No seriously, how is this news? This happens all the time, like when my school tried to fundraise for our robotics team. That certainly didn't make slashdot.
Have you ever heard of a fanatical athiest? I think you are one. Take a step back and realize what you just said. You're being just as closed-minded as "they" are.
Evolution and creation can coexist. Some philosophers reason that evolution could simply be a tool of God, used to manipulate his creations. I think it is a load of crap, personally, but it is logically feasable.
For science, yes perhaps, but the everyday user is not doing that many floating point calculations. Even if they are, they won't need them done at the speed that a scientific application would.
Flops are more important for scientific applications, which is why you usually see all the large modern supercomputers measured using this unit of measurement; universities and research groups are the targeted audience.
For the normal user, floating point calculations aren't as important, so hertz is a decent standard for rating a CPU's speed. MIPS (millions of instructions per second) is also a halfdecent measurement system for the general person, but it can only be used to compare CPUs of the same architechture.
LCDs have the same problem. They have a single "maximum" resolution that they always run at no matter what, but when they recive a signal at a lower resolution they scale it up to the higher resolution (so lower resolutions can often appear fuzzy or have artifacts). For the most part, the image is not distorted enough for people to stop using an LCD - especially since the only times that they aren't using the optimal resolution is before their OS boots.
Yeah, but how many times have you taken them in for various repairs? And why are you still using them? I would think that monochrome, burnt in images, and huge power consumption would be reason enough to replace them - but make sure you take them to your town's hazardous waste disposal, since they is probably full of all sorts of nasty heavy metals.
They also sell binaries. You may not think this is much, but compare the install/upgrade time of something like RHEL to something like Gentoo. And usually, the binaries Just Work. I'm sure a vast majority of Enterprise IT workers feel like learning how to bootstrap their own Linux environment, from scratch, using sourcecode. Or, if they do, they probably don't want to do it in the enterprise setting.
No, they're nothing. They're the Big 'Meh' as far as I am concerned - at least on that particular topic. If slashdotters actually used logic, and were to follow yours, IBM would be the Big Evil as well, since they also sell Free Software.
You hit the nail right on the head; the developers did give them explicit permission, so they would be fools not to take advantage of that.
What projects do you maintain of contribute to, and what projects do you simply sell? (which is a much more accurate picture of what Apple is doing)
All of that aside however - Apple, as far as I know, has never broken any laws or violated any licences. So, both of your arguments don't really stand up. Why would any company in the right mind contribute to a non-profit project if they didn't see a profit coming out of it from somewhere else, indirectly?
These are computers remember?
30 years ago scientists assumed that 'personal computers' these days would take up only a room, and would be very user-friendly through the use of the FORTRAN language. I think in 5 or 10 years this could be very popular indeed - perhaps even faster...
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Yeah um...
You can play it just fine on linux in opengl. That gets rid of your directX, and blue screen, and you'll be fine for your high FPS and drivers if you just get yourself an nVidia 6800GT or Ultra.
They can see you in pitch darkness (those of us who don't play with ducttape know all too well). I don't think it would hurt your chances much; they're going to see you anyway.
They aren't DDoSing BitTorrent. They're DDoSing the http server that hosts the tiny torrent files, and probably also the trackers (which are also just http servers).
As far as I know, those three protocols have more or less pushed ICQ out of the market though have they not? I don't have an ICQ account and I haven't talked to someone who does for quite a long time.
I do admit however, ICQ's downfall may also have had something to do with the fact that AOL bought them and then basically shot the ICQ client in the face by adding a completely unbearable amount of bloat and advertising to it.
Here's something for you to learn today: you aren't looking at compiler output. That's actually the output from make. Unless there are errors or warnings (which you will see), gcc is silent.
irssi has also been available on quite a few of the earlier releases of the livecd as well. I'm not positive on this, but it may even have been on the 1.4 livecd (and every version after that).
You must be a smart admin then... perhaps you could enlighten us to these amazing tools of goodness (which should be significantly smaller than ~1.5mb source or ~500kb binary, or else they would be "bloated").
Are they geek teenagers or just the normal dumb ones?
If they're geeks then you're probably squashing something useful by forcing the off the computer. I know this by experience. I feel restricted by my parents who are constantly forcing me to do other things, which makes it nearly impossible to do some things I've always wanted to, like clan gaming. On the more productive side, there's nothing more annoying than a parent nagging you to get off the computer when you're in the middle of coding a serious project (debugging even more so). Adding on to that however, I have been working at an IT related job for the last 4 months and both my parents and myself have seen a significant decline in the amount of time I spend on the computer at home. Getting an IT related job might be a little tricky; I think I just got lucky.
If they aren't geeks, get them off that damn computer. Their time is much better wasted smoking up and getting hammered at some party. Maybe if they're lucky they'll have a kid before they finish high school.
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No seriously, how is this news? This happens all the time, like when my school tried to fundraise for our robotics team. That certainly didn't make slashdot.
Have you ever heard of a fanatical athiest? I think you are one. Take a step back and realize what you just said. You're being just as closed-minded as "they" are.
Evolution and creation can coexist. Some philosophers reason that evolution could simply be a tool of God, used to manipulate his creations. I think it is a load of crap, personally, but it is logically feasable.
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For science, yes perhaps, but the everyday user is not doing that many floating point calculations. Even if they are, they won't need them done at the speed that a scientific application would.
Flops are more important for scientific applications, which is why you usually see all the large modern supercomputers measured using this unit of measurement; universities and research groups are the targeted audience.
For the normal user, floating point calculations aren't as important, so hertz is a decent standard for rating a CPU's speed. MIPS (millions of instructions per second) is also a halfdecent measurement system for the general person, but it can only be used to compare CPUs of the same architechture.
LCDs have the same problem. They have a single "maximum" resolution that they always run at no matter what, but when they recive a signal at a lower resolution they scale it up to the higher resolution (so lower resolutions can often appear fuzzy or have artifacts). For the most part, the image is not distorted enough for people to stop using an LCD - especially since the only times that they aren't using the optimal resolution is before their OS boots.
Yeah, but how many times have you taken them in for various repairs? And why are you still using them? I would think that monochrome, burnt in images, and huge power consumption would be reason enough to replace them - but make sure you take them to your town's hazardous waste disposal, since they is probably full of all sorts of nasty heavy metals.
They also sell binaries. You may not think this is much, but compare the install/upgrade time of something like RHEL to something like Gentoo. And usually, the binaries Just Work. I'm sure a vast majority of Enterprise IT workers feel like learning how to bootstrap their own Linux environment, from scratch, using sourcecode. Or, if they do, they probably don't want to do it in the enterprise setting.
On that note, did doomIII even have water?
No, they're nothing. They're the Big 'Meh' as far as I am concerned - at least on that particular topic. If slashdotters actually used logic, and were to follow yours, IBM would be the Big Evil as well, since they also sell Free Software.
You hit the nail right on the head; the developers did give them explicit permission, so they would be fools not to take advantage of that.
A better way of phrasing the above question:
All of that aside however - Apple, as far as I know, has never broken any laws or violated any licences. So, both of your arguments don't really stand up. Why would any company in the right mind contribute to a non-profit project if they didn't see a profit coming out of it from somewhere else, indirectly?What projects do you maintain of contribute to, and what projects do you simply sell ? (which is a much more accurate picture of what Apple is doing)
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Okay, I'll paraphrase: "White sucks. We want black." Blue and pink. Pah, who actually buys that shit?
That's strange, I could have sworn it stood for Dual Screen.
These are computers remember? 30 years ago scientists assumed that 'personal computers' these days would take up only a room, and would be very user-friendly through the use of the FORTRAN language. I think in 5 or 10 years this could be very popular indeed - perhaps even faster...
This may be news, but does anyone actually care ??
Yeah um...
You can play it just fine on linux in opengl. That gets rid of your directX, and blue screen, and you'll be fine for your high FPS and drivers if you just get yourself an nVidia 6800GT or Ultra.
They can see you in pitch darkness (those of us who don't play with ducttape know all too well). I don't think it would hurt your chances much; they're going to see you anyway.
They aren't DDoSing BitTorrent. They're DDoSing the http server that hosts the tiny torrent files, and probably also the trackers (which are also just http servers).
As far as I know, those three protocols have more or less pushed ICQ out of the market though have they not? I don't have an ICQ account and I haven't talked to someone who does for quite a long time.
I do admit however, ICQ's downfall may also have had something to do with the fact that AOL bought them and then basically shot the ICQ client in the face by adding a completely unbearable amount of bloat and advertising to it.
Here's something for you to learn today: you aren't looking at compiler output. That's actually the output from make. Unless there are errors or warnings (which you will see), gcc is silent.
irssi has also been available on quite a few of the earlier releases of the livecd as well. I'm not positive on this, but it may even have been on the 1.4 livecd (and every version after that).
You must be a smart admin then... perhaps you could enlighten us to these amazing tools of goodness (which should be significantly smaller than ~1.5mb source or ~500kb binary, or else they would be "bloated").
Are they geek teenagers or just the normal dumb ones?
If they're geeks then you're probably squashing something useful by forcing the off the computer. I know this by experience. I feel restricted by my parents who are constantly forcing me to do other things, which makes it nearly impossible to do some things I've always wanted to, like clan gaming. On the more productive side, there's nothing more annoying than a parent nagging you to get off the computer when you're in the middle of coding a serious project (debugging even more so). Adding on to that however, I have been working at an IT related job for the last 4 months and both my parents and myself have seen a significant decline in the amount of time I spend on the computer at home. Getting an IT related job might be a little tricky; I think I just got lucky.
If they aren't geeks, get them off that damn computer. Their time is much better wasted smoking up and getting hammered at some party. Maybe if they're lucky they'll have a kid before they finish high school.
Taxes in Canada just go to paying the industry off so they shut up. Yay for legal fileswapping!