It sounds to me like scheduler problem in kernel. Mp3 playback looks to kernel like very important desktop multimedia task so kernel assign big chunks of time to it, regardless fact that task is mostly sleeping. As a kernel bug, it is difficult to fix unless you want to break many other important stuff, like games or video playback, for example. Each tuning needs months of testing. That would explain why MS is not promising to release fix anytime soon.
We finally found trace of civilization that screw their ecosystem more then we are able to (so far!). When they converted to energy everything in range of 1 billion years for their gigantic SUVs they moved elsewhere. But where did they go?... Oh... wait...
Exactly, in version 6 Java really matured as desktop, server and mobile holy grail open source platform. Only thing they did wrong was not open-sourcing it earlier (so they give traction to _now_ meaningless projects like Mono, classpath, gcj, kaffe,...
Windows NT 3 could do that, except that screwed OCX technology makes it almost impossible to install 2 different versions of one application at the same time. This new "virtual applications" will address this problem by adding one more layer of complication (separating registry for each version of application) instead of getting rid of broken OCX thing.
Cold War will not repeat. What is different here is that this time it is not possible to totally brainwash citizens and cut them from _all_ information sources, like Soviets did. and Chinese are doing now with majority of *poor* people there. China citizens are getting more rich and, eventually, they will get to point when they will have access to internet and be able to have all informations they need. In this case, for democratic world, best tactics is "sit and wait" (actually that worked for Soviet Union as well). Evil empire will fall appart from within. Sooner or later, Chenese version of Neo (Havel, Valesa,...) will pull one card from bottom of regime's card tower of lies.
Microsoft Research Labs has 221 proofs to choose from. 85 proofs are related to Mathematics, 115 proofs are related to Alan Turing himself and 21 are mostly general proofs on anything. Also, thay have 43 proofs on those little cells that combine togather into tapestry patterns.
Accused of a crime? No problem, just open up the datafile, fastforward to the time of the event, and see that we were actually sitting in the basement surfing alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.midgets.
Yes but it is in the future - you are accused for sitting in the basement surfing alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.midgets.
Each OS has its pros and cons and I generaly don't find informative pointing only pros side (ZFS, DTrace). Don't forget that those are cool *kernel* features, useful for system admins (small minority of OS users). Most users care about drivers, applications, community on Internet (they can talk to in case of problems) and even eye candy. Sun Netbeans for instance. If you find problem with it (say, Tomcat integration), you are much more likely to find solution for Linux/Netbeans then Solaris/Netbeans simply because of userbase size. There is one more problem I see with Solaris from software development perspective: it tries to be compatible both with past versions of itself *and* with Linux. Now, thing I like with Linux is it is *NOT* binary backwards compatible. If some thing is badly written, kill it and forget it. If you looked at leaked source code of Microsoft Explorer, it was really frightening: for sake of backwards compatibility it emulates all bugs from previous versions, lot of ifs and ifdefs. This "feature" looks actually like bug in my book (benefits only closed-source programs that cannot be recompiled and updated in OS repository). I cannot comment on niche use cases, but talking about general OS, Linux currently has no compatition.
and don't forget fake Budweiser beer. Funny part is that Budweiser USA version is copy of reciepe for "Samson" beer which is cheaper version of original Buweiser beer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Budvar
I think that, given HDTV resolution, would be great to have computer-in-kayboard style, like Atari ST or Amiga was (but smaller, more like Mac keyboard size). It would require design with pasive cooling. You could take your computer anywhere where monitor (or TV) and mouse can be found. Price could go under 100$ for minimalist web-browsing machine, given that most expensive part (display) is not there and everything else could be compressed to one system-on-a-chip + flash HDD. Up to maybe $1000 for high performance desktops with 60GB flash disk.
Its easy: laws of the market: 1GB of RAM is enough to 99% of users (and many that need more will be happy with 2 x 1GB RAM). So there is no real reason for RAM producers to push for larger RAMs for now (especially when large majority of users run 32-bit systems that couldn't make much use of 4GB RAM modules). On the other side, users want bigger and bigger flash disks and are ready to pay for each extra GB.
Could you really expect to stream down the maximum amount of traffic possible 24/7 and pay the same as checking email once per day?
Yes. If it is unlimited, In the case of "unlimited" connection I suppose limitation is only connection speed, not connection speed *and* amount of tranfered data.
Well, Denmark case and Turkey case clearly shows that both countries has some very weak points when it comes to democracy standards, just like any other country, but there is one big difference: Turkey is muslim country, so we can spend some hours again on/. wondering if any muslim country will EVER come even close to us, European super-humans (übermensch) standards. In other EU news, Italian, Austrian, France, Polish ultra-right/fascist parties are happily increasing their election-base. Holland soldiers assisted in 1995 Srebrenica genocide celbrated by Holland prime minister. Polish president is sending german (!?) journalist to court for making jokes on his account, Italian media are ruled by one person that happens to be leader of most popular party in country (talking about freedom of speech), In Czech Republic, Gipseys minority are increasingly isolated in ghettos and even women are forced to be surgicaly sterilized... So, how could ever happen that evil Muslim Turkey banned YouTube page if they want to join us, EU democracy heaven on earth?
I have different theory: Dude has 2 separate threads in his brain. Comparing pthreads to Win32 threads only exposed dangerous race condition producing funny effects in his blog.
There is little of R&D and added value in Dell products. After all, building a PCs and pre-installing HDD with useless crap is not rocket science. I don't see much oportunities for Dell in the future, unless they invent completely new product-area compatible with internet-world we all live in already. They are basically in the same position as pre-iPod Apple. My take: SELL.
If I am reading this article right, "multi-core" and and "high-end" graphics probably means that intel is going after realtime ray-tracing HW support, which is seen as natural succesor of current z-buffered graphics. There are university projects already proving that ray-tracing hardware support works fine and bring way better graphics then what is available by ATI/nVidia. Battle for best ray-tracing HW will start soon among all 3 key players (ATI/Intel/nVidia) and Intel probably thinks this is right time to enter graphic HW business again, now that are all previous graphical HW patents, resarch and know-hows more or less obsolete.
Yes, if your Linux machine is used for serious business (server, workstation) just forget crapy "mainstream" options (ATI, nVidia). Intel graphics, while not providing enough horsepower for gaming-on-the-edge (yet) is real deal when it comes to stability, usability and simplicity of instalation. If they manage to bring performance to nVidia-range, I for one will welcome our new Linux-graphics-kick-ass-overlords.
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It sounds to me like scheduler problem in kernel. Mp3 playback looks to kernel like very important desktop multimedia task so kernel assign big chunks of time to it, regardless fact that task is mostly sleeping. As a kernel bug, it is difficult to fix unless you want to break many other important stuff, like games or video playback, for example. Each tuning needs months of testing. That would explain why MS is not promising to release fix anytime soon.
We finally found trace of civilization that screw their ecosystem more then we are able to (so far!). When they converted to energy everything in range of 1 billion years for their gigantic SUVs they moved elsewhere. But where did they go? ... Oh... wait...
So Mono is not intended to be "write once, run everywhere" ? Then it has big problem compared to Java in my book.
Exactly, in version 6 Java really matured as desktop, server and mobile holy grail open source platform. Only thing they did wrong was not open-sourcing it earlier (so they give traction to _now_ meaningless projects like Mono, classpath, gcj, kaffe, ...
single application is virtualised.
Windows NT 3 could do that, except that screwed OCX technology makes it almost impossible to install 2 different versions of one application at the same time. This new "virtual applications" will address this problem by adding one more layer of complication (separating registry for each version of application) instead of getting rid of broken OCX thing.
People ready business, People ready business, People ready business, People ready business. There we go, $15.30
Cold War will not repeat. What is different here is that this time it is not possible to totally brainwash citizens and cut them from _all_ information sources, like Soviets did. and Chinese are doing now with majority of *poor* people there. China citizens are getting more rich and, eventually, they will get to point when they will have access to internet and be able to have all informations they need. In this case, for democratic world, best tactics is "sit and wait" (actually that worked for Soviet Union as well). Evil empire will fall appart from within. Sooner or later, Chenese version of Neo (Havel, Valesa, ...) will pull one card from bottom of regime's card tower of lies.
In Soviet China Party Tubes You!
I even know Windows driver engineers at NVIDIA that primarily use Linux on their personal machines at home.
Well, that explains lot of issues with my DirectX setup.
Microsoft Research Labs has 221 proofs to choose from. 85 proofs are related to Mathematics, 115 proofs are related to Alan Turing himself and 21 are mostly general proofs on anything. Also, thay have 43 proofs on those little cells that combine togather into tapestry patterns.
... but it should be mentioned that they could create it that fast only thanks to breaking 173 Microsoft patents.
Accused of a crime? No problem, just open up the datafile, fastforward to the time of the event, and see that we were actually sitting in the basement surfing alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.midgets.
Yes but it is in the future - you are accused for sitting in the basement surfing alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.midgets.
Each OS has its pros and cons and I generaly don't find informative pointing only pros side (ZFS, DTrace). Don't forget that those are cool *kernel* features, useful for system admins (small minority of OS users). Most users care about drivers, applications, community on Internet (they can talk to in case of problems) and even eye candy. Sun Netbeans for instance. If you find problem with it (say, Tomcat integration), you are much more likely to find solution for Linux/Netbeans then Solaris/Netbeans simply because of userbase size. There is one more problem I see with Solaris from software development perspective: it tries to be compatible both with past versions of itself *and* with Linux. Now, thing I like with Linux is it is *NOT* binary backwards compatible. If some thing is badly written, kill it and forget it. If you looked at leaked source code of Microsoft Explorer, it was really frightening: for sake of backwards compatibility it emulates all bugs from previous versions, lot of ifs and ifdefs. This "feature" looks actually like bug in my book (benefits only closed-source programs that cannot be recompiled and updated in OS repository). I cannot comment on niche use cases, but talking about general OS, Linux currently has no compatition.
and don't forget fake Budweiser beer. Funny part is that Budweiser USA version is copy of reciepe for "Samson" beer which is cheaper version of original Buweiser beer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Budvar
I think that, given HDTV resolution, would be great to have computer-in-kayboard style, like Atari ST or Amiga was (but smaller, more like Mac keyboard size). It would require design with pasive cooling. You could take your computer anywhere where monitor (or TV) and mouse can be found. Price could go under 100$ for minimalist web-browsing machine, given that most expensive part (display) is not there and everything else could be compressed to one system-on-a-chip + flash HDD. Up to maybe $1000 for high performance desktops with 60GB flash disk.
Why he didn't simply send a flame letter to Jobs and ask him for help?
Its easy: laws of the market: 1GB of RAM is enough to 99% of users (and many that need more will be happy with 2 x 1GB RAM). So there is no real reason for RAM producers to push for larger RAMs for now (especially when large majority of users run 32-bit systems that couldn't make much use of 4GB RAM modules). On the other side, users want bigger and bigger flash disks and are ready to pay for each extra GB.
Could you really expect to stream down the maximum amount of traffic possible 24/7 and pay the same as checking email once per day?
Yes. If it is unlimited, In the case of "unlimited" connection I suppose limitation is only connection speed, not connection speed *and* amount of tranfered data.
Linux might be greener but Windows has definately bluer screens.
Well, Denmark case and Turkey case clearly shows that both countries has some very weak points when it comes to democracy standards, just like any other country, but there is one big difference: Turkey is muslim country, so we can spend some hours again on /. wondering if any muslim country will EVER come even close to us, European super-humans (übermensch) standards. In other EU news, Italian, Austrian, France, Polish ultra-right/fascist parties are happily increasing their election-base. Holland soldiers assisted in 1995 Srebrenica genocide celbrated by Holland prime minister. Polish president is sending german (!?) journalist to court for making jokes on his account, Italian media are ruled by one person that happens to be leader of most popular party in country (talking about freedom of speech), In Czech Republic, Gipseys minority are increasingly isolated in ghettos and even women are forced to be surgicaly sterilized... So, how could ever happen that evil Muslim Turkey banned YouTube page if they want to join us, EU democracy heaven on earth?
I have different theory: Dude has 2 separate threads in his brain. Comparing pthreads to Win32 threads only exposed dangerous race condition producing funny effects in his blog.
"There is no possibility under any current theory that an event horizon could form and attract matter."
New contribution to the "famous last words" list?
There is little of R&D and added value in Dell products. After all, building a PCs and pre-installing HDD with useless crap is not rocket science. I don't see much oportunities for Dell in the future, unless they invent completely new product-area compatible with internet-world we all live in already. They are basically in the same position as pre-iPod Apple. My take: SELL.
If I am reading this article right, "multi-core" and and "high-end" graphics probably means that intel is going after realtime ray-tracing HW support, which is seen as natural succesor of current z-buffered graphics. There are university projects already proving that ray-tracing hardware support works fine and bring way better graphics then what is available by ATI/nVidia. Battle for best ray-tracing HW will start soon among all 3 key players (ATI/Intel/nVidia) and Intel probably thinks this is right time to enter graphic HW business again, now that are all previous graphical HW patents, resarch and know-hows more or less obsolete.
Yes, if your Linux machine is used for serious business (server, workstation) just forget crapy "mainstream" options (ATI, nVidia). Intel graphics, while not providing enough horsepower for gaming-on-the-edge (yet) is real deal when it comes to stability, usability and simplicity of instalation. If they manage to bring performance to nVidia-range, I for one will welcome our new Linux-graphics-kick-ass-overlords.