There was a guy a few years ago who made the attempt with a very large swimfin, basically a 6 or 8 sq foot fin in which he put both feet and dolphin kicked his way across the ocean. I do not recall who it was or if he made it or not.
Why not couple a number of smaller boxes together with memcached and/or openMosix, so your 5 machines look like one super-server, and they manage response?
Care to enumerate your parts, please? I'm looking at getting a replacement for my workstation. Apache + postgres + mysql + vmware + gnome&kde apps is killing my 2GB of memory finally.
Once upon a time, I used images for buttons on my website. I'm convinced now, after having run it for some time on a low-bandwidth pipe, that this is stupid. My users should not have to download 250-1000K of data just to view my front page. My site now loads faster now that I've smartened up (and it's on a pipe 10x faster).
I'm sick of pages that load images upon images upon images to throw me ads. It's sickening. And websites that split a 10 paragraph article into 3 or 4 pages of html to increase ad revenue. Sorry, you're just contributing to your own problem, right there... I go elsewhere for my content.
I don't think I was at all denying the fact that McVoy spent good money on said product. What I am saying is that he improved said product in direct relation to the usage by Linus and others. Who's to say BK would have improved half as much without their help? No that I'm denying it would have improved, either. I'm just saying that there is this symbiotic relations (or was), where both sides benefitted, and because of a third (fourth) party, McVoy is taking his toys and going home.
My point is this: they're both acting like petulant children. If McVoy doesn't want to give Linus a license for all the work the kernel contributors did helping improve BK, then the $1000 for a BK license isn't something that Linus couldn't legitimately expense, either?
And without Linux and OSDL, no one would care who BitMover or BitKeeper is. Face it. Linus used Larry to develop and enhance Linux just as much as Larry used Linux and the OSS community to enhance BitKeeper. For there to be any animosity over this is childish. Sanction OSDL and Tridgell, give Linus his personal BitKeeper license, and stop being a daft prick. I find the fact that McVoy won't give Linus a license because he still works at OSDL to be most deplorable. I haven't seen such antics since the kindergarten sandbox...
Meat, high in fat, salt and protein, that has a shelf life measured in years is a useful product. When you're still alive after the nuclear winter, you'll bow down to Hormel and give thanks unto your Gods.:-D
Like changing the rules in the middle of the game, eh? If you'd stated "in a 6 foot Olympic high-jump" up front, you could have saved us all some typing.
Um, he's talking from a moon reference point, in which case it would be a total solar eclipse, because you can't have a lunar eclipse while your using the moon as a reference point.
And you can never have a total Earth eclipse from the moon.
Please note that payroll paid to you by a corporation, with very specific exceptions, is NOT taxed to that corporation. That money that ends up in your pocket is not taxed twice. If it was, inflation would be skyrocketing, because prices and incomes could never keep pace. 99% of any item you pay would be tax. That is most definitely not the case.
How is this bad? If I'm sitting on $100 million in assets in a bank, that bank is using my assets to generate wealth through investments, backing mortgages, investing in small businesses, and various other strategies. If I invest it in property, I'm probably turning over a decent income and providing jobs to maintenance people, construction workers, contractors and landscapers. If I own boats or airplanes I'm consuming fuel and airport fees, maintenance techs and aircraft in general.
Inheritance is not a bad model. If you take $100 million in gold bullion and store it in Fort Knox never to be seen again like Uncle Scrooge, that's bad for the economy, because you're taking money out of circulation permanently. In most cases of inheritance, today, however, that is not the case.
Why? Capital gains is paid when an asset is SOLD, not just because some asset holder died. That's why I personally feel the Estate Tax is wrong. You're taxing someone simply because they left assets to children or even a charity.
If I start with $1million dollars from my parents, and when I die I have accumulated $1 million, 200 thousand, then that 200,000 is considered (earned). If I then leave $1.2 million to my children, then the government can tax $1million of it. Seems pretty simple to me, for the purposes of estate tax computation (exactly the same as computing income taxes).
But my parents were smart and put all that money in a perpetual trust, so we don't have that problem.:-D
Takes $150 dollars to incorporate in most states, less than $1000 if you use a lawyer. Pop was a tightwad... Doesn't make your point any less valid though.
mmm, yeah. Don't be a moron like me and take packages from SuSE 9.1 and install them on SuSE 8.2. Bad, evil gnome destruction. Learn the hard way, I suppose.
OS/2 failed because A) the marketing campaign sucked. OS/2 Warp as in hippy as opposed to OS/2 Warp as in Warp 9 FAST and B) Microsoft's illegal tying and licensing agreements. B) is still keeping Linux off the radar.
The whole KDE/GNome thing tho pisses me off... two great toolkits, two great memory hogs. I run a mostly gnome based desktop, but the few KDE apps I use (Yast2, K3B) refuse to kill off the kde processes when I'm done.
OS X on Intel would rock. I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Someday, maybe once I get another 4 GB of RAM in my machine, I'll pick up a Powerbook.
Note that your comment about DLL's not being demand pages are incorrect. You do not have to load the entire thing into memory to benefit from code sharing (at least not in a smart operating system like Windows (NT/XP)).
Let's not forget that in a certain time frame, 1997 - 2000, that this was NOT true of Windows. Software depended on particular versions of DirectX from 3.0 - 6.0, and often installed their own versions over newer versions already on the machine. Many times you couldn't install the game at all if you had a newer version (or ANY version) of DirectX installed.
Linux gaming is evolving, hence the move to standardize OpenGL 2.0. GL is too dated to do many of the things modern gaming engines require, and needs a serious facelift. Someday Windows games may revert to GL based engines, instead of DirectX, who knows.
Linux/OSS in general needs a standard dependency manager and package management tool. Maybe it's time for the RPM+DEB guys to get together and start from scratch with the best from both worlds?
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You've got the Gulf stream propelling you along. NO ONE goes human power east to west in the North Atlantic. It's a losing battle.
There was a guy a few years ago who made the attempt with a very large swimfin, basically a 6 or 8 sq foot fin in which he put both feet and dolphin kicked his way across the ocean. I do not recall who it was or if he made it or not.
The North Atlantic is ALWAYS cold.
Put the ad in the downloaded file.
Problem solved.
What costs more? 2MB of bandwidth, or a $.20 clickthru?
The real problem is that prices on the server end bandwidth-wise have not kept pace with prices on the consumer side.
Why not couple a number of smaller boxes together with memcached and/or openMosix, so your 5 machines look like one super-server, and they manage response?
Care to enumerate your parts, please? I'm looking at getting a replacement for my workstation. Apache + postgres + mysql + vmware + gnome&kde apps is killing my 2GB of memory finally.
Once upon a time, I used images for buttons on my website. I'm convinced now, after having run it for some time on a low-bandwidth pipe, that this is stupid. My users should not have to download 250-1000K of data just to view my front page. My site now loads faster now that I've smartened up (and it's on a pipe 10x faster).
I'm sick of pages that load images upon images upon images to throw me ads. It's sickening. And websites that split a 10 paragraph article into 3 or 4 pages of html to increase ad revenue. Sorry, you're just contributing to your own problem, right there... I go elsewhere for my content.
Cheers all.
I don't think I was at all denying the fact that McVoy spent good money on said product. What I am saying is that he improved said product in direct relation to the usage by Linus and others. Who's to say BK would have improved half as much without their help? No that I'm denying it would have improved, either. I'm just saying that there is this symbiotic relations (or was), where both sides benefitted, and because of a third (fourth) party, McVoy is taking his toys and going home.
My point is this: they're both acting like petulant children. If McVoy doesn't want to give Linus a license for all the work the kernel contributors did helping improve BK, then the $1000 for a BK license isn't something that Linus couldn't legitimately expense, either?
And without Linux and OSDL, no one would care who BitMover or BitKeeper is. Face it. Linus used Larry to develop and enhance Linux just as much as Larry used Linux and the OSS community to enhance BitKeeper. For there to be any animosity over this is childish. Sanction OSDL and Tridgell, give Linus his personal BitKeeper license, and stop being a daft prick. I find the fact that McVoy won't give Linus a license because he still works at OSDL to be most deplorable. I haven't seen such antics since the kindergarten sandbox...
Meat, high in fat, salt and protein, that has a shelf life measured in years is a useful product. When you're still alive after the nuclear winter, you'll bow down to Hormel and give thanks unto your Gods. :-D
Like changing the rules in the middle of the game, eh? If you'd stated "in a 6 foot Olympic high-jump" up front, you could have saved us all some typing.
Have a day.
What's sad is that not only can I not keep plants alive, I can't even keep a box of seamonkeys alive for more than a month...
Humans have made longer journeys on rafts and canoes for fucks sake. The only restriction is money, and willpower.
Um, he's talking from a moon reference point, in which case it would be a total solar eclipse, because you can't have a lunar eclipse while your using the moon as a reference point.
And you can never have a total Earth eclipse from the moon.
Please note that payroll paid to you by a corporation, with very specific exceptions, is NOT taxed to that corporation. That money that ends up in your pocket is not taxed twice. If it was, inflation would be skyrocketing, because prices and incomes could never keep pace. 99% of any item you pay would be tax. That is most definitely not the case.
How is this bad? If I'm sitting on $100 million in assets in a bank, that bank is using my assets to generate wealth through investments, backing mortgages, investing in small businesses, and various other strategies. If I invest it in property, I'm probably turning over a decent income and providing jobs to maintenance people, construction workers, contractors and landscapers. If I own boats or airplanes I'm consuming fuel and airport fees, maintenance techs and aircraft in general.
Inheritance is not a bad model. If you take $100 million in gold bullion and store it in Fort Knox never to be seen again like Uncle Scrooge, that's bad for the economy, because you're taking money out of circulation permanently. In most cases of inheritance, today, however, that is not the case.
Why? Capital gains is paid when an asset is SOLD, not just because some asset holder died. That's why I personally feel the Estate Tax is wrong. You're taxing someone simply because they left assets to children or even a charity.
If I start with $1million dollars from my parents, and when I die I have accumulated $1 million, 200 thousand, then that 200,000 is considered (earned). If I then leave $1.2 million to my children, then the government can tax $1million of it. Seems pretty simple to me, for the purposes of estate tax computation (exactly the same as computing income taxes).
:-D
But my parents were smart and put all that money in a perpetual trust, so we don't have that problem.
Takes $150 dollars to incorporate in most states, less than $1000 if you use a lawyer. Pop was a tightwad... Doesn't make your point any less valid though.
Um, if my feet start at zero, and my CG is at 3, and my feet end up at 6, then my CG will also end up at 3+6 == 9.
Not accounting for bending of the knees of course.
mmm, yeah. Don't be a moron like me and take packages from SuSE 9.1 and install them on SuSE 8.2. Bad, evil gnome destruction. Learn the hard way, I suppose.
OS/2 failed because A) the marketing campaign sucked. OS/2 Warp as in hippy as opposed to OS/2 Warp as in Warp 9 FAST and B) Microsoft's illegal tying and licensing agreements. B) is still keeping Linux off the radar.
The whole KDE/GNome thing tho pisses me off... two great toolkits, two great memory hogs. I run a mostly gnome based desktop, but the few KDE apps I use (Yast2, K3B) refuse to kill off the kde processes when I'm done.
OS X on Intel would rock. I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Someday, maybe once I get another 4 GB of RAM in my machine, I'll pick up a Powerbook.
Note that your comment about DLL's not being demand pages are incorrect. You do not have to load the entire thing into memory to benefit from code sharing (at least not in a smart operating system like Windows (NT/XP)).
Let's not forget that in a certain time frame, 1997 - 2000, that this was NOT true of Windows. Software depended on particular versions of DirectX from 3.0 - 6.0, and often installed their own versions over newer versions already on the machine. Many times you couldn't install the game at all if you had a newer version (or ANY version) of DirectX installed.
Linux gaming is evolving, hence the move to standardize OpenGL 2.0. GL is too dated to do many of the things modern gaming engines require, and needs a serious facelift. Someday Windows games may revert to GL based engines, instead of DirectX, who knows.
Linux/OSS in general needs a standard dependency manager and package management tool. Maybe it's time for the RPM+DEB guys to get together and start from scratch with the best from both worlds?