Yea, your right that it is all a matter of opinion. Maybe a new OS will give microsoft a chance to start from scratch. Then they could probably make a reasonable OS. It is not there lack of skill at OS design, per say, that makes Microsoft have problems but rather the fact that they have this desire to keep everything backwards compatible. Oh well, what ever. Of course, thats only my opinion..:)
--Alex
I think its more like: why get a Geo Metro for 30000 whien I can get a Corvette free?
Also, I used to have a geo, it ran forever through anything, it outsurvived all my familie's other cars.
Every one just assumes the OS that is put on dells are windows. If you put linux on the desktop then
you get a complete software suit. For about two thirds the price of a Mac with comparable features.
Also, the "aestetics" of a Mac are what people who try and justify the cost of a Mac say. Who cares
what it looks like, what matters is whats under the hood.
However you have to remember those shared libraries are only loaded into memory once. Then the OS maps those libraries into the applications address space. At least on a good OS thats what happens (or something similar).
I really REALLY *REALLY* hope this guy is wrong...
But the more I hear the harder it becomes to doubt him. And how the hell has
G.W. gotten away with so much? I still can't figure that out... Should this not
be enough to at least get the republicans a *really* bad rep? I guess with the
way so many americans just dont care about what their government does it probably
wont. Oh, well; hopefully the current america will collapse under it's own weight
before it does anymore damage to the world... sigh...
They are doing something: learning. They are having fun and at the same time learning about parrallel computing. I'm jealous of them; I would love to have lots of old crap that I could set up and run some sort of parallel computing software. Not to mention this hardware is basically unusable so the poor african towns could possibly have more trouble setting the stuff up than they are worth. Especially if they have to put in a connection to the internet. That could be hundreds of thousands of US dollars to do if the village is far away from a city.
If some one could make a game that is even half of what that game sounds then that would be sweet. Too bad its utter crap. A game like that would make games worth playing. But to imagine a game being written in the near future that meets those expectations is not a good idea. Imagine the pain in debugging something that huge. A game that size would be a hundred times as complex as the microsoft kernel (which is something like 50 million lines of code).
Anyway whats the pony thing? I misses that posting...
Video will also stream; you probably need about a megabyte/second+ to stream a DVD. I think it is really cool what I can do with video. I put all of my media on a central web server which all my computers on my LAN access and stream stuff from. Works like a charm.
I have a linux FC 4 server running my web server on a 10/100 LAN. A wireless LAN running at 30 Mb/s would be more than adequate for streaming music. The computer I use to play the media is an FC 2 box which connects to the server using mplayer which plays the music over a stream. My webserver is apache. Both computers are run of the mill x86 desktops.
You could try using mplayer and have it connect to a webserver where you store all your media. mplayer is a *NIX app so I dont know if there is a windows/mac version. But if you are willing to setup a webserver to serv your media it is a great solution to music/video done remotely.
Sorry to point this out but Mac OS 9 was a massive mistake on the part of
the kernel developers. A non-preemtive kernel therefore sketchy multithreading:
if one application crashed the whoe system went down. So until OS X came out
mac had nothing on systems like unix which had been doing stable multithreading
since the seventies.
But what do I know considering my obvious linux/unix bias?
Anyway...
Cheers
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Yea, your right that it is all a matter of opinion. Maybe a new OS will give microsoft a chance to start from scratch. Then they could probably make a reasonable OS. It is not there lack of skill at OS design, per say, that makes Microsoft have problems but rather the fact that they have this desire to keep everything backwards compatible. Oh well, what ever. Of course, thats only my opinion.. :)
--Alex
I think its more like: why get a Geo Metro for 30000 whien I can get a Corvette free? Also, I used to have a geo, it ran forever through anything, it outsurvived all my familie's other cars.
Every one just assumes the OS that is put on dells are windows. If you put linux on the desktop then you get a complete software suit. For about two thirds the price of a Mac with comparable features. Also, the "aestetics" of a Mac are what people who try and justify the cost of a Mac say. Who cares what it looks like, what matters is whats under the hood.
However you have to remember those shared libraries are only loaded into memory once. Then the OS maps those libraries into the applications address space. At least on a good OS thats what happens (or something similar).
I really REALLY *REALLY* hope this guy is wrong... But the more I hear the harder it becomes to doubt him. And how the hell has G.W. gotten away with so much? I still can't figure that out... Should this not be enough to at least get the republicans a *really* bad rep? I guess with the way so many americans just dont care about what their government does it probably wont. Oh, well; hopefully the current america will collapse under it's own weight before it does anymore damage to the world... sigh...
They are doing something: learning. They are having fun and at the same time learning about parrallel computing. I'm jealous of them; I would love to have lots of old crap that I could set up and run some sort of parallel computing software. Not to mention this hardware is basically unusable so the poor african towns could possibly have more trouble setting the stuff up than they are worth. Especially if they have to put in a connection to the internet. That could be hundreds of thousands of US dollars to do if the village is far away from a city.
If some one could make a game that is even half of what that game sounds then that would be sweet. Too bad its utter crap. A game like that would make games worth playing. But to imagine a game being written in the near future that meets those expectations is not a good idea. Imagine the pain in debugging something that huge. A game that size would be a hundred times as complex as the microsoft kernel (which is something like 50 million lines of code). Anyway whats the pony thing? I misses that posting...
Video will also stream; you probably need about a megabyte/second+ to stream a DVD. I think it is really cool what I can do with video. I put all of my media on a central web server which all my computers on my LAN access and stream stuff from. Works like a charm.
I have a linux FC 4 server running my web server on a 10/100 LAN. A wireless LAN running at 30 Mb/s would be more than adequate for streaming music. The computer I use to play the media is an FC 2 box which connects to the server using mplayer which plays the music over a stream. My webserver is apache. Both computers are run of the mill x86 desktops.
You could try using mplayer and have it connect to a webserver where you store all your media. mplayer is a *NIX app so I dont know if there is a windows/mac version. But if you are willing to setup a webserver to serv your media it is a great solution to music/video done remotely.
Sorry to point this out but Mac OS 9 was a massive mistake on the part of the kernel developers. A non-preemtive kernel therefore sketchy multithreading: if one application crashed the whoe system went down. So until OS X came out mac had nothing on systems like unix which had been doing stable multithreading since the seventies. But what do I know considering my obvious linux/unix bias? Anyway... Cheers