ever notice that for every Slashdot story about virtualizing, emulating or somehow running Windows, someone inevitably wonders out loud if it will also faithfully reproduce the BSOD?
Inevitably, it also gets moderated up as at least (+3, Funny). Not that it isn't...;-)
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
lol. I just tried the 8-ball and it's panicking! Instead of an answer, it comes up with an image of a guy with a tear rolling down his cheek and a desperate plea for help, "Help! I've been slashdotted!" -----
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Actually, it is different. It's saying that apps can't swap out to disk. They have to remain in memory at all times. -----
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Ordinary applications don't actually use the swap file, just the system. If an application has to swap to disk, it has to explicitly do so from within the program. Not fun huh? They're working on it.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Yes there is. Just take a look at a chart of bandwidth price versus time(just like CPU price versus time for Moore's law) and you'll see that the exact same trend, except the slope is about 2-3 times that of Moore's law for CPU's. That means that the price of bandwidth is halving at twice the rate that cpu prices are halving, or, taken another way, bandwidth is doubling at twice the rate that CPU's are doubling.
Now I'm not talking about how much you can get a T1 from your local Telco, I'm talking about how much it actually costs to deploy a network given current tech.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Re:Suspicious members of the programming community
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SDMI Cracked Too Soon
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"The hacker boycott of SDM organized by suspicious members of the programming community has turned out to be irrelevant."
lol. I didn't read the article, but if they really said that, then they REALLY have problems. The boycott is anything BUT irrelevant. If the watermarking scheme was cracked without the help of the hackers, then imagine how fast it would be broken if it weren't being boycotted.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Ummm.... no. There's a big problem I see with your logic here. When you minituarize components, they draw less power because their operating voltage decreases. Since your calulations are based an a silicon based LEDs which are mm's in size, and since OLED's are um's in size and ORGANIC, your power number are off by order's of magnitude at LEAST.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
He wasn't saying that there are no differences period, he was saying that there are no differences on the point you brought up. Both CSS and OSS are influenced by the same forces and respond in the same way. Both can suffer delays for the same reasons, except CSS has the added burden of management pressure which would be willing to push a buggy product out the door before it's truly ready.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
It's not so much that, it's actually a problem with Konqueror. When I input special characters like '&', it replaces it with &, etc. whenever I write messages.
Not a microsoft conspiracy... well, then again...:-)
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
True, but when it DOES happen, it's MUCH worse than what they depict on TV. -----
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
I'm kind of surprised at the bashing Mozilla always gets too. I recently tried downloading Netscape PR3 and I realized why. It's HORRIBLE. It wouldn't even start up. It segfaulted almost immediately. When it did finally start, it segfaulted after visiting one page.
Then I went and downloaded a recent nightly build of Mozilla. The difference was astounding! Despite the fact that it's a nightly build and hence not really stable, it was light years ahead of PR3 in speed and stability. THe only issue that remains(that I could tell) are startup speed.
I was also shocked by the size difference. PR3 weighs in at 29MB! Now THAT's bloat. Mozilla is a light-weight 8-10MB depending on what features are included.
The GUI slowness that characterized Mozilla in the past is gone as far as I can tell. It's quite beautiful and I use it as my seconday browser, after Konqueror.
I still even use Netscape 4.75 to check Hotmail. I can do it in Konqueror, but the message composing is all messed up, so Netscape is staying for awhile. I will hail the day when I can finally type "rpm -e netscape" on my command line and never look back!:-)
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
I will see your apocalyptic literature, and raise you a few thousand thermonuclear warheads.
Do you still want to bet on this planet or are you gonna fold?
lol. good one.:-)
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Good points about the Earth's bio-diversity and how difficult it would be to replicate it, especially in an alien environment. I hadn't really considered that, though I still shared your opinion anyway. If I had any mod points, you would have had my vote.:-)
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
I remember seeing a webcast where Jobs said such a thing and I remember reading some docs to that effect as well, but I haven't actually played with it so I'm not 100% sure.
MS reps argument about why this isn't spam "The e-mail you received was an invitation from MSN Explorer, sent on behalf of an existing user who changed their e-mail address and wants you to try MSN Explorer."
*sigh*
Could Microsoft possibly be more clueless? That's one of the most ridiculous statements I have ever heard.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Then we have the slashdot effect. In essence this is 'like' a dos attack millions of unique connections made to a server at the exact same time... the only way to prevent this... load balanced servers a ton of bandwidth... or you could just not tell slashdot:-).
Perhaps a mirroring system could be set up. Any site that gets posted on slashdot, is mirrored on the slashdot servers. A percentage of connections get sent to the real site(when someone tries to click the link), and a percentage remain on the slashdot mirror thereby relieving the host of the huge impact of the slashdot effect. Or some of it anyway.
Just a thought.:-)
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
IRC, Mac OS X can compile Java natively(it boasts a full native Java API), so the speed hit you were referring to wouldn't really be an issue. -----
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
/User is a link to/usr just like/Programs(or was it/Applications?) is a link to/usr/bin etc.
I played with Darwin awhile back(v1.03) and if you step through it, the new structure quickly becomes apparent. They just linked standard Unix directories(for backward compatability) and used names that have more meaning like/System,/Programs, etc.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
When you look at the growth trends for computer system speed and fiberoptic networks(Moore's law for fiber optics), optics growth is almost ten times that of CPU speed(IRC). So you can easily project that the network capacity will surpass the CPU's capability to deliver that much information.
And about the rest of the network scaling up, I'm not so sure. Alot of servers are still running on T1's despite the acceptance of cable, DSL and satellite high speed connections.
Anyhow, we'll just have to see.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Whenever I think of Freenet, I always come to the conclusion that it's distributed content nature is very good for the growth of bandwidth. Who here on Slashdot wouldn't love a fiber line feeding right into his/her home? I sure wouldn't mind...:-)
But has anyone ever considered the consequences if everyone had fiber to the home? If you thought the internet was bogged down now, imagine the servers trying to serve all that extra content. Imagine trying to saturate all the connections of a/.ed site. (shudder)
The present problems stem from centralized content delivery. One connection to the net and a set of servers delvering content over that line. Well with Freenet, content is distributed, so one site will never be bogged down and/.ing will be a thing of the past. The closest node will deliver content, so line saturation(and full use of that fiber) comes naturally.
But I see a big potential problem with this kind of distributed system. Intellectual Property and Copyright. We've all seen companies going after domain names because of trademarks, and the same would apply to their coporate websites.
If content was distributed ala Freenet, corporations would no longer have control of that content; the Freenet architecture would. Freenet would decide how the information was to be distributed. Because of the caching inherent in the Freenet architecture(which solves the bandwidth problems), copies of the website would be distributed to millions of computers all over the world instead of being in one mangageable place(ie. their own server). I don't think any corporation would like that very much. The lack of control is especially frightening to them.
Of course, I could be wrong about any of the things I have just said, so please correct me if I am.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
To be honest, despite all the people on slashdot bitching about Mozilla's instability, bloat and slowness, it's now pretty damn good!
I'm actually quite surprised. I had tried Mozilla before and agreed completely wiuth the bitchers that it was garbage. It was INCREDIBLY slow and unstable. It took forver to start up, the UI responsiveness was crap and it took pages forever to load. Sure they looked good, but it was way too slow. And it crashed every 10 minutes or so.
Seeing this submission on slashdot and reading some comments saying that Mozilla had much improved I decided to give it another try. I'm posting with Mozilla M16 right now and I'm very impressed by how much it's matured.
It's SOOO much faster now, the UI is much more responsive, and it only takes half as long to startup as the last time I tried it. I used M14 last time and it was nothing but problems.
I must say that Mozilla crashes even less than Konqueror(from the 1.91 release).Both browsers are quite good and I recommend everyone at least try them. They each have their great features and bugs, but both are looking VERY promising.
The only outstanding issues that I can see are the login problems(which I've heard are fixed in M17) and a few other inconsistencies.
The Mozilla project as a whole looks promising and the possibilities are incredible(see posts referring to embedded systems and application frameworks for coding things like xmlterm). I'm really looking forward to seeing the final product, and in the meantime I'll use whatever milestone I can get my hands on(and konqueror... I like finding whatever bugs I can).:-)
----- "People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Actually, according to relativistic physics, space-time is composedof 4 dimension(3 space and 1 time). The 11 dimensions you refer to are a product of string theory(which can allow upwards of 27 dimensions)
----- "I will be as a fly on the wall... I shall slip amongst them like a great... invisible... THING... !"
Writing scripts for tv shows, adverstising and marketing is a worse industry to be in for age discrimination. After you pass age 26 or so, they won't hire you anymore because they don't think you can speak to the younger generation.
I had seen this on a documentary once(60 minutes), where a 32 year old lied about being 19 and was flooded with job requests. She took a position writing for a teen show and wrote quite a few good scripts. She was quite successful.
Then people found out how old she was and the network tried everything it could to squeeze out of the contract. The calls and job offers stopped almost instantly. It really is incredible. Merits, loyalty or even actual skill or education have practically nothing to with getting the job!
It truly is sad to see people have these kinds of prejudices. I would have thought that they might not exist in the software industry, but perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps too much experience is a curse rather than beneficial(at least that's what it seems like).
----- "I will be as a fly on the wall... I shall slip amongst them like a great... invisible... THING... !"
Slashdot Mirror
ever notice that for every Slashdot story about virtualizing, emulating or somehow running Windows, someone inevitably wonders out loud if it will also faithfully reproduce the BSOD?
;-)
Inevitably, it also gets moderated up as at least (+3, Funny). Not that it isn't...
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
lol. I just tried the 8-ball and it's panicking! Instead of an answer, it comes up with an image of a guy with a tear rolling down his cheek and a desperate plea for help, "Help! I've been slashdotted!"
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Actually, it is different. It's saying that apps can't swap out to disk. They have to remain in memory at all times.
-----
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Ordinary applications don't actually use the swap file, just the system. If an application has to swap to disk, it has to explicitly do so from within the program. Not fun huh? They're working on it.
-----
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Yes there is. Just take a look at a chart of bandwidth price versus time(just like CPU price versus time for Moore's law) and you'll see that the exact same trend, except the slope is about 2-3 times that of Moore's law for CPU's. That means that the price of bandwidth is halving at twice the rate that cpu prices are halving, or, taken another way, bandwidth is doubling at twice the rate that CPU's are doubling.
Now I'm not talking about how much you can get a T1 from your local Telco, I'm talking about how much it actually costs to deploy a network given current tech.
-----
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
"The hacker boycott of SDM organized by suspicious members of the programming community has turned out to be irrelevant."
lol. I didn't read the article, but if they really said that, then they REALLY have problems. The boycott is anything BUT irrelevant. If the watermarking scheme was cracked without the help of the hackers, then imagine how fast it would be broken if it weren't being boycotted.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Ummm.... no. There's a big problem I see with your logic here. When you minituarize components, they draw less power because their operating voltage decreases. Since your calulations are based an a silicon based LEDs which are mm's in size, and since OLED's are um's in size and ORGANIC, your power number are off by order's of magnitude at LEAST.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
He wasn't saying that there are no differences period, he was saying that there are no differences on the point you brought up. Both CSS and OSS are influenced by the same forces and respond in the same way. Both can suffer delays for the same reasons, except CSS has the added burden of management pressure which would be willing to push a buggy product out the door before it's truly ready.
-----
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
It's not so much that, it's actually a problem with Konqueror. When I input special characters like '&', it replaces it with &, etc. whenever I write messages.
Not a microsoft conspiracy... well, then again... :-)
-----
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
True, but when it DOES happen, it's MUCH worse than what they depict on TV.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
I'm kind of surprised at the bashing Mozilla always gets too. I recently tried downloading Netscape PR3 and I realized why. It's HORRIBLE. It wouldn't even start up. It segfaulted almost immediately. When it did finally start, it segfaulted after visiting one page.
Then I went and downloaded a recent nightly build of Mozilla. The difference was astounding! Despite the fact that it's a nightly build and hence not really stable, it was light years ahead of PR3 in speed and stability. THe only issue that remains(that I could tell) are startup speed.
I was also shocked by the size difference. PR3 weighs in at 29MB! Now THAT's bloat. Mozilla is a light-weight 8-10MB depending on what features are included.
The GUI slowness that characterized Mozilla in the past is gone as far as I can tell. It's quite beautiful and I use it as my seconday browser, after Konqueror.
I still even use Netscape 4.75 to check Hotmail. I can do it in Konqueror, but the message composing is all messed up, so Netscape is staying for awhile. I will hail the day when I can finally type "rpm -e netscape" on my command line and never look back! :-)
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
I will see your apocalyptic literature, and raise you a few thousand thermonuclear warheads.
Do you still want to bet on this planet or are you gonna fold?
lol. good one. :-)
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
In fact, we should speed the development by not breeding anymore. Or to be more extreme, hastening the end voluntarily.
Sure! You go first... I'll be right behind ya. :-)
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Good points about the Earth's bio-diversity and how difficult it would be to replicate it, especially in an alien environment. I hadn't really considered that, though I still shared your opinion anyway. If I had any mod points, you would have had my vote. :-)
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
I remember seeing a webcast where Jobs said such a thing and I remember reading some docs to that effect as well, but I haven't actually played with it so I'm not 100% sure.
You can check:
http://developer.apple.com/macosx
I haven't read up on it in awhile though. Good luck. :-)
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
MS reps argument about why this isn't spam "The e-mail you received was an invitation from MSN Explorer, sent on behalf of an existing user who changed their e-mail address and wants you to try MSN Explorer."
*sigh*
Could Microsoft possibly be more clueless? That's one of the most ridiculous statements I have ever heard.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Perhaps a mirroring system could be set up. Any site that gets posted on slashdot, is mirrored on the slashdot servers. A percentage of connections get sent to the real site(when someone tries to click the link), and a percentage remain on the slashdot mirror thereby relieving the host of the huge impact of the slashdot effect. Or some of it anyway.
Just a thought. :-)
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
IRC, Mac OS X can compile Java natively(it boasts a full native Java API), so the speed hit you were referring to wouldn't really be an issue.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
I played with Darwin awhile back(v1.03) and if you step through it, the new structure quickly becomes apparent. They just linked standard Unix directories(for backward compatability) and used names that have more meaning like /System, /Programs, etc.
-----
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
When you look at the growth trends for computer system speed and fiberoptic networks(Moore's law for fiber optics), optics growth is almost ten times that of CPU speed(IRC). So you can easily project that the network capacity will surpass the CPU's capability to deliver that much information.
And about the rest of the network scaling up, I'm not so sure. Alot of servers are still running on T1's despite the acceptance of cable, DSL and satellite high speed connections.
Anyhow, we'll just have to see.
-----
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Whenever I think of Freenet, I always come to the conclusion that it's distributed content nature is very good for the growth of bandwidth. Who here on Slashdot wouldn't love a fiber line feeding right into his/her home? I sure wouldn't mind... :-)
But has anyone ever considered the consequences if everyone had fiber to the home? If you thought the internet was bogged down now, imagine the servers trying to serve all that extra content. Imagine trying to saturate all the connections of a /.ed site. (shudder)
The present problems stem from centralized content delivery. One connection to the net and a set of servers delvering content over that line. Well with Freenet, content is distributed, so one site will never be bogged down and /.ing will be a thing of the past. The closest node will deliver content, so line saturation(and full use of that fiber) comes naturally.
But I see a big potential problem with this kind of distributed system. Intellectual Property and Copyright. We've all seen companies going after domain names because of trademarks, and the same would apply to their coporate websites.
If content was distributed ala Freenet, corporations would no longer have control of that content; the Freenet architecture would. Freenet would decide how the information was to be distributed. Because of the caching inherent in the Freenet architecture(which solves the bandwidth problems), copies of the website would be distributed to millions of computers all over the world instead of being in one mangageable place(ie. their own server). I don't think any corporation would like that very much. The lack of control is especially frightening to them.
Of course, I could be wrong about any of the things I have just said, so please correct me if I am.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
To be honest, despite all the people on slashdot bitching about Mozilla's instability, bloat and slowness, it's now pretty damn good!
I'm actually quite surprised. I had tried Mozilla before and agreed completely wiuth the bitchers that it was garbage. It was INCREDIBLY slow and unstable. It took forver to start up, the UI responsiveness was crap and it took pages forever to load. Sure they looked good, but it was way too slow. And it crashed every 10 minutes or so.
Seeing this submission on slashdot and reading some comments saying that Mozilla had much improved I decided to give it another try. I'm posting with Mozilla M16 right now and I'm very impressed by how much it's matured.
It's SOOO much faster now, the UI is much more responsive, and it only takes half as long to startup as the last time I tried it. I used M14 last time and it was nothing but problems.
I must say that Mozilla crashes even less than Konqueror(from the 1.91 release).Both browsers are quite good and I recommend everyone at least try them. They each have their great features and bugs, but both are looking VERY promising.
The only outstanding issues that I can see are the login problems(which I've heard are fixed in M17) and a few other inconsistencies.
The Mozilla project as a whole looks promising and the possibilities are incredible(see posts referring to embedded systems and application frameworks for coding things like xmlterm). I'm really looking forward to seeing the final product, and in the meantime I'll use whatever milestone I can get my hands on(and konqueror... I like finding whatever bugs I can). :-)
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
I was thinking that one would keep the microsoft name, and the other could be appropriately named, nano-flaccid.
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"I will be as a fly on the wall... I shall slip amongst them like a great
Actually, according to relativistic physics, space-time is composedof 4 dimension(3 space and 1 time). The 11 dimensions you refer to are a product of string theory(which can allow upwards of 27 dimensions)
... invisible ... THING ... !"
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"I will be as a fly on the wall... I shall slip amongst them like a great
Writing scripts for tv shows, adverstising and marketing is a worse industry to be in for age discrimination. After you pass age 26 or so, they won't hire you anymore because they don't think you can speak to the younger generation.
I had seen this on a documentary once(60 minutes), where a 32 year old lied about being 19 and was flooded with job requests. She took a position writing for a teen show and wrote quite a few good scripts. She was quite successful.
Then people found out how old she was and the network tried everything it could to squeeze out of the contract. The calls and job offers stopped almost instantly. It really is incredible. Merits, loyalty or even actual skill or education have practically nothing to with getting the job!
It truly is sad to see people have these kinds of prejudices. I would have thought that they might not exist in the software industry, but perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps too much experience is a curse rather than beneficial(at least that's what it seems like).
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"I will be as a fly on the wall... I shall slip amongst them like a great