Nah, it was King Features that sued them. You know, the guys that publish a comic named Mandrake the Magician. (I remember an old interview with the founder, where he said that the name was Mandrake "because Mandrake is Magic" - so I believe KF may have been in the right.)
Also, the suit was dropped when they changed the name - but like the sibling writes, they changed it when they merged with Connectiva.
The future profits that the company once hoped for are now likely to wind up in Nintendo's pockets.
Right, just like a defective Audi will drive people towards purchasing a Toyota Yaris. Nintendo and Microsoft aren't competing for the same market niche, and apparently the author doesn't realize that. The Wii is for casual gaming, the XBox and PS are for hardcore gaming. Might as well say that peggle is taking sales from Half Life 2.
And how, oh how, will MS reach its explicit goal of selling 75 million units without reaching the casual gamers? Their strategy is to get the hardcore gamers first, and then move on to the casual gamers. But since the casual gamers is the much larger and more profitable niche, it will be a failure for MS if Nintendo captures them first - which they certainly seem to be doing well with.
That's funny. I always thought I was a man, and my wife was a woman. The fact that she gave birth to our children kinda indicates that would be the case.
Alas, the fact that I took her name proves me wrong!
Obviously, that was the approach taken by Samba (thus the workaround). What does this imply? That too long time messing with MS products/protocols makes you treat all software as if it works like MS software (ie it makes you a bit soft in the head).
I didn't even notice. When I didn't get thedailywtf (which also seems affected), I just added.nyud.net and tried again - voila!
That'll work at least until cogent starts blocking every net that hosts someone who caches stuff, which in its turn can be served to teliasonera customers. But they can't be that silly, can they? [Touches wood]
So it's ok to just despise their shoddy software, that I'll never touch with a ten foot pole? Because why, oh why, would I have gotten all those phone calls begging for help with decent software, backed up by a good support that actually have technically inclined people answering the phone?
There sure is hatred, it's just not irrational.
Oh, and having my OS as a hobby does emphatically not preclude me from using it in a professional capacity - I'm a programmer.
The fact that I use Linux more or less exclusively makes people a lot less likely to ask for support on MS/MacOS related problems. Maybe that makes me asocial, but so what? Before I gave up on MS, my time did not belong to me, whereas now it does. If the phone calls in the middle of the night, it won't be one of my brothers having trouble installing a new sound card anymore. It'll be something that does actually matter in the middle of the night!
So I use other software that does the stuff I need, and my OS is also my hobby, and I'm not in the unpaid computer support business anymore - what's irrational about that?
My kids are 6 and 8, and I swear that they react better to the names "No" and "Allowance" than they do to the names I gave them. I try to be consistent, and I've had to carry them out of the store on occasions - but they mostly behave decently.
I dread the day they become teenagers though, mostly because my back is getting bad...;)
You start with a false presumption. I do not know what distro you use, and can't tell you if that does anything nifty - but "Linux" sure as hell does not do this already. If another app has already loaded as shared library, it may well be in RAM but it can just as well be swapped out. For all other cases, the answer is probably that your shared libraries are not cached or preloaded - and so this will give you quite a speed up.
The thing that eats all your RAM is nothing Linux specific at all, it is your applications asking for more RAM than they are currently going to use. Why should they do such a thing? Well, what do you think memory management would look like if hundreds of apps, daemons and kernel threads ask for two bytes at a time? It'd paint a pretty fragmented picture, so they ask for gobs of pages at a time. Pages seldom touched get swapped out, but still there's an awesome amount of overallocation - thus your memory seems to be 100% allocated 100% of the time.
So, preloading libs that are frequently used is probably going to use your RAM in a more meaningful way unless you already have a problem with constant swapping.
I would like to point out that since you don't know much about the Swedish system, you are not qualified to judge it.
Now, read very carefully: I do not claim the Swedish system is better, merely different - and also that the GGP obviously does not know how it works either. (In fact, there _are_ situations where we use the anglo-saxon jury system, primarily where freedom of speech is concerned.)
So, anyway - how would you determine which system is better? Crime rate? False positive convictions? Inherent racism in the system?
Or is it the fact that someone has a different system disturbs you?
If there is one thing about the anglo-saxon system that makes me very much afraid, it is not that it is possible to game the jury. It is that it is possible to game the jury, and the result will become the letter of the law.
Don't go overboard like that. GP is wrong. You are right about what it would be like if GP would have been right.
However, a problem with the American system is that you can game the jury. Anyone who doubts it need only watch a rerun of the OJ trials. I know they are not representative for American justice, but they do show that gaming the jury is a plausible strategy: Two trials, two outcomes - the man is both guilty and not guilty.
We have a system where we have a judge and a bench. Sitting on the bench are ordinary people. The difference is that they are not sitting on the bench for one trial or two, but for a lot of trials. They are appointed by the political parties (but usually not politicians themselves).
Our courts are modeled on the old "ting" (gathering - a > 1200 year old tradition), though it is many times removed from it. The big difference is that we do not have the system of common law (we did away with that som 800 years ago).
Since the police and attorney are involved (remember the raid on tpb back in 2006?) - I'd say it's a criminal investigation.
In Sweden, the legal system works differently. We do have a division between criminal and civil prosecution, but it's not the same (eg there are never two trials, one civil and one criminal, for the same thing - all the questions gets into the same trial). Also, we don't have the concept of common law, and the jury system is vastly different (jurors are appointed by the political parties - and sit on a lot of trials) - to the point where we don't call it a jury.
A while ago we read some stuff here on/. about column stores being the "new thing" (here). Some of the ideas seem reasonable, so my question is: Is this a simple case of using a different storage engine? Does MySQL already have one, or is one in the works? Or is this simply more neat than useful? (Oh, and is it a case of - "even if useful, not for the average user"?)
Seriously, in (geographically) larger projects, and most certainly in open APIs - it tends to be a good idea to define constants twice (eg GL_COLOR and GL_COLOUR in OpenGL). You never know what those pesky Europeans will come up with otherwise.
Ooops, I'm a European. Well, we learned Oxfordish in school when I was a kid, and I suspect they still do. In a year or two, I'll find out.
I'm late to the party but, the other day my dentist asked me if it's too complicated with Linux - or if it's worth it. (I had been reading Linux Journal in the reception - since I found it in the local candy shop. All the other English language mags were gamers' stuff, this is in Sweden.)
Anyway, the reason he asked is that he can't bear XP any longer, and neither can his friends. To them, Mac is not an alternative - and so he asked if it was terribly complicated, or if I thought he could manage. He's reasonably intelligent (or I wouldn't let him dig around in my mouth), so I said go for it.
Vista's bad network performance isn't its problem to mainstream users. That it is Windows, and thus associated with viruses and malware is a way bigger problem. At least to my dentist.
Well, now that you mention it......I have been wondering for a while if it's feasible to get some computational power from the heat radiators. It's such a waste to just have them burn electricity to get heat. An invention like this would really put the cold north (and south too I suppose) on the computational power map.:)
Just imagine, a Beowulf cluster of heaters.
As seen in other comments, this isn't quite so extraordinary. If you can't build one too (given the $2500), you probably have to turn your geek badge in. So on to the interesting question - what are we gonna do with them once we build 'em?
I'm thinking along the lines of hosting my very own MMOG in the basement. Or maybe decyphering cell calls in real time. Or...
Things are different in Europe. Here in Sweden there is a pretty heavy environmental tax on gas, so the price is roughly $1.60/litre. I only commute by car twice a week, and still I have gas costs of upwards to $200/month. With a new car for $15,000, and a battery lease for $150/month - I'd be lowering my costs significantly, while being able to commute every day (saving rougly 1,5 hours/day). I'd also avoid the congestion charges as a bonus.
All in all, this seems to be aimed at the European market.
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Nah, it was King Features that sued them. You know, the guys that publish a comic named Mandrake the Magician. (I remember an old interview with the founder, where he said that the name was Mandrake "because Mandrake is Magic" - so I believe KF may have been in the right.)
Also, the suit was dropped when they changed the name - but like the sibling writes, they changed it when they merged with Connectiva.
Saying the ONLY two logical reasons are cost and boot time kinda weakens your argument.
The strongest reason for people I know, making the switch, is the malware problem. They don't give a shit about cost or boot time.
The future profits that the company once hoped for are now likely to wind up in Nintendo's pockets.
Right, just like a defective Audi will drive people towards purchasing a Toyota Yaris. Nintendo and Microsoft aren't competing for the same market niche, and apparently the author doesn't realize that. The Wii is for casual gaming, the XBox and PS are for hardcore gaming. Might as well say that peggle is taking sales from Half Life 2.
And how, oh how, will MS reach its explicit goal of selling 75 million units without reaching the casual gamers? Their strategy is to get the hardcore gamers first, and then move on to the casual gamers. But since the casual gamers is the much larger and more profitable niche, it will be a failure for MS if Nintendo captures them first - which they certainly seem to be doing well with.
That's funny. I always thought I was a man, and my wife was a woman. The fact that she gave birth to our children kinda indicates that would be the case.
Alas, the fact that I took her name proves me wrong!
That way you won't create an extra copy of the variable when returning the value, it saves like an entire registry cell!!!1!
It's not hard to shut down the government - all it takes is a decent slashdotting!
Obviously, that was the approach taken by Samba (thus the workaround). What does this imply?
That too long time messing with MS products/protocols makes you treat all software as if it works like MS software (ie it makes you a bit soft in the head).
I didn't even notice. When I didn't get thedailywtf (which also seems affected), I just added .nyud.net and tried again - voila!
That'll work at least until cogent starts blocking every net that hosts someone who caches stuff, which in its turn can be served to teliasonera customers. But they can't be that silly, can they? [Touches wood]
So it's ok to just despise their shoddy software, that I'll never touch with a ten foot pole? Because why, oh why, would I have gotten all those phone calls begging for help with decent software, backed up by a good support that actually have technically inclined people answering the phone?
There sure is hatred, it's just not irrational.
Oh, and having my OS as a hobby does emphatically not preclude me from using it in a professional capacity - I'm a programmer.
Irrational? Hardly!
The fact that I use Linux more or less exclusively makes people a lot less likely to ask for support on MS/MacOS related problems. Maybe that makes me asocial, but so what? Before I gave up on MS, my time did not belong to me, whereas now it does. If the phone calls in the middle of the night, it won't be one of my brothers having trouble installing a new sound card anymore. It'll be something that does actually matter in the middle of the night!
So I use other software that does the stuff I need, and my OS is also my hobby, and I'm not in the unpaid computer support business anymore - what's irrational about that?
My kids are 6 and 8, and I swear that they react better to the names "No" and "Allowance" than they do to the names I gave them. I try to be consistent, and I've had to carry them out of the store on occasions - but they mostly behave decently.
;)
I dread the day they become teenagers though, mostly because my back is getting bad...
You start with a false presumption. I do not know what distro you use, and can't tell you if that does anything nifty - but "Linux" sure as hell does not do this already. If another app has already loaded as shared library, it may well be in RAM but it can just as well be swapped out. For all other cases, the answer is probably that your shared libraries are not cached or preloaded - and so this will give you quite a speed up.
The thing that eats all your RAM is nothing Linux specific at all, it is your applications asking for more RAM than they are currently going to use. Why should they do such a thing? Well, what do you think memory management would look like if hundreds of apps, daemons and kernel threads ask for two bytes at a time? It'd paint a pretty fragmented picture, so they ask for gobs of pages at a time. Pages seldom touched get swapped out, but still there's an awesome amount of overallocation - thus your memory seems to be 100% allocated 100% of the time.
So, preloading libs that are frequently used is probably going to use your RAM in a more meaningful way unless you already have a problem with constant swapping.
I would like to point out that since you don't know much about the Swedish system, you are not qualified to judge it.
Now, read very carefully: I do not claim the Swedish system is better, merely different - and also that the GGP obviously does not know how it works either. (In fact, there _are_ situations where we use the anglo-saxon jury system, primarily where freedom of speech is concerned.)
So, anyway - how would you determine which system is better? Crime rate? False positive convictions? Inherent racism in the system?
Or is it the fact that someone has a different system disturbs you?
If there is one thing about the anglo-saxon system that makes me very much afraid, it is not that it is possible to game the jury. It is that it is possible to game the jury, and the result will become the letter of the law.
Don't go overboard like that. GP is wrong. You are right about what it would be like if GP would have been right.
However, a problem with the American system is that you can game the jury. Anyone who doubts it need only watch a rerun of the OJ trials. I know they are not representative for American justice, but they do show that gaming the jury is a plausible strategy: Two trials, two outcomes - the man is both guilty and not guilty.
No, in fact we don't have such a system.
We have a system where we have a judge and a bench. Sitting on the bench are ordinary people. The difference is that they are not sitting on the bench for one trial or two, but for a lot of trials. They are appointed by the political parties (but usually not politicians themselves).
Our courts are modeled on the old "ting" (gathering - a > 1200 year old tradition), though it is many times removed from it. The big difference is that we do not have the system of common law (we did away with that som 800 years ago).
Since the police and attorney are involved (remember the raid on tpb back in 2006?) - I'd say it's a criminal investigation.
In Sweden, the legal system works differently. We do have a division between criminal and civil prosecution, but it's not the same (eg there are never two trials, one civil and one criminal, for the same thing - all the questions gets into the same trial). Also, we don't have the concept of common law, and the jury system is vastly different (jurors are appointed by the political parties - and sit on a lot of trials) - to the point where we don't call it a jury.
Thinking? You must be new here...
So we'll call it approx_maxshortint !
A while ago we read some stuff here on /. about column stores being the "new thing" (here). Some of the ideas seem reasonable, so my question is: Is this a simple case of using a different storage engine? Does MySQL already have one, or is one in the works? Or is this simply more neat than useful? (Oh, and is it a case of - "even if useful, not for the average user"?)
Seriously, in (geographically) larger projects, and most certainly in open APIs - it tends to be a good idea to define constants twice (eg GL_COLOR and GL_COLOUR in OpenGL). You never know what those pesky Europeans will come up with otherwise.
Ooops, I'm a European. Well, we learned Oxfordish in school when I was a kid, and I suspect they still do. In a year or two, I'll find out.
No, but in USish it is! ;)
I'm late to the party but, the other day my dentist asked me if it's too complicated with Linux - or if it's worth it. (I had been reading Linux Journal in the reception - since I found it in the local candy shop. All the other English language mags were gamers' stuff, this is in Sweden.)
Anyway, the reason he asked is that he can't bear XP any longer, and neither can his friends. To them, Mac is not an alternative - and so he asked if it was terribly complicated, or if I thought he could manage. He's reasonably intelligent (or I wouldn't let him dig around in my mouth), so I said go for it.
Vista's bad network performance isn't its problem to mainstream users. That it is Windows, and thus associated with viruses and malware is a way bigger problem. At least to my dentist.
Well, now that you mention it... ...I have been wondering for a while if it's feasible to get some computational power from the heat radiators. It's such a waste to just have them burn electricity to get heat. An invention like this would really put the cold north (and south too I suppose) on the computational power map. :)
Just imagine, a Beowulf cluster of heaters.
As seen in other comments, this isn't quite so extraordinary. If you can't build one too (given the $2500), you probably have to turn your geek badge in. So on to the interesting question - what are we gonna do with them once we build 'em?
...
I'm thinking along the lines of hosting my very own MMOG in the basement. Or maybe decyphering cell calls in real time. Or
Well?
Things are different in Europe. Here in Sweden there is a pretty heavy environmental tax on gas, so the price is roughly $1.60/litre. I only commute by car twice a week, and still I have gas costs of upwards to $200/month. With a new car for $15,000, and a battery lease for $150/month - I'd be lowering my costs significantly, while being able to commute every day (saving rougly 1,5 hours/day). I'd also avoid the congestion charges as a bonus.
All in all, this seems to be aimed at the European market.