Again, compare like with like. Blizzard's RTSes are still expensive because they're still popular, but they're a tiny tiny proportion of all games, and shop prices for console games rarely go below £10 each.
I don't follow you here. Is Tcl good at parsing config files?
The creators suggested using Tcl itself for configuration - it's very easy to embed in another program, and powerful without getting in the way if you just want to use it like an ini file.
Uh, if you actually need that, then you needed it anyway. And if you don't need it but don't know how to disable it, you shouldn't be running a system.
The thing is, before Java, sun tried doing the whole open source thing, with Tcl/Tk. Which was (and is) a superb language, but got a resounding "meh" from the community; see RMS' response (and note that neither of the languages he says the GNU is going to come up with has materialized; instead 10 years later we still have a huge mishmash of incompatible configuration file formats on linux). So given that, I can't blame Sun for saying sod this open source lark, let's appeal to business people, with Java.
Have you even worked with encrypted partitions etc. ?
Something like AES 256 bit encryption is quite a strain on the CPU, especially if it isn't the fastest in the world.
I've been using encrypted partitions for about a year and a half now, and sure it shows up in top, but I've never noticed a practical effect. I've tried moving videos I was having trouble playing (throw 1920x1080 H264 at my machine and it starts showing its age, alas) onto unencrypted partitions, and it never made a noticeable difference.
My question/concern that I've always had with encryption is how can I recover from a crash? On a normal HD, if Windows won't boot (from a bad MBR or a failing drive), I could hook the drive up as a slave to another machine and start pulling data off of it. Is it possible to do this with any full drive encryption (software or hardware)?
Using linux's software dm-crypt (LUKS), it's just a question of putting the disk in a machine with compatible software. If the header at the start of the drive is trashed you're in trouble, but the software makes it easy to back this up.
That goes against all we know about information and organization theory. This world, the atmosphere, the animal kingdom, your body are all incredibly organized and useful.
Yeah, and you know what? THAT'S THE WHOLE GODDAMNED FUCKING POINT OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION. It explains it, clearly , elegantly, without need to invoke anything from outside. PAY SOME BLOODY ATTENTION.
What's so bad about Jesus anyway? Oh no! He paid for your sins and wants to take you to heaven when you die. That *is* bad! I've never seen an atheist get pissed off about Buddha or something. I'm just curious what all the hate is about.
As the old saying goes, it's not Jesus I have a problem with, it's his fan club. The day I get harangued in the street by a Buddhist preacher I'll start hating on him too, but to date I've had a lot more grief from Christian's than all other faiths put together. After long enough, much as you might wish to rise above that level, you start to respond in kind.
A trick from my misspent youth: you can put out a flaming torch in a can of gasoline, but the act of doing so creates enough vapour that when the guy you showed it to tries to do the same it'll flare up at them.
/it's all fun and games until someone's hospitalized with second degree burns
Sometimes it makes you wonder just how many eyes the military really has up there now, if they were willing to mothball the SR-71 with no (public) clear successor.
They wouldn't need to have any more than they publicly admit to for mothballing the SR-71 to make sense. Sure it's glamorous, but the satellites do its job better than it does, and it's closer to being shoot-down-able (I read a story on here that a Viggen afterburning all the way was able to keep up with one and get a good enough missile lock to have shot it down). Mothballing it just makes sense.
Now try to apply that logic to NVidia - what are they going to do, merge with a distant-last-place x86 maker?
Merge with VIA, who are already doing good in the low-power area, and make the smaller more portable and embedded/media centre systems. Laptops are already more popular than desktops and this looks like a trend that's likely to continue; meanwhile media centre PCs need a bit more graphics power if they're to play 1080p/i.
I doubt it'll happen, but it's not a totally stupid move.
In the long term, the merging of the GPU and just about everything else onto a single chip is pretty inevitable. But looking at current offerings, I don't think we're even close to that stage yet.
Nvidia has good sense, and good engineers. I'm sure we'll see them moving into something else (maybe partner up with VIA and concentrate on low-power media centres?) as the GPU dies. But that day is a ways away yet.
100% uptime also means 100% data integrity. If you have one white box crash and you loose some data or you have to switch user to the other box then you have down time.
Yes, I know; data mirroring solves that.
Can you add more ram to that whitebox without taking it down, add a CPU, or even swap out the power supply? Some with boxes will have hot swappable power supplies but very few have hot swappable ram or CPUs.
I can do all those things without taking the whole cluster down, so there's no interruption of service - whatever I'm running doesn't go down, the user doesn't see any difference. I count that as 100% uptime.
I can name off quite a bit, so do all these too need to be banned from doing business??
Absolutely. RTFA; it's a 5 year ban, not a permanent one. Which would have been 100% appropriate for e.g. IBM back in the day. No-one's saying corporations can't reform themselves, but MS has barely started to do so.
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Because it would result in flames. Truth or falsity is irrelevant. This is true with all flamebait.
If you can wrap your head around the functional way of thinking, OCaml may be worth a shot.
Again, compare like with like. Blizzard's RTSes are still expensive because they're still popular, but they're a tiny tiny proportion of all games, and shop prices for console games rarely go below £10 each.
The creators suggested using Tcl itself for configuration - it's very easy to embed in another program, and powerful without getting in the way if you just want to use it like an ini file.
I realize companies can't be jumping to the next big thing overnight, but really, the tradeoff was in favour of garbage collection 10 years ago.
Uh, if you actually need that, then you needed it anyway. And if you don't need it but don't know how to disable it, you shouldn't be running a system.
No, actually if you go back a generation the price advantage of the PC becomes much greater - all the games are under a fiver. Compare like with like.
It might be nice, but I can't see it happening.
The thing is, before Java, sun tried doing the whole open source thing, with Tcl/Tk. Which was (and is) a superb language, but got a resounding "meh" from the community; see RMS' response (and note that neither of the languages he says the GNU is going to come up with has materialized; instead 10 years later we still have a huge mishmash of incompatible configuration file formats on linux). So given that, I can't blame Sun for saying sod this open source lark, let's appeal to business people, with Java.
Something like AES 256 bit encryption is quite a strain on the CPU, especially if it isn't the fastest in the world.
I've been using encrypted partitions for about a year and a half now, and sure it shows up in top, but I've never noticed a practical effect. I've tried moving videos I was having trouble playing (throw 1920x1080 H264 at my machine and it starts showing its age, alas) onto unencrypted partitions, and it never made a noticeable difference.
Using linux's software dm-crypt (LUKS), it's just a question of putting the disk in a machine with compatible software. If the header at the start of the drive is trashed you're in trouble, but the software makes it easy to back this up.
Yeah, and you know what? THAT'S THE WHOLE GODDAMNED FUCKING POINT OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION. It explains it, clearly , elegantly, without need to invoke anything from outside. PAY SOME BLOODY ATTENTION.
That's the best you can come up with? Sorry, that's about USA 1 China 6 from where I'm standing (Europe).
As the old saying goes, it's not Jesus I have a problem with, it's his fan club. The day I get harangued in the street by a Buddhist preacher I'll start hating on him too, but to date I've had a lot more grief from Christian's than all other faiths put together. After long enough, much as you might wish to rise above that level, you start to respond in kind.
/it's all fun and games until someone's hospitalized with second degree burns
They wouldn't need to have any more than they publicly admit to for mothballing the SR-71 to make sense. Sure it's glamorous, but the satellites do its job better than it does, and it's closer to being shoot-down-able (I read a story on here that a Viggen afterburning all the way was able to keep up with one and get a good enough missile lock to have shot it down). Mothballing it just makes sense.
A few months? I make it 9 years and counting, no?
Probably less than slashdot got for this one
Merge with VIA, who are already doing good in the low-power area, and make the smaller more portable and embedded/media centre systems. Laptops are already more popular than desktops and this looks like a trend that's likely to continue; meanwhile media centre PCs need a bit more graphics power if they're to play 1080p/i.
I doubt it'll happen, but it's not a totally stupid move.
Nvidia has good sense, and good engineers. I'm sure we'll see them moving into something else (maybe partner up with VIA and concentrate on low-power media centres?) as the GPU dies. But that day is a ways away yet.
I think that works both ways though.
If not then you are just talking out of your hat.
Of course I am, this is slashdot.
I don't know for sure. Perhaps solaris.
100% uptime also means 100% data integrity. If you have one white box crash and you loose some data or you have to switch user to the other box then you have down time.
Yes, I know; data mirroring solves that.
Can you add more ram to that whitebox without taking it down, add a CPU, or even swap out the power supply? Some with boxes will have hot swappable power supplies but very few have hot swappable ram or CPUs.
I can do all those things without taking the whole cluster down, so there's no interruption of service - whatever I'm running doesn't go down, the user doesn't see any difference. I count that as 100% uptime.
Trollish of me, but maybe it's because you can't spell.
Yeah, but I'd wager for half the price of that system I could build a cluster of white boxes that would get 100% uptime between it.
Absolutely. RTFA; it's a 5 year ban, not a permanent one. Which would have been 100% appropriate for e.g. IBM back in the day. No-one's saying corporations can't reform themselves, but MS has barely started to do so.