I work with both. I have 2 boxes right here. One dual boots FC4 and XP, one runs just FC4. My home machine double boots my favorite flavor of linux and XP. I use both, fluently I might add. I'm a believer in the right tool for the right job. Sometimes that tool is windows (I'm on the windows side of my dual boot box now). Sometimes its linux (99% of my dev work is done there, depends on the job though. Some of it is cross-platform). You can't make the blanket statement "linux is better". Well, you can. But then I make the blanket statement "tomstdenis is a zealot" and I really dont give and of your arguments any impetus because you haven't said anything any of the other zealots havent already said. As I said many posts ago, its the right tool for the right job. I use linux for a lot of things, but there are a lot of things that Windows is still good for.
I didn't say you couldn't do it under Linux. I do 3d visualizations under Linux, I've played Quake under linux. What I was saying is you know nothing about these libraries, you could have picked better examples:)
But the thing is why should they port to Linux? Why should I purchase Linux versions of software when I already own the Linux versions? So I can say I'm cool and run Linux? No. The cost of a windows license is next to nothing and the cost of the software will be the same on either platform; and when you are talking TCO of engineering software the engineering software costs run in the thousands to tens of thousands of dollars. When we buy our workstations from Dell/Xi/any bulk vendor the windows license runs about $10-$30. Whats the point of recoding part of the software, in the pov of the engineering vendor, to avoid $10-$30 windows license? That's absurd.
Oh, wow, your comeback strategy is go to Google, type in "cross platform multimedia libraries" and link the first four that show up... impressive. If you've ever actually *done* multimedia programming on the other hand... Allegro sucks (last time I used it... sorry) openAL and libSDL I haven't even heard of; and its been said that D3D actually outperforms OpenGL (according to gamedev.net and others...)
OK here goes. Engineering analysis. Name a good Finite element analysis package (algor? not really). Now a good 6DOF trajectory package. Now a good CAD package (you might be able to name a half-ass one, but not a good one). You have a point, for people doing generic IT things or generic end-user things yea, linux and windows, doesnt matter. But for those of us with specific needs - in engineering, certain types of media, etc - the markets locked up and TCO does point in a certain direction.
He was paid to evaluate two possible scenarios given a set of initial conditions. Researchers do it all the time in this place we like to call the "real world" - in engineering for example. You take a few alternative designs, apply the constraints you are given, and pick the right tool for the job.
Dr. Thompson was given a set of conditions and two contendors, he gave his evaluation, done deal. It doesn't imply endorsement. I'm an engineer - I evaluate options regularly. Sometimes I have to pick options I didn't like. But I do it because they are the right option for the given scenario. If the conditions were different the results probably would have been different.
As far as support goes, I guess that you haven't had to call Micro$oft regarding an installation issue
Nope, never have. Worked jobs that have required me to support/install/use the stuff from 95-2003. I've had to seek support for Linux installations 100:1 times more often than I've had to on Windows installations
No, but they do have auto-run on for everything, because turning it off requires editing the registry
FALSE
(Windows XP) Go to My Computer. Right click the CD-ROM drive, hit properties. Click the AutoPlay tab, and select "Take no action" or if you prefer "Prompt me each time to choose an action" to get a nice pop-up window asking what you want to do. No regedit required at all.
The problem is, Windows by default has auto-run enabled upon CD insertion. Most people won't go through the hassle of turning this off (it's not even in a very obvious place to turn it off..)
Windows XP: Go to My Computer. Right click on your CD-ROM drive. Click Properties. Click the "Auto Play tab. Click "Prompt me each time to choose and action" or "Take no action". Done. How much easier or logical can it get?
Dell has clarified that any rumors of it planning to manufacture a Dell PC based on AMD processors are false. Market has reported that the company had notified Taiwanese PC contract manufacturers to ready production lines to produce Dell PC systems using microprocessors made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. the statement from the company now nullifies these rumors.
Taiwanese companies like Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. and Quanta Computer Inc. were mentioned in the rumor reports. Some of these Taiwanese companies are the biggest outsourced suppliers for Dell and they are usually the first one to see some of the newer products from the tech giant.
Dell has a special business relationship with Intel, which the market analysts claim gets them huge discounts. This is also said to be the reason why Dell does not build PC products using AMD processors despite high demands for them. However, the rumors of an AMD powered Dell became stronger after Dell started selling AMD processors on their web stores sometime back.
)this was mentioned a few posts up but noone seemed to catch it)
(i was waiting for that response...) Some bullets can, look up a paper by Williams, Hahn, et. al. http://pdf.aiaa.org/preview/CDReadyMJPC2005_1177/P V2005_3847.pdf... I'm one of the authors and yea, there are bullets that do mid-course corrections:P (many others exist... in existance and conceptual. Just mention this paper cause i knew where it was on the top of my head)
My point is magnitudes of scale. Yes they missed, but if you compare the error - its 3E-7. JAXA was being overabmitious, if you look at their prior projects they just didn't have the experiance to do this kinda thing, they did a damn fine job doing just this.
10-100 km is dead on at a range of 288,923,070km... its a matter of perspective. IE: if I shot a bullet at a target and I was off by 1km, i was way off, but if I was off by 1mm I was close. Same thing here, but the scale shifts to a much larger one.
Right, because cheap RFID - with an effective range of a few feet - is really gonna be a big concern in tracking down people. You're making the case for a non-existant concern. And even if it were a concern, that's what the UN is there for - or is the UN not capable of handling such things?
Napolean Dynamite was a particular nerd from a particular time. The timeframe was the early nineties, and the setting was smalltown america, a different kid who wasnt trying to fit in. He wasn't a typical "geek" who is here on/.
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I work with both. I have 2 boxes right here. One dual boots FC4 and XP, one runs just FC4. My home machine double boots my favorite flavor of linux and XP. I use both, fluently I might add. I'm a believer in the right tool for the right job. Sometimes that tool is windows (I'm on the windows side of my dual boot box now). Sometimes its linux (99% of my dev work is done there, depends on the job though. Some of it is cross-platform). You can't make the blanket statement "linux is better". Well, you can. But then I make the blanket statement "tomstdenis is a zealot" and I really dont give and of your arguments any impetus because you haven't said anything any of the other zealots havent already said. As I said many posts ago, its the right tool for the right job. I use linux for a lot of things, but there are a lot of things that Windows is still good for.
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I didn't say you couldn't do it under Linux. I do 3d visualizations under Linux, I've played Quake under linux. What I was saying is you know nothing about these libraries, you could have picked better examples :)
-everphilski-
But the thing is why should they port to Linux? Why should I purchase Linux versions of software when I already own the Linux versions? So I can say I'm cool and run Linux? No. The cost of a windows license is next to nothing and the cost of the software will be the same on either platform; and when you are talking TCO of engineering software the engineering software costs run in the thousands to tens of thousands of dollars. When we buy our workstations from Dell/Xi/any bulk vendor the windows license runs about $10-$30. Whats the point of recoding part of the software, in the pov of the engineering vendor, to avoid $10-$30 windows license? That's absurd.
-everphilski-
That is interesting. Thanks.
-everphilski-
Prepare the ranch dressing hose!!!!
-everphilski-
Its called integrity... I take it you've never done scientific research before (and if you have, shame on you)
-everphilski-
Oh, wow, your comeback strategy is go to Google, type in "cross platform multimedia libraries" and link the first four that show up... impressive. If you've ever actually *done* multimedia programming on the other hand... Allegro sucks (last time I used it... sorry) openAL and libSDL I haven't even heard of; and its been said that D3D actually outperforms OpenGL (according to gamedev.net and others...)
(myself I code OpenGL in C++...)
-everphilski-
zzzzzzzzzzzzealot
OK here goes. Engineering analysis. Name a good Finite element analysis package (algor? not really). Now a good 6DOF trajectory package. Now a good CAD package (you might be able to name a half-ass one, but not a good one). You have a point, for people doing generic IT things or generic end-user things yea, linux and windows, doesnt matter. But for those of us with specific needs - in engineering, certain types of media, etc - the markets locked up and TCO does point in a certain direction.
-everphilski-
He was paid to evaluate two possible scenarios given a set of initial conditions. Researchers do it all the time in this place we like to call the "real world" - in engineering for example. You take a few alternative designs, apply the constraints you are given, and pick the right tool for the job.
Dr. Thompson was given a set of conditions and two contendors, he gave his evaluation, done deal. It doesn't imply endorsement. I'm an engineer - I evaluate options regularly. Sometimes I have to pick options I didn't like. But I do it because they are the right option for the given scenario. If the conditions were different the results probably would have been different.
-everphilski-
As far as support goes, I guess that you haven't had to call Micro$oft regarding an installation issue
Nope, never have. Worked jobs that have required me to support/install/use the stuff from 95-2003. I've had to seek support for Linux installations 100:1 times more often than I've had to on Windows installations
-everphilski-
No, but they do have auto-run on for everything, because turning it off requires editing the registry
FALSE
(Windows XP) Go to My Computer. Right click the CD-ROM drive, hit properties. Click the AutoPlay tab, and select "Take no action" or if you prefer "Prompt me each time to choose an action" to get a nice pop-up window asking what you want to do. No regedit required at all.
-everphilski-
The problem is, Windows by default has auto-run enabled upon CD insertion. Most people won't go through the hassle of turning this off (it's not even in a very obvious place to turn it off..)
Windows XP: Go to My Computer. Right click on your CD-ROM drive. Click Properties. Click the "Auto Play tab. Click "Prompt me each time to choose and action" or "Take no action". Done. How much easier or logical can it get?
-everphilski-
you could use 100 fat interconnects for $50...
-everphilski-
http://news.techwhack.com/2510/211135-dell-denies- possibilities-of-an-amd-based-pc/
Dell has clarified that any rumors of it planning to manufacture a Dell PC based on AMD processors are false. Market has reported that the company had notified Taiwanese PC contract manufacturers to ready production lines to produce Dell PC systems using microprocessors made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. the statement from the company now nullifies these rumors.
Taiwanese companies like Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. and Quanta Computer Inc. were mentioned in the rumor reports. Some of these Taiwanese companies are the biggest outsourced suppliers for Dell and they are usually the first one to see some of the newer products from the tech giant.
Dell has a special business relationship with Intel, which the market analysts claim gets them huge discounts. This is also said to be the reason why Dell does not build PC products using AMD processors despite high demands for them. However, the rumors of an AMD powered Dell became stronger after Dell started selling AMD processors on their web stores sometime back.
)this was mentioned a few posts up but noone seemed to catch it)
-everphilski-
In complete agreement. I read The moon is a harsh Mistress first, and my friends told me to read Stranger in a Strange Land, I was disappointed.
-everphilski-
(i was waiting for that response...) Some bullets can, look up a paper by Williams, Hahn, et. al. http://pdf.aiaa.org/preview/CDReadyMJPC2005_1177/P V2005_3847.pdf ... I'm one of the authors and yea, there are bullets that do mid-course corrections :P (many others exist... in existance and conceptual. Just mention this paper cause i knew where it was on the top of my head)
My point is magnitudes of scale. Yes they missed, but if you compare the error - its 3E-7. JAXA was being overabmitious, if you look at their prior projects they just didn't have the experiance to do this kinda thing, they did a damn fine job doing just this.
-everphilski-
10-100 km is dead on at a range of 288,923,070km... its a matter of perspective. IE: if I shot a bullet at a target and I was off by 1km, i was way off, but if I was off by 1mm I was close. Same thing here, but the scale shifts to a much larger one.
-everphilski-
so cute!
Anything that has a chance of bringing the wayward children back to Everquest is gold in my book -_-
-everphilski-
yeah, but they arent bred for their magical abilities
-everphilski-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
-everphilski-
*sigh* the paranoid stay paranoid. Do you even know the gain equation? Having done satellite telecommunications... yes, I do. Fuck off, troll.
-everphilski-
Right, because cheap RFID - with an effective range of a few feet - is really gonna be a big concern in tracking down people. You're making the case for a non-existant concern. And even if it were a concern, that's what the UN is there for - or is the UN not capable of handling such things?
-everphilski-
Get it right... Posers :P
-everphilski-
Napolean Dynamite was a particular nerd from a particular time. The timeframe was the early nineties, and the setting was smalltown america, a different kid who wasnt trying to fit in. He wasn't a typical "geek" who is here on /.
-everphilski-