Windows XP's OS code was about 6 Million LOC (Line of Code) while whole system had over 40 million LOC. How many LOC Windows Vista has in it's Operating System... mayby a 6-10 while the whole system might has over 40-60 million LOC?
We can really start believing what are the reasons for OS what is based to microkernel, while the monolith OS is HUGE to maintain...
GPL is restrictive as it is _because_ it sensures freedom for users and technology. It is the _marketing people_ that the GPL bugs.
(And money hungry people, who cant control the world.)
I think the developers are happy if they dont need to reinvent all technologies... but can use and help whole world to develop faster when information is free...
"The whole mentality here is that anybody can change the source of a project, submit it, and you never know what kind of compiled binary you're going to get."
If that is their mentality, you have already lost with all arguments.
You cant try to understand that not everyone can get code to applications, only a trusted onces. Altought, everyone can send patches and new code, but it will _always_ get viewed by at least one truested coder and even can get easily modified someway in the process if the code is not so good already.
It is as easy to get a malware code to opensource software, as it is to get to closed source software. But you, as client, has better change to modified, fix, and check the software source code if you use open sourced version.
I dont know where it comes, but someway, that open source means for someones same thing as there would not be security- and quality control at all...
* Viruses - THis is not a OS problem, its a user problem. I could create a.sh file that deleted.config files or something equally evil and tell your grandma to run it and she will. (You get the point... ) (SELinux? Apparmour? Who configures profiles for each app? In anycase this wont stop 'all' evil apps. You can access the phonebook,calender to either display and insert new entries or to delete it. The 'intent' is whats the issue here, not permissions per se.)
First, Virus is a Malware, (but it does not stop you to be more specific) and AppArmor can stop virus infections. Like I cant open document files from other places than one specific directory (and it's subdirectories) on network server, because AppArmor does not allow OpenOffice.org to open any other files. A application or file what has got Virus infection, can not open the calender or phonebook unless AppArmor allows that application/file to get touch to them. And AppArmor prevents in first place other applications/files getting infected if it is configured right... in the first place. You are right that it is user problem, but you can prevents things if you are smart enough.
* Malware - Again not specific to Windows.
At least it was specific to Windows XP on 2001-2006. All what you needed to do was open an email or browse to wanted website and your OS got infected because on XP, the OS was not protected from tampering by other applications like Outlook. And it was very stupid move by Microsoft in first place to integrate the IE browser to OS so when IE got a hit... OS got hit too. Now they are smarted by sandboxing the IE from OS and actually removing the IE from OS to own normal process. So when the IE gots hit, it does not spread damage to OS. While it still can spread damage to other applications if OS or any other application (or applications own protection systems) can not prevent such thing happening.
* Crashes - Yeah, comeback with real proof. Prove conclusively, once and for all that X percentage of crashes are because of MS code, Vs. X percentage of crashes on Linux. If you want to blame poor design, again proove conclusively with real proof - Papers, OS research(Maybe a bit much to ask, but then you're claiming a 'bit much' too). How many System admins look at crash dumps and just blame the OS?
OS does not crash so easily. Linux is very stable, if just drivers and all other parts of OS what are all in monolith kernel, are stable. (All eggs in one basket). If application like Xorg, Mozilla Firefox or any other userland application crash when using Linux OS. it is not OS's fault, because none of userland applications are part of OS. Only Linux crash can be counted to be a OS crash and I have not got crashed OS long time on servers. Only a few times sometimes when Nvidia drivers crashed so the Linux went down same time! Not good! There is problem what is that people believe that OS is same as the software system product like XP or Vista. That Notepad or Calculators are part of OS and not applications what needs a OS to run. Same misbelieve has spreaded to Linux world where people gives OS fault that Mozilla Firefox, Xorg or OpenOffice crash... just very stupid believeing! On Windows it seems that OS can crash only if the drivers are bad or applications what are integrated to OS, like IE, crash and takes the OS with them!
* Drivers - Add all the drivers to the kernel? So the manufacturers of devices have to wait till the kernel maintainer decides on his own sweet time when to integrate patches. AND THEN wait till picks them up downstream. Nice solution. Doesnt scale, buddy.
I agree with this you, in one way. In monolith kernel (the OS) it is one kind stupid to compile drivers to specific kernel version. If the kernel changes, you need to compile drivers again to get working OS. But we have DKMS from Dell since 2003 what helps us to compile drivers as modules fr
I would check the software history first. If the software history is short (in your example, it does not exist at all!) so the updates does not bring lots of fixes (if there is lots of bugs) or new features (if such are needed), I would not buy such software.
If I would really need your software, and there is no competitor, I could then buy it... mayby!
But lying for customers even in VERSION numbering... it is very stupid. I would say to your marketing people to grow up and stop lying for customers, because they are the "thing" what keeps you up and going. Play nice, be honest and respect the truth.
Even that no one cant say that how much you need to update your software, until you can change one of the X.y.z numbers, but it would be very stupid if just one "normal" feature would grow up version X+1.
I just dont trust corporations if they try to cheat me by using marketing in wrong way. It is very dirty trick and I take it as offence against me and deal is off.
Actually it was correct. Those were test about running Qt4 applications vs Qt3 applications. Not running KDE3 vs KDE4. If you run KDE3 with 10 service/applications running by default and KDE4 with 25 service/applications running by default, there is very good change that KDE4 would need more RAM.
Those test what was done then, were just proof that KDE4 applications does not need so much CPU time and they are more responsive for user etc.
I have got 4Gb RAM for this laptop and 8GB RAM for my desktop PC and I like to use it what I have buyed. And what I really like is that when I use applications what really like RAM, like 3D rendering or Phototouching, I like that OS (Linux) can keep my RAM for those applications and KDE4 works still fast even that it would be needed to get swapped.
Debian is not hard to install and it is the easiest operating system to manage.
Debian is easy to install software system, and the OS management is not harder than on other Linux distributions. Like updating the OS in Mandriva is easy as like "urpmi linux-2.6.27" or if you want you can always crap your new OS version from kernel.org and compile it yourself.
The system management is lots easier than on Debian because you have Mandriva Control Center and you can easily set most needed system settings from there by just waving your mouse.
Of course if you like to do everything trought commandline by using text editors and man pages, Mandriva is not for you but you can keep using Debian. The system management should be easy for daily joe and on the Ubuntu, it is plain *hell* because it offers only tools what Gnome offers, and those ain't enough for system management. Thats why OpenSUSE and Mandriva (+ PCLinuxOS etc) are much better for "mrs wife" or "mrs girlfriend" who do not want to learn sudo or any other "stupid" tools to do everything form CLI, but just use the computer to get job done.
So you are saying "Why I should get a Ubuntu or OpenSUSE if Mandriva 2009 has everything what others has and even more too".
This is always a comparising a Linux distributions, not Linux Operating System. Every new release of distributions is just "a snapshot" of the current work what FOSS community has done in sertain projects.
You get Linux OS (kernel) + new versions of libraries (GNU+others), developer tools (GNU+others) and what important, new versions of desktop environments (KDE, Gnome, LXDE, XFCE) and other applications (OpenOffice.org, digiKam, Ktorrent, Pidgin etc). And those ain't coming so easily backported for older "snapshots".
Every distribution release, is information of the community what they have got done. When OpenSUSE release new version "later" than others, it will include that times versions. So when you read the release information, you dont read information about OpenSUSE, but the community what they got changed.
It is no matter what Linux distribution you use, because we all use same Linux OS. It just is about your taste what kind release schedule you like and who gives better support for your needs.
For me, I use Mandriva, Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE in different machines, in different places and needs. I dont choose distributions by that who I like to support, but I choose them by knowing that in certain place we need faster updates for application X and on other place we need better community support and in other place we just need easy to use system where everyone can configure system easily if needed.
If I would like to know all the time the new things what is happening in community development, I whould be needed to get everything from SVN by compiling myself. Mayby I would take Slackware or Gentoo for that but I just dont have such time to "play". at least I read every mainstream distribution release information to find out what I can expect to come on distribution what I like to use on my desktop, if really important/nice feature, I might just change my distribution for that time because I dont need to touch my own settings and applications what I use, are available easily on every distribution and waiting 15seconds first to install the application before I start it first time, is not big deal because I dont need to go the "next-next-agree-next-finish" installation exercise like on Windows.
Operating System is not there to do lots of things for you. It is there to allow you to run all other applications and libraries etc in your computer hardware. And if you even try to mention that there is no difference about monolith kernel and microkernel structure, I say you should first say what is wrong with all these links.
"This is a crucial, but subtle, point. The operating system is that portion of the software that runs in kernel mode or supervisor mode. It is protected from user tampering by the hardware (ignoring for the moment some of the older microprocessors that do not have hardware protections at all). Compilers and editors run in user mode."
Hmm... you call me as idiot because I did not mention that I know the monolith kernel has the kernel space and user space (kernel mode, userland) separation.
But at least these speaks against your own comment.
I am not sure but if few computer science professors speaks about against your "OS = kernel + userland, with no distinction between a microkernel and a monolithic kernel" I say SOMEONE is wrong. And I would bet my money for professors and not for you.
"We modified the kernel in the systemâ(TM)s operating system so that it monitors and tracks the behavior of the programs installed on it"
If they modified Linux kernel, they modified then the Linux operating system and not just kernel, because Linux is monolith kernel and not microkernel...
I played it in 4 hours with Delta, in the First time.
I have 8800GT, 5600+ processor with 4Gb RAM and first time when the ice and snow came to map. I needed to turn everything to lowest possible settings. Still I got only a very nice slideshow (about 1-2 FPS) what made me very mad when I was using the hovercraft and trying to drive (fly?) it over ice.
The game is just too boring, brings nothing "special" than new textures for NK weapons, few new guns and vehicles and thats it.
Crysis was fun to that point, until you needed to go inside that tank and pretend you are controlling a MBT (actually a car with cannon). So after the Harbor map... Crysis turned to be stupid. Even the original Far Cry was better by these guys.
Warhead was nice... but again, when the aliens game... it was just "shoot that and this and go there".
I have great hope that Far Cry 2 would blow away Crysis and all other Far Cry sisters... (Far Cry > Cry sis).
And yes, I have played both games from start to end with only a Delta (Crysis with ultra-AI mod) level by two times and I must say... There is lots of better games, but not with so nice graphics...
They make no mention of GPU accelerated filters, which seems to me like where the real benefit would be. Why would I need GPU accelerated zooming in Photoshop? I'd much rather have a GPU-accelerated Gaussian blur, since that can often take minutes to hours.
Yes, GPU accelerated filters would be really IT.
But... It is then on CS5 from what you pay $1699;-)
They need to save SOMETHING to next mainproduct. Now just 64bit and Accelerated zoom and padding... later more... Mayby a release by release they add GPU accelerated filters;-)
On these days when 64bit is coming, it sounds funny when people still speaks that 300DPI all the places. No matter what you do it is 72DPI, 300DPI and sometimes usually 150DPI. And then they try to get such "quality" from photo what is taken from 8Mpix camera and they want it to be size of 1x2 meters.
So the question is for them... how did professionals manage to do such prints 10 years ago with Macs (2-4Gb RAM) and photoshops when 64bit was "just a dream"?
Mayby the 64bit commercial effect is actually biting people because so many is believing that when then get 64bit CPU and software what supports it, they can get twice as fast computer... even they would play CS and type office documents and download torrents..
Since 2.0.x the GIMP has shown you the preview of layer/area/image what you are transforming.
Bad side is, it is not in best quality, but enough to tell how it goes.
If you tried 2.3-2.4.x series, then you just need to look the tool option and "Preview:" part where you can choose "Outline", "Grid", "Image" and "Image + Grid"
It might be so that GIMP does not show the image preview by default, but just grid or outline. Then check out the "Normal" and "Corrective" options too if needed. And use zoom (Ctrl+wheel) to get closer if needed and you get better quality for the transforming. If you cant do it with GIMP, then you have not actually tried... so then go back and use Photoshop.
What if Olympic commitee would make www.olympics.com kind domain where they would host the neutral information about olympics (all the sports rules, informations etc) and then easy to find links to every olympic happening what is coming. Then user would go just to "www.olympics.com" and in front page would be easy-to-click button for the server on the countries where the 2016, 2020 etc olympics are kept. Then you would not have anykind problems with domains when you could have the olympics site running example on www.chicago.com/olympics
Should IT professionals start to refuse to be treated as not real professionals?
The workers knowledge and experties is not always proofed with working time or any other certificates, you need to show what you know. It applies to any professional, you only need to live with it. Even someone has studied computer science in university, does not mean that you are always actually qualified.
Professional does not mean same as qualified. Even the amateur can be more qualified to job than professional. Problem is that most people does not understand the difference of the professional and amateur, they make a black/white analyse for that.
The difference is usually just the payment... But the other difference what makes actually more, is that professional spends usually 8h/5d a week to work, while amateurs just usually spending the free-time. But then again, amateur usually with greater passion can lead better quality of work.
But I would not hire a 15 year old kid without tests either, even what kind "promise" he would be.
What I would demand, is that every person who gets hired, gets tested first with same tests, and if test is changed later, older workers gets tested again with new tests. Or then every person gets choosed only by their certificates, without knowing their real qualities for job. It is one or other, not mixed...
Can you then explain for me (for us?) why did constructers find a pools of melted steel after weeks under the ruins?
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In several years time, when I pick up Doom V, I'm expecting to see an editor that doesn't take a degree to master but instead lets me quickly throw in corridors, rooms, doors, gun turrets with the ease of Spore's building editor. Instead of dropping in generic creatures or spending weeks building them,
I liked the Tribes 2 game too because it had great editor. You pressed Ctrl+Alt+E (if I remember correctly) in single player or as server, and it loaded in 10-15 seconds a editor GUI for you. Then you coud edit the world as using paintbrush on Paint or any other drawing application, to edit terran and paint it. You had right side tree-list of all the stuff what you had on game and you could just double click them to get them positioned front of you, there you could just drag them around and position them how you wanted.
And if you were a server for multiplayer game, all other players could see what you were doing, so you could actually build a new map with friends very easily. You could even control other players like any other object, grap them and move them or trowh them to different places etc. And all that time, they could play the game as without you being in editor.
Only problem was that if you edited the terrain (terraforming) other way than painting, no one could not join to game after that if they dropped of. untill you sended a map file to them again. It was first talked that it is not so but somekind problem in game engine made that promise could not be keeped.
And you were not forced to objects what you got on game, you could make more of them (buildings, turrets, vehicles) with Half-Life editor what was easy to use. At least for buildings. You just grabbed few pieces, edited them and then painted like on Spore. But if you did vehicles and turrets, then you needed to know how to script and animate them. But in game editor itself, it was usually not needed because you could change the objects size, rotations and all other very easily.
It was first game ever what I could use to make own maps, without knowing anything about modeling and scripting. Now the spore just reminds me from Tribes 2 editor, difference is just that editor is needed thing to know, what was not the point in Tribes 2.
I hope that Tribes 2 kind editor would come to all FPS games.
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Ah... ESDF it is.... Reminds me first game what I got what used it.. Tribes 2. First it was bretty much simple pain when fingers went "automatically" to WASD but soon the ESDF proofed to be much better for all FPS games. I hope that would be new "standard" for FPS games, we would get few buttons more. But now the direction is going to consoles what has even less functions. I have tried to play Crysis on PC with Pad... And I hate that few important functions ain't possible to have, like "lie down", only crouching and standing (+jumping). So the sneaking is more restricted.
Spore is a RTS game for childrens. Spore is not about evolution, it is about creationism.
too much?
I am waiting that EA will start selling addons like they did on The Sims games. Mayby first addon will allow you to make vehicles what could have turrets/missiles/lasers for all "sides" (not just for aggressive)... instead music keys, coins etc and all would shoot different way and not with same homing "mortars" of blue beam.
I would not buy Spore until it is finished game. It is not such until you have 1+10 addons on it. When I tried the game on my friend PC, I didnt actually find anything intresting what I readed and saw of demos and interviews.
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Windows XP's OS code was about 6 Million LOC (Line of Code) while whole system had over 40 million LOC. How many LOC Windows Vista has in it's Operating System... mayby a 6-10 while the whole system might has over 40-60 million LOC?
We can really start believing what are the reasons for OS what is based to microkernel, while the monolith OS is HUGE to maintain...
GPL is restrictive as it is _because_ it sensures freedom for users and technology. It is the _marketing people_ that the GPL bugs.
(And money hungry people, who cant control the world.)
I think the developers are happy if they dont need to reinvent all technologies... but can use and help whole world to develop faster when information is free...
"The whole mentality here is that anybody can change the source of a project, submit it, and you never know what kind of compiled binary you're going to get."
If that is their mentality, you have already lost with all arguments.
You cant try to understand that not everyone can get code to applications, only a trusted onces. Altought, everyone can send patches and new code, but it will _always_ get viewed by at least one truested coder and even can get easily modified someway in the process if the code is not so good already.
It is as easy to get a malware code to opensource software, as it is to get to closed source software. But you, as client, has better change to modified, fix, and check the software source code if you use open sourced version.
I dont know where it comes, but someway, that open source means for someones same thing as there would not be security- and quality control at all...
* Viruses - THis is not a OS problem, its a user problem. I could create a .sh file that deleted .config files or something equally evil and tell your grandma to run it and she will. (You get the point... ) (SELinux? Apparmour? Who configures profiles for each app? In anycase this wont stop 'all' evil apps. You can access the phonebook,calender to either display and insert new entries or to delete it. The 'intent' is whats the issue here, not permissions per se.)
First, Virus is a Malware, (but it does not stop you to be more specific) and AppArmor can stop virus infections. Like I cant open document files from other places than one specific directory (and it's subdirectories) on network server, because AppArmor does not allow OpenOffice.org to open any other files. A application or file what has got Virus infection, can not open the calender or phonebook unless AppArmor allows that application/file to get touch to them. And AppArmor prevents in first place other applications/files getting infected if it is configured right... in the first place. You are right that it is user problem, but you can prevents things if you are smart enough.
* Malware - Again not specific to Windows.
At least it was specific to Windows XP on 2001-2006. All what you needed to do was open an email or browse to wanted website and your OS got infected because on XP, the OS was not protected from tampering by other applications like Outlook. And it was very stupid move by Microsoft in first place to integrate the IE browser to OS so when IE got a hit... OS got hit too. Now they are smarted by sandboxing the IE from OS and actually removing the IE from OS to own normal process. So when the IE gots hit, it does not spread damage to OS. While it still can spread damage to other applications if OS or any other application (or applications own protection systems) can not prevent such thing happening.
* Crashes - Yeah, comeback with real proof. Prove conclusively, once and for all that X percentage of crashes are because of MS code, Vs. X percentage of crashes on Linux. If you want to blame poor design, again proove conclusively with real proof - Papers, OS research(Maybe a bit much to ask, but then you're claiming a 'bit much' too). How many System admins look at crash dumps and just blame the OS?
OS does not crash so easily. Linux is very stable, if just drivers and all other parts of OS what are all in monolith kernel, are stable. (All eggs in one basket).
If application like Xorg, Mozilla Firefox or any other userland application crash when using Linux OS. it is not OS's fault, because none of userland applications are part of OS. Only Linux crash can be counted to be a OS crash and I have not got crashed OS long time on servers. Only a few times sometimes when Nvidia drivers crashed so the Linux went down same time! Not good! There is problem what is that people believe that OS is same as the software system product like XP or Vista. That Notepad or Calculators are part of OS and not applications what needs a OS to run. Same misbelieve has spreaded to Linux world where people gives OS fault that Mozilla Firefox, Xorg or OpenOffice crash... just very stupid believeing! On Windows it seems that OS can crash only if the drivers are bad or applications what are integrated to OS, like IE, crash and takes the OS with them!
* Drivers - Add all the drivers to the kernel? So the manufacturers of devices have to wait till the kernel maintainer decides on his own sweet time when to integrate patches. AND THEN wait till picks them up downstream. Nice solution. Doesnt scale, buddy.
I agree with this you, in one way. In monolith kernel (the OS) it is one kind stupid to compile drivers to specific kernel version. If the kernel changes, you need to compile drivers again to get working OS. But we have DKMS from Dell since 2003 what helps us to compile drivers as modules fr
A better image of ST:NG uniforms
http://www.kabeleins.de/imperia/md/images/serien_shows/serien/_galerien/s/star_trek_tng/01_star_trek_the_next_generation_500_375_Paromount_Pictures.jpg
ST:NG had good uniforms. All the uniforms looks like joggin suits on those shots. No style, no correct tags and rankings etc.
Check out the Star-Trek Next Generation season 5-6 uniforms what example a Jean-Luc Picard had.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Picard
I would check the software history first.
If the software history is short (in your example, it does not exist at all!) so the updates does not bring lots of fixes (if there is lots of bugs) or new features (if such are needed), I would not buy such software.
If I would really need your software, and there is no competitor, I could then buy it... mayby!
But lying for customers even in VERSION numbering... it is very stupid. I would say to your marketing people to grow up and stop lying for customers, because they are the "thing" what keeps you up and going. Play nice, be honest and respect the truth.
Even that no one cant say that how much you need to update your software, until you can change one of the X.y.z numbers, but it would be very stupid if just one "normal" feature would grow up version X+1.
I just dont trust corporations if they try to cheat me by using marketing in wrong way. It is very dirty trick and I take it as offence against me and deal is off.
"but it was basically utterly wrong."
Actually it was correct. Those were test about running Qt4 applications vs Qt3 applications. Not running KDE3 vs KDE4. If you run KDE3 with 10 service/applications running by default and KDE4 with 25 service/applications running by default, there is very good change that KDE4 would need more RAM.
Those test what was done then, were just proof that KDE4 applications does not need so much CPU time and they are more responsive for user etc.
I have got 4Gb RAM for this laptop and 8GB RAM for my desktop PC and I like to use it what I have buyed. And what I really like is that when I use applications what really like RAM, like 3D rendering or Phototouching, I like that OS (Linux) can keep my RAM for those applications and KDE4 works still fast even that it would be needed to get swapped.
Debian is not hard to install and it is the easiest operating system to manage.
Debian is easy to install software system, and the OS management is not harder than on other Linux distributions. Like updating the OS in Mandriva is easy as like "urpmi linux-2.6.27" or if you want you can always crap your new OS version from kernel.org and compile it yourself.
The system management is lots easier than on Debian because you have Mandriva Control Center and you can easily set most needed system settings from there by just waving your mouse.
Of course if you like to do everything trought commandline by using text editors and man pages, Mandriva is not for you but you can keep using Debian. The system management should be easy for daily joe and on the Ubuntu, it is plain *hell* because it offers only tools what Gnome offers, and those ain't enough for system management. Thats why OpenSUSE and Mandriva (+ PCLinuxOS etc) are much better for "mrs wife" or "mrs girlfriend" who do not want to learn sudo or any other "stupid" tools to do everything form CLI, but just use the computer to get job done.
So you are saying "Why I should get a Ubuntu or OpenSUSE if Mandriva 2009 has everything what others has and even more too".
This is always a comparising a Linux distributions, not Linux Operating System. Every new release of distributions is just "a snapshot" of the current work what FOSS community has done in sertain projects.
You get Linux OS (kernel) + new versions of libraries (GNU+others), developer tools (GNU+others) and what important, new versions of desktop environments (KDE, Gnome, LXDE, XFCE) and other applications (OpenOffice.org, digiKam, Ktorrent, Pidgin etc). And those ain't coming so easily backported for older "snapshots".
Every distribution release, is information of the community what they have got done. When OpenSUSE release new version "later" than others, it will include that times versions. So when you read the release information, you dont read information about OpenSUSE, but the community what they got changed.
It is no matter what Linux distribution you use, because we all use same Linux OS. It just is about your taste what kind release schedule you like and who gives better support for your needs.
For me, I use Mandriva, Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE in different machines, in different places and needs. I dont choose distributions by that who I like to support, but I choose them by knowing that in certain place we need faster updates for application X and on other place we need better community support and in other place we just need easy to use system where everyone can configure system easily if needed.
If I would like to know all the time the new things what is happening in community development, I whould be needed to get everything from SVN by compiling myself. Mayby I would take Slackware or Gentoo for that but I just dont have such time to "play". at least I read every mainstream distribution release information to find out what I can expect to come on distribution what I like to use on my desktop, if really important/nice feature, I might just change my distribution for that time because I dont need to touch my own settings and applications what I use, are available easily on every distribution and waiting 15seconds first to install the application before I start it first time, is not big deal because I dont need to go the "next-next-agree-next-finish" installation exercise like on Windows.
Thanks for your comment. :-)
Operating System is not there to do lots of things for you. It is there to allow you to run all other applications and libraries etc in your computer hardware. And if you even try to mention that there is no difference about monolith kernel and microkernel structure, I say you should first say what is wrong with all these links.
"This is a crucial, but subtle, point. The operating system is that portion of the software that runs in kernel mode or supervisor mode. It is protected from user tampering by the hardware (ignoring for the moment some of the older microprocessors that do not have hardware protections at all). Compilers and editors run in user mode."
(first link, others follows even this same)
http://tinyurl.com/532kb8
http://tinyurl.com/mum9x
http://tinyurl.com/qhuhg
http://tinyurl.com/3uaq48
After you have readed all those, tell me what is wrong on them with reasons and correct me! Because I want to know what is wrong on those if so!
Hmm... you call me as idiot because I did not mention that I know the monolith kernel has the kernel space and user space (kernel mode, userland) separation.
But at least these speaks against your own comment.
http://tinyurl.com/532kb8
http://tinyurl.com/mum9x
http://tinyurl.com/qhuhg
http://tinyurl.com/3uaq48
I am not sure but if few computer science professors speaks about against your "OS = kernel + userland, with no distinction between a microkernel and a monolithic kernel" I say SOMEONE is wrong. And I would bet my money for professors and not for you.
"We modified the kernel in the systemâ(TM)s operating system so that it monitors and tracks the behavior of the programs installed on it"
If they modified Linux kernel, they modified then the Linux operating system and not just kernel, because Linux is monolith kernel and not microkernel...
I played it in 4 hours with Delta, in the First time.
I have 8800GT, 5600+ processor with 4Gb RAM and first time when the ice and snow came to map. I needed to turn everything to lowest possible settings. Still I got only a very nice slideshow (about 1-2 FPS) what made me very mad when I was using the hovercraft and trying to drive (fly?) it over ice.
The game is just too boring, brings nothing "special" than new textures for NK weapons, few new guns and vehicles and thats it.
Crysis was fun to that point, until you needed to go inside that tank and pretend you are controlling a MBT (actually a car with cannon).
So after the Harbor map... Crysis turned to be stupid. Even the original Far Cry was better by these guys.
Warhead was nice... but again, when the aliens game... it was just "shoot that and this and go there".
I have great hope that Far Cry 2 would blow away Crysis and all other Far Cry sisters... (Far Cry > Cry sis).
And yes, I have played both games from start to end with only a Delta (Crysis with ultra-AI mod) level by two times and I must say... There is lots of better games, but not with so nice graphics...
They make no mention of GPU accelerated filters, which seems to me like where the real benefit would be. Why would I need GPU accelerated zooming in Photoshop? I'd much rather have a GPU-accelerated Gaussian blur, since that can often take minutes to hours.
Yes, GPU accelerated filters would be really IT.
But... It is then on CS5 from what you pay $1699 ;-)
They need to save SOMETHING to next mainproduct. ;-)
Now just 64bit and Accelerated zoom and padding... later more... Mayby a release by release they add GPU accelerated filters
You are correct.
On these days when 64bit is coming, it sounds funny when people still speaks that 300DPI all the places. No matter what you do it is 72DPI, 300DPI and sometimes usually 150DPI. And then they try to get such "quality" from photo what is taken from 8Mpix camera and they want it to be size of 1x2 meters.
So the question is for them... how did professionals manage to do such prints 10 years ago with Macs (2-4Gb RAM) and photoshops when 64bit was "just a dream"?
Mayby the 64bit commercial effect is actually biting people because so many is believing that when then get 64bit CPU and software what supports it, they can get twice as fast computer... even they would play CS and type office documents and download torrents..
Last build what you tried was 1.2.x?
Since 2.0.x the GIMP has shown you the preview of layer/area/image what you are transforming.
Bad side is, it is not in best quality, but enough to tell how it goes.
If you tried 2.3-2.4.x series, then you just need to look the tool option and "Preview:" part where you can choose "Outline", "Grid", "Image" and "Image + Grid"
It might be so that GIMP does not show the image preview by default, but just grid or outline. Then check out the "Normal" and "Corrective" options too if needed. And use zoom (Ctrl+wheel) to get closer if needed and you get better quality for the transforming. If you cant do it with GIMP, then you have not actually tried... so then go back and use Photoshop.
What if Olympic commitee would make www.olympics.com kind domain where they would host the neutral information about olympics (all the sports rules, informations etc) and then easy to find links to every olympic happening what is coming. Then user would go just to "www.olympics.com" and in front page would be easy-to-click button for the server on the countries where the 2016, 2020 etc olympics are kept. Then you would not have anykind problems with domains when you could have the olympics site running example on www.chicago.com/olympics
Should IT professionals start to refuse to be treated as not real professionals?
The workers knowledge and experties is not always proofed with working time or any other certificates, you need to show what you know.
It applies to any professional, you only need to live with it. Even someone has studied computer science in university, does not mean that you are always actually qualified.
Professional does not mean same as qualified.
Even the amateur can be more qualified to job than professional. Problem is that most people does not understand the difference of the professional and amateur, they make a black/white analyse for that.
The difference is usually just the payment... But the other difference what makes actually more, is that professional spends usually 8h/5d a week to work, while amateurs just usually spending the free-time. But then again, amateur usually with greater passion can lead better quality of work.
But I would not hire a 15 year old kid without tests either, even what kind "promise" he would be.
What I would demand, is that every person who gets hired, gets tested first with same tests, and if test is changed later, older workers gets tested again with new tests. Or then every person gets choosed only by their certificates, without knowing their real qualities for job. It is one or other, not mixed...
It never melted either
Can you then explain for me (for us?) why did constructers find a pools of melted steel after weeks under the ruins?
In several years time, when I pick up Doom V, I'm expecting to see an editor that doesn't take a degree to master but instead lets me quickly throw in corridors, rooms, doors, gun turrets with the ease of Spore's building editor. Instead of dropping in generic creatures or spending weeks building them,
I liked the Tribes 2 game too because it had great editor. You pressed Ctrl+Alt+E (if I remember correctly) in single player or as server, and it loaded in 10-15 seconds a editor GUI for you. Then you coud edit the world as using paintbrush on Paint or any other drawing application, to edit terran and paint it. You had right side tree-list of all the stuff what you had on game and you could just double click them to get them positioned front of you, there you could just drag them around and position them how you wanted.
And if you were a server for multiplayer game, all other players could see what you were doing, so you could actually build a new map with friends very easily. You could even control other players like any other object, grap them and move them or trowh them to different places etc. And all that time, they could play the game as without you being in editor.
Only problem was that if you edited the terrain (terraforming) other way than painting, no one could not join to game after that if they dropped of. untill you sended a map file to them again. It was first talked that it is not so but somekind problem in game engine made that promise could not be keeped.
And you were not forced to objects what you got on game, you could make more of them (buildings, turrets, vehicles) with Half-Life editor what was easy to use. At least for buildings. You just grabbed few pieces, edited them and then painted like on Spore. But if you did vehicles and turrets, then you needed to know how to script and animate them. But in game editor itself, it was usually not needed because you could change the objects size, rotations and all other very easily.
It was first game ever what I could use to make own maps, without knowing anything about modeling and scripting. Now the spore just reminds me from Tribes 2 editor, difference is just that editor is needed thing to know, what was not the point in Tribes 2.
I hope that Tribes 2 kind editor would come to all FPS games.
Ah... ESDF it is.... Reminds me first game what I got what used it.. Tribes 2. First it was bretty much simple pain when fingers went "automatically" to WASD but soon the ESDF proofed to be much better for all FPS games.
I hope that would be new "standard" for FPS games, we would get few buttons more. But now the direction is going to consoles what has even less functions. I have tried to play Crysis on PC with Pad... And I hate that few important functions ain't possible to have, like "lie down", only crouching and standing (+jumping). So the sneaking is more restricted.
Spore is a RTS game for childrens.
Spore is not about evolution, it is about creationism.
too much?
I am waiting that EA will start selling addons like they did on The Sims games. Mayby first addon will allow you to make vehicles what could have turrets/missiles/lasers for all "sides" (not just for aggressive)... instead music keys, coins etc and all would shoot different way and not with same homing "mortars" of blue beam.
I would not buy Spore until it is finished game. It is not such until you have 1+10 addons on it.
When I tried the game on my friend PC, I didnt actually find anything intresting what I readed and saw of demos and interviews.
"is Google's" = Google has royalty-free license to it.