And I'm sure that even in companies that run Red Hat or Suse for some applications that need it, may also run Debian Stable for some purposes where they can just set it and forget it!.
Why? They can do exactly the same thing with RH or SuSE's enterprise editions. That's one of their main selling points.
No, it didn't: http://finger.planetquake.com/plan.asp?us erid=john c&id=12698
The relevant quote, from 7/24/99: On wednesday I was sweating a bit, not sure if I would have the VM finished in time, but it all came together in the last two days.
Keep in mind quake 3 was released in December of that year.
That's just silly. What he's saying is specific to this game, not a general example of the industry. For example, in the last part of q3 development id ripped the game apart and created qvms, which almost certainly wasn't boring work.:)
The holdup in d3 was the labor-intensive content creation, not the programming, so it's not surprising there weren't any major programming challenges near the end. He had lots of time.
hmmm, does this mean that displays with dead pixels will instead be shipped to the US or other countries where the policy does not apply? this could mean an increase in dead pixels in other countries. maybe ill think twice before buying a samsung panel.
I suspect these will end up being resold under a different brand name. Just speculation, but there is plenty of precedent for that in the consumer electronics market.
The software spec probably says something to the effect of "Don't attempt to schedule more than 32,767 crew changes." If you're running software that's more than a decade old you need to know what the limits of your software are.
Now that is rubbish. If you're going to build a completely arbitrary limitation into the software you need to have the software hit that limitation gracefully, rather than cough up blood. The computer can keep track of how close it is to hitting the 32,767 change limit much better than an end user can. Duh.
This was just poorly written software. That's a "standard" that doesn't change from decade to decade.
Apparently, the latest Japanese assessment that China is a hostile foreign power has pervaded the government of Japan, and Tokyo will not be cooperating with Beijing for the intermediate future.
And by "latest" you mean "last thousand years," right?
Uh... wow. This is modded up to 5 and it's completely, totally wrong:
If these things do sell like hotcakes, Apple needs to squeeze out the biggest margin they possibly can in order to make any money on it.
No. That's completely backwards. Expensive, low-volume items demand the biggest margin possible. High-volume items can be sold at a very narrow margin, as design costs will be recouped quicker and manufacturing costs will decrease quicker. Economies of scale, etc etc.
Just to add to the political fray, some reports have UN officials already complaining [washtimes.com] that the US and other western nations are being "stingy" with their aid packages... and even suggesting that those countries raise taxes on their citizens to pay for more aid (if you believe the Wash. Times).
And you shouldn't, not without some corroboration. It's a truly crappy paper, not just because of its right-wing slant, but because of the quality of the journalism.
fyi: bbc radio is reading angry messages from listeners directed at the noaa and the usgs
the criticisms are that all you had to do was pick up the phone and call cnn: 3 hours before it hit indian coastline, something could have been done to save lives
USGS people were on the radio yesterday saying tha they were working the phones after the earthquake and it didn't do a hell of a lot of good. It's lovely the way everyone wants to blame everything (natural disasters, even!) on the US.
I hate to sound like a bastard, but I second the parent opinion. Remember all that aid that India sent when the twin towers came down? I don't either.
They're POOR, you moron. That's why they need help. That's why they're able to "steal" our jobs. It's all about a little thing called "economics."
What sort of aid would you have wanted them to provide in the event of a disaster in the US? Maybe they could have sent over some of their tens of millions of impoverished to help dig out dead stock brokers after 9/11 but it wouldn't make a lot of sense, would it?
Wait, what? I've had X crash, from driver issues, but it NEVER brought down the system. Mostly because the drivers are loaded as modules. It's not the same thing. The video driver doesn't bring down the whole system. It'll only kill the GUI.
I'll assume for the sake of argument that you're capable of determining exactly what brought your X session down. Even so, the 3d-accelerated drivers which use Nvidia's GLX or the DRI are fully capable of bringing your system down completely in some ugly ways. I imagine some searches on the lkml with search strings like "nvidia drivers" or "don't cry to us it's a binary driver" might be revealing.:)
Are you sure? More to the point, are you sure your X server is not using DRI and its kernel module? You'd have to have a pretty old card. You might be surprised if you check your configuration.
But the 2d drivers would also cause problems with Windows. So any video problem in Windows could bring down the whole OS.
Which isn't much worse than locking up the entire console and keeping the user from being able to use the computer without rebooting it. Although it's a silly hypothetical since any modern card is going to use DRI and be subject to the same sorts of problems if the driver is buggy.
It is not the same trade-off as with Linux because it is possible to run a Linux server with only the command line interface.
It is quite possible to do this with NT. I'm not sure how many people actually do. NT isn't set up to make this easy, with runlevels and init scripts and all the Unix goodies, but it's not brain surgery, either.
In spite of the well-known controversy about moving video drivers into ring 0, NT admins don't make a big deal about this in practice. Probably because WHQL-certified drivers are typically pretty darn reliable.
With Windows, every implementation has those flaws.
With Linux, only a very specific sub-set of implementations have those flaws.
1. They're not "flaws," except according to your entirely arbitrary value system. 2. Repeat after me: just about everyone who uses Linux on the desktop uses a kernel module for graphics.
And yes, if you're not running the GUI, the point is moot, as you've noted.
The ring 0 issue has been known ever since Microsoft implemented it in NT 4.0 (3.51 did not run the video drivers in ring 0).
It was a stupid decision to do that and the only reason they did it was to improve the video performance on their GUI-driven OS.
So your whole OS can go down because of the video driver.
Of course any hardware 3d-accelerated video driver in Linux can also bring down the system, since parts of DRI and nvidia's GLX run in the kernel. The salient difference is that video drivers in NT are coded against an interface that is designed not to change. Change your kernel version, or apply the wrong patches to the kernel you're already running, and your Linux video driver might very well break, particularly if it's a binary-only driver like the ones from ATI or Nvidia.
This is/. and a good technical decision would not have a problem here.
Indeed.
But Microsoft makes bad technical decisions and they make them because of Marketing demands.
Running video drivers in kernel space is not a "bad technical decision," it's a tradeoff, informed by the realizations that for end users crashing your graphics subsystem is just as bad as crashing the entire machine, video performance is pretty important, and video drivers can be made pretty reliable. It's the same tradeoff most reasonably-performing 3d-accelerated drivers make in Linux. The difference is that it works a lot better in NT, since the driver won't just break one day for no apparent reason.
The ISS has 4 gyros, and it is a very big deal when they fail (they're supposed to last for 8.5 years). There are rocket thrusters in place to serve as backups should the gyros fail.
I wonder how long you could use the rocket thrusters to maintain proper orientation of the station.
The station is supposed to be able to maintain its orientation with 2 gyros in operation using minimal thrusters.
I hope they aren't using the same gyros Mir did.:)
I know it is an unpopular view and I will be immediately marked down for saying so, but I believe this is an act of a higher power.
When you look at it Islam Buddhist Hindu were the one's that suffered, all non christians in non christian nations. And on one of Christianity's more holy of days. Now you could say this is just a one off? a coincidence? What about Christmas in 2003. Same day to the year 40,000 killed in Bam in Iran. Again a non christian nation made to suffer at the hand of a higher power on Christianity's day.
And in 2002 same day exactly to the year also Japan suffered a large quake killing hundreds more non christians. Three in a row is just too many to ignore or leave up to chance. Which non christian nation to be struck on Christmas 2005?
Punishment for non believers and 9/11 I think?
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I have a message from God, to you, Saven Marek: YOU ARE GOING TO HELL FOR ALL THAT WHACKING OFF TO HENTAI THAT YOU DO. REPENT.
Where were you and where was your country when the Taliban were shooting women in the head on just the accusation of adultry, and Saddam Husein was killing hundreds of thousands just for sport?
Where was the United States, for that matter? If the Taliban weren't dumb enough to host Bin Laden's little brigade, they'd still be engaging in the human rights abuses that have you so outraged.
I'm sure Iraqis are glad Saudi Arabians blew up the WTC so we could fight the evil of Saddam Hussein. I'm sure they're glad we waited for that, rather than supporting their previous attempts at revolution and overthrowing him themselves. That wouldn't have made any sense.
Yes, it's a tragedy, but I suspect a large portion of the world didn't give a rats ass about the 2000 who died in the Twin Towers either, so turn about is fair play.
It's only "fair" if you think ethics is entirely subjective, which is sad.
My guess is that they'd do whatever it is they need to do to make sure the thing doesn't fall apart with nobody on it and go back to earth on the escape module. I doubt it was a coincidence that they had 7 days of food remaining when the supply capsule docked.
I don't follow ISS that closely but if it's anything like Mir, the gyros fail periodically, and need to be replaced. If the station had to be abandoned for a REALLY long time, it could end up tumbling, which makes docking pretty hard, and can damage the station. If the gyros on ISS are a lot better, that's probably a lesser factor and orbital decay would be a greater factor.
That said, I think the US and Russian space programs both have experience with that tumbling scenario, with smaller stations.
why? I mean if we can deliver it and you cannot, and otherwize you've got something, which we cannot deliver, why shouldn't help each other? Do you still think in therms of the Cold War?
I can't speak for the above poster, but I think the comment isn't meant to be critical of Russia, but of the American space program. We have a much stronger economy than Russia but our space program has, in many practical ways, decayed even more than Russia's program since the cold war.
That really *is* embarassing, and it's not a good thing at all, and it's a trend that ought to be reversed. I don't think pointing that out is anti-cooperation.
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Why? They can do exactly the same thing with RH or SuSE's enterprise editions. That's one of their main selling points.
No, it didn't:
http://finger.planetquake.com/plan.asp?u
The relevant quote, from 7/24/99:
On wednesday I was sweating a bit, not sure if I would have the VM finished in time, but it all came together in the last two days.
Keep in mind quake 3 was released in December of that year.
That's just silly. What he's saying is specific to this game, not a general example of the industry. For example, in the last part of q3 development id ripped the game apart and created qvms, which almost certainly wasn't boring work. :)
The holdup in d3 was the labor-intensive content creation, not the programming, so it's not surprising there weren't any major programming challenges near the end. He had lots of time.
I suspect these will end up being resold under a different brand name. Just speculation, but there is plenty of precedent for that in the consumer electronics market.
They are equally arbitrary to the end user, I'm afraid.
Now that is rubbish. If you're going to build a completely arbitrary limitation into the software you need to have the software hit that limitation gracefully, rather than cough up blood. The computer can keep track of how close it is to hitting the 32,767 change limit much better than an end user can. Duh.
This was just poorly written software. That's a "standard" that doesn't change from decade to decade.
And by "latest" you mean "last thousand years," right?
No. That's completely backwards. Expensive, low-volume items demand the biggest margin possible. High-volume items can be sold at a very narrow margin, as design costs will be recouped quicker and manufacturing costs will decrease quicker. Economies of scale, etc etc.
Linus and Dave Cutler would be rather more interesting, I think. To any journalists who might be reading: hey, hook that shit up. :)
So what you're saying is that Apple is just as hypocritically flaky and directionless as Slashdot?
Oy vey!
WTH does that even mean?
Ha ha. I hope you're just fucking with us, and you're not really this dumb.
And you shouldn't, not without some corroboration. It's a truly crappy paper, not just because of its right-wing slant, but because of the quality of the journalism.
USGS people were on the radio yesterday saying tha they were working the phones after the earthquake and it didn't do a hell of a lot of good. It's lovely the way everyone wants to blame everything (natural disasters, even!) on the US.
Give it a rest, people.
They're POOR, you moron. That's why they need help. That's why they're able to "steal" our jobs. It's all about a little thing called "economics."
What sort of aid would you have wanted them to provide in the event of a disaster in the US? Maybe they could have sent over some of their tens of millions of impoverished to help dig out dead stock brokers after 9/11 but it wouldn't make a lot of sense, would it?
I'll assume for the sake of argument that you're capable of determining exactly what brought your X session down. Even so, the 3d-accelerated drivers which use Nvidia's GLX or the DRI are fully capable of bringing your system down completely in some ugly ways. I imagine some searches on the lkml with search strings like "nvidia drivers" or "don't cry to us it's a binary driver" might be revealing.
Are you sure? More to the point, are you sure your X server is not using DRI and its kernel module? You'd have to have a pretty old card. You might be surprised if you check your configuration.
Which isn't much worse than locking up the entire console and keeping the user from being able to use the computer without rebooting it. Although it's a silly hypothetical since any modern card is going to use DRI and be subject to the same sorts of problems if the driver is buggy.
It is quite possible to do this with NT. I'm not sure how many people actually do. NT isn't set up to make this easy, with runlevels and init scripts and all the Unix goodies, but it's not brain surgery, either.
In spite of the well-known controversy about moving video drivers into ring 0, NT admins don't make a big deal about this in practice. Probably because WHQL-certified drivers are typically pretty darn reliable.
1. They're not "flaws," except according to your entirely arbitrary value system.
2. Repeat after me: just about everyone who uses Linux on the desktop uses a kernel module for graphics.
And yes, if you're not running the GUI, the point is moot, as you've noted.
Of course any hardware 3d-accelerated video driver in Linux can also bring down the system, since parts of DRI and nvidia's GLX run in the kernel. The salient difference is that video drivers in NT are coded against an interface that is designed not to change. Change your kernel version, or apply the wrong patches to the kernel you're already running, and your Linux video driver might very well break, particularly if it's a binary-only driver like the ones from ATI or Nvidia.
Indeed.
Running video drivers in kernel space is not a "bad technical decision," it's a tradeoff, informed by the realizations that for end users crashing your graphics subsystem is just as bad as crashing the entire machine, video performance is pretty important, and video drivers can be made pretty reliable. It's the same tradeoff most reasonably-performing 3d-accelerated drivers make in Linux. The difference is that it works a lot better in NT, since the driver won't just break one day for no apparent reason.
I wonder how long you could use the rocket thrusters to maintain proper orientation of the station.
I hope they aren't using the same gyros Mir did.
I have a message from God, to you, Saven Marek:
YOU ARE GOING TO HELL FOR ALL THAT WHACKING OFF TO HENTAI THAT YOU DO. REPENT.
Where was the United States, for that matter? If the Taliban weren't dumb enough to host Bin Laden's little brigade, they'd still be engaging in the human rights abuses that have you so outraged.
I'm sure Iraqis are glad Saudi Arabians blew up the WTC so we could fight the evil of Saddam Hussein. I'm sure they're glad we waited for that, rather than supporting their previous attempts at revolution and overthrowing him themselves. That wouldn't have made any sense.
It's only "fair" if you think ethics is entirely subjective, which is sad.
I don't follow ISS that closely but if it's anything like Mir, the gyros fail periodically, and need to be replaced. If the station had to be abandoned for a REALLY long time, it could end up tumbling, which makes docking pretty hard, and can damage the station. If the gyros on ISS are a lot better, that's probably a lesser factor and orbital decay would be a greater factor.
That said, I think the US and Russian space programs both have experience with that tumbling scenario, with smaller stations.
I can't speak for the above poster, but I think the comment isn't meant to be critical of Russia, but of the American space program. We have a much stronger economy than Russia but our space program has, in many practical ways, decayed even more than Russia's program since the cold war.
That really *is* embarassing, and it's not a good thing at all, and it's a trend that ought to be reversed. I don't think pointing that out is anti-cooperation.
Can we please not use "FUD" to describe anything that happens to be untrue? It is an acronym and as such it actually stands for something. Thanks.