"So unless each of the 40 data cables are [i]individually raped in a foil or copper AND grounded AT BOTH ENDS[/i] your cables are not sheilded AND you've been ripped off."
Whoa, dude! Isn't there lika a law against rape or something? I don't think people are going to commit a crime just to reduce case clutter.
The database caps of the free version are high enogh for the product to be usefull for web applications and smaller projects, a market that is completely dominated by free alternatives such as Postgres and MySQL. Almost everyone who shelves out $$$ for a database server run much larger systems.
I bet they are hoping that by giving away the product for free to people who would never buy it anyway, they get droves of people who are experienced at running their system who will eventually buy it for larger projects 'cause that's the system they know how to use.
Kind of like how SUN sells computers to universitys dirt cheap.
The sad thing is this proves once again that closed source companies retain an edge at innovating.
I disagree. Dtrace is the next logical step in performance monitoring. It is ahead of previous tools like gprof, gcov, Vampir, etc, and as such it represents real inovation. But is is not a revolution.
I can think of dozens of Open Source programs which have also taken the next logical step in some field, and are in my opinion just as innovative. These programs include Screen, Valgrind, Beagle and BitTorrent.
Longhorn seems to contain a lot of innovative technology. It remains to be seen if Longhorn will ship in a form even remotely simmilar to what is promised, or if most of the features die on the way.
Regardless, a lot of people are already trying to create Open source solutions to the same problems solved by Longhorn. The Mozilla foundation is trying to create a new rich format for the next generation Web interface, ReiserFS aims to support database like querying in the filesystem, the freedesktop X-server promises a sane, modern windowing environment, etc, etc.
Some might say that these people are copying Microsoft inventions, but I disagree. I would say that these people are innovating, most of those ideas are rather obvious and have been around for decades, the trick is to implement them and integrate them into the rest of the system.
Moore's law states that the transistor count per dollar on standard sized chips increase exponentially. Seeing as how the cost is factored in to Moores law, your statement doesn't make a lot of sense...
RTFA. The chip uses ~110W, not much more than the 5950. nVidia recommand a 480W supply, probably for two reasons.
Firstly, they want to have two power connectors from separate lines. Most "smaller" power supplys only have thre power supply lines, meaning only one is left for the rest of your computer. This is probably not enough for the average gamer fanatic.
Secondly, they want really stable 12V power. It's not about the number of Watts, it's about how stable the voltage is under load.
150 watts a day you say? Let's see, one Watt is one Joule per second, so 150 watts a day is about 1/1000 J/(s^2). I suppose the energy consumption would start at zero when plugging the device in. That would mean that after a month it would consume about 4500 Watts, and after a year a refrigerator would consume almost 55000 Watts! That would amount to several thousand dollars per month on your powerbill, just from your refrigerator. And it would just keep on increasing. You should move to Sweden. Our refrigerators use about 150 Watts. Much cheaper in the long run.;)
Thats pretty sparse. Even if we accept that only up and down quarks are stable enough for long term data storage, we still have a lot of possible combinations given that we can change the color configuration and number of quarks. For simplicitys sake we should probably limit ourselves to two and thee quark particles, but se still have at least a hundred configurations for each particle.
I dont want to sound like a jackass, but I really dont understand if this is supposed to be an Aprils fool joke or not.
A guy tells us he lost his laptop, cellphone and car and asks if the slashdot community has seen any of them. But he desn't leave any contact information. And he doesnt tell us the model of the laptop, the phone OR of the car. What does he expect, that everyone on slashdot update their firewall rules to log the IP and MAC adress of every computer that connects to us, and try to locate his computer for him? And it's filed under "Your rights online". What does this have to do with DeCSS?
But if this is a joke, I really dont get it. It's just not funny.
French doesn't count, since only frenchmen and canadians speak french. But 17 April 2004 makes sense in swedish, and that counts. Just see how many of the Gnome releases had release names in swedish! (Grym liten hattgubbe, etc)
A assume you use a RPM-based distribution because you've run in to dependencies problems (a.k.a. RPM hell). This was a major problem with RedHat, Mandrake et. al until recently. If that is the case, try installing yum or apt. These programs will correctly resolve dependencies of packages you want to install and install everything you need.
You simply need to type something like 'yum install gnome' and yum will do all the hard work for you. As an added bonus, yum can also make sure your system is up to date. Typing 'yum update' will update all packages where a newer version is available.
Check out MkLinux. It is a Linux distribution that runs Linux as a layer on top of a Mach microkernel. Prett cool to do a 'top' and see linux as one of the running processes...
Both MySQL and Postgres use the SQL language. Rewriting an application to use one instead of the other in a well-designed application simply means changing the database driver. So if you've rewritten applications from scratch because they use MySQL, you've been wasting a LOT of time.
Since the license of several open source scripting languages are not GPL-compatible, MySQL grants these projects additional rights above those already provided through the GPL.
So these 'atrocious license changes' are like the TV-sales people who when you order you new set of stake knives insist on also giving you a juicer and a can opener for free.
"When a program is linked with a library, whether statically or using a shared library, the combination of the two is legally speaking a combined work, a derivative of the original library. The ordinary General Public License therefore permits such linking only if the entire combination fits its criteria of freedom."
Ok, given the tone, the grammar and the use of words you don't understand in your post, you are probably a troll, but I've seen a lot of non-idiots make the same claim so I'll reply:
Basically, you're wrong.
This is a quote from the LGPL:
When a program is linked with a library, whether statically or using a shared library, the combination of the two is legally speaking a combined work, a derivative of the original library. The ordinary General Public License therefore permits such linking only if the entire combination fits its criteria of freedom.
In other words, if you compile a GPL:ed program on a proprietary operating system, all the operating systems base libraries must be GPLed or you may not distribute it. So you can't distribute the GPLed MySQL with Solaris or Windows without GPLing the entire system. That is why we also have the LGPL.
The GPL does not permit you to distribute GPL:ed code together with a prorietary product. If you want to do this, you obviously cannot use the GPL:ed version of MySQL, so this is not a restriction as much as a clarification.
If you do want to distribute MySQL with your OS, you can simply buy a copy of MySQL under a different license, which obviously MySQL AB can provide since they are the copyright holders of the code and can relicense it as they see fit.
Check those errors a little more carefully. There are a whole bunch of errors about URIs of the type 'http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2336&alloc_id=5672&sit e_id=1&request'. I'm too lazy to check if this is actually a valid to skip the pagename on an URI with a query, but I belive it is. But no matter what, each such URI generates about a dozen errors, which is bogus. Most of the other errors have to do with rendering hints like 'marginwidth' and 'bgcolor', which where not a part of the HTML 3.2 standard but are noncritical.
Pascal forces you to declare your variables at the beginning of the function. C forces you to declare variables at the beginning of a block. So the original poster is correct.
Your statement is not completely correct. There is nothing "fake" about a cluster based supercomputer. In fact, all sufficiently large supercomputers are cluster based. Many of them use special purpose, low latency NICS and switches, and proprietary communication protocols, but the underlying principle of a Beowulf cluster is the same as that of the Earth simulator.
Right... Did you look at the specs? Cobalt can handle a maximum of 256 MB of RAM. Also, it's a complete rewrite, meaning that it is a first generation product. Expect loads of bugs and crashes. While I hope Cobalt will be a good OS for handhelds, I don't see it taking over the desktop just yet.
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Guess they figured out that it is easier to track down lies in websites than in complex legal documents, speeches and interviews.
This way they can continue to make snide remarks about groklaw beeing owned by IBM without backing their claims.
"So unless each of the 40 data cables are [i]individually raped in a foil or copper AND grounded AT BOTH ENDS[/i] your cables are not sheilded AND you've been ripped off."
Whoa, dude! Isn't there lika a law against rape or something? I don't think people are going to commit a crime just to reduce case clutter.
Or wait, are you talking about mustard?
Two wrongs make a right. If you read the article, you will find that the rocket is safe, but for completely different reasons than those you stated.
So two platforms make it the cross-platform option, then? Mpeg4 is more cross-platform IMO, since there are open source, portable solutions like Xvid.
The database caps of the free version are high enogh for the product to be usefull for web applications and smaller projects, a market that is completely dominated by free alternatives such as Postgres and MySQL. Almost everyone who shelves out $$$ for a database server run much larger systems.
I bet they are hoping that by giving away the product for free to people who would never buy it anyway, they get droves of people who are experienced at running their system who will eventually buy it for larger projects 'cause that's the system they know how to use.
Kind of like how SUN sells computers to universitys dirt cheap.
The sad thing is this proves once again that closed source companies retain an edge at innovating.
I disagree. Dtrace is the next logical step in performance monitoring. It is ahead of previous tools like gprof, gcov, Vampir, etc, and as such it represents real inovation. But is is not a revolution.
I can think of dozens of Open Source programs which have also taken the next logical step in some field, and are in my opinion just as innovative. These programs include Screen, Valgrind, Beagle and BitTorrent.
Longhorn seems to contain a lot of innovative technology. It remains to be seen if Longhorn will ship in a form even remotely simmilar to what is promised, or if most of the features die on the way.
Regardless, a lot of people are already trying to create Open source solutions to the same problems solved by Longhorn. The Mozilla foundation is trying to create a new rich format for the next generation Web interface, ReiserFS aims to support database like querying in the filesystem, the freedesktop X-server promises a sane, modern windowing environment, etc, etc.
Some might say that these people are copying Microsoft inventions, but I disagree. I would say that these people are innovating, most of those ideas are rather obvious and have been around for decades, the trick is to implement them and integrate them into the rest of the system.
Moore's law states that the transistor count per dollar on standard sized chips increase exponentially. Seeing as how the cost is factored in to Moores law, your statement doesn't make a lot of sense...
Last time I used it Glut only gave you keypress events. For a game you want keydown and keyup events. Glut would be completely worthless for games.
RTFA. The chip uses ~110W, not much more than the 5950. nVidia recommand a 480W supply, probably for two reasons.
Firstly, they want to have two power connectors from separate lines. Most "smaller" power supplys only have thre power supply lines, meaning only one is left for the rest of your computer. This is probably not enough for the average gamer fanatic.
Secondly, they want really stable 12V power. It's not about the number of Watts, it's about how stable the voltage is under load.
150 watts a day you say? Let's see, one Watt is one Joule per second, so 150 watts a day is about 1/1000 J/(s^2). I suppose the energy consumption would start at zero when plugging the device in. That would mean that after a month it would consume about 4500 Watts, and after a year a refrigerator would consume almost 55000 Watts! That would amount to several thousand dollars per month on your powerbill, just from your refrigerator. And it would just keep on increasing. You should move to Sweden. Our refrigerators use about 150 Watts. Much cheaper in the long run. ;)
Thats pretty sparse. Even if we accept that only up and down quarks are stable enough for long term data storage, we still have a lot of possible combinations given that we can change the color configuration and number of quarks. For simplicitys sake we should probably limit ourselves to two and thee quark particles, but se still have at least a hundred configurations for each particle.
I dont want to sound like a jackass, but I really dont understand if this is supposed to be an Aprils fool joke or not.
A guy tells us he lost his laptop, cellphone and car and asks if the slashdot community has seen any of them. But he desn't leave any contact information. And he doesnt tell us the model of the laptop, the phone OR of the car. What does he expect, that everyone on slashdot update their firewall rules to log the IP and MAC adress of every computer that connects to us, and try to locate his computer for him? And it's filed under "Your rights online". What does this have to do with DeCSS?
But if this is a joke, I really dont get it. It's just not funny.
French doesn't count, since only frenchmen and canadians speak french. But 17 April 2004 makes sense in swedish, and that counts. Just see how many of the Gnome releases had release names in swedish! (Grym liten hattgubbe, etc)
A assume you use a RPM-based distribution because you've run in to dependencies problems (a.k.a. RPM hell). This was a major problem with RedHat, Mandrake et. al until recently. If that is the case, try installing yum or apt. These programs will correctly resolve dependencies of packages you want to install and install everything you need.
You simply need to type something like 'yum install gnome' and yum will do all the hard work for you. As an added bonus, yum can also make sure your system is up to date. Typing 'yum update' will update all packages where a newer version is available.
Check out MkLinux. It is a Linux distribution that runs Linux as a layer on top of a Mach microkernel. Prett cool to do a 'top' and see linux as one of the running processes...
Both MySQL and Postgres use the SQL language. Rewriting an application to use one instead of the other in a well-designed application simply means changing the database driver. So if you've rewritten applications from scratch because they use MySQL, you've been wasting a LOT of time.
Because MySQL is GPLed?
Since the license of several open source scripting languages are not GPL-compatible, MySQL grants these projects additional rights above those already provided through the GPL.
So these 'atrocious license changes' are like the TV-sales people who when you order you new set of stake knives insist on also giving you a juicer and a can opener for free.
Already explained this in this post.
The LGPL states that:
"When a program is linked with a library, whether statically or using a shared library, the combination of the two is legally speaking a combined work, a derivative of the original library. The ordinary General Public License therefore permits such linking only if the entire combination fits its criteria of freedom."
Which is pretty much what I said...
Ok, given the tone, the grammar and the use of words you don't understand in your post, you are probably a troll, but I've seen a lot of non-idiots make the same claim so I'll reply:
Basically, you're wrong.
This is a quote from the LGPL:
When a program is linked with a library, whether statically or using a shared library, the combination of the two is legally speaking a combined work, a derivative of the original library. The ordinary General Public License therefore permits such linking only if the entire combination fits its criteria of freedom.
In other words, if you compile a GPL:ed program on a proprietary operating system, all the operating systems base libraries must be GPLed or you may not distribute it. So you can't distribute the GPLed MySQL with Solaris or Windows without GPLing the entire system. That is why we also have the LGPL.
The GPL does not permit you to distribute GPL:ed code together with a prorietary product. If you want to do this, you obviously cannot use the GPL:ed version of MySQL, so this is not a restriction as much as a clarification.
If you do want to distribute MySQL with your OS, you can simply buy a copy of MySQL under a different license, which obviously MySQL AB can provide since they are the copyright holders of the code and can relicense it as they see fit.
Check those errors a little more carefully. There are a whole bunch of errors about URIs of the type 'http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2336&alloc_id=5672&sit e_id=1&request'. I'm too lazy to check if this is actually a valid to skip the pagename on an URI with a query, but I belive it is. But no matter what, each such URI generates about a dozen errors, which is bogus. Most of the other errors have to do with rendering hints like 'marginwidth' and 'bgcolor', which where not a part of the HTML 3.2 standard but are noncritical.
Pascal forces you to declare your variables at the beginning of the function. C forces you to declare variables at the beginning of a block. So the original poster is correct.
Your statement is not completely correct. There is nothing "fake" about a cluster based supercomputer. In fact, all sufficiently large supercomputers are cluster based. Many of them use special purpose, low latency NICS and switches, and proprietary communication protocols, but the underlying principle of a Beowulf cluster is the same as that of the Earth simulator.
Right... Did you look at the specs? Cobalt can handle a maximum of 256 MB of RAM. Also, it's a complete rewrite, meaning that it is a first generation product. Expect loads of bugs and crashes. While I hope Cobalt will be a good OS for handhelds, I don't see it taking over the desktop just yet.