It's impossible for Google to offer the services they offer without compromising your privacy.
Wrong. While the moment Google returns a search query for you, it must know what you're searching for, there's no requirement that it log that search query and associate it to you. However, Google does log everything and does store it indefinitely, also associating it all back to you, and that is the sound of your privacy being taken out back and shot repeatedly.
Get with the times. RHEL 5 (even 5.4) is dreadfully ancient. Trying to use it with anything that isn't already explicitly packaged for it is asking for pain.
Of shipped PCs, but the existing installed base of computers is likely well over a billion. Even if 100% of PCs (175 million by your estimation) shipped in 2009 had Linux preinstalled, overall Linux market share would probably still be perhaps 10-15% at most.
(On the downside, I'm peeved that Btrfs is GPL licensed, which will prevent it from becoming "the one true filesystem" from here on out. Windows users will be stuck with NTFS, Linux users will get Btrfs, Mac users will get whatever apple is secretly working on, and the BSD/Solaris camp will get to keep ZFS. None of them will be compatible, and FAT32 somehow remains the only viable option for removable media.)
You may as well stop holding your breath now. Microsoft will never support a general purpose filesystem that they didn't personally develop, and Microsoft will never develop a filesystem that doesn't have draconian licensing. There will never be "one true filesystem" until Microsoft is destroyed. Though it'll probably also be necessary for Apple to disappear as well.
And while we're at it, how about a link to the actual report? (warning: PDF)
Do people really still fear PDFs? I can't believe Acrobat Reader is still so utterly utterly broken out of the box when every single other PDF reader will open a PDF more or less instantaneously.
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Really, if you want to spend that kind of money, put it on a card. It would be much faster on the PCI buss that SATA for a negligible incremental cost.
If you buy that SSD and put it on a regular PCI bus, I will personally go over there and strangle you.
AMD may periodically provide Windows XP and Windows Vista driver updates (for the products listed above) for critical fixes only. No new features will be provided in future driver updates. The Linux ATI Catalyst driver will only be supported in Linux distributions prior to February 2009 for the legacy products listed above.
All future ATI Catalyst releases made available past the ATI Catalyst 9.3 release will not include support for the legacy products listed above or any of the features associated with those legacy products.
I think you're confusing ATI with Nvidia... Nvidia still supports all of their cards back to the TNT2 with their binary blob. There's no new features for older cards of course, but they'll actually work with modern Xorg and kernels.
The 8800GT is hardly a top end card, it's perhaps a mid-high card at most, generally it would be considered a mid range card. The 8800 GTX and then later the 8800 Ultra would be the top end cards in the 8 series.
The value of Google Search is strongly impacted by what it can index. If tomorrow everybody started unconditionally dropping packets from Googlebot, the utility of Google Search would instantly plummet.
While not being able to index any particular corporation's sites would be far from a death blow to Google, Google depends on content producers just as much as content produces depend on Google.
Of course. In reality, Google probably knows everything about you already. Most people don't seem to mind, but it's still taboo for some reason for Google to come out and say it.
If tomorrow Intel released a CPU that's 30% faster than today's fastest while still using the same amount of power and not costing any extra $, it'd be pretty big news, don't you agree? Well, this is basically the same thing, except it's free and you don't need to replace hardware to get the speedup. Like it or not, most people routinely use Javascript heavy pages on a daily basis (most any webmail interface, Facebook, even Slashdot), what's wrong with speeding that up? Or maybe you don't like Javascript because you're only vaguely familiar with it? (a surprisingly common affliction)
Ignoring the high cost and low amount of space what about write endurance? Wear leveling? Asymmetric I/O speeds? Poor I/O performance? Everybody talks about the super fast read speeds while ignoring the fact that write speeds are never the same, tend to be far lower, and are not consistent.
I'm sorry, but your comments make no sense with regards to SLC SSDs. Their random read/write speeds are more than an order of magnitude faster than even 15k RPM spinning rust. Not to mention their sequential read/write speeds, which are typically 2-3x faster.
MLC SSDs are what you're referring to, and they're junk, no question about it. But please, read up on SLC vs MLC before speaking up again.
Please don't ever use the Wine as an example of Linux being compatible with Windows software. Because a huge majority of programs simply don't work with it, and those that do have had special coding done in Wine to make them work, and even then they are as buggy as hell.
No, Wine has a strict policy of not letting app-specific hacks into the mainline tree, if that wasn't the case things would be a mess and nothing would run. Certainly not everything works 100%, but there are many apps that run very well. For example, I played Diablo 2 on and off for several years through Wine, and having originally played it on 'doze, I can tell you it plays identically through Wine.
Also, Wine has made an enormous amount of progress in the last 4 years. It helped a lot that the Win32 API pretty much stopped dead between XP and Vista, as it gave the Wine team a huge amount of time to catch up instead of having to chase a moving target. The huge Vista backlash also helps quite a bit, Wine has only really started on D3D10 support this year or late last year, but the fact that really nothing uses D3D10 (because it doesn't work on XP) makes the lack of support largely irrelevant. There's really no point in comparing Wine 4 years ago to Wine today, so much so that it's probably not unreasonable to say that more has changed in Wine's last 4 years than the previous 12 years before that.
I download my Nvidia drivers from the Archlinux package repository. How many Linux users manually download them from Nvidia? The 0.5 percentage could be a big understatement...
According to an earlier Phoronix survey, only about 20% of users download the drivers directly from the vendor's website (across all vendors, not just Nvidia). All else being equal that'd suggest it's reasonable to say the overall Linux marketshare is ~2.5%, which seems low, but there's probably other factors at work (Windows users may download drivers more frequently, thus counting more hits, etc). The 20% number may also be higher or lower, especially if you consider that many people complain about the Nvidia drivers installer, whereas fewer complain about the ATI driver installer.
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Wrong. While the moment Google returns a search query for you, it must know what you're searching for, there's no requirement that it log that search query and associate it to you. However, Google does log everything and does store it indefinitely, also associating it all back to you, and that is the sound of your privacy being taken out back and shot repeatedly.
Get with the times. RHEL 5 (even 5.4) is dreadfully ancient. Trying to use it with anything that isn't already explicitly packaged for it is asking for pain.
Of shipped PCs, but the existing installed base of computers is likely well over a billion. Even if 100% of PCs (175 million by your estimation) shipped in 2009 had Linux preinstalled, overall Linux market share would probably still be perhaps 10-15% at most.
None. But it doesn't matter, because it comes preinstalled anyways.
You may as well stop holding your breath now. Microsoft will never support a general purpose filesystem that they didn't personally develop, and Microsoft will never develop a filesystem that doesn't have draconian licensing. There will never be "one true filesystem" until Microsoft is destroyed. Though it'll probably also be necessary for Apple to disappear as well.
And while we're at it, how about a link to the actual report? (warning: PDF)
Do people really still fear PDFs? I can't believe Acrobat Reader is still so utterly utterly broken out of the box when every single other PDF reader will open a PDF more or less instantaneously.
Her? This is Slashdot you know.
Really, if you want to spend that kind of money, put it on a card. It would be much faster on the PCI buss that SATA for a negligible incremental cost.
If you buy that SSD and put it on a regular PCI bus, I will personally go over there and strangle you.
PCIe would be fine.
Either you're mistaken or ATI's driver download page is broken. They still list 9.3 as the latest driver for anything before the 2000 series.
See: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.7&lang=English
I think you're confusing ATI with Nvidia... Nvidia still supports all of their cards back to the TNT2 with their binary blob. There's no new features for older cards of course, but they'll actually work with modern Xorg and kernels.
The 8800GT is hardly a top end card, it's perhaps a mid-high card at most, generally it would be considered a mid range card. The 8800 GTX and then later the 8800 Ultra would be the top end cards in the 8 series.
Well, yes. But I'd say the same of 1680x1050...
The value of Google Search is strongly impacted by what it can index. If tomorrow everybody started unconditionally dropping packets from Googlebot, the utility of Google Search would instantly plummet.
While not being able to index any particular corporation's sites would be far from a death blow to Google, Google depends on content producers just as much as content produces depend on Google.
You really don't need SPI to block based on source address.
Casual online games don't need Flash. Just look at Game! for example.
Of course. In reality, Google probably knows everything about you already. Most people don't seem to mind, but it's still taboo for some reason for Google to come out and say it.
If tomorrow Intel released a CPU that's 30% faster than today's fastest while still using the same amount of power and not costing any extra $, it'd be pretty big news, don't you agree? Well, this is basically the same thing, except it's free and you don't need to replace hardware to get the speedup. Like it or not, most people routinely use Javascript heavy pages on a daily basis (most any webmail interface, Facebook, even Slashdot), what's wrong with speeding that up? Or maybe you don't like Javascript because you're only vaguely familiar with it? (a surprisingly common affliction)
Since ever? X.org for example has been around quite awhile.
While Windows 7 is stable, how you can say it's more stable than XP?
I haven't seen XP crash in years.
I have never seen Windows 7 crash. That sounds more stable than "haven't seen XP crash in years" to me. :p
I've also never seen Windows 7 crash. However, I've also never seen Windows 7.
What?
Ignoring the high cost and low amount of space what about write endurance? Wear leveling? Asymmetric I/O speeds? Poor I/O performance? Everybody talks about the super fast read speeds while ignoring the fact that write speeds are never the same, tend to be far lower, and are not consistent.
I'm sorry, but your comments make no sense with regards to SLC SSDs. Their random read/write speeds are more than an order of magnitude faster than even 15k RPM spinning rust. Not to mention their sequential read/write speeds, which are typically 2-3x faster.
MLC SSDs are what you're referring to, and they're junk, no question about it. But please, read up on SLC vs MLC before speaking up again.
Please don't ever use the Wine as an example of Linux being compatible with Windows software. Because a huge majority of programs simply don't work with it, and those that do have had special coding done in Wine to make them work, and even then they are as buggy as hell.
No, Wine has a strict policy of not letting app-specific hacks into the mainline tree, if that wasn't the case things would be a mess and nothing would run. Certainly not everything works 100%, but there are many apps that run very well. For example, I played Diablo 2 on and off for several years through Wine, and having originally played it on 'doze, I can tell you it plays identically through Wine.
Also, Wine has made an enormous amount of progress in the last 4 years. It helped a lot that the Win32 API pretty much stopped dead between XP and Vista, as it gave the Wine team a huge amount of time to catch up instead of having to chase a moving target. The huge Vista backlash also helps quite a bit, Wine has only really started on D3D10 support this year or late last year, but the fact that really nothing uses D3D10 (because it doesn't work on XP) makes the lack of support largely irrelevant. There's really no point in comparing Wine 4 years ago to Wine today, so much so that it's probably not unreasonable to say that more has changed in Wine's last 4 years than the previous 12 years before that.
Their main site seems to be broken right now, but there's the OGP:
They won't be cheap or fast (and they're not out yet), but they're completely open, including the hardware design.
I just checked the nvidia site for the first time for linux drivers.
Operating System: Windows Server 2003 64-bit, Windows XP 64-bit File Size: 123 MB
Operating System: Linux 64-bit File Size: 21.2 MB ...What?
Clearly Linux is 6x more efficient than Windows.
I download my Nvidia drivers from the Archlinux package repository. How many Linux users manually download them from Nvidia? The 0.5 percentage could be a big understatement...
According to an earlier Phoronix survey, only about 20% of users download the drivers directly from the vendor's website (across all vendors, not just Nvidia). All else being equal that'd suggest it's reasonable to say the overall Linux marketshare is ~2.5%, which seems low, but there's probably other factors at work (Windows users may download drivers more frequently, thus counting more hits, etc). The 20% number may also be higher or lower, especially if you consider that many people complain about the Nvidia drivers installer, whereas fewer complain about the ATI driver installer.
Just for the sake of curiosity, how was it implemented on the iphone?
I don't know. Is it at all? I don't have (or want) an iPhone.
Oh, I agree completely. Flash is stupid and I don't install it. That's the main reason I know the above tidbit.