Actually, if one card is faster 30% - 40% for various OpenGL games over another then same difference will hold in case of CAD/CAM/GIS software. There is no "hidden magic" in either CAD or gaming world. Both are using OpenGL API in pretty much same way and all performance tricks are shared among both industries.
I bravely predict that Ubuntu Dapper Drake will be milestone in GNU/Linux desktop accaptance (including OEMs, like Dell) just like Firefox was in the browser world. For the last two years Linux gained stability and "final touch" that user need, but it is still missing "something" big, that would compensate to end users for huge task of switching OS platform. I think that combination of Beagle maturity, XGL coolness and Eclipse for power users might be just that "something".
last few decades radical islam wins hands down for self-righteous violence and terror.
This is very broad statemnet, knowing what happened in Srebrenica or Sabra & Chatila. They have Ladin, we have Karadzic, Thay have Zarkawi, we have Elie Hobeika. Don't blame groupes for what individuals are responisble for, otherwise you are to blame for really awful stuff around the globe.
MySQL was created for low volume applications which don't need all the excessive functionality and optimization.
Not Exactly. MySQL is primarly targeted to "embedded" DB world: Database that is only storage service to application. Application contains all logic and has central place. It is different aproach then "real DB" like say, DB2, where DB (not app) has central place, most of the logic, and various apps connects and operates on it including powerusers with scripts etc. It is just different logic, not that one is "clever" and other "stupid". Contrary to what many people thinks, MySQL supports large amounts of data well. I have application working with Geo spatial applications and there is one table with _ALL_ street of europe, with many attributes (>60 millions of records, 30GB) and I don't have problems displaying one single city from it (using spatial index), fulltext search... Inno DB, however, is made to compete with "real" DBs, like PostgreSQL or DB2. But this is area that I and most of MySQL users are not interested in, contrary to what average ANSI SQL/. Jeehadists believe.
Neophilia is defined as a love of novelty and new things. A neophile is an individual who is unusually accepting of new things and excited by novelty.
The word has particular significance in Internet and hacker culture. The New Hacker's Dictionary gave the following definition to neophilia -
The trait of being excited and pleased by novelty. Common among most hackers, SF fans, and members of several other connected leading-edge subcultures, including the pro-technology 'Whole Earth' wing of the ecology movement, space activists, many members of Mensa, and the Discordian/neo-pagan underground (see geek). All these groups overlap heavily and (where evidence is available) seem to share characteristic hacker tropisms for science fiction, music, and oriental food.
We can't even begin to fathom the ways in which they could potentially expolit our security. This statement is based on popular thesis that human civilization is advancing _forward_ all the time and that there are no limits to what we can achieve or understand. Opposite view is that we have all important stuff invented and optimized, no more Moore's Law (we see multiple cores instead) and we all will turn to entertainment industry consumers (TV Zombies) with decreasing intelligence over generations. According to that view, 10 thousand years from now, people will be hardly able to put together more advanced machines from our time, even with manufacturing recipes they preserved. They will fight for control of remaining technology (mostly TV-sets) still-going from ancient times of their intelligent grandfathers.
Still, there are things that needs to be addressed:
- Multiplayer should allow voice and webcam communication.
- There should be Servers and bandwidth available for Multiplayer games.
- All parts of this library must be able to run on Windows/Linux/Mac/Playstation (including JRE and SPU support on PS3)
- There should be new graphic instructions in Java JRE (based on OpenGL API) that directly maps to OpenGL driver and don't need RMI layer.
- There could be "iTunes for games" service that provides all games and previews on a single place (money generator)
... I would give this guy research lab and resources to create java-based DirectX library. For game developers, it would be just great to write once and sell on Windows on Linux on Mac on Playstation (don't know about XBox). Even without Sun's support, it would be great fot 3rd party to sell such engine/framework.
Microsoft product crashes
I predicted in/. forum that XBox will be very unstable, not because it is designed by MS but because it is nightmare for debugging. You have to make 3 threads application (not 4, not 2) and sync all objects they share. Combine it with complicated interactions of objects in any game, which makes creation of auto-test scripts impossible and default gaming language, C++, which is very uneasy to debug for Multiple threads (compared to say, Java) and they hardly could do any better than this. Cell is designed in much better way, multiple threads (SPUs) are used by low level liberaries (well debugged) but main gaming/engine app. is still single-threadded and therefore easy to debug and stable.
These rules established quite strongly among employees of one Redmond Company. When developer eventually decided to leave, boss furiously demolished furniture in his office. Every time, complete code sub-tree had to be removed and major product postponed for another 2 years.
If you like Git but you want to use multiple platforms try Mercurial: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi Performance is excellent, it is written in Python. So far version 0.7, but projects is very active.
Inside EU, EU is well known to waste tons of money to stupid projects just like this one. Most of EU money is wasted for "agriculture policy" which means that every man inside EU-agriculture-charity-industry "deserves" money for all products it grows, no metter what amount of it he/she is actually able to sell in the market. Thats why African countries,for example, cannot sell those products to EU.
Multiple language linking is what actually works very good on.NET but problems are 1) performance 2) memory usage and 3) startup time, in that order. That's why MS Office and co. are still C++ based. If thay moved apps to.NET, they would not care for what platform user is running as long as.NET runtime is working on it.
Except that going 64-bit with less then 4GB of RAM makes little sense. Microsoft is binary-compatibility based company so they are trying to make sure that all users and OEMs will jump to new instruction set together. Originally,.NET should make CPU platform irrelevant, but somehow this didn't work really so all major Apps are still C++. Interesting thing that AMD64 instruction set, once underdog, will likely have no compatition in PC market for next couple of years. Even Apple standardized on it.
1.2 GHz is interesting part. As we already know that "x threads per core" makes almost no difference, high end version with 8 cores * 1.2 Ghz = 9.6 GHz. This means that dual opteron 2GHz (with dual core chips) should have comparable performance, while complete system costs around $3000. Sun with 8 core Niagara wil be 5x more than that, at least. Am I missing something except trees and CO2?
If they are always going after _Socialist_ majority in EU parliament with brain-dead-lobby argument that OSS is "Socialist Evil" then no wonder SW patents ended this way.
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Each DVI card is equally sharp. D in DVI stands for "digital".
Actually, if one card is faster 30% - 40% for various OpenGL games over another then same difference will hold in case of CAD/CAM/GIS software. There is no "hidden magic" in either CAD or gaming world. Both are using OpenGL API in pretty much same way and all performance tricks are shared among both industries.
I bravely predict that Ubuntu Dapper Drake will be milestone in GNU/Linux desktop accaptance (including OEMs, like Dell) just like Firefox was in the browser world. For the last two years Linux gained stability and "final touch" that user need, but it is still missing "something" big, that would compensate to end users for huge task of switching OS platform. I think that combination of Beagle maturity, XGL coolness and Eclipse for power users might be just that "something".
last few decades radical islam wins hands down for self-righteous violence and terror.
This is very broad statemnet, knowing what happened in Srebrenica or Sabra & Chatila. They have Ladin, we have Karadzic, Thay have Zarkawi, we have Elie Hobeika. Don't blame groupes for what individuals are responisble for, otherwise you are to blame for really awful stuff around the globe.
I just don't see people throwing their monitors out of window because it is not XYZW compatible.
MySQL was created for low volume applications which don't need all the excessive functionality and optimization.
... Inno DB, however, is made to compete with "real" DBs, like PostgreSQL or DB2. But this is area that I and most of MySQL users are not interested in, contrary to what average ANSI SQL /. Jeehadists believe.
Not Exactly. MySQL is primarly targeted to "embedded" DB world: Database that is only storage service to application. Application contains all logic and has central place. It is different aproach then "real DB" like say, DB2, where DB (not app) has central place, most of the logic, and various apps connects and operates on it including powerusers with scripts etc. It is just different logic, not that one is "clever" and other "stupid". Contrary to what many people thinks, MySQL supports large amounts of data well. I have application working with Geo spatial applications and there is one table with _ALL_ street of europe, with many attributes (>60 millions of records, 30GB) and I don't have problems displaying one single city from it (using spatial index), fulltext search
Indeed, if there was annual award for most stupid story accepted on /., this one would certainly be in the top ten.
... Remainings of MS lawer that tricked Don Vito Genovese's grandson into jail found in shoebox.
Why not simply put my wallet under my hat?
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about this guy:
Neophilia is defined as a love of novelty and new things. A neophile is an individual who is unusually accepting of new things and excited by novelty.
The word has particular significance in Internet and hacker culture. The New Hacker's Dictionary gave the following definition to neophilia -
The trait of being excited and pleased by novelty. Common among most hackers, SF fans, and members of several other connected leading-edge subcultures, including the pro-technology 'Whole Earth' wing of the ecology movement, space activists, many members of Mensa, and the Discordian/neo-pagan underground (see geek). All these groups overlap heavily and (where evidence is available) seem to share characteristic hacker tropisms for science fiction, music, and oriental food.
We can't even begin to fathom the ways in which they could potentially expolit our security.
This statement is based on popular thesis that human civilization is advancing _forward_ all the time and that there are no limits to what we can achieve or understand. Opposite view is that we have all important stuff invented and optimized, no more Moore's Law (we see multiple cores instead) and we all will turn to entertainment industry consumers (TV Zombies) with decreasing intelligence over generations. According to that view, 10 thousand years from now, people will be hardly able to put together more advanced machines from our time, even with manufacturing recipes they preserved. They will fight for control of remaining technology (mostly TV-sets) still-going from ancient times of their intelligent grandfathers.
Still, there are things that needs to be addressed:
- Multiplayer should allow voice and webcam communication.
- There should be Servers and bandwidth available for Multiplayer games.
- All parts of this library must be able to run on Windows/Linux/Mac/Playstation (including JRE and SPU support on PS3)
- There should be new graphic instructions in Java JRE (based on OpenGL API) that directly maps to OpenGL driver and don't need RMI layer.
- There could be "iTunes for games" service that provides all games and previews on a single place (money generator)
... I would give this guy research lab and resources to create java-based DirectX library. For game developers, it would be just great to write once and sell on Windows on Linux on Mac on Playstation (don't know about XBox). Even without Sun's support, it would be great fot 3rd party to sell such engine/framework.
Microsoft product crashes /. forum that XBox will be very unstable, not because it is designed by MS but because it is nightmare for debugging. You have to make 3 threads application (not 4, not 2) and sync all objects they share. Combine it with complicated interactions of objects in any game, which makes creation of auto-test scripts impossible and default gaming language, C++, which is very uneasy to debug for Multiple threads (compared to say, Java) and they hardly could do any better than this. Cell is designed in much better way, multiple threads (SPUs) are used by low level liberaries (well debugged) but main gaming/engine app. is still single-threadded and therefore easy to debug and stable.
I predicted in
These rules established quite strongly among employees of one Redmond Company. When developer eventually decided to leave, boss furiously demolished furniture in his office. Every time, complete code sub-tree had to be removed and major product postponed for another 2 years.
If you like Git but you want to use multiple platforms try Mercurial: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi Performance is excellent, it is written in Python. So far version 0.7, but projects is very active.
Inside EU, EU is well known to waste tons of money to stupid projects just like this one. Most of EU money is wasted for "agriculture policy" which means that every man inside EU-agriculture-charity-industry "deserves" money for all products it grows, no metter what amount of it he/she is actually able to sell in the market. Thats why African countries,for example, cannot sell those products to EU.
Multiple language linking is what actually works very good on .NET but problems are 1) performance 2) memory usage and 3) startup time, in that order. That's why MS Office and co. are still C++ based. If thay moved apps to .NET, they would not care for what platform user is running as long as .NET runtime is working on it.
Except that going 64-bit with less then 4GB of RAM makes little sense. Microsoft is binary-compatibility based company so they are trying to make sure that all users and OEMs will jump to new instruction set together. Originally, .NET should make CPU platform irrelevant, but somehow this didn't work really so all major Apps are still C++. Interesting thing that AMD64 instruction set, once underdog, will likely have no compatition in PC market for next couple of years. Even Apple standardized on it.
1.2 GHz is interesting part. As we already know that "x threads per core" makes almost no difference, high end version with 8 cores * 1.2 Ghz = 9.6 GHz. This means that dual opteron 2GHz (with dual core chips) should have comparable performance, while complete system costs around $3000. Sun with 8 core Niagara wil be 5x more than that, at least. Am I missing something except trees and CO2?
If they are always going after _Socialist_ majority in EU parliament with brain-dead-lobby argument that OSS is "Socialist Evil" then no wonder SW patents ended this way.
Jon's new daily job will be to *not* break Robertson's new Linspire DRM called "Oboe".
I installed it once and it wiped out all my subscriptions from inbox.
Cant't wait for MS ads on my toilet paper.
Don't forget On Demand Computing invented in 1942 to automate persecution of the Jews. http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/