It seems that if they pull this off one of the dtrongholds of solaris (namely massivly parralell computing) will have been conqurered by linux. I wonder how sun are feeling at the moment?
Everyone seems to be making a big fuss over this which isn't such a big deal. Oxford computer society's take on it was
this. What they did wasn't anything fancy, it was just bummed up for the paper because exciting things don't happen in oxford very often. I've no idea why the guardian and the eeb are reporting this now, 1.5 months after the OxStu's headline, perhaps it's just a slow news day or somthing. This is all getting blown out of all proportion, at the time I thought what a big pile of bollocks and now this is just rediculous
That's right. It's a hell of a lot easier to download a 500Mb MPEG
I think it is easier as you can be very blase about downloading and all it is is click and wait, no human intervention required, and if the film doesn't come down or is of bad quality you've lost nothing
from a dodgy site
This is a bit dramatic isn't it, as it is distributed filesharing there is no central 'dodgy' site. What is it that makes a site dodgy? Is it the evil bit?
and then sit in front of the computer for a couple of hours watching a blurry image
Who says it's not a direct DVD rip, in which case it would be as good quality as buying a DVD in the shops
on a 17" monitor
How do you know how big my monitor is, or my TV or even if I or anyone else here have TVs? I watch my DVDs on my computer as it tis the biggest screen I have, and I wouldn't be surprised if that is the same for a lot of people here
than it is to pass by the cinema or buy a DVD.;-)
Whenever I go to the cinema it is delibrate because I want to go to see a film, I don't just pass it and go in. I think going to the cinema is better as a socil thing with others, and in my experiance it is difficult to get a big group of people to go to the cinema upon passing. Also the showing times are restrictive, whereas on the PC or with a DVD you can just press play, so I would say that this is significantly more conveniant
Also, it is true, DVDs are expensive. You don't buy a DVD unless you know you like the film, it offers no scope for seeing films you've never seen before (unless you're rolling in money)
I'm not saying that I agree with downloading films, and I can't I have done many times but I really dislike seeing sensationalist posts taking a very specific example and wildly generalising it
But that means it locks out the smaller computer building firms, favouring monopolys springing up in the computer building buisness and sure as hell will kill the chance of OEMs putting alternative OSs on thier machines as they will want to ship as much windows as possible, so I think it's a bad idea.
The problem is not with the academy (sp?) members themselves (i.e the ones with the DVD player, but with the portability of the DVDs. Any old lighting tech or coffee person can pick up a DVD lying around and take it home and play it, and that's where the copies come from, but the proper recepients of the discs arn't going to leave thier nice new DVD player lying around, as they'll need it for the next preview DVD they will be recieving, so you reduce the major avenue to he P2P networks.
BTW: in C or C++ you have the same distinction. Its called comparision by value and comparision by address, == checks for same address, that means same object..equals() is user defined and you define "equal" as you need it for a certain type.
in C++ == will check for the same address if both side of the operator are pointers to things. If they are objects or references to objects it will do a value comparison based on a user specified function called operator==().
no one is expecting nor wants mozilla/firefox to dominate the browser market like IE does, diversity is good for any system when infection is considered, such as in the animal kingdom. Also there being no mega-browser means much more standards compliance, which in turn means more diversity where the respective browsers can be compared on an equal footing, instead of "oh, this browser's broken because web page x doesn't display properly". i.e diversity breeds diversity which is good.
Is china the country whose military budget is equal to the rest of the world put together? Is china the only country to have used nuclear weapons on another country? Which counrty breaks and disbands treatys with other countrys regarding neuclear weapon development? So which country is more likley to have supercomputers working on nuclear weapons simulations?
Not at all, in a promiscuous species it is benificial for the males to try to mate with as many females as possible, whereas it is still only benificial for the females to mate witht he same regularity as before (actually less as in a promiscuous species males become much more fertile -a chimp has testicles 4x the size of human testicles compared to body size). So the females have more choice to choose from so are more picky and it becomes much less likely for a female to consent to mating with a male.
So, net result, females need less sex because of increased male fertility, so overall males get less, but because of the competitive environment they want more and are more aggressive. Females want less because they have more choice and it pays to be picky.
Less sex and more aggression doesn't sound like the kind of environment I'd like to live in personally, would you?
Bug fixing, performance enhancements, porting to more platforms, inclusion in free software only (assuming thay release it under a free software liscence rather than just an open source one) distributions [read: debian] to name just a few of the advantages.
Also, if it's free more people are likley to use it for developing free software
A species in which females are sexually active (in heat) most all the time, and which engages in sex for recreation. But in which the females care for the young and the males move to the next available females means MUCH more procreation (and happier males).
It wouldn't mean more procreation, it is in such a way that just the right amount of procreation occurs and this polygamous system would adapt to this meaning that some males have multiple mates and some have none. It would probably be a much more violent society also because there would be more competition for mates
Personally if I had a 64bit processor I would run as much stuff as possible in 64bit mode. You might argue that I am not a general consumer as I run linux, etc but I don't think general consumers generally read hardware benchmarking websites either, but I do and I would. 32bit comparisons are neccessary of course and I find them interesting also (i.e for when I boot into w2k for games), but to not have one 64bit test does seem a bit silly.
I don't think it is comparing apples to oranges, and if it is this doesn't make it unfair just like it's not unfair to run SSE compiled apps on your SSE enabled chip
The inverse square law applies to point sources, you can imagine that the points which are equidistant from a point is a sphere, so all the radiation is shared out over the surface area of the sphere 4r^2, so the intensity is proportional to 1/r^2. Power lines are lines, so the equidistant points form a cylinder, surface area 2rh, so the intensity is proportional to 1/r.
HTH
Also comparing two Linux distros is not like comparing XP to Mac OS. it's more akin to comparing win98se and win2k. Linux distro's ARE related os's like windows flavours are related. Mac OS pre OSX was it's own thing, and as of OSX is *nix related.
I disagree with this, windows 98 and windows XP are quite different in how they work, but thier philosophy is exactly the same, unlike different linux distros whose (sp?) innards are basically the same, but philospohys are completely different.
This is of course one of the greatest things about free software, it's an eveloutionary process where the best shines through based on testing in *the real world* rather than in labs etc.
Sure It's easy to install now but that's only the the beginning of setting up a good linux system, suc as getting GNOME/KDE to your liking and optimising the X server etc. This is debian's disadvantage when it comes to the linux desktop, it tries to be everything to everyone (and this shouldn't change), but the dedicated desktop disros have a clear advantage in this area as they know what they are going to be used for.
Well imagine that we lived in a 2D world which is the surface of the earth, we would know that the world was round because we can come back to the same place by walking in a streight line, and we can come back to the same place by making 3 right angled turns (i.e go from the equator to the pole turn right go back down to the equator, turn right, go back to where you started.
If you consider this on a higher demensional thingy then we can see hw the curvature of the universe affects us while there is noting ouside it and no way of viewing it externally
I don't know if I have explained myself well, hope this helps
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It seems that if they pull this off one of the dtrongholds of solaris (namely massivly parralell computing) will have been conqurered by linux. I wonder how sun are feeling at the moment?
Everyone seems to be making a big fuss over this which isn't such a big deal. Oxford computer society's take on it was this. What they did wasn't anything fancy, it was just bummed up for the paper because exciting things don't happen in oxford very often. I've no idea why the guardian and the eeb are reporting this now, 1.5 months after the OxStu's headline, perhaps it's just a slow news day or somthing. This is all getting blown out of all proportion, at the time I thought what a big pile of bollocks and now this is just rediculous
I think it is easier as you can be very blase about downloading and all it is is click and wait, no human intervention required, and if the film doesn't come down or is of bad quality you've lost nothing
This is a bit dramatic isn't it, as it is distributed filesharing there is no central 'dodgy' site. What is it that makes a site dodgy? Is it the evil bit?
Who says it's not a direct DVD rip, in which case it would be as good quality as buying a DVD in the shops
How do you know how big my monitor is, or my TV or even if I or anyone else here have TVs? I watch my DVDs on my computer as it tis the biggest screen I have, and I wouldn't be surprised if that is the same for a lot of people here
Whenever I go to the cinema it is delibrate because I want to go to see a film, I don't just pass it and go in. I think going to the cinema is better as a socil thing with others, and in my experiance it is difficult to get a big group of people to go to the cinema upon passing. Also the showing times are restrictive, whereas on the PC or with a DVD you can just press play, so I would say that this is significantly more conveniant
Also, it is true, DVDs are expensive. You don't buy a DVD unless you know you like the film, it offers no scope for seeing films you've never seen before (unless you're rolling in money)
I'm not saying that I agree with downloading films, and I can't I have done many times but I really dislike seeing sensationalist posts taking a very specific example and wildly generalising it
But that means it locks out the smaller computer building firms, favouring monopolys springing up in the computer building buisness and sure as hell will kill the chance of OEMs putting alternative OSs on thier machines as they will want to ship as much windows as possible, so I think it's a bad idea.
The problem is not with the academy (sp?) members themselves (i.e the ones with the DVD player, but with the portability of the DVDs. Any old lighting tech or coffee person can pick up a DVD lying around and take it home and play it, and that's where the copies come from, but the proper recepients of the discs arn't going to leave thier nice new DVD player lying around, as they'll need it for the next preview DVD they will be recieving, so you reduce the major avenue to he P2P networks.
in C++ == will check for the same address if both side of the operator are pointers to things. If they are objects or references to objects it will do a value comparison based on a user specified function called operator==().
no one is expecting nor wants mozilla/firefox to dominate the browser market like IE does, diversity is good for any system when infection is considered, such as in the animal kingdom. Also there being no mega-browser means much more standards compliance, which in turn means more diversity where the respective browsers can be compared on an equal footing, instead of "oh, this browser's broken because web page x doesn't display properly". i.e diversity breeds diversity which is good.
but what about davros? he ruled
They have gotta be taking the piss, 2 days!
Is china the country whose military budget is equal to the rest of the world put together? Is china the only country to have used nuclear weapons on another country? Which counrty breaks and disbands treatys with other countrys regarding neuclear weapon development? So which country is more likley to have supercomputers working on nuclear weapons simulations?
Not at all, in a promiscuous species it is benificial for the males to try to mate with as many females as possible, whereas it is still only benificial for the females to mate witht he same regularity as before (actually less as in a promiscuous species males become much more fertile -a chimp has testicles 4x the size of human testicles compared to body size). So the females have more choice to choose from so are more picky and it becomes much less likely for a female to consent to mating with a male.
So, net result, females need less sex because of increased male fertility, so overall males get less, but because of the competitive environment they want more and are more aggressive. Females want less because they have more choice and it pays to be picky.
Less sex and more aggression doesn't sound like the kind of environment I'd like to live in personally, would you?
Bug fixing, performance enhancements, porting to more platforms, inclusion in free software only (assuming thay release it under a free software liscence rather than just an open source one) distributions [read: debian] to name just a few of the advantages.
Also, if it's free more people are likley to use it for developing free software
It wouldn't mean more procreation, it is in such a way that just the right amount of procreation occurs and this polygamous system would adapt to this meaning that some males have multiple mates and some have none. It would probably be a much more violent society also because there would be more competition for mates
You don't happen to be a CLEC consultant do you?
Personally if I had a 64bit processor I would run as much stuff as possible in 64bit mode. You might argue that I am not a general consumer as I run linux, etc but I don't think general consumers generally read hardware benchmarking websites either, but I do and I would. 32bit comparisons are neccessary of course and I find them interesting also (i.e for when I boot into w2k for games), but to not have one 64bit test does seem a bit silly.
I don't think it is comparing apples to oranges, and if it is this doesn't make it unfair just like it's not unfair to run SSE compiled apps on your SSE enabled chip
Terrible karma is the price you pay for having somthing modded +4 Funny
The inverse square law applies to point sources, you can imagine that the points which are equidistant from a point is a sphere, so all the radiation is shared out over the surface area of the sphere 4r^2, so the intensity is proportional to 1/r^2. Power lines are lines, so the equidistant points form a cylinder, surface area 2rh, so the intensity is proportional to 1/r. HTH
That would be you then ;)
Unless you make the reflection ultra bright. "My eyes!, my beautiful eyes."
Ah! ValuSoft then ;)
I disagree with this, windows 98 and windows XP are quite different in how they work, but thier philosophy is exactly the same, unlike different linux distros whose (sp?) innards are basically the same, but philospohys are completely different.
This is of course one of the greatest things about free software, it's an eveloutionary process where the best shines through based on testing in *the real world* rather than in labs etc.
Sure It's easy to install now but that's only the the beginning of setting up a good linux system, suc as getting GNOME/KDE to your liking and optimising the X server etc. This is debian's disadvantage when it comes to the linux desktop, it tries to be everything to everyone (and this shouldn't change), but the dedicated desktop disros have a clear advantage in this area as they know what they are going to be used for.
For god's sake RTFA befoe you post a story on the front page of ./
What? Japan?
Well imagine that we lived in a 2D world which is the surface of the earth, we would know that the world was round because we can come back to the same place by walking in a streight line, and we can come back to the same place by making 3 right angled turns (i.e go from the equator to the pole turn right go back down to the equator, turn right, go back to where you started.
If you consider this on a higher demensional thingy then we can see hw the curvature of the universe affects us while there is noting ouside it and no way of viewing it externally
I don't know if I have explained myself well, hope this helps