I think you have the right idea there.. From the ruling:
42 I conclude that, within the meaning of s 101(1A)(a), Mr Cooper had power to prevent the copying in Australia of copyright sound recordings via his website. He had that power because he was responsible for creating and maintaining his MP3s4FREE website. As stated above, the principal content of the website comprised links to other websites and files contained on other servers. Senior counsel for Mr Cooper conceded that, in effect, the overwhelming majority of the files listed on the website were the subject of copyright. The website was structured so that when a user clicked on a link to a specific music file a copy of that file was transmitted directly to the user's computer.
Basically he got in trouble because he made it EASY to download the files. He wasn't linking to the page that contained the link to the file, he was directly linking to the MP3 itself.
I know about JIT, and if you did, you'd also know that your statement isn't quite true. It is almost never compiled prior to the FIRST execution, usually it has to run though the same code about 2000+ times before it gets compiled. Before those 2000 times are up though it is running as byte code ( which is the whole point of the HotSpot compiler). I played with the Java VM flags once and told it to compile every method on it's first run and you know what happened? It sat there for 5minutes compiling before it even brought up the main window. Every Java program you run is being run as mixed byte-interpreted and JIT compiled code. As for.NET i must confess that i don't have much experience with it and was just blindly comparing it with Java, i'll go do some more research before i make such comments again.
Rather, it's given us crappy drivers that interfere with ACPI and cause crashes.
What's your point? I've seen open source drivers do the same thing. The difference is that because Nvidia has paid developers they can at least guarantee that a usable release will come out, unpaid open source developers will program when they free time and you may never get a version that is actually usable.
The only reason you'd need Windows on a computer is to play computer games - Windows is appropriate in the same places that a Playstation 3 is, not for getting work done.
I have to completely agree with this, even though i don't use Linux as often as i did. The only reason i still have Windows installed is to play games and play DVDs. All other applications either have better or equivalent software under Linux and if they don't i can normally get the Windows version running under Wine. *sigh* Biggest problem is that i've never had success playing DVDs properly under Linux unfortunately, it always crashes, has decoding errors or some stupid problem.
I think you are pointing at the wrong thing here when you talk about GUI. The windowing system merely provides.. as it's name suggests.. the windowing control, eg, minimize, maximize, restore, copy/paste between windows, a start bar. But the windowing system isn't really the biggest performance bottleneck in the disto. The Widget toolset is, such as GTK(gnome), QT(kde), Motif, etc. They are the most resource intensive and a 1sec delay in the button drawing code will make your GUI experience crawl.
As for the general slowdown in most newer user apps, i blame the increasing usage of interpreted byte code languages such as.NET and C#(mono) and Java. Alot of newer Microsoft code links with.NET assemblies to make their work easier.. but it usually results in slower more memory hogging applications. I also blame the publishers for not giving the developers time to optimize the program, "Oh don't worry that it takes up 512MB of RAM, we'll just increase the minimum requirements!"
Yeah, i had thought about those after i posted. Would be good to do to normal people as well to prevent terrorists taking over planes/spaceplanes. But those groups are less likely to be terrorists no?
You know, if you think about it, it's not such a bad idea. No screaming kids, you don't have to be bored for 2hrs doing nothing but reading magazines, you don't have to worry about crashing, or if you are afraid of heights.. it's a good solution actually.
I don't think that the Linux filesystems require defragmentation though
Well actually they do suffer fragmentation. It's just normally noticed as much as on a Windows Desktop system. The standard procedure is to move all your files off the disk, then copy them back on again, that way all the free space is compressed.
I actually see the effects of overly-compressed digital video all the time, as I have satellite TV
I see it all the time as well where we still use analog, and when we watch "The NEWSHOUR with Jim Lehrer" you can see the digital compression artefacts from when it was converted to digital sometime between when it was recorded and when it showed up on my tv.
The digital signal is really quite excellent. Analog signals have always been snowy, fuzzy, and filled with distortion. The digital signal is clean and crisp
Wow, do you like live right next the broadcast antenna or something? I've seen digital TV on three occasions at a friends house and on every occasion the signal quality was horrible. Not just artefacts either, total dropouts, loss of sound, the garbled picture and sound you get when you lose keyframes. I can't stand it. Not to mention the compression blockyness. High-Def my ass, it was high-def, until it was compressed and cut up, sent in across the air and reassembled using crappy digital scaling on the TV. I prefer analog, any day of the week over digital.
He went on to note that the overall reaction felt better and the Killer NIC supplied a smoothness of play he did not get with the onboard NIC.
These kinds of "professional" gamers could use a fancy NIC with lower times. Or if your Richie Rich and you need some extras for your already pimped out gaming rig.
Why the hell is a supposed "EXPERT GAMER" using an onboard NIC?
This will be incorporated into a game like GTA: Hicksville, where you can drive around the city breaking into houses, malls, banks that all have floor plans accurate to the inch. Being able to simulate bank heists, getaways, etc, with this information it will be so much easier to plan crime.
You know, I forgot my wallet one day last week. I never forget my wallet, it has all my most important items (ID, credit card, cash, etc). But I still forgot it one morning on my way out the door to work. If a cop had pulled me over, I would have been in a huge pile of trouble, simply for driving without my ID.
In Australia if you get caught driving without your license, they issue you with a notice, take down your details, and you have a couple of days to get to your nearest police station and present it when you have a chance, and that's the end of it. Does this not happen where you live?
Restart can be eliminated. 95% of the time you need this it's because of an installation which prompted you to restart, anyway. For the other cases, you can just turn the power off and then turn it on again. Another option goes away. Less choice, less pain.
Ok, this guy is a software developer right? Does he KNOW the difference between a power cycle and a soft reboot? Yeah, let's just turn the power on and off again, nobody cares about the wear and tear on the drives and components, not the mention the huge power spike you get when you initially turn on your computer, nor mention the fact that turning your computer off and on again straight away is a BAD thing, but most naive users would do that anyway.
There were two courses, the first semester(6months) was basically documentation, choosing a project ( preferable a real one, with real life clients ) and getting everything ready for implementation. The second semester was performing the actual implementation. Throughout the entire thing we had a lecturer who was our sponsor who would make sure we stayed on track and did QA correctly, and we would also have 2 or 3 seminars to update the class on the progress so far. It was really fun actually and we learned alot about life cycles, risk assesment/analysis, Work Breakdown, time management, documentation and so forth.
Actually, it's nice to know that MS is paying attention to the details.
Yeah, good to know that they've been spending millions of dollars on sounds that i'm just going to turn off anyway, instead of spending that money on implementing WinFS.
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Dammit! Stop comparing DirectX to OpenGL!!!! You can't!! If you are going to compare OpenGL to something compare it to Direct3D
I know about JIT, and if you did, you'd also know that your statement isn't quite true. It is almost never compiled prior to the FIRST execution, usually it has to run though the same code about 2000+ times before it gets compiled. Before those 2000 times are up though it is running as byte code ( which is the whole point of the HotSpot compiler). I played with the Java VM flags once and told it to compile every method on it's first run and you know what happened? It sat there for 5minutes compiling before it even brought up the main window. Every Java program you run is being run as mixed byte-interpreted and JIT compiled code. As for .NET i must confess that i don't have much experience with it and was just blindly comparing it with Java, i'll go do some more research before i make such comments again.
Well instead of whining on Slashdot about it, why don't you contact your favourite distro and get them to put those things into Linux?
I think you are pointing at the wrong thing here when you talk about GUI. The windowing system merely provides.. as it's name suggests.. the windowing control, eg, minimize, maximize, restore, copy/paste between windows, a start bar. But the windowing system isn't really the biggest performance bottleneck in the disto. The Widget toolset is, such as GTK(gnome), QT(kde), Motif, etc. They are the most resource intensive and a 1sec delay in the button drawing code will make your GUI experience crawl.
.NET and C#(mono) and Java. Alot of newer Microsoft code links with .NET assemblies to make their work easier.. but it usually results in slower more memory hogging applications. I also blame the publishers for not giving the developers time to optimize the program, "Oh don't worry that it takes up 512MB of RAM, we'll just increase the minimum requirements!"
As for the general slowdown in most newer user apps, i blame the increasing usage of interpreted byte code languages such as
Yeah, i had thought about those after i posted. Would be good to do to normal people as well to prevent terrorists taking over planes/spaceplanes. But those groups are less likely to be terrorists no?
You know, if you think about it, it's not such a bad idea. No screaming kids, you don't have to be bored for 2hrs doing nothing but reading magazines, you don't have to worry about crashing, or if you are afraid of heights.. it's a good solution actually.
There is a program to defrag ext2 partitions, called "defrag", go here and read http://cbbrowne.com/info/defrag.html about why it's not needed though.
Links:
Journaling-Filesystem Fragmentation Project
Filesystem Fragmentation
Ottawa Linux Symposium Proceedings on Filesystem fragmentation
Those were just some i found in a google search.
Instead of whining about it, go get http://ipodlinux.org/ and port an already established emulator across.
This will be incorporated into a game like GTA: Hicksville, where you can drive around the city breaking into houses, malls, banks that all have floor plans accurate to the inch. Being able to simulate bank heists, getaways, etc, with this information it will be so much easier to plan crime.
I wish people would also stop comparing SDL and DirectX, they arn't even in the same league.
sigh*... WHY! do people compare DirectX and OpenGL.. Lets educate them!
DirectX is a suite of libraries including network(DirectPlay), input(DirectInput), sound(DirectSound), music(DirectMusic), and graphics ( Direct3D )
OpenGL is a 3D API, it only corresponds to Direct3D. You still need to find the comparable libraries for the other parts of DirectX
Ok, this guy is a software developer right? Does he KNOW the difference between a power cycle and a soft reboot? Yeah, let's just turn the power on and off again, nobody cares about the wear and tear on the drives and components, not the mention the huge power spike you get when you initially turn on your computer, nor mention the fact that turning your computer off and on again straight away is a BAD thing, but most naive users would do that anyway.
At my Uni ( James Cook University ) we did this.
There were two courses, the first semester(6months) was basically documentation, choosing a project ( preferable a real one, with real life clients ) and getting everything ready for implementation. The second semester was performing the actual implementation. Throughout the entire thing we had a lecturer who was our sponsor who would make sure we stayed on track and did QA correctly, and we would also have 2 or 3 seminars to update the class on the progress so far. It was really fun actually and we learned alot about life cycles, risk assesment/analysis, Work Breakdown, time management, documentation and so forth.
Here's a guy who got a refund for windows from his Toshiba laptop way back in '98
http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/toshiba.html