Nice to see vendors working together to improve Linux.
Well, Samsung had some SSDs to sell. It's part of the open source philosophy: you scratch your own itch, and everyone benefits.
Still, the problem is that we don't arrive at a well-rounded result. Fixing some things here and there is not deep QA. After stories like this I always get cold chills imagining what else broken is there.
Umm, you don't seem to act any smarter yourself.
Classic tip from Thomas Jefferson: "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
The Half-Life wiki has a good article called Future of the Half-Life series where you can follow the latest developments.
On March 19, Gabe Newell, when asked about Half-Life 3, replied: "The only reason we'd go back and do like a super classic kind of product is if a whole bunch of people just internally at Valve said they wanted to do it and had a reasonable explanation for why [they did]." This, like all of Valve's other statements regarding Half-Life 3, neither confirms nor denies the possibility that the game will eventually be made.
500x faster than a normal processor is well within a reasonable speedup range.
Not really. The improvement is usually around 10x.
Meeh. It's not necessarily him. sexconker said that he threw some cow comments in the mix just for the laughs. The original spammer is probably some other person. sexconker seems like a sane person to me.
Hey, at least the weird BSD spam seems to be gone for good (the one with random words and the word "BSD" there somewhere).
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
