I haven't seen a hardware design this well thought of since the gamecube, everything is nice and tightly packed, and not generating heat so much that the compactness kills it. one thing I find interesting is the neatnesss of the board, not that many visible traces.
accustomed to so many lines that the mind gets boggled and yet the mobo looks so clean, even though there's so much attached. are they just hiding them or did they come up with something to reduce complexity?
I conclude distro wise the only difference is the package manager and size of the online repositories.
redhat currently offer one thing I find most others lacking, a giant amount of packages available on disk while keeping them current. the only other distro that seems to come close is debian, but debian stable updates are a bit... slow. having everything fairly recent and handy without internet access can be handy.
after reading a great deal of gimp evangelism, and photoshop evangelism. I conclude the same is always, different tools for different people. I'm no artist, more of the coding type, I find gimp more easier and intuitive, that being said, I also find an xterm more useful than anything windows can throw at me.
does this mean the general population would agree with me? of course not. different tools for different people. I find artists to generally have a completely different mindset when learning than more mathematical or logical people. right tool for the right person eh? don't like it just don't use it. Free as in I can screw and modify source code is actually handy too. Another thing the majority would not care for.
I find both sides are at fault for current flamewars for both. People should use what they want to use without forcing their views on others.
a question that comes to my mind though is why do we want to bridge worlds? most portability problems would be solved if windows had proper posix compliance, so why use such a more high level language just for portability? Rapid application development I see the point, but final solutions imho should be designed to be multiple platform from the beginning. currently as it stands the majority of major OSS software has linux and windows ports without a problem, and is mostly written in c/c++. the only side that seems to have an issue are the windows developers who decide to write for windows specific API's without portability in mind. sorry if I may sound disgruntled, I just fail to see why being portable on the most common os's is deemed so difficult
it's called highlighting what you want to copy and middle-clicking in the window you want to paste it to at the right spot, not overly difficult, standard X way of doing it to my knowledge, oh and I for one, am generally against ctrl+c and +v ALWAYS be copy and paste, cos you know, ctrl+c is a nice universal way of quitting programs (at least all noteworthy console ones)
it is worth noting, that technically cults are a group of people with similar faith based beliefs that have rituals (ie going to church on a sunday). By definition, christianity is a cult, however I don't see that as a bad thing, what I don't get is why (besides the whole, we are right, everyone else is wrong) why christians and the general public equate cult == evil, when nearly all organised religions are cults.
whereas linux can swap however you wish, swap partitions are only frequently used because they are the best performance wise, no overhead dealing with the filesystem. Linux can and will use basicly any type of storage you can imagine to swap on though.
If I ever encounter a linux box without swap, a quick dd creating an empty file and then using swapon on the file fixes all, you can also use multiple swap files/partitions if necessary. same deal.
only main annoyance with mac os vm is that it swaps out way before necessary, not as bad as windows but still it does some strange things which my mac tech friends cannot fathom why it does that way. Also it (appears) to not be changable behaviour. Correct me if wrong on that since said friends are quite annoyed with it:)
so what if a vendor for once supplied a default driver for standard hardware with a possible exploit, surely that doesn't bring the world to an end? point.
nothings perfect, don't expect it to be, and if it was indeed a completely bogus hack, I highly doubt they'd of been allowed to present it at the conference without prior being shown to some people in the know.
oh contrare, read the previous articles more, apple cards are vulnernable to the exploit, although pressure from apple to not display it using the original cards was too much and they caved. It's a bit hard to say no to a company of which you have exploits of their hardware, and who's known for previously sueing anyone left/right/center for touching anything of theirs.
I have news for you: xilinx cards can be put in nearly anything, the xilinx card your most likely meaning is the one amd showed with a virtex 4 chip on it, xilinx fpga's are very awesome, that being said, with the right design to put on them, you can put them onto basicly anything, I just wish there were more suppliers of their products so the fpgas weren't so damn expensive in small quantities
and congratulations, you've just saved the same amount as what you would have if you'd *gasp* turned off a light bulb for the same length of time, really, I'm perplexed at amd fanboys at times.
it seems to me the general public don't want anything new and interesting in gaming, all we see is rehashes of old genres, which while tried and true, bring very little new to the table
the nintendo revolution on the otherhand could bring a lot new to the table, if they play their cards right. Although I fear, no matter what happens, sony and microsoft teenagers may never get rid of the anti-nintendo stigma that has been around for quite some time.
no vector programs for linux? pffft.
ever heard of Inkscape?
and if it doesn't take your fancy, you know Xara Extreme has just been open sourced don't you?
seriously, the more software/stupidly easy yet needed patent articles I read, and the more slashdot I read, the more I think that someday I'll become your average ranting psychotic revolutionary who brings arms against the state just to show the media the point.
the upper-class who make the laws are becoming further and further away from those who it actually effects. One can't help but think that one day we'll have so few rights as that such a drastic measure will be more than justified. Perhaps the 'tyranny' of the former democracy would one day be recorded as such.
I realise people will probably think this is a troll, or more of the same, but think of how far rights have come in the last century, now compare them to how they've been limited in the last decade.. if it's a sign of things to come... I wouldn't want to stick around too long. If your not allowed to think because your thought may have been previously thought by someone else... what is there to do?
one time while working at BP the back office computer died (hd failure, bios couldn't even detect it anymore)
anyways, it was then I discovered their entire system for the whole chain of shops still uses os/2 with zip drives to backup (hacked driver to support larger drives)
yes I know of cobalt etc. problem being Palm has confirmed after Cobalt they will most likely run some form of linux... who wants to develop for a system that will only have one half-supported generation? not me. Palm os 5 has so many devices out for it it's the norm. Guess thats what the hardware manufacturers think too.
original point was ever since after palm os 4.0 palm have been screwing devs around. It used to be such a friendly platform.
random note: the reason I haven't tried putting linux on my arm palm is that linux is coming anyway, also I couldn't be assed to program an on-screen keyboard for it:D
to my knowledge there isn't even a version of linux running on the psp yet, dslinux may be primitive atm (gbamp cf card reading will be a blessing when merged) but it works.
lets see.. there's heretic, hexen, an mpeg4 player that scales it to the screen for you (libmpeg4) nesDS (combined with gbamp loading the roms off cf card is awesome), snesds, frodoDS. Genesis emulation aswell as DoomDS is in the works..
these are just things I can think of off the top of my head, and the ds has little homebrew?? lol
Part of palms problem in my opinion is the fact that their devkit still only caters to the 68k, now that we see palms using 200mhz (lowest end) to upwards of 400mhz ARM processors, were still forced to use 68k code and let their emulation environment handle it (you can write really tiny portions of arm code though, but still limiting the size to like 4kb isn't nice)
I think they should have done what apple did, when the arch changes, drop all support on the new arch of the old programs, sure in the early stages backwards compatibility was heavenly.
Now however it's just plain silly forcing everyone to code for the old arch, also they need some form of audio chip in their device, playing pcm sound is handled through the cpu (drains battery immensely) and I can barely get 4 hours playback out of it.
also their filesystem which goes by the principle "nothings a file" was apt back in the original palm days, but nowadays is just plain annoying.
These are just some of my gripes with the system. why i think we don't see more serious programs for the new devices.
I think it's completely a matter of intel's marketing section having too much power. the fact the faster 2ghz etc dothan cores (which are fairly old now) can outbench an amd fx57 when it's their mobile processor says something.
which leads to one simple question... why did the prescott even exist? when they've had a faster proc that takes 1/5th the power all along.
My conclusion is simple, marketing, it's a lot easier to market a 3.6ghz compy than a 2ghz one that outperforms it. clock for clock the dothan outperformed even amd's. and yet, they left it generally (asus p4p800 adapter excluded) to the laptop market. and since when do gamers use laptops? lol
while true nvidia did buy all of 3dfx's assets, it wasn't too long before that that they filed for bankruptcy.
and somehow I verymuch doubt AMD are anywhere near that desperate or in that much trouble. Just trying to increase their lot.
They have no reason not to really, the overwhelming majority of legal matters they bring up have usually wound up giving them something nice to play with, leaving them in a better position. Oh besides bad publicity, or good publicity, depending on you opinion.
I think the legal system is overused when it comes to computers nowadays (thinks of software patents) and while useful and necessary, when used improperly (not saying this case is) it brings us all down.
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I haven't seen a hardware design this well thought of since the gamecube, everything is nice and tightly packed, and not generating heat so much that the compactness kills it. one thing I find interesting is the neatnesss of the board, not that many visible traces. accustomed to so many lines that the mind gets boggled and yet the mobo looks so clean, even though there's so much attached. are they just hiding them or did they come up with something to reduce complexity?
I think you'll find the nvidia quadro is designed for more serious applications, albeit with a more serious pricetag too.
I conclude distro wise the only difference is the package manager and size of the online repositories.
redhat currently offer one thing I find most others lacking, a giant amount of packages available on disk while keeping them current. the only other distro that seems to come close is debian, but debian stable updates are a bit... slow. having everything fairly recent and handy without internet access can be handy.
after reading a great deal of gimp evangelism, and photoshop evangelism. I conclude the same is always, different tools for different people. I'm no artist, more of the coding type, I find gimp more easier and intuitive, that being said, I also find an xterm more useful than anything windows can throw at me.
does this mean the general population would agree with me? of course not. different tools for different people. I find artists to generally have a completely different mindset when learning than more mathematical or logical people. right tool for the right person eh? don't like it just don't use it. Free as in I can screw and modify source code is actually handy too. Another thing the majority would not care for.
I find both sides are at fault for current flamewars for both. People should use what they want to use without forcing their views on others.
a question that comes to my mind though is why do we want to bridge worlds? most portability problems would be solved if windows had proper posix compliance, so why use such a more high level language just for portability?
Rapid application development I see the point, but final solutions imho should be designed to be multiple platform from the beginning.
currently as it stands the majority of major OSS software has linux and windows ports without a problem, and is mostly written in c/c++.
the only side that seems to have an issue are the windows developers who decide to write for windows specific API's without portability in mind.
sorry if I may sound disgruntled, I just fail to see why being portable on the most common os's is deemed so difficult
it's called highlighting what you want to copy and middle-clicking in the window you want to paste it to at the right spot, not overly difficult, standard X way of doing it to my knowledge, oh and I for one, am generally against ctrl+c and +v ALWAYS be copy and paste, cos you know, ctrl+c is a nice universal way of quitting programs (at least all noteworthy console ones)
it is worth noting, that technically cults are a group of people with similar faith based beliefs that have rituals (ie going to church on a sunday). By definition, christianity is a cult, however I don't see that as a bad thing, what I don't get is why (besides the whole, we are right, everyone else is wrong) why christians and the general public equate cult == evil, when nearly all organised religions are cults.
whereas linux can swap however you wish, swap partitions are only frequently used because they are the best performance wise, no overhead dealing with the filesystem. Linux can and will use basicly any type of storage you can imagine to swap on though.
:)
If I ever encounter a linux box without swap, a quick dd creating an empty file and then using swapon on the file fixes all, you can also use multiple swap files/partitions if necessary. same deal.
only main annoyance with mac os vm is that it swaps out way before necessary, not as bad as windows but still it does some strange things which my mac tech friends cannot fathom why it does that way. Also it (appears) to not be changable behaviour. Correct me if wrong on that since said friends are quite annoyed with it
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/08 /followup_to_macbook_post.html
so what if a vendor for once supplied a default driver for standard hardware with a possible exploit, surely that doesn't bring the world to an end? point.
nothings perfect, don't expect it to be, and if it was indeed a completely bogus hack, I highly doubt they'd of been allowed to present it at the conference without prior being shown to some people in the know.
oh contrare, read the previous articles more, apple cards are vulnernable to the exploit, although pressure from apple to not display it using the original cards was too much and they caved. It's a bit hard to say no to a company of which you have exploits of their hardware, and who's known for previously sueing anyone left/right/center for touching anything of theirs.
I have news for you: xilinx cards can be put in nearly anything, the xilinx card your most likely meaning is the one amd showed with a virtex 4 chip on it, xilinx fpga's are very awesome, that being said, with the right design to put on them, you can put them onto basicly anything, I just wish there were more suppliers of their products so the fpgas weren't so damn expensive in small quantities
and congratulations, you've just saved the same amount as what you would have if you'd *gasp* turned off a light bulb for the same length of time, really, I'm perplexed at amd fanboys at times.
it seems to me the general public don't want anything new and interesting in gaming, all we see is rehashes of old genres, which while tried and true, bring very little new to the table the nintendo revolution on the otherhand could bring a lot new to the table, if they play their cards right. Although I fear, no matter what happens, sony and microsoft teenagers may never get rid of the anti-nintendo stigma that has been around for quite some time.
blender can import DXF just fine, nice open source solution :)
no vector programs for linux? pffft. ever heard of Inkscape? and if it doesn't take your fancy, you know Xara Extreme has just been open sourced don't you?
seriously, the more software/stupidly easy yet needed patent articles I read, and the more slashdot I read, the more I think that someday I'll become your average ranting psychotic revolutionary who brings arms against the state just to show the media the point.
the upper-class who make the laws are becoming further and further away from those who it actually effects. One can't help but think that one day we'll have so few rights as that such a drastic measure will be more than justified. Perhaps the 'tyranny' of the former democracy would one day be recorded as such.
I realise people will probably think this is a troll, or more of the same, but think of how far rights have come in the last century, now compare them to how they've been limited in the last decade.. if it's a sign of things to come... I wouldn't want to stick around too long. If your not allowed to think because your thought may have been previously thought by someone else... what is there to do?
one time while working at BP the back office computer died (hd failure, bios couldn't even detect it anymore)
anyways, it was then I discovered their entire system for the whole chain of shops still uses os/2 with zip drives to backup (hacked driver to support larger drives)
yes I know of cobalt etc. problem being Palm has confirmed after Cobalt they will most likely run some form of linux... who wants to develop for a system that will only have one half-supported generation? not me. Palm os 5 has so many devices out for it it's the norm. Guess thats what the hardware manufacturers think too.
:D
original point was ever since after palm os 4.0 palm have been screwing devs around. It used to be such a friendly platform.
random note: the reason I haven't tried putting linux on my arm palm is that linux is coming anyway, also I couldn't be assed to program an on-screen keyboard for it
to my knowledge there isn't even a version of linux running on the psp yet, dslinux may be primitive atm (gbamp cf card reading will be a blessing when merged) but it works. lets see.. there's heretic, hexen, an mpeg4 player that scales it to the screen for you (libmpeg4) nesDS (combined with gbamp loading the roms off cf card is awesome), snesds, frodoDS. Genesis emulation aswell as DoomDS is in the works.. these are just things I can think of off the top of my head, and the ds has little homebrew?? lol
Part of palms problem in my opinion is the fact that their devkit still only caters to the 68k, now that we see palms using 200mhz (lowest end) to upwards of 400mhz ARM processors, were still forced to use 68k code and let their emulation environment handle it (you can write really tiny portions of arm code though, but still limiting the size to like 4kb isn't nice) I think they should have done what apple did, when the arch changes, drop all support on the new arch of the old programs, sure in the early stages backwards compatibility was heavenly. Now however it's just plain silly forcing everyone to code for the old arch, also they need some form of audio chip in their device, playing pcm sound is handled through the cpu (drains battery immensely) and I can barely get 4 hours playback out of it. also their filesystem which goes by the principle "nothings a file" was apt back in the original palm days, but nowadays is just plain annoying. These are just some of my gripes with the system. why i think we don't see more serious programs for the new devices.
I think it's completely a matter of intel's marketing section having too much power. the fact the faster 2ghz etc dothan cores (which are fairly old now) can outbench an amd fx57 when it's their mobile processor says something. which leads to one simple question... why did the prescott even exist? when they've had a faster proc that takes 1/5th the power all along. My conclusion is simple, marketing, it's a lot easier to market a 3.6ghz compy than a 2ghz one that outperforms it. clock for clock the dothan outperformed even amd's. and yet, they left it generally (asus p4p800 adapter excluded) to the laptop market. and since when do gamers use laptops? lol
while true nvidia did buy all of 3dfx's assets, it wasn't too long before that that they filed for bankruptcy.
and somehow I verymuch doubt AMD are anywhere near that desperate or in that much trouble. Just trying to increase their lot.
They have no reason not to really, the overwhelming majority of legal matters they bring up have usually wound up giving them something nice to play with, leaving them in a better position. Oh besides bad publicity, or good publicity, depending on you opinion.
I think the legal system is overused when it comes to computers nowadays (thinks of software patents) and while useful and necessary, when used improperly (not saying this case is) it brings us all down.