 is NOT chump change to Microsoft. Thats BILLION, not million. That will seriously hurt Microsoft's bottom line. Microsoft's profit for the last 12 months was $36.63 billion. Losing over 4% of their gross profit from a SINGLE cause would seriously hurt any company.
I guess thats why MS has been losing case after case? Same with the RIAA, when the cases actually DO go to court, they generally lose. The issue comes up because microsoft is the 600lb gorilla that pretty much anyone would be afraid to actually challenge them, even if they would win no problem if it actually went to court.
Konqueror will also run natively on OS X. Also when ran along side other KDE apps and the DE, Konqueror's memory usage (because of shared libraries) is most likely lower than Opera's, though it can still use some work to become even more efficient. Firefox developers will have an INCREDIBLY hard time making the Firefox UI as fast as Konqueror/Safari/Opera because of their extensive use of XUL.
Just for full disclosure, I use Konqueror as my primary browser on all *nix systems, and Opera everywhere Konqueror won't run. Several revisions of Konqueror ago and back before Opera's free version removed the ads I used Firefox primarily but as Konqueror matured and Opera removed the ads I moved away. I've never really been much of a fan of the software thats released as OSS to try and save its self and as part of its dying breath, the code base is generally pretty ugly and brittle, also it often steals resources away from good projects that have been OSS from the start.
Stream has to go from point A to point B, via router C. You become router C by any means you need (hacking the router, spoofing certain data, etc), then as you're routing the data, you simply store it (you have to read it to retransmit). The only thing Quantum "Encryption" prevents is someone splicing into a pre-existing line and putting some device to eavesdrop. Who often do you really think that happens compared to everything else?
As a previous poster higher up in the article mentioned, the entertainment system on a flight DID cause it to catch on fire, apparently each seat had its own system and it overheated and caused some issue with critical wires. It is still fortunate for the passengers that the system on their plane didn't have any flaws like that which COULD take down the flight.
Face it, you failed as a grammar nazi (but now you get a second chance to redeem yourself by correcting my mistakes in grammar;-)
Sounds like what you want is Xen. The Hypervisor is incredibly small and is generally controlled by a TINY (or large if you really want, but all it really needs is a few low level tools) domain 0 linux installation, and then inside the DomU's you can have any OS you want (Windows would require VT/SVM support in the processors though). Also you could use KVM which is now included with the mainline linux kernel since 2.6.20 which is similar to Xen but much lighter, and requires VT/SVM (no paravirtualization currently, which is what Xen does to not require VT/SVM for everything).
Also, VMware ESX server DOESNT run on Linux, Linux runs on ESX (just like Dom0 in Xen), that way they don't have to integrate anything into the kernel, plus its probably more stable that way.
The mechanism the laptop will use IS like the Tivo DRM (in fact there was a discussion on lwn whether Bitfrost is drm or not, and whether it would violate the GPLv3 or not). I believe Bitfrost WILL be GPLv3 compliant because the owner of the machine can request a developer key which will allow them to modify anything on the system (even remove the daemon). To prevent the thief from just requesting the developer key theres a 7 day waiting period (to confirm that the laptop hasn't been stolen) and then the key is issued. If the child already has the developer key, and then the key and the laptop are stolen, then the thief can disable the daemon themselves and get around the security. Also the developer keys are machine specific so stealing 1 key won't let you bypass the security on all machines.
This SHOULD make it very hard to defeat the anti-theft daemon (it doesn't reside in dhcpd btw, also removing internet access for 21 days will brick the machine anyways).
Bitfrost is much more than just the kill switch and is actually quite interesting, and at least in theory sounds like it would be quite effective.
"Face it, ANYTHING can be cracked if you try hard enough."
From the Bitfrost specification (which this killswitch is part of):
"But pushing the envelope on both security and usability is a tall order, and as we state in the concluding chapter of this document, we have neither tried to create, nor do we believe we have created, a "perfectly secure" system. Notions of perfect security are foolish, and we distance ourselves up front from any such claims."
The monitor only lets the OLPC authority shutdown the machine IF the anti-theft server says the machine has been stolen, OR the laptop is kept from accessing the server for more than x days (21 I think). And the daemon CAN be disabled, if the child requests the developer key from the OLPC authority (theres a 7 day wait to make sure the laptop wasn't stolen between the request and giving the key). The laptop uses code signing to prevent the operating system from being permanently modified (if you have the master key(s), or the developer key, you can modify it as much as you want, if you don't you can modify most of it but only in a copy of the system files, its a very nice way to allow most of the system to be modifiable by the kids, but if they bork it, you can just reset to using the original system files (assuming you didn't modify the original using the master/developer keys).
Now if the thief steals the developer key with the laptop, then the daemon is useless (unless they're too slow), and in the BitFrost document they acknowledge that theres is no way they can guarantee no laptops will be stolen, just try and discourage the thiefs.
If the linkware license isn't valid, then the MPAA didn't have ANY license to use the software, so they were violating copyright BEFORE they removed the links.
At least the blurb makes it sound like the author of the article thinks actually USING your bandwidth is a BAD thing. I think that if google (or anyone else, even microsoft or apple) gave people reason to use more of their bandwidth (like more streaming content, more stuff to download that appeals to joe sixpack without taking even as much effort as going to the pirate bay or another site to try and find a torrent) is a GREAT thing. At first it may cause the internet to have some pains (if its a sudden surge, most likely it'll be a slow acceleration), it'll be only temporarily before the ISPs upgrade their network's capacity (which several are already doing anyways), which would mean EVERYONE would end up with higher speeds much quicker.
How exactly would that be a bad thing (or did my not reading the article mean I completely missed the point? If so, I'm sure many a slashdotter will be correcting me)
Yeah cause I know I wanna try and get behind the tv (which is generally half an inch away from the wall with the rest of the media center) to try and unplug a stupid little cable. Yeah I think I'm just gonna download it instead of moving a freaking entertainment center every time the pos has a panic attack. And even if it was easy to get to, if it happened more than say once every few dozen times I watch any movies I think it'd be a good time to return it and just download. Then again I think 480p is 'good enough' and don't care about either of the new formats (as far as video is concerned, for storing data I'm liking bluray, which is *supposed* to be very scratch resistant and will store more data).
The 'instant kernel switching' is quite different, think of it as rebooting but skipping the bios. (you can't have an app open through the kernel switch)
Since they're planning on adding to the X86 ISA, the CPU/GPU combo really seems like the best possible way for Linux to get good/great support for GPUs (ATI's drivers suck and are closed source, OSS drivers are ok, but performance sucks, nvidia's drivers are pretty stable, and perform very well, but are closed source). I could be wrong, but I think that this may be the best possible thing for Linux when it comes to graphics.
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Photoshop will expand itself to consume all the free resources of a Quad-Core G5 with 4.5 GB of ram (assuming you're doing anything more complicated than what you can do with MS Paint), you REALLY want to avoid running too many other applications while running Photoshop.
A while back Slashdot posted some articles which confirmed that RIAA's profits were up, but their growth was slower than the rest of the economy so they use that to say their profits are 'down'. I think the last article I saw Slashdot post about it was several months ago.
Damn straight, if Joe Sixpack was interested in having a PDA he would have gotten one. Honestly I use Verizon and have had GOOD experience since I got a non-LP phone (went with the samsung flip phone, I know 2 other people with it and they all love it, as do I). Not everyone wants a 'smart phone' (any device with 'smart' in its name is instantly not smart).
Actually you can apply gravity to objects if you set them to Physical. Of course if everything was physical then all of the flying cities would come crashing to the ground and a lot of the realistate in Second Life would be lost (unless you put a script on every object in the air that just constantly set their position, which would look horrible since everything would stutter, and the grid would probably explode in a beautiful, yet deadly, fire ball.
RTFA. Massive parts of them were copy and pasted (the entire first paragraph is the same except 1 useless sentence is added at the end, and 'pthreads' is changed to 'win32 threads' near the end, then the middle section is pretty much the same as well with the reason for pthreads being better now being the reason why pthreads are worse.
Maybe he did change his opinion between the two articles. If so, it'd be nice to know why he did, such as what opened his eyes, which would be REALLY informative (especially if it turned out to be a free laptop... *cough*).
The problem isn't the change of opinion. The problem is the article is almost completely copy and pasted, as well as using the EXACT same reasons first why pthreads are better, and then in the newer one those reasons are why pthreads are worse. Now if the author pointed out his previous article (or just that he was originally a fan of pthreads) and explained why his opinion changed (such as what he learned between the 2 articles), THEN that would be an interesting read. But now both articles are just useless, since they use the exact same reasoning and logic, except with the opposite conclusion.
$1,500,000,000.00 is NOT chump change to Microsoft. Thats BILLION, not million. That will seriously hurt Microsoft's bottom line. Microsoft's profit for the last 12 months was $36.63 billion. Losing over 4% of their gross profit from a SINGLE cause would seriously hurt any company.
I guess thats why MS has been losing case after case? Same with the RIAA, when the cases actually DO go to court, they generally lose. The issue comes up because microsoft is the 600lb gorilla that pretty much anyone would be afraid to actually challenge them, even if they would win no problem if it actually went to court.
Konqueror will also run natively on OS X. Also when ran along side other KDE apps and the DE, Konqueror's memory usage (because of shared libraries) is most likely lower than Opera's, though it can still use some work to become even more efficient. Firefox developers will have an INCREDIBLY hard time making the Firefox UI as fast as Konqueror/Safari/Opera because of their extensive use of XUL.
Just for full disclosure, I use Konqueror as my primary browser on all *nix systems, and Opera everywhere Konqueror won't run. Several revisions of Konqueror ago and back before Opera's free version removed the ads I used Firefox primarily but as Konqueror matured and Opera removed the ads I moved away. I've never really been much of a fan of the software thats released as OSS to try and save its self and as part of its dying breath, the code base is generally pretty ugly and brittle, also it often steals resources away from good projects that have been OSS from the start.
Stream has to go from point A to point B, via router C. You become router C by any means you need (hacking the router, spoofing certain data, etc), then as you're routing the data, you simply store it (you have to read it to retransmit). The only thing Quantum "Encryption" prevents is someone splicing into a pre-existing line and putting some device to eavesdrop. Who often do you really think that happens compared to everything else?
As a previous poster higher up in the article mentioned, the entertainment system on a flight DID cause it to catch on fire, apparently each seat had its own system and it overheated and caused some issue with critical wires. It is still fortunate for the passengers that the system on their plane didn't have any flaws like that which COULD take down the flight.
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Face it, you failed as a grammar nazi (but now you get a second chance to redeem yourself by correcting my mistakes in grammar
Sounds like what you want is Xen. The Hypervisor is incredibly small and is generally controlled by a TINY (or large if you really want, but all it really needs is a few low level tools) domain 0 linux installation, and then inside the DomU's you can have any OS you want (Windows would require VT/SVM support in the processors though). Also you could use KVM which is now included with the mainline linux kernel since 2.6.20 which is similar to Xen but much lighter, and requires VT/SVM (no paravirtualization currently, which is what Xen does to not require VT/SVM for everything).
Also, VMware ESX server DOESNT run on Linux, Linux runs on ESX (just like Dom0 in Xen), that way they don't have to integrate anything into the kernel, plus its probably more stable that way.
The mechanism the laptop will use IS like the Tivo DRM (in fact there was a discussion on lwn whether Bitfrost is drm or not, and whether it would violate the GPLv3 or not). I believe Bitfrost WILL be GPLv3 compliant because the owner of the machine can request a developer key which will allow them to modify anything on the system (even remove the daemon). To prevent the thief from just requesting the developer key theres a 7 day waiting period (to confirm that the laptop hasn't been stolen) and then the key is issued. If the child already has the developer key, and then the key and the laptop are stolen, then the thief can disable the daemon themselves and get around the security. Also the developer keys are machine specific so stealing 1 key won't let you bypass the security on all machines.
This SHOULD make it very hard to defeat the anti-theft daemon (it doesn't reside in dhcpd btw, also removing internet access for 21 days will brick the machine anyways).
Bitfrost is much more than just the kill switch and is actually quite interesting, and at least in theory sounds like it would be quite effective.
From the Bitfrost specification (which this killswitch is part of):
http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=security;a=blob;hb
The monitor only lets the OLPC authority shutdown the machine IF the anti-theft server says the machine has been stolen, OR the laptop is kept from accessing the server for more than x days (21 I think). And the daemon CAN be disabled, if the child requests the developer key from the OLPC authority (theres a 7 day wait to make sure the laptop wasn't stolen between the request and giving the key). The laptop uses code signing to prevent the operating system from being permanently modified (if you have the master key(s), or the developer key, you can modify it as much as you want, if you don't you can modify most of it but only in a copy of the system files, its a very nice way to allow most of the system to be modifiable by the kids, but if they bork it, you can just reset to using the original system files (assuming you didn't modify the original using the master/developer keys).
Now if the thief steals the developer key with the laptop, then the daemon is useless (unless they're too slow), and in the BitFrost document they acknowledge that theres is no way they can guarantee no laptops will be stolen, just try and discourage the thiefs.
If the linkware license isn't valid, then the MPAA didn't have ANY license to use the software, so they were violating copyright BEFORE they removed the links.
Resistance sucks (so I say as the owner of a PS3 and Resistance).
Actually, a KDE dev ran experiments in the past and had numbers that agreed with the article. Heres his results: http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/desktop_benchmar k.html
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Later a GNOME dev ran his own tests with a more optimized version of GNOME and GNOME did a bit better, but KDE still won: http://spooky-possum.org/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi/kd
Looks like reality is a bit different than your beliefs!
At least the blurb makes it sound like the author of the article thinks actually USING your bandwidth is a BAD thing. I think that if google (or anyone else, even microsoft or apple) gave people reason to use more of their bandwidth (like more streaming content, more stuff to download that appeals to joe sixpack without taking even as much effort as going to the pirate bay or another site to try and find a torrent) is a GREAT thing. At first it may cause the internet to have some pains (if its a sudden surge, most likely it'll be a slow acceleration), it'll be only temporarily before the ISPs upgrade their network's capacity (which several are already doing anyways), which would mean EVERYONE would end up with higher speeds much quicker.
How exactly would that be a bad thing (or did my not reading the article mean I completely missed the point? If so, I'm sure many a slashdotter will be correcting me)
Yeah cause I know I wanna try and get behind the tv (which is generally half an inch away from the wall with the rest of the media center) to try and unplug a stupid little cable. Yeah I think I'm just gonna download it instead of moving a freaking entertainment center every time the pos has a panic attack. And even if it was easy to get to, if it happened more than say once every few dozen times I watch any movies I think it'd be a good time to return it and just download. Then again I think 480p is 'good enough' and don't care about either of the new formats (as far as video is concerned, for storing data I'm liking bluray, which is *supposed* to be very scratch resistant and will store more data).
"I am just waiting for Linus to cancel the 2.8 release."
Linus would have to announce a 2.8 release before he could cancel it.
The 'instant kernel switching' is quite different, think of it as rebooting but skipping the bios. (you can't have an app open through the kernel switch)
Since they're planning on adding to the X86 ISA, the CPU/GPU combo really seems like the best possible way for Linux to get good/great support for GPUs (ATI's drivers suck and are closed source, OSS drivers are ok, but performance sucks, nvidia's drivers are pretty stable, and perform very well, but are closed source). I could be wrong, but I think that this may be the best possible thing for Linux when it comes to graphics.
GPUs have been multicore for years.
I'd hope Hemos would spend MORE time on Slashdot, not less!