"Well then, we have the Mac Pro to laugh at you with a fully custom design,"
No, they essentially took the Bysen LED vertical LED unit's design and slapped motherboards instead of LED panels on the central heatsink, and slapped a different cover on it. They did nothing new at fucking all in that area.
Everything else is commodity Foxconn-produced stuff.
"many custom components"
All of which are available from Foxconn, because Apple didn't design it, Foxconn did.
"very high end memory chips"
Yea if you waste the money for "Apple Certified" 1866MHz ECC DDR3, which is usually the same Hynix crap just on a better board.
"buses, IO ports and so on."
That everybody else has as well, for the most part, under varying licensed names, because Apple made NONE of that.
"Ten of them would spank the heck out of a Core i7 and cost the same."
Yea, if it were even a general-purpose usable piece of silicon. It's not.
"16 or 64 cores is good for facial recognition, audio processing, video processing, some network stuff "
We've had all of that in software since fucking Windows 98 on an Evergreen overdrive (180 MHz) chip. Please catch up with current technology or stop shilling, what you speak of is absolutely not new, and not even novel.
"A database designed for the many cores could work well."
As we've had for the past 30+ years I've been alive?
"For example, say you need to sort a table with 100,000 rows. On a system like this with 64 cores, each core could simultaneously sort a group of 1,500 rows,"
*cackle* Most cores today can't even sort FIVE HUNDRED rows, let alone triple that amount.
Until you want to be able to handle the bandwidth of a huge parallel processing unit.
And a typical FPGA will struggle with more than 8 TRUE cores currently. We've tested it. It would not work for our requirements, it was insufficient in bandwidth department.
"One more metadata tag in some disk drive in Utah."
PROTIP: Utah isn't going to exist much longer thanks to the NSA. There's already talk across usenet and various forums of a full-out armed assault on the state to crush the lie that is the Mormon religion, and anything that upholds it, right down to the NSA funding.
If you live there, GTFO now before a bunch of talking heads with guns takes it out and anyone that thinks of agreeing with it.
"and they all seem to vary from distro to distro."
That's not WINE's fault, obviously. That's a failing on the user to understand that if they provided the needed libraries, WINE quite often worked properly.
"nd why would i muddle around with copying DLLs when it's works just fine with cedega?"
Cedega could never get Camfrog to run. WINE had no issues once given the DLL files it needed. Camfrog is one of the most BASIC uses of DirectX out there, with MILLIONS of users.
If they couldn't get something that simple right, then time to do it myself.
Guess what? With the new hardware being just commodity hardware, it will support it, and it's quite likely that it will be used for any non-microsoft console (it in fact already is.)
"IANAL, it's just common sense when you hand something over to someone else your privacy goes down the drain."
Actually, no, and there are very likely cases to reflect this in case law throughout nearly every state that holds seat to the circuit court that governs a group of states.
And that's why you're not a lawyer. Meanwhile, I've taken on EA and won, THC and won, and now I'm going after Papa John's, and I'll win on the sheer amount of the evidence I have. I've had DAs twice (after one court visit) ask me to work as expert testimony and the PD that I naively let handle my case afterwards tell me 'You should've just represented yourself. I know you'd have figured out a way through this." (And I have, too, turns out the supposed threat I sent wasn't possibly sent by me, it just took me forever to think about looking at the headers, which were forged, and the police and courts now know about."
I've got enough basic experience with the law on contracts, criminal acts, civil torts, personal injury, and done enough research that I might as well go ahead and take the CA Bar Exam.
"The problem with his plan is how is he going to fit himself in the car to drive it somewhere with any dangerous amount of explosives?"
Don't know much about the energy density of gasoline, do you? Let alone cars and how they're built. Two gallons in the tank, the rest of the tank filed with explosives, plus inside the frame, plus behind all panels.
Do you guys ever bother to try to think with your limited brains, or do you just assume "Nope! Not happening!" and cover your ears going "Lalalala I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" to cover your ignorance?
Joke's on you - I don't support Hollywood and haven't except for the Alien franchise in my 31 years of life, and I also do not watch TV (My TV is just a 32" HD monitor for my computer.) My grandfather, a WWII/Korea/Vietnam vet taught me. Oh, and I paid attention in chemistry class. Any smart high schooler familiar with powerful exothermic reactions could probably make something similarly powerful. Well, any that were around during my years in high school, because the education is now dumbed down so much as to be useless.
"The same way I know you know jack shit about the real world, Mr. Military Demolitions Expert?"
No, not me, my Lt. Col USMC Grandfather, who did demolitions.
And he taught me very well.
"They used shitty crude fertilizer+diesel bombs because the average Joe can get fertilizer and diesel (and even then, if you don't run a local farm, good luck getting more than a few pounds of ammonium nitrate)."
No, they used it because it was less complex. If there were simpler bombs that could have the explosive potential, that would've been used instead. Oh, and the ammonium nitrate comment? Didn't matter back then during Oklahoma, as the law restricting that didn't exist.
"No doubt you could! And how, do you suppose, you would obtain that much C4 without raising every red flag in the intelligence community?"
Pretty easily. It's called the black market. Nice big one here in SoCal, you can find RPGs and LAW rocket launchers with ammunition right down to military-grade explosives. Can't find a black market dealer? Just ask a gang member and show that you're 'down' (because if you're really going to blow shit up killing a couple of random people on the street to get your goods ain't going to stop you.)
Excuse me, WINE has a compatibility database. It's far bigger than Cedega ever imagined.
Also, you could rip the.DLLs you needed and WINE would work with them, which allowed just about every program to run under WINE, as long as you knew what.DLLs and such to load.
And that shows what you know about OpenGL - nothing. The point of OpenGL is that if your hardware doesn't have the feature, as long as it's got the power, you can do the feature anyways.
That's why OGL has been ahead of D3D for ages, and still technically is. Ditto OGLES.
Never had that happen, and also, if you're holding a page or more of reserve weapons, you are doing it wrong, or you suck and need that much weaponry because you don't know how to utilize your character skillset. I might hold two pages of loot and shields, but never weapons.
Given the similarity of mass between the moon and Mars, probably 1/6th pressure, assuming there was an atmosphere in the first place to keep it all there, which, as we see........
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"Well then, we have the Mac Pro to laugh at you with a fully custom design,"
No, they essentially took the Bysen LED vertical LED unit's design and slapped motherboards instead of LED panels on the central heatsink, and slapped a different cover on it. They did nothing new at fucking all in that area.
Everything else is commodity Foxconn-produced stuff.
"many custom components"
All of which are available from Foxconn, because Apple didn't design it, Foxconn did.
"very high end memory chips"
Yea if you waste the money for "Apple Certified" 1866MHz ECC DDR3, which is usually the same Hynix crap just on a better board.
"buses, IO ports and so on."
That everybody else has as well, for the most part, under varying licensed names, because Apple made NONE of that.
No, it's clear in basic English as well as legalese.
Not wishing to pursue an agreement means that anything else in place is null and void, otherwise there would be an agreement to pursue.
"The client has advised that we do not want to pursue an agreement with MusicNet at this time"
You must not spend much time doing contracts - that's a clear termination notice.
That automatically nullifies any and all contractual agreements made prior, and puts an end to auto-renewal.
Who's the dense one, here?
"Ten of them would spank the heck out of a Core i7 and cost the same."
Yea, if it were even a general-purpose usable piece of silicon. It's not.
"16 or 64 cores is good for facial recognition, audio processing, video processing, some network stuff "
We've had all of that in software since fucking Windows 98 on an Evergreen overdrive (180 MHz) chip. Please catch up with current technology or stop shilling, what you speak of is absolutely not new, and not even novel.
"A database designed for the many cores could work well."
As we've had for the past 30+ years I've been alive?
"For example, say you need to sort a table with 100,000 rows. On a system like this with 64 cores,
each core could simultaneously sort a group of 1,500 rows,"
*cackle* Most cores today can't even sort FIVE HUNDRED rows, let alone triple that amount.
Quit shilling and get with reality, please.
"you never need to change the FPGA at all."
Until you want to be able to handle the bandwidth of a huge parallel processing unit.
And a typical FPGA will struggle with more than 8 TRUE cores currently. We've tested it. It would not work for our requirements, it was insufficient in bandwidth department.
"By your standards, 100% of the electronics, computer and software industry is organized crime."
Haven't been paying attention to the Panasonic case, I see.
Every one of these companies is colluding and conspiring. This time, one got caught.
Welcome to reality, child.
"This is what hadoop is for."
Ell Oh Ell Oh Ell Oh Ell
"One more metadata tag in some disk drive in Utah."
PROTIP: Utah isn't going to exist much longer thanks to the NSA. There's already talk across usenet and various forums of a full-out armed assault on the state to crush the lie that is the Mormon religion, and anything that upholds it, right down to the NSA funding.
If you live there, GTFO now before a bunch of talking heads with guns takes it out and anyone that thinks of agreeing with it.
" If only we could get some informed opinion on Slashdot"
Your chosen champion is full of shit so trying to raise them higher than your supposed standards is a stupid move, pleb.
Only 100 websites in 1993, my motherfucking ass.
"At the time he started development, there were under 100 total websites on the entire planet."
Yea, uhhh, the wayback machine says you're full of shit, buddy.
And if you knew what you were talking about, you'd have already used the wayback machine as a source for your info.
PROTIP: 1993 saw well more than 100 websites, you lying shill.
"n the case of IE the alternative proposal was to require users to click on a dialog box for every ActiveX control that appeared on a page."
That should have been the default fucking behavior in the first place.
"Star Control II was the best game ever."
Not even close. Try Brutal Doom sometime. Doom 3 should have been this, and you'd have been shitting your pants the entire way through.
I've had over ten years of watching you and I know exactly where you're fucking up.
You switched horses in the middle of a race (Home-based vs portable)
You should have established dominance in the PC market, then used that to make a PC-based tablet.
But you didn't wait for said dominance, and now you're floundering.
I told you six years ago. Should I release those e-mails to embarrass you further?
I'm waiting, Dell.
"and they all seem to vary from distro to distro."
That's not WINE's fault, obviously. That's a failing on the user to understand that if they provided the needed libraries, WINE quite often worked properly.
"nd why would i muddle around with copying DLLs when it's works just fine with cedega?"
Cedega could never get Camfrog to run. WINE had no issues once given the DLL files it needed. Camfrog is one of the most BASIC uses of DirectX out there, with MILLIONS of users.
If they couldn't get something that simple right, then time to do it myself.
Guess what? With the new hardware being just commodity hardware, it will support it, and it's quite likely that it will be used for any non-microsoft console (it in fact already is.)
"IANAL, it's just common sense when you hand something over to someone else your privacy goes down the drain."
Actually, no, and there are very likely cases to reflect this in case law throughout nearly every state that holds seat to the circuit court that governs a group of states.
And that's why you're not a lawyer. Meanwhile, I've taken on EA and won, THC and won, and now I'm going after Papa John's, and I'll win on the sheer amount of the evidence I have. I've had DAs twice (after one court visit) ask me to work as expert testimony and the PD that I naively let handle my case afterwards tell me 'You should've just represented yourself. I know you'd have figured out a way through this." (And I have, too, turns out the supposed threat I sent wasn't possibly sent by me, it just took me forever to think about looking at the headers, which were forged, and the police and courts now know about."
I've got enough basic experience with the law on contracts, criminal acts, civil torts, personal injury, and done enough research that I might as well go ahead and take the CA Bar Exam.
"The problem with his plan is how is he going to fit himself in the car to drive it somewhere with any dangerous amount of explosives?"
Don't know much about the energy density of gasoline, do you? Let alone cars and how they're built. Two gallons in the tank, the rest of the tank filed with explosives, plus inside the frame, plus behind all panels.
Do you guys ever bother to try to think with your limited brains, or do you just assume "Nope! Not happening!" and cover your ears going "Lalalala I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" to cover your ignorance?
Joke's on you - I don't support Hollywood and haven't except for the Alien franchise in my 31 years of life, and I also do not watch TV (My TV is just a 32" HD monitor for my computer.) My grandfather, a WWII/Korea/Vietnam vet taught me. Oh, and I paid attention in chemistry class. Any smart high schooler familiar with powerful exothermic reactions could probably make something similarly powerful. Well, any that were around during my years in high school, because the education is now dumbed down so much as to be useless.
"The same way I know you know jack shit about the real world, Mr. Military Demolitions Expert?"
No, not me, my Lt. Col USMC Grandfather, who did demolitions.
And he taught me very well.
"They used shitty crude fertilizer+diesel bombs because the average Joe can get fertilizer and diesel (and even then, if you don't run a local farm, good luck getting more than a few pounds of ammonium nitrate)."
No, they used it because it was less complex. If there were simpler bombs that could have the explosive potential, that would've been used instead.
Oh, and the ammonium nitrate comment? Didn't matter back then during Oklahoma, as the law restricting that didn't exist.
"No doubt you could! And how, do you suppose, you would obtain that much C4 without raising every red flag in the intelligence community?"
Pretty easily. It's called the black market. Nice big one here in SoCal, you can find RPGs and LAW rocket launchers with ammunition right down to military-grade explosives. Can't find a black market dealer? Just ask a gang member and show that you're 'down' (because if you're really going to blow shit up killing a couple of random people on the street to get your goods ain't going to stop you.)
"Successful attacks against structures have, without exception, used unmarked vans and dark-tinted SUVs for a reason."
Want to know how I know you know jack shit about explosives?
They used vans and SUVs because of the shit crudeness of their fertilizer+diesel bombs.
I could take a Smart car packed with C-4 just inside of the frame/body and do way more damage.
Excuse me, WINE has a compatibility database. It's far bigger than Cedega ever imagined.
Also, you could rip the .DLLs you needed and WINE would work with them, which allowed just about every program to run under WINE, as long as you knew what .DLLs and such to load.
And that shows what you know about OpenGL - nothing. The point of OpenGL is that if your hardware doesn't have the feature, as long as it's got the power, you can do the feature anyways.
That's why OGL has been ahead of D3D for ages, and still technically is. Ditto OGLES.
Never had that happen, and also, if you're holding a page or more of reserve weapons, you are doing it wrong, or you suck and need that much weaponry because you don't know how to utilize your character skillset. I might hold two pages of loot and shields, but never weapons.
"It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles."
Hate to rag on someone's sig but there are worse places than LA that I've lived in...
If I had lived on Mars, I'd likely say something far worse towards it than anything LA could throw at me.
Given the similarity of mass between the moon and Mars, probably 1/6th pressure, assuming there was an atmosphere in the first place to keep it all there, which, as we see........