You've got a lot of balls calling the majority stupid. Don't you read history, do you know what happened to people like Socrates and Galileo? And heck, they were right.
I'm not sure I understand the logic here. IIRC, Socrates and Galileo were both in the minority at their time. They were persecuted for it and they turned out to be right. So how does this back up your point?
I always thought it was income tax evasion but I could be wrong. Some states actually tax illegal drugs specifically (although it was ruled unconstitutional somewhere because it was in breach of double jeopardy laws). I'm pretty sure California's laws in this respect were mentioned on slashdot some time ago, but I can't find the specific article.
Someone mod this funny! At the risk of ruining the joke by explaining it, it's a reference to the fact that drug dealers in California are required to pay tax.
I moved from the US to Australia five years ago. I found it absolutely incredible that here, you can put a little sign on your mailbox saying "No junk mail" and they won't give you any junk mail. And the cost of sending mail is about the same as in the US.
Israel was not founded as you say out of a need for protection against retribution.
Indeed the story of the modern state of Israel goes back to the WWI
Actually, Zionism really took off around the turn of the century with Herzl and the Dreyfus affair. As such, the Zionist movement was created from a need of protection. The establishment of Israel took as long as it did because of
1) a need for land - this was solved after the defeat of Turkey in WWI
2) a sympathetic politician - Disraeli, the British Foreign Minister (I think) filled this gap
The period before 1948 was marked by atrocities on both sides. Look up the Hebron massacre (I can't think of any Jewish atrocities off the top of my head but I'm sure there are some and you seem to think so too so maybe you can provide a link).
The events of the 1948 war are a little murky. Israeli hawks like to claim that the Arabs left of their own accord. Palestinians claim that they were driven out. The truth is likely a mixture, especially given that many Arabs remained on their land (the fact that many of these Arabs are still treated as second-class citizens is quite disturbing).
And I think that Israel is getting its shit together.
We'll see. I for one have been pretty impressed by the (relative) moderateness of Sharon. Compared to Netanyahu and the rest of his Likud party, he actually seems like he might accelerate the achievement of peace (all this from a war criminal?). Also, the opinions of those religious nuts might be offset somwhat by the success of Shinui. Things are looking up, but it's a bit early to tell. A more involved leader in the White House would do a world of good, as would a more moderate successor to Arafat.
Why? I think mostly that compilers are a big issue. GCC's goal is to produce code that runs, not to produce highly optimized code.
Have you read recent benchmarks? GCC has been rapidly catching up to the intel compiler. It's not there yet but the days of GCC getting trounced in performance are over. As far as doom3 goes, the SSE assembly hasn't yet been ported (according to anandtech), so that could account for a decent performance difference.
Also, I know that most games bypass X
Maybe you're running different games than I am, but UT2003/2004 and doom3 certainly use X. The only way you could avoid it, afaik, is to use a framebuffer, which means no nvidia 3d support.
OK, you've got me there. My post was aimed at the people who read the title of the article and automatically posted stupid replies like "haha editors mispellled SPAM. What a looser its spAm not spIm". Spim is more of a slang term than an official word but my original point stands.
The above output shows that firefox is using 8.8% of your memory. Firefox launches multiple processes that share an address space, so the memory you see is accounted for more than once. On my computer, with 2 GB of memory, firefox is using 1.8% of my memory, or 18MB. I have several windows open, each with many tabs.
FireFox is already extremely bloated (on Windows) compared to other Windows applications and the source code is hundreds of meg in size, the reason - it has an entire platform.
I'm not quite sure where you get that "hundreds of megs" thing. As a gentoo user, I have source tarballs available and they're all about 30 meg:
In addition, the source tarballs contain lots of non-code stuff. The actual executable on my system is less than 80 kB. There are quite a few supporting libraries, of course. Oh, and the binary download is 8.1 megs (for linux/x86).
Firefox is just a browser. That's all it does. The point of this article is that we can use a browser as a platform for other stuff. This doesn't involve bloating the browser; it involves writing applications that run on top of it.
I think that Linus's philosophy is much more realistic than RMS's semi-communist approach, and in trying to create freedom for the users he denies freedom for the developers - the people whose software it is.
And yet I have never heard RMS argue that developers should be prevented from writing free software. His arguments revolve around the idea that users should refuse to use non-free software. So it doesn't deny freedom for anyone because no one is prevented from doing anything. It's more of a boycott thing, I guess.
As for the semi-communist comment, free software can promote competition in certain ways. If you have some free software that you need support for, you can shop around for support and let market forces do the work. On the other hand, if you want support from some piece of proprietary software, you can only get support from the original vendor. I prefer to think of the difference between free and non-free software as the difference between capitalism and monopoly, not the difference between communism and capitalism.
Forget it, the AGP band has not been close to filled
Absolutely. I remember a benchmark (I think it might have been on THG) which showed that AGP8x gets no benefit over AGP4x in gaming benchmarks. If the 4x bus isn't saturated yet, it will be a while before 8x is. I think this benchmark came out before doom3 though, so you might get saturation there with all the high-quality textures.
The main advantage of the PCI-E bus is the upstream speed. AGP8x is much faster downstream (ie. to the graphics card) than up (from the graphics card). PCI-E is the same speed in both directions. This would help video capture devices in high resolutions.
PCI-E is also intended as a replacement for PCI.
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Are you telling me that my 21st century computer can't keep track of what type of file it has?
Had consumers not accepted those ratings as accurate, AMD would probably be gone now.
Most consumers I speak to don't realise that the AMD rating isn't the clock speed. A trawl of hardware forums turns up a disturbingly high number of posts complaining that their AMD 2000+ XP is only running at 1.6 GHz (or something like that).
Nvidia seems to have thoroughly recovered from their 5xxx series. With doom3 and HL2 performing better on a 6800 than X800 there isn't much reason to buy an ATI card right now. Especially with the GNU/Linux driver issue.
I'll have a good laugh at the HL2 fanboy that mocked me for getting a 6800GT, saying that HL2 is going to be so much better than doom3 that we should all run out and get ATI cards.
The important thing to note is that this map measures NO2 (which is basically smog) emissions. NO2 is a lot easier to filter than CO2, which is the main greenhouse gas. So developed countries, with better filters, might show up as having low NO2 emissions even though they are producing lots of CO2.
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I laugh at your puny linear growth!
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You've got a lot of balls calling the majority stupid. Don't you read history, do you know what happened to people like Socrates and Galileo? And heck, they were right.
I'm not sure I understand the logic here. IIRC, Socrates and Galileo were both in the minority at their time. They were persecuted for it and they turned out to be right. So how does this back up your point?
What the fuck do you think they got Al Capone on?
I always thought it was income tax evasion but I could be wrong. Some states actually tax illegal drugs specifically (although it was ruled unconstitutional somewhere because it was in breach of double jeopardy laws). I'm pretty sure California's laws in this respect were mentioned on slashdot some time ago, but I can't find the specific article.
BAHAHAHAHA!
Someone mod this funny! At the risk of ruining the joke by explaining it, it's a reference to the fact that drug dealers in California are required to pay tax.
I moved from the US to Australia five years ago. I found it absolutely incredible that here, you can put a little sign on your mailbox saying "No junk mail" and they won't give you any junk mail. And the cost of sending mail is about the same as in the US.
Israel was not founded as you say out of a need for protection against retribution. Indeed the story of the modern state of Israel goes back to the WWI
Actually, Zionism really took off around the turn of the century with Herzl and the Dreyfus affair. As such, the Zionist movement was created from a need of protection. The establishment of Israel took as long as it did because of
1) a need for land - this was solved after the defeat of Turkey in WWI
2) a sympathetic politician - Disraeli, the British Foreign Minister (I think) filled this gap
The period before 1948 was marked by atrocities on both sides. Look up the Hebron massacre (I can't think of any Jewish atrocities off the top of my head but I'm sure there are some and you seem to think so too so maybe you can provide a link).
The events of the 1948 war are a little murky. Israeli hawks like to claim that the Arabs left of their own accord. Palestinians claim that they were driven out. The truth is likely a mixture, especially given that many Arabs remained on their land (the fact that many of these Arabs are still treated as second-class citizens is quite disturbing).
And I think that Israel is getting its shit together.
We'll see. I for one have been pretty impressed by the (relative) moderateness of Sharon. Compared to Netanyahu and the rest of his Likud party, he actually seems like he might accelerate the achievement of peace (all this from a war criminal?). Also, the opinions of those religious nuts might be offset somwhat by the success of Shinui. Things are looking up, but it's a bit early to tell. A more involved leader in the White House would do a world of good, as would a more moderate successor to Arafat.
Why? I think mostly that compilers are a big issue. GCC's goal is to produce code that runs, not to produce highly optimized code.
Have you read recent benchmarks? GCC has been rapidly catching up to the intel compiler. It's not there yet but the days of GCC getting trounced in performance are over. As far as doom3 goes, the SSE assembly hasn't yet been ported (according to anandtech), so that could account for a decent performance difference.
Also, I know that most games bypass X
Maybe you're running different games than I am, but UT2003/2004 and doom3 certainly use X. The only way you could avoid it, afaik, is to use a framebuffer, which means no nvidia 3d support.
It is dark and you are likely to click on a virus-installing link.
OK, you've got me there. My post was aimed at the people who read the title of the article and automatically posted stupid replies like "haha editors mispellled SPAM. What a looser its spAm not spIm". Spim is more of a slang term than an official word but my original point stands.
Anyone who accuses the authors of misspelling spam is officially a fool and deserves to lose their geek license. Spim is a word, people. Look it up.
I can tell when you're lying too. A slashdotter in a permanent relationship? BZZZZZT!
Actually, the difference between a British billion and an American billion is three orders of magnitude.
But what's two orders of magni...
oh, never mind
Oh goody. I seem to remember we had a nice puppet^H^H^H^H^H^H ally in that area before. Things turned out really well in Iran, didn't they?
And you're assuming Iraq ever does stabilise, of course.
The above output shows that firefox is using 8.8% of your memory. Firefox launches multiple processes that share an address space, so the memory you see is accounted for more than once. On my computer, with 2 GB of memory, firefox is using 1.8% of my memory, or 18MB. I have several windows open, each with many tabs.
I'm not quite sure where you get that "hundreds of megs" thing. As a gentoo user, I have source tarballs available and they're all about 30 meg:
In addition, the source tarballs contain lots of non-code stuff. The actual executable on my system is less than 80 kB. There are quite a few supporting libraries, of course. Oh, and the binary download is 8.1 megs (for linux/x86).
Firefox is just a browser. That's all it does. The point of this article is that we can use a browser as a platform for other stuff. This doesn't involve bloating the browser; it involves writing applications that run on top of it.
I think that Linus's philosophy is much more realistic than RMS's semi-communist approach, and in trying to create freedom for the users he denies freedom for the developers - the people whose software it is.
And yet I have never heard RMS argue that developers should be prevented from writing free software. His arguments revolve around the idea that users should refuse to use non-free software. So it doesn't deny freedom for anyone because no one is prevented from doing anything. It's more of a boycott thing, I guess.
As for the semi-communist comment, free software can promote competition in certain ways. If you have some free software that you need support for, you can shop around for support and let market forces do the work. On the other hand, if you want support from some piece of proprietary software, you can only get support from the original vendor. I prefer to think of the difference between free and non-free software as the difference between capitalism and monopoly, not the difference between communism and capitalism.
Forget it, the AGP band has not been close to filled
Absolutely. I remember a benchmark (I think it might have been on THG) which showed that AGP8x gets no benefit over AGP4x in gaming benchmarks. If the 4x bus isn't saturated yet, it will be a while before 8x is. I think this benchmark came out before doom3 though, so you might get saturation there with all the high-quality textures.
The main advantage of the PCI-E bus is the upstream speed. AGP8x is much faster downstream (ie. to the graphics card) than up (from the graphics card). PCI-E is the same speed in both directions. This would help video capture devices in high resolutions.
PCI-E is also intended as a replacement for PCI.
Of course it can:
Any program that can only tell a file type by its extension is poorly written.
Most consumers I speak to don't realise that the AMD rating isn't the clock speed. A trawl of hardware forums turns up a disturbingly high number of posts complaining that their AMD 2000+ XP is only running at 1.6 GHz (or something like that).
Well, its a bloody good thing we caught him, isn't it. I mean, instead of invading random 3rd countries (in the name of fighting terrorism) instead.
Nvidia seems to have thoroughly recovered from their 5xxx series. With doom3 and HL2 performing better on a 6800 than X800 there isn't much reason to buy an ATI card right now. Especially with the GNU/Linux driver issue.
I'll have a good laugh at the HL2 fanboy that mocked me for getting a 6800GT, saying that HL2 is going to be so much better than doom3 that we should all run out and get ATI cards.
I tend to think more of lost cats in Bermuda, personally.
oopsies: 's/Netherlands/Denmark/'
The important thing to note is that this map measures NO2 (which is basically smog) emissions. NO2 is a lot easier to filter than CO2, which is the main greenhouse gas. So developed countries, with better filters, might show up as having low NO2 emissions even though they are producing lots of CO2.
I've always worried about the danity of the world. Does this have something to do with moving to the Netherlands?