In other news, the collected works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Shakespeare are being retroactively re-copyrighted, and the rights transferred to the BPI. Parliament advises citizens around the world to await their court summons.
That's not the issue at all. The issue is Viacom is trying to foist the responsibility onto YouTube to actively police their content, when under current law it is clearly Viacom's responsibility. They are trying to make a case in the courts that YouTube should be doing more, when all this shit starts hitting the fan and kinda just shows that Viacom themselves cannot keep copyright matters straight.
Am I the only one who thought this comment was kinda funny? I'm not sure what a Vista Keygen has to do with Linux, or Linux being somehow wrong as a result, but it kinda made me giggle. Teehee~
You are assuming that just because they are making a choice of what video card to use they are (a) installing it themselves, and (b) savvy and well informed.
I work as a tech at a place I will call OverpricedRetailComputerStoreUSA. Before this I was working at their competitor across the street. I know I personally have done a lot of video card installs over the years, and two recurring trends I've noticed:
Sales guys are often morons and will give customers a crap card
"My 9700 Pro is too slow; give me a nuh-Vida card with 256 megs... ah, gimme the 5500!"
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"If a text editor does anything more complicated than receive text input and save it to disk, it's no longer an editor in my book. Type setting ? it's a word processor. Syntax highlighting ? it's a development environment. Kinky macro processing and pseudo-hypertext Info-page fornication ? it's a dirty old man's poor excuse for an OS. I'm talking about you, Mr Stallman."
Obviously a web browser is not a core part of (most) operating systems. But there's a fine line between what is actually part of the OS and what is not, sometimes. Your average *nix distro comes with hundreds or even thousands of packages by default. Where do we draw the line? Would only executables in/bin and/sbin be counted as actually part of the OS? Maybe only the kernel itself?
Even if we restrict the discussion solely to the kernel and any drivers/modules that communicate with hardware, it's still doing a whole hell of a lot. You seem to be mistaking "doing a lot" with "My OS lets me read the intarwebs and send emails." Those application programs, a good deal of the time, are really just making calls into the kernel and core libs, asking them to do things for them. But what about all the things an OS does on its own in the background? Even if the only subsystem that efficiently used multiple processors was the filesystem and related hardware drivers, you could still see significant increases in performance, especially on non-SCSI systems.
Lets not forget what the OS should do.
I believe the answer to that is "everything." There is nothing your computer does that your OS isn't making it to do. I think in most cases 300 cores is a little outrageous, just as it would be for a game. Diminishing returns and all that. But let's be for real here, there's a helluva lot of potentially asynchronous and parallel operations that computers do all the time, and if an operating system's performance DOES NOT improve by giving it multiple cores, then that is a poorly written operating system.
"A lot of other software is not. Such as: [...] operating systems."
Operating systems aren't parallel and wouldn't benefit from multiple processors?? Are ye crazy, man?! Let's take a moment to consider: asynchronous file system ops, encryption, IRQ handlers, graphics subsystems, audio processing, input handlers, internal message queues, networking, and pretty much everything else that an operating system does! Just because your OS doesn't think SMP support is very important doesn't mean it's not a Good Thing.
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I like to think of them as the NRIAA. They're more a gun lobby, fighting for the interests of the firearm the industry, than anything else.
iPod batteries are removable. Or at lest on some models. Of course, you have to completely disassemble the thing, but there's no soldering.
In other news, the collected works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Shakespeare are being retroactively re-copyrighted, and the rights transferred to the BPI. Parliament advises citizens around the world to await their court summons.
Hahahaha... They just patented MySQL.
It's stupid to be using corn anyways. The end result is negative net energy production. Other plants can be used that are far more efficient.
Bob Loblaw?
Good example: Asterisk is free, but the developers sell custom hardware. Wildly popular.
"Also, given the paranoia of security-types in both the US AND Canada, I am not the least surprised that they would over-react to a benign situation"
Like calling out police and the bomb squad because someone put up overgrown LiteBrites with pictures of mooninites?
"I can only imagine what DC or New York would be like (Philadelphia and Chicago are bad enough thank you)."
*cough* BOSTON! *cough*
Darl is a Mormon the way Mafiosi are Roman Catholic
That's not the issue at all. The issue is Viacom is trying to foist the responsibility onto YouTube to actively police their content, when under current law it is clearly Viacom's responsibility. They are trying to make a case in the courts that YouTube should be doing more, when all this shit starts hitting the fan and kinda just shows that Viacom themselves cannot keep copyright matters straight.
>>It isn't you guys who don't know the difference ... between to, too, and two...
Yeah, that's almost as bad as when people use "between" to differentiate a choice amongst three or more options.
..who looked at the title and for just half a second though, "Who gives a rat's ass what the owner of NewsCorp(TM) thinks about Debian??"
Doesn't Donald Knuth have the patent on those?
>The result could possibly be a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE)
Which we all know means 'to bluff'...
"Cansuh? Geddoudduh here!"
Am I the only one who thought this comment was kinda funny? I'm not sure what a Vista Keygen has to do with Linux, or Linux being somehow wrong as a result, but it kinda made me giggle. Teehee~
A wild Symantec killed my parents, you insensitive clod!
sudo apt-get install kynaptic
I work as a tech at a place I will call OverpricedRetailComputerStoreUSA. Before this I was working at their competitor across the street. I know I personally have done a lot of video card installs over the years, and two recurring trends I've noticed:
"If a text editor does anything more complicated than receive text input and save it to disk, it's no longer an editor in my book. Type setting ? it's a word processor. Syntax highlighting ? it's a development environment. Kinky macro processing and pseudo-hypertext Info-page fornication ? it's a dirty old man's poor excuse for an OS. I'm talking about you, Mr Stallman."
Hah. You are my hero.
Um... that's like 2/3 of the population of the entire world. But I guess that's only the humans that we know about.
Obviously a web browser is not a core part of (most) operating systems. But there's a fine line between what is actually part of the OS and what is not, sometimes. Your average *nix distro comes with hundreds or even thousands of packages by default. Where do we draw the line? Would only executables in /bin and /sbin be counted as actually part of the OS? Maybe only the kernel itself?
Even if we restrict the discussion solely to the kernel and any drivers/modules that communicate with hardware, it's still doing a whole hell of a lot. You seem to be mistaking "doing a lot" with "My OS lets me read the intarwebs and send emails." Those application programs, a good deal of the time, are really just making calls into the kernel and core libs, asking them to do things for them. But what about all the things an OS does on its own in the background? Even if the only subsystem that efficiently used multiple processors was the filesystem and related hardware drivers, you could still see significant increases in performance, especially on non-SCSI systems.
Lets not forget what the OS should do. I believe the answer to that is "everything." There is nothing your computer does that your OS isn't making it to do. I think in most cases 300 cores is a little outrageous, just as it would be for a game. Diminishing returns and all that. But let's be for real here, there's a helluva lot of potentially asynchronous and parallel operations that computers do all the time, and if an operating system's performance DOES NOT improve by giving it multiple cores, then that is a poorly written operating system.
"A lot of other software is not. Such as: [...] operating systems."
Operating systems aren't parallel and wouldn't benefit from multiple processors?? Are ye crazy, man?! Let's take a moment to consider: asynchronous file system ops, encryption, IRQ handlers, graphics subsystems, audio processing, input handlers, internal message queues, networking, and pretty much everything else that an operating system does! Just because your OS doesn't think SMP support is very important doesn't mean it's not a Good Thing.
Just because it doesn't use classes doesn't mean it's not C++