Type out all their names?? My god man, Shells have advanced since 1982.
Entering 4 out of 20 names in a shell is a matter of around 8 to 20 keystrokes all entered in a about 2 seconds, regardless of how they sort alphabetically. Finding four files in an alpha-sorted gui, scrolling the list around doesn't come close.
I would probably use something like unison for your workflow, or just rsync, so that all files could be updated with a single 'update' command, or use inotify to auto-run such a command whenever a change is made, if that is preferable.
I agree with you on the distro point, although fluendo is _not_ making these available in a distro-friendly way. They're binaries which will incur breakages over the life of a distribution. If Fluendo were to say, partner with a company, such as Linspire, then this could be addressed, but currently it is not addressed.
As for comparisons with win32codec solutions, sure. Win32codec solutions are hacks, aren't portable, and are scary. I was talking about ffmpeg which has already created native implementations of these codecs in a clean-room way. At least, that's what they claim.
Agreed, ffmpeg has the ability to decode these same formats, and on alternate arches to boot. The difference is that the use of ffmpeg may not be legal in your jurisdiction due to the lack of patent licenses. This is most likely to matter to, say, broadcasters.
Personally, I'm not very excited about paying money for essentially patent licenses. I supposed I'm resigned to being a patent license transgressor rather than monetarily supporting the patent holders. (Of course I also have the option of eschewing the content entirely, and mostly (but not entirely) do.)
If the license were unconcionable (as are most proprietary software licenses), then it could possibly hurt. You could expose yourself to liability, or tainting. However, the licenses for the propietary-included and free-only versions are both blissfully simple and reasonable. Kudos to Innotek.
Sure, text editors are all about what you're used to. But scp is a COPY command. Do you use a gui instead of copy.exe? and note I do not mean explorer, but a special purpose copier gui that only copies files from one directory to another.
FWIW, Mono will not work for some (sloppy) C# apps which call through to the native platform. This is a supported and often used feature in some C#/.Net apps, and so some form of Wine support will be needed in some cases.
I do not have a list of apps which would require this, nor do I know if there are common and popular ones which would do so. I just know it is a real issue.
Personally I avoid C#/Mono apps, because of bad development experiences with that platform. It might be fair to say I am prejudiced against it at this point.
What is the point of winscp when you have a proper scp already installed on MacOSX from the word go? It's not even optional like on some Linuxes, it's just there.
TFA is talking about full virtualization as opposed to paravirtualization. Xen does require virtualization ISA instructions to achieve this, as opposed to VMWare, which achieves it through much trickery. KVM is full-virtualization only, and only runs with these ISA instructions.
It was only a few pages of text, about 10 paragraphs.
This is intended to be a card that works well for modern needs, that is it will accelerate typical things a modern display system requires, resulting in rapid display of all kinds of text, as well as visual desktop effects and etc. This _also_ makes it a decent candidate for a "3d" layer like opengl to target. So, by shooting to provide decent acceleration for modern and near-future desktop needs, you also get 3d support.
That said, this is a _developer_ board. It's an FPGA, and designed to provide hardware for parties to actively pursue the development of an open video chip, so that as the design matures, a faster, cheaper, custom ASIC can eventually be produced.
Thus, a cheaper, more powerful design should emerge over time that is very well suited to the needs of the modern graphics display environment, even if it is not the most powerful choice for gaming. I would expect the behavior of this card to be completely respectable for tasks like compiz and aiglx, and probably much more reliable. At least, assuming the project hits its goals.
More open, more reliable, and fast enough is a compelling featureset for some, although perhaps not for you. I had originally hoped to purchase this card initially as an FPGA if only to provide some funding to the project, but the time window for upgrades passed for me, and I invested in intel graphics instead. I may still purchase one in the future, but the expense will not be justified for me personally until excellent X features are working on the device, such as featureful Xv, AIGLX, and possibly some perks with fast text handling and/or compressed video decoding.
There is more to a client's behavior than ratio. A poorly behaved client can put a much higher drain on resources of both peers and the tracker. It's completely legitimate to undermine such behavior. One method is changing the behavior of other clients to discourage such behavior. Another method is to ban such clients.
Can anyone shed any light on this concept of "riding bicycles too fast"?
In my extremely large amount of experience riding bicycles as my primary form of transportation, I find it is quite rare that I can exceed the posted speed limit without a great deal of exertion. In the case that I travel at 30mph in a 25mph zone (the speed of the traffic nonetheless), how is some talking camera going to notice me and talk to me before I've gone past. Remember, I'm going 30mph.
The term "history" refers to the time period for which we have written records. The end of the last ice-age falls into the time period referred to as "pre-history".
If Linux has 50% market share, and the additional users do not care about software freedom, then "Linux leaders" who talk about the problems with non-free software will not represent 98% of their user base. I don't think this is how leadership works.
Maybe Linux related companies will be able to still make the point, but I'm betting if such a userbase exists in such percentages, the leading Linux companies will cater to this viewpoint and will not make such a point.
Okay, so if we rerphase the question with economic clout, I still don't see how having a bunch of users who don't care about software freedom using a Linux implementation that doesn't care about software freedom is going to encourage software freedom.
Yes, but if the only way you can acquire the user base necessary is by making the system interesting to those who don't care about open standard and patent blockages, then how are you going to then leverage your non-caring userbase into political clout?
the next question is the one in my subject: how therefore do you define "capacity"? if i've got a bunch of files that take up 700mb on a ZFS device and try to back up to a (Joliet) CD will i get a message telling me that the CD doesnt have room?
UNIX tools have long distinguished between "disk usage" and "apparent size". It's not that hard. When you get ready to burn a CD, your tools should just check the "apparent size", which is the total file length of all the files. Meanwhile, when you're trying to reclaim disk space out of your homedir, you'll probably be more worried about "disk usage".
This is no different really from the age old issue that a 1 byte file takes a whole block/cluster/whatever. It might be 4k or even more of disk usage.
Your argument is that peak oil does not imply peak energy, because there are so many other sources. But then you overextend this into claiming Hubbert was wrong and other nonsense. Peak Oil is factual, regardless.
As for the availability of comparable, cheap, plentiful energy sources, I seem to be (if you are correct) underinformed. Do you have any starting point for credible, non-screechy information sources?
Indeed, using perl to use the shell to rename the file isn't a really impressive point for perl. I'm sure perl has some module for sane renaming. Why do perl users inist on doing things the wrong way?
While all the assertions you made are defensible (and I happen to believe they are likely, tinfoil hat or no), the statement you're responding to is absolutely true.
Hmm, maybe you're right about the difference between hardware juggling and threading.
I disagree that message passing and MPAR will give a lot if insight into optimal 9-way "SMP" design. MPAR algorithms typically assume "sufficient" nodes. 9 is quiet discrete.
The theory of peak oil is guaranteed correct so long as the amount of oil is finite. Should you subscribe to the theory of constant oil replenishment, then this still follows since all credible proponents of this theory believe the rate of generation must be vastly below the current rate of use.
Did you mean that the way peak oil is discussed is hype? Peak oil is like gravity. It's a fact. The questions are where we are in relationship to the eventual peak, and what the impliciations of that might be.
Were your statement accurate, I would disagree with your analysis. However, the No Child Left Behind act very explicitly links school funding with test scores, so failing schools get less funding than succeeding ones, exactly the opposite of what you contend.
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Type out all their names?? My god man, Shells have advanced since 1982.
Entering 4 out of 20 names in a shell is a matter of around 8 to 20 keystrokes all entered in a about 2 seconds, regardless of how they sort alphabetically. Finding four files in an alpha-sorted gui, scrolling the list around doesn't come close.
I would probably use something like unison for your workflow, or just rsync, so that all files could be updated with a single 'update' command, or use inotify to auto-run such a command whenever a change is made, if that is preferable.
I agree with you on the distro point, although fluendo is _not_ making these available in a distro-friendly way. They're binaries which will incur breakages over the life of a distribution. If Fluendo were to say, partner with a company, such as Linspire, then this could be addressed, but currently it is not addressed.
As for comparisons with win32codec solutions, sure. Win32codec solutions are hacks, aren't portable, and are scary. I was talking about ffmpeg which has already created native implementations of these codecs in a clean-room way. At least, that's what they claim.
Agreed, ffmpeg has the ability to decode these same formats, and on alternate arches to boot. The difference is that the use of ffmpeg may not be legal in your jurisdiction due to the lack of patent licenses. This is most likely to matter to, say, broadcasters.
Personally, I'm not very excited about paying money for essentially patent licenses. I supposed I'm resigned to being a patent license transgressor rather than monetarily supporting the patent holders. (Of course I also have the option of eschewing the content entirely, and mostly (but not entirely) do.)
If the license were unconcionable (as are most proprietary software licenses), then it could possibly hurt. You could expose yourself to liability, or tainting. However, the licenses for the propietary-included and free-only versions are both blissfully simple and reasonable. Kudos to Innotek.
In a pig's eye!
Sure, text editors are all about what you're used to. But scp is a COPY command. Do you use a gui instead of copy.exe? and note I do not mean explorer, but a special purpose copier gui that only copies files from one directory to another.
Comparison:
1 - scp file host:dir
vs
1 - Launch winscp
steps 2-15 - click
4 - close winscp
FWIW, Mono will not work for some (sloppy) C# apps which call through to the native platform. This is a supported and often used feature in some C#/.Net apps, and so some form of Wine support will be needed in some cases.
I do not have a list of apps which would require this, nor do I know if there are common and popular ones which would do so. I just know it is a real issue.
Personally I avoid C#/Mono apps, because of bad development experiences with that platform. It might be fair to say I am prejudiced against it at this point.
What is the point of winscp when you have a proper scp already installed on MacOSX from the word go? It's not even optional like on some Linuxes, it's just there.
Surely I'm missing something.
TFA is talking about full virtualization as opposed to paravirtualization. Xen does require virtualization ISA instructions to achieve this, as opposed to VMWare, which achieves it through much trickery. KVM is full-virtualization only, and only runs with these ISA instructions.
It was only a few pages of text, about 10 paragraphs.
What if the system can achieve better performance than your card using PCI?
This is intended to be a card that works well for modern needs, that is it will accelerate typical things a modern display system requires, resulting in rapid display of all kinds of text, as well as visual desktop effects and etc. This _also_ makes it a decent candidate for a "3d" layer like opengl to target. So, by shooting to provide decent acceleration for modern and near-future desktop needs, you also get 3d support.
That said, this is a _developer_ board. It's an FPGA, and designed to provide hardware for parties to actively pursue the development of an open video chip, so that as the design matures, a faster, cheaper, custom ASIC can eventually be produced.
Thus, a cheaper, more powerful design should emerge over time that is very well suited to the needs of the modern graphics display environment, even if it is not the most powerful choice for gaming. I would expect the behavior of this card to be completely respectable for tasks like compiz and aiglx, and probably much more reliable. At least, assuming the project hits its goals.
More open, more reliable, and fast enough is a compelling featureset for some, although perhaps not for you. I had originally hoped to purchase this card initially as an FPGA if only to provide some funding to the project, but the time window for upgrades passed for me, and I invested in intel graphics instead. I may still purchase one in the future, but the expense will not be justified for me personally until excellent X features are working on the device, such as featureful Xv, AIGLX, and possibly some perks with fast text handling and/or compressed video decoding.
There is more to a client's behavior than ratio. A poorly behaved client can put a much higher drain on resources of both peers and the tracker. It's completely legitimate to undermine such behavior. One method is changing the behavior of other clients to discourage such behavior. Another method is to ban such clients.
Can anyone shed any light on this concept of "riding bicycles too fast"?
In my extremely large amount of experience riding bicycles as my primary form of transportation, I find it is quite rare that I can exceed the posted speed limit without a great deal of exertion. In the case that I travel at 30mph in a 25mph zone (the speed of the traffic nonetheless), how is some talking camera going to notice me and talk to me before I've gone past. Remember, I'm going 30mph.
Does England have 15kmph bicycle lands? 10?
What a bizarre concept.
The term "history" refers to the time period for which we have written records. The end of the last ice-age falls into the time period referred to as "pre-history".
No, I am not making this up.
If Linux has 50% market share, and the additional users do not care about software freedom, then "Linux leaders" who talk about the problems with non-free software will not represent 98% of their user base. I don't think this is how leadership works.
Maybe Linux related companies will be able to still make the point, but I'm betting if such a userbase exists in such percentages, the leading Linux companies will cater to this viewpoint and will not make such a point.
Okay, so if we rerphase the question with economic clout, I still don't see how having a bunch of users who don't care about software freedom using a Linux implementation that doesn't care about software freedom is going to encourage software freedom.
How is this going to work?
Linux already has unquestionably strong market share. It's just a question of which market you care about.
Yes, but if the only way you can acquire the user base necessary is by making the system interesting to those who don't care about open standard and patent blockages, then how are you going to then leverage your non-caring userbase into political clout?
UNIX tools have long distinguished between "disk usage" and "apparent size". It's not that hard. When you get ready to burn a CD, your tools should just check the "apparent size", which is the total file length of all the files. Meanwhile, when you're trying to reclaim disk space out of your homedir, you'll probably be more worried about "disk usage".
This is no different really from the age old issue that a 1 byte file takes a whole block/cluster/whatever. It might be 4k or even more of disk usage.
Your argument is that peak oil does not imply peak energy, because there are so many other sources. But then you overextend this into claiming Hubbert was wrong and other nonsense. Peak Oil is factual, regardless.
As for the availability of comparable, cheap, plentiful energy sources, I seem to be (if you are correct) underinformed. Do you have any starting point for credible, non-screechy information sources?
Indeed, using perl to use the shell to rename the file isn't a really impressive point for perl. I'm sure perl has some module for sane renaming. Why do perl users inist on doing things the wrong way?
While all the assertions you made are defensible (and I happen to believe they are likely, tinfoil hat or no), the statement you're responding to is absolutely true.
Beware the false dichotomy.
Hmm, maybe you're right about the difference between hardware juggling and threading.
I disagree that message passing and MPAR will give a lot if insight into optimal 9-way "SMP" design. MPAR algorithms typically assume "sufficient" nodes. 9 is quiet discrete.
The theory of peak oil is guaranteed correct so long as the amount of oil is finite. Should you subscribe to the theory of constant oil replenishment, then this still follows since all credible proponents of this theory believe the rate of generation must be vastly below the current rate of use.
Did you mean that the way peak oil is discussed is hype? Peak oil is like gravity. It's a fact. The questions are where we are in relationship to the eventual peak, and what the impliciations of that might be.
Were your statement accurate, I would disagree with your analysis. However, the No Child Left Behind act very explicitly links school funding with test scores, so failing schools get less funding than succeeding ones, exactly the opposite of what you contend.