The last time I used Gnome, or KDE for that matter, it was in fact less innovative, less organized, and less useful than WindowsXP.
It's funny. You get people who love linux and tie the OS to their personal well-being and what results are statements that have zero fact in them: "Instead, all they ever produced was "good enough" - never on the leading edge, never innovative." What a garbage statement. Is it true? It's an opinion, so I guess so.
Maybe if we had less people like the parent and GP, less people would think that Linux folks are arrogant, uneducated in economics, and radicals for a cause that makes no sense.
I'm not sure that solving the worlds energy problems has an application that would benefit from running on a cluster. Clusters are only good at certain things, obviously crunching a lot of data, sometimes data streaming in realtime. For instance, when searching for new oil, companies will place hundreds of microphones in the ocean, then detonate a small ammount of TNT and record the reflections off the ocean floor. This data needs to be processed in realtime, and many calculations need to be done on the data in order to get anything useful out of it, anda ll of this can be done in parallel. Thus, a cluster is suited perfectly to it.
My whole point is that I wish we could just throw computing power at things and solve them quicker, but often times that isn't the case. Only certain applications lend themselves towards clustering. One of those applications is nuclear weapons research. I could be wrong, there may be fusion simulations or other such things that could benefit from running on a cluster, but in my experience I haven't seen that. Perhaps it's just a matter of where the profit is, sadly.
The xbox 360 is going to use a Cell processor. The cell processor it is going to use is capable of 256GFLOPs single-precision and 25GFLOPs double-precision.
Double-precision is all that matters in most scientific apps.
25*60 = 1500GFLOPs = 1.5TFLOPs You'd need 2400 xbox360s to get to 60 TFLOPs.
Also, Xbox360s have 512MB of RAM. This would not make for a very useful cluster node.
Why is popular music popular? Because they play it over and over and over. (People often confuse cause and effect in this one: it's usually popular because of the repetition, not the other way around.)
I find that interesting. That almost seems impossible by definition, but I think I know what you're getting at. I just wonder if you're right, or if it's just one of those things that we like to THINK is true, but actually is just a sad fact of reality.
Sometimes it's necessary for me to be an asshole to debunk FUD that Linux/F/OSS zealots tend to spread. It's comments like "F/OSS software is beating commercial software" that make you a zealot. That statement is essentially false by every stretch of the imagination. It's the same thing as saying something like, "Well, this shouldn't be a suprise, since Macs are faster than PCs anyway." It's a nonsensical statement with no basis in reality. I'm not saying that F/OSS software is bad, or that Macs aren't fast. It's the assumption that one is correct without a doubt that creates the problem. So in conclusion, try not to be such a zealot, and you might not get so many replies like "Huh? In what universe?" In the meantime, I'll try and not be an asshole.
You really do a great job proving your point. I know very well what OSS is about and have a good idea of how well it's being taken up by corporate America. You seem to be lacking in that regard with statements like "OSS is beating commercial software." OSS is surely gaining strength and doing very well, but I don't think "beating" is a valid word there. Commercial software is still, in fact, winning. That was my entire point.
I'm sorry if my questioning of your comment offends you as a person in some way. Maybe you should relax a little bit and realize that OSS isn't tied to your soul. You're probably a Linux zealot too, right? Linux is better than Windows and OSX and every other OS in the world no matter what, in every situation, right?::rolls eyes::
That's a really good point. I mean, we all know that anything that doesn't agree with our way of thinking and attempts to talk about something contrary is only "spin" and basically shouldn't even be read. We can just disreguard everyone who disagrees with us! You made it so much easier!
Interesting. I use Microsoft products because they get the job done the best, in certain cases. Then again, my job title has "Linux" in it. I use Linux for things that Linux does best.
Neither of them sucks. Neither of them is best at everything.
It's just a bit too much like a standard slashdot response to anything Microsoft has done.
"omgomgomg there's a   in SUPER SMALL PRINT at the very bottom of the page!!111 lmAO M$ can't even code a web page!!1"
A) The page is maintained by 2-3 people B) It's the very first day of the release. They even admit (if you bothered to look at the site) that there are some glitches with it still. C) I just looked at the site again, and they've already fixed the VERY HUGE PROBLEM of  . Oh thank god, how were we going to live? D) They're working on Firefox support and implementing user requested features. That's a hell of a lot more than 99% of other web pages can say.
The next time you have a bullshit reason to bash MS, try to make it a bullshit reason that is at least somewhat arguable.
Didn't have to look furiously at all - that broken   is right there in plain sight, rendered almost immediately as it's plain text. Noticed it right away while waiting for the site to finish loading...
And yet, it in no way affects the funtionality of the web page. Interesting.
This is the first post I've seen in response to this article that is worth a damn.
Almost everything else I've seen has been a closed minded bullshit rant about something they haven't seen or tried and is still in Beta. Thank you for actually making a worthwhile post.
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The last time I used Gnome, or KDE for that matter, it was in fact less innovative, less organized, and less useful than WindowsXP. It's funny. You get people who love linux and tie the OS to their personal well-being and what results are statements that have zero fact in them: "Instead, all they ever produced was "good enough" - never on the leading edge, never innovative." What a garbage statement. Is it true? It's an opinion, so I guess so.
Maybe if we had less people like the parent and GP, less people would think that Linux folks are arrogant, uneducated in economics, and radicals for a cause that makes no sense.
I'm not sure that solving the worlds energy problems has an application that would benefit from running on a cluster. Clusters are only good at certain things, obviously crunching a lot of data, sometimes data streaming in realtime. For instance, when searching for new oil, companies will place hundreds of microphones in the ocean, then detonate a small ammount of TNT and record the reflections off the ocean floor. This data needs to be processed in realtime, and many calculations need to be done on the data in order to get anything useful out of it, anda ll of this can be done in parallel. Thus, a cluster is suited perfectly to it.
My whole point is that I wish we could just throw computing power at things and solve them quicker, but often times that isn't the case. Only certain applications lend themselves towards clustering. One of those applications is nuclear weapons research. I could be wrong, there may be fusion simulations or other such things that could benefit from running on a cluster, but in my experience I haven't seen that. Perhaps it's just a matter of where the profit is, sadly.
IAACE (Cluster Engineer)
DoE currently has a 136TFLOP cluster . They use it for more than nuclear weapons research.
The xbox 360 is going to use a Cell processor. The cell processor it is going to use is capable of 256GFLOPs single-precision and 25GFLOPs double-precision.
Double-precision is all that matters in most scientific apps.
25*60 = 1500GFLOPs = 1.5TFLOPs
You'd need 2400 xbox360s to get to 60 TFLOPs.
Also, Xbox360s have 512MB of RAM. This would not make for a very useful cluster node.
Maybe the garbage bag is to prevent the food he just "looted" from coming into contact with the sewage water he's wading through?
The sad thing is, everyone on this website is always talking about how open stuff is so much better than anything a single company could ever develop.
Quartz is, I'd say, approximatly eight thousand times better than X.
Maybe paying developers to do good work is a good idea?
Why is popular music popular? Because they play it over and over and over. (People often confuse cause and effect in this one: it's usually popular because of the repetition, not the other way around.)
I find that interesting. That almost seems impossible by definition, but I think I know what you're getting at. I just wonder if you're right, or if it's just one of those things that we like to THINK is true, but actually is just a sad fact of reality.
Dude seriously... it's IM. Do you really need encryption? Aren't you being a little paranoid?
Sometimes it's necessary for me to be an asshole to debunk FUD that Linux/F/OSS zealots tend to spread. It's comments like "F/OSS software is beating commercial software" that make you a zealot. That statement is essentially false by every stretch of the imagination. It's the same thing as saying something like, "Well, this shouldn't be a suprise, since Macs are faster than PCs anyway." It's a nonsensical statement with no basis in reality. I'm not saying that F/OSS software is bad, or that Macs aren't fast. It's the assumption that one is correct without a doubt that creates the problem. So in conclusion, try not to be such a zealot, and you might not get so many replies like "Huh? In what universe?" In the meantime, I'll try and not be an asshole.
You really do a great job proving your point. I know very well what OSS is about and have a good idea of how well it's being taken up by corporate America. You seem to be lacking in that regard with statements like "OSS is beating commercial software." OSS is surely gaining strength and doing very well, but I don't think "beating" is a valid word there. Commercial software is still, in fact, winning. That was my entire point.
::rolls eyes::
I'm sorry if my questioning of your comment offends you as a person in some way. Maybe you should relax a little bit and realize that OSS isn't tied to your soul. You're probably a Linux zealot too, right? Linux is better than Windows and OSX and every other OS in the world no matter what, in every situation, right?
Wow. The fact that you're so upset about it kind of shows your bias.
So growth of linux and OSS products is now equal to "OSS is beating commercial software"?
Can you read at all?
Are you 12?
I think it works great. I've never had any problems with it playing anything.
Chill out, it's just a media player. It works fine.
And this is exactly why open source is beating commercial software.
Huh? In which universe?
Although you didn't get modded funny... I laughed out loud when I read that. :)
That's a really good point. I mean, we all know that anything that doesn't agree with our way of thinking and attempts to talk about something contrary is only "spin" and basically shouldn't even be read. We can just disreguard everyone who disagrees with us! You made it so much easier!
I hate Microsoft because their products suck.
Interesting. I use Microsoft products because they get the job done the best, in certain cases. Then again, my job title has "Linux" in it. I use Linux for things that Linux does best.
Neither of them sucks. Neither of them is best at everything.
In my opinion that is.
It's just a bit too much like a standard slashdot response to anything Microsoft has done.
"omgomgomg there's a   in SUPER SMALL PRINT at the very bottom of the page!!111 lmAO M$ can't even code a web page!!1"
A) The page is maintained by 2-3 people
B) It's the very first day of the release. They even admit (if you bothered to look at the site) that there are some glitches with it still.
C) I just looked at the site again, and they've already fixed the VERY HUGE PROBLEM of  . Oh thank god, how were we going to live?
D) They're working on Firefox support and implementing user requested features. That's a hell of a lot more than 99% of other web pages can say.
The next time you have a bullshit reason to bash MS, try to make it a bullshit reason that is at least somewhat arguable.
Didn't have to look furiously at all - that broken   is right there in plain sight, rendered almost immediately as it's plain text. Noticed it right away while waiting for the site to finish loading...
And yet, it in no way affects the funtionality of the web page. Interesting.
This is the first post I've seen in response to this article that is worth a damn.
Almost everything else I've seen has been a closed minded bullshit rant about something they haven't seen or tried and is still in Beta. Thank you for actually making a worthwhile post.
Office costs around $500
Close, but not quite. Just FYI:
Office 2003
I've been using this board from Asus for about 6 months with onboard SATA RAID5. It cost $120 from Newegg.com when I got it, if my memory serves me.
Tap water is fine for everything except drinking/cooking.
How exactly does tht make it "safe"? When I think of "safe" water, I think, "you can drink this water."
If I had mod points I'd mod you +12 Only Good Post I've Seen Today.
The maturity level at Slashdot continues to rise.