Talking about the sixth flip individually, yes its 50/50, but thats irrelevant, since your talking about six in a row. The odds are against you getting to the sixth flip with all heads, thats the point. You calculate it by doing 0.5^n where n is the amount of trials. The OP was talking about winning the lottery over and over etc etc, and it becomes increasingly unlikely that you will get a desired result after n trials. Yes, the odds of getting heads never changes, but its highly unlikely that you will get one million heads in a row, compared to say two.
No, but they wouldn't have any market share if they'd tried it, because macos was not designed for pc's, and couldnt have been properly ported to the pcs of the era.
Good virtual reality is not compuationally possible, especially not for the consumer market. The ability to download games is *not* the revolutionary feature of the erm, Revolution, as confirmed by Nintendo. (It is in fact the controller)
That's not the same as winning the lottery over and over and over. Your assuming that they've already gotten heads on 5 trials, and the odds of that happening is 3.1%, and the odds of getting 6 in a row is 1.6%. Sure, that individual sixth coin flip is a 50/50 chance, but taken as a whole, odds are your not going to get to the sixth flip.
The reason MacOS could do what it could back in the day, and look so much better than, er, DOS, and er, win 3.1, was because it was on proprietary hardware. It was *perfectly* optimized for the system it ran on. If they had've pulled a MS and made their OS run on peecee's, they would've lost. Plain and simple.
but it takes me at *least* 13 minutes to download all that software! WHAT WILL I DO?
Honestly, a firewall and 3rd party software is not an excuse for an insecure OS. I don't have a firewall running on OSX, and my linux box is protected by a two line iptables firewall (just because I got bored once) and even if I turned it off, nothing could compromise it.
So? What's your point? Floating point numbers offer *no* link to creating a computer capable of "thinking" like we do. The magical ability of moving a decimal point on the fly is nothing akin to molecules and atoms. So again, what's your point? If you don't understand what a floating point number is, then quit making silly statements.
ugh. That floating point number is still made up of individual bits, and in the case of 32bit x86, a double is 64bits, and each of those bits is still a binary 1 or 0. Jeez. You know it is possible to have decimals with fixed point arithmatic too? The only difference is you have to shift the decimal place yourself (and er well sign changes are different, but we'll forget that stuff for now) so I have no idea what point your trying to make. A bit is either one or zero, no matter what. Even if that bit happens to be part of a floating point number. Jeez.
Have you ever done multicore programming? It's not an extra effort, it's a whole new science. Now instead of everything running linearly, you have things doing multiple calculations at once - you have to make sure that everything is in sync, etc. It's just not that easy.
The point of having surround sound speakers is for the positioning. If I snuck up behind you, and you heard my feet (for I am no ninja) you could tell it's coming from behind you. That's the idea. How do you justify buying only one speaker per ear? One speaker works fine for two ears, so why the extra one?
So, you fire up KDE and click "install" to install X, right? Unless your talking about an ugly ncurses enviroment. I'm sure your average user would be less scared by command line then some ugly ncurses dialog box. Anyway, if your worried about having x and kde preinstalled, use mandrake, or some other n00b distro, don't try and install gentoo.
by "critical market" they meant prebuilt pc's I do believe. Also, how many PC's do you really think are homemade? Sure, if you look through the eyes of slashdot, 70%, but then again 70% of slashdots run a *nix of some sort.
Wow, it would sure be funny if he was joking wouldn't it?
On a side note, at the time of writing there are 9 posts, and the story has been out for a few hours. Pretty sad, I bet a story about linux on cellphone wouldve gotten more posts.
When I got my mac mini, I got the wireless mous+keyboard. I found out before I ordered it that for security reasons you need a wired kb+mouse first. This sucked because I didn't have USB ones. So I got my mom to go get PS/2 -> USB dongles. Of course, the salesman got her to buy a 25$ dual PS/2 -> single USB adaptor hub thing. It needed drivers. I was pissed because I thought OSX wouldn't recognize it at first, or it would be like "press enter to install drivers" (which obviously wouldnt be possible.) Luckily my fears were unfounded. I plugged in the obscure hardware, and my PC mouse and keyboard worked like normal on bootup, and I quickly set up the encryption for my wireless ones. Hurray OSX.
regedit? wtf? registry edit? That's something in the Windows OS, dumby. The point is, past date xyz the OS won't be supported any more, patches wont work with it etc etc, so it basically becomes useless to anyone except developers. Next time rtfa. Notice how much marketshare? It's pirated like crazy, but MS still exists as a company. Do you really think people are going to say "hey, ive got a crippled, not to mention BETA (or even alpha?) of the OS, why buy the computer for real when I can run this for the next ten years? suck it apple!"?
Okay, everyone had a enough common sense to figure it out. I think you need to get a new English parser if you an 'and' can completly throw you off. Especially if you read the last article.
Roseta emulates a G3, i.e. no altivec and no 64bit. Sure it's transparent, but it's also not fast. Porting may only take an hour, but it gives devs a year to get their asses in gear to do it. Believe it or not, companies would be pissed if they had a one month deadline, even if, in mathematica's case, which I assume is pretty portable as it is, was only an hour. Not to mention if your not using xcode it will be harder to do the porting.
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Yeah. There are alot of rumours related to that too (Nintendo loves gyros)
Talking about the sixth flip individually, yes its 50/50, but thats irrelevant, since your talking about six in a row. The odds are against you getting to the sixth flip with all heads, thats the point. You calculate it by doing 0.5^n where n is the amount of trials. The OP was talking about winning the lottery over and over etc etc, and it becomes increasingly unlikely that you will get a desired result after n trials. Yes, the odds of getting heads never changes, but its highly unlikely that you will get one million heads in a row, compared to say two.
No, but they wouldn't have any market share if they'd tried it, because macos was not designed for pc's, and couldnt have been properly ported to the pcs of the era.
Last time I checked it didn't cost much to get into hell.
Don't slashdot editors read things?
Good virtual reality is not compuationally possible, especially not for the consumer market. The ability to download games is *not* the revolutionary feature of the erm, Revolution, as confirmed by Nintendo. (It is in fact the controller)
That's not the same as winning the lottery over and over and over. Your assuming that they've already gotten heads on 5 trials, and the odds of that happening is 3.1%, and the odds of getting 6 in a row is 1.6%. Sure, that individual sixth coin flip is a 50/50 chance, but taken as a whole, odds are your not going to get to the sixth flip.
Your arguing on slashdot the differences between religion and astrology, I think your the one who should be admiting they're messed up
Wrong.
The reason MacOS could do what it could back in the day, and look so much better than, er, DOS, and er, win 3.1, was because it was on proprietary hardware. It was *perfectly* optimized for the system it ran on. If they had've pulled a MS and made their OS run on peecee's, they would've lost. Plain and simple.
Coincidentally, I'm not running apache, mySQL and other services, which webservers do. Everything else is up to date, and have no ports open.
but it takes me at *least* 13 minutes to download all that software! WHAT WILL I DO?
Honestly, a firewall and 3rd party software is not an excuse for an insecure OS. I don't have a firewall running on OSX, and my linux box is protected by a two line iptables firewall (just because I got bored once) and even if I turned it off, nothing could compromise it.
So? What's your point? Floating point numbers offer *no* link to creating a computer capable of "thinking" like we do. The magical ability of moving a decimal point on the fly is nothing akin to molecules and atoms. So again, what's your point? If you don't understand what a floating point number is, then quit making silly statements.
ugh. That floating point number is still made up of individual bits, and in the case of 32bit x86, a double is 64bits, and each of those bits is still a binary 1 or 0. Jeez. You know it is possible to have decimals with fixed point arithmatic too? The only difference is you have to shift the decimal place yourself (and er well sign changes are different, but we'll forget that stuff for now) so I have no idea what point your trying to make. A bit is either one or zero, no matter what. Even if that bit happens to be part of a floating point number. Jeez.
.. that not only do we think in 0's and 1's, but we have 2's and 3's as well!
It can't be parallelized esay because it's a bunch of tiny operations (branch heavy ones) that depend on previous calculations. Lots of recursion.
Have you ever done multicore programming? It's not an extra effort, it's a whole new science. Now instead of everything running linearly, you have things doing multiple calculations at once - you have to make sure that everything is in sync, etc. It's just not that easy.
The intel chip won't make a significant difference in porting.
The point of having surround sound speakers is for the positioning. If I snuck up behind you, and you heard my feet (for I am no ninja) you could tell it's coming from behind you. That's the idea. How do you justify buying only one speaker per ear? One speaker works fine for two ears, so why the extra one?
"Clicking install"
So, you fire up KDE and click "install" to install X, right? Unless your talking about an ugly ncurses enviroment. I'm sure your average user would be less scared by command line then some ugly ncurses dialog box. Anyway, if your worried about having x and kde preinstalled, use mandrake, or some other n00b distro, don't try and install gentoo.
by "critical market" they meant prebuilt pc's I do believe. Also, how many PC's do you really think are homemade? Sure, if you look through the eyes of slashdot, 70%, but then again 70% of slashdots run a *nix of some sort.
Wow, it would sure be funny if he was joking wouldn't it?
On a side note, at the time of writing there are 9 posts, and the story has been out for a few hours. Pretty sad, I bet a story about linux on cellphone wouldve gotten more posts.
When I got my mac mini, I got the wireless mous+keyboard. I found out before I ordered it that for security reasons you need a wired kb+mouse first. This sucked because I didn't have USB ones. So I got my mom to go get PS/2 -> USB dongles. Of course, the salesman got her to buy a 25$ dual PS/2 -> single USB adaptor hub thing. It needed drivers. I was pissed because I thought OSX wouldn't recognize it at first, or it would be like "press enter to install drivers" (which obviously wouldnt be possible.) Luckily my fears were unfounded. I plugged in the obscure hardware, and my PC mouse and keyboard worked like normal on bootup, and I quickly set up the encryption for my wireless ones. Hurray OSX.
regedit? wtf? registry edit? That's something in the Windows OS, dumby. The point is, past date xyz the OS won't be supported any more, patches wont work with it etc etc, so it basically becomes useless to anyone except developers. Next time rtfa. Notice how much marketshare? It's pirated like crazy, but MS still exists as a company. Do you really think people are going to say "hey, ive got a crippled, not to mention BETA (or even alpha?) of the OS, why buy the computer for real when I can run this for the next ten years? suck it apple!"?
Okay, everyone had a enough common sense to figure it out. I think you need to get a new English parser if you an 'and' can completly throw you off. Especially if you read the last article.
1) Hard drive is optional
2) They did this with the PS2
3) Don't take anything Sony says literally until it's plugged into your TV
Roseta emulates a G3, i.e. no altivec and no 64bit. Sure it's transparent, but it's also not fast. Porting may only take an hour, but it gives devs a year to get their asses in gear to do it. Believe it or not, companies would be pissed if they had a one month deadline, even if, in mathematica's case, which I assume is pretty portable as it is, was only an hour. Not to mention if your not using xcode it will be harder to do the porting.