That' is exactly right. They just made it easier to do quickly. Back in the day, I ran little Thoroughbred B core AMD's for over 3ghz; the only reason they stayed running is because of the connection between heatsink and CPU. The issue is not the amount of heat you can move from the heatsink (with newer heatsinks), but rather how fast you can move it away from the CPU. On some of my really high over clocking experiments it's not possible to even use a heatsink, but rather I need to force cool the die it's self... but that's not a problem for manufacturers yet;)
It's pretty damn funny. He's so arrogant that he actually states, even in your article, that it was his efforts to create the internet... he just likes to link his name to whatever is important at the time and hopes no one will check to see what he really contributed. Besides, no one needs to launch a smear campaign, just look at the guy. Yeah, and don't whip out the political card, I'm pretty much neutral (Not Democrat or Republican). I just hate stupid people.
I hope to god that ATI has a driver pack in the sources now that works with the x200m in my laptop. That was the only pain in the ass the last time I installed Ubuntu (and it's not even Ubuntu's fault). ATI just decided to screwup their drivers on the latter releases. The card would detect and work great... just no opengl support at all. That just won't work for me, and leads me to a weeks worth of insanity and driver hacking to get it working (more or less).
They think that they can squeeze YouTube out, but since the take down notices, I have not had my YouTube searching impacted at all. I don't spend my day searching for stupid TV shows (that's why I don't watch NBC). There are only a few channels I actually watch, and none of them have shows I watch all the time.
TV is going the way of the music industry. They are losing focus on what people want and are following equations to make shows that will make profit. The problem is that people are starting to get smarter and are figuring it out. Why do they think people like fast forwarding the commercials and TIVO is such a hit? People are sick of the current system. Making commercials harder to fast forward and pulling videos from the web only hurts themselves in the long run... to bad they can't think that far ahead.
True, but I'm more looking at it from a consulting or temp side of things. Most of the time you get moved to salary as soon as you start spending enough time with the company that your actually making money. I know as soon as I moved into an administration or developer role with any company, the first thing they talk about is my salary and my salary cap. I might be in charge of a lot more stuff, but in reality, they just promote people to the point of in being ineffectual rather the firing them. You are either doing really good or really bad when you get promoted 3 times in a year and end up in your own corner of the company, talking to yourself.
Since I have played on both sides of the fence, there is a feeling of security and purpose that comes with salary, but there is also a feeling of being trapped. You know that unless you can move up a rung, your stuck in your current salary bracket... and no matter how much extra time you work, all your going to get is comp time (in most cases).
When I worked hourly, I made more money then salary with equal positions. With an hourly position you always have the potential for at least some overtime. The only reason people don't like hourly pay is because it doesn't sound as official as salary and because it means they actually have to show up to be paid.
Think of it this way, $50,000 a year is only $27 per hour if you work 5 days a week and have paid holidays and such. With benefits such as health care and the like, you are actually making around $35-$45 depending. Know, let's add a little over time. Let's say I wanted to work for time and a half another 8 hours a week (a pretty low number for someone who really wants to work). That's ($27 * 1.5) = $40.50 * 8 hours a week * 4 in a month = $1296 per month extra. Over a year that can earn an extra $15,552 from just 8 hours a week overtime. That's more then some minimum wage jobs and it doesn't even factor double time.
If you think salary is a great deal, your mistaken. That hourly guy making 10k less then you actually might be making more then you in the end.
I don't think I would attend a school that tried to restrict my internet access or had a poor infrastructure. If I'm going to school, and paying a fortune to attend, I expect to have access to every tool I might need any time I might need it (barring physical limitations).
By the time you reach college you should be self sufficient enough to manage your own affairs. If your not, you deserve what you get (fail/get pregnant/have a kid/get arrested/etc). It's not the schools place to babysit the students at this level.
My wife has a theory that guys compensate with a bigger truck or bigger spoiler on their cars when they are lacking in other areas... but I'm sure you look good in it with your matching sunglasses and a bottle of Viagra.
The hummer is turning into a joke. The H1 was an interesting vehicle because it cost an incredible amount of money and was pretty good off road. The H2 and H3 are nothing but jokes. Same thing as their respective GM vehicles (IE Suburbans), except you pay more for a badge. No thanks, if I'm going to pay for a decal on my car, it's going to be German or Italian, and I'll stick to higher class girls.
The European invasion of North America hardly constitutes a genocide. The sole purpose was not to eradicate a race, but to destroy the fabric of the culture and remove them from the land. I do believe I have friends that have some native american ancestry... The only difference is that it happened in a modern era, and the conquered people were allowed to retain some continuity. People act as if the inhuman treatment that befell the natives was in some way out of the ordinary for human nature. You can not compare the destruction of the Native Americans to Rome conquering Greece. Greece was a well developed empire that fell to another and was absorbed. There was technology and racial similarities that promoted integration. By comparison, the native people of North America had no such technology, literature, and had no relationship with the Europeans. In the beginning people negotiated, but the problem is that negotiations are a farce, and they only matter if neither side has an advantage. In the case of the Native Americans, they never really had a choice, and the some of them knew it. They had absolutely no chance against European powers simply because of the lacking of technology and cultural cohesion.
One thing that people forget is that the idea of a superior people has been around forever and still continues. It is part of the human psyche and almost every major religion in the world. Don't think of it so much as a racial superiority, but rather religious. This is very much what is going on in the middle east and why they can't have peace. The religions of the region believe they are chosen to possess the holy land, and they can't let the sub humans have it. This has happened throughout all of history to ever race in the world (even among the same peoples)... just this one was more well documented.
How often do you restore backups? Do you even know if they all work? How do you verify the integrity of the archives?
It's fine to know what the label on a tape says, but the problem is restoring back to the point before a corruption. It's way easier just punch in a date, have it hand me a list of backups for that date, pick the database I want to restore, and move on... and I have all the benefits without any of the trouble.
But, as much of the IT world, to each his own. People have preferences and the choices are almost always more of a personal taste then any particular reason. In a few years I hope to not use any form of magnetic media and move to flash based storage for everything. Right now we have a few large flash drives, but nothing to the scale of our current magnetic media.
Sure, a decade ago people needed things like zip disks and tape drives, but I don't know anyone who puts any faith in those things in todays world. Tapes rarely work for restores and the degradation times are not nearly what people claim them to be. Also, have you ever tried digging for something in a mountain of tapes?
At my current employer we backup out databases each night to several locations. The first are a couple of terra servers (network drives) next to the server that have a few terrabytes worth of storage a piece. We also ftp the files to an off-site backup as well. The files end up getting pasted to another server as well that is used for both maintaining the backup files as well as a point for development and testing of applications on a current structure and data. Going this route is far more dependable then trusting a glorified VHS with our data (yeah yeah they are encoded and read differently).
Besides, how many times have you opened a tape and had it bad before you even get files on it? That never served to comfort me.
"Because all evidence has shown that every $1 the government spends on subsidies translates into $2-3 of additional wealth across the economy."
You must mean it can or on average. Have you looked at Ford recently? How much money has been poured into the American auto industry through out the 90's? You can't save a sinking ship by throwing money at it. The company is not competitive, therefore, it goes under. It is unfortunate for the employees, but it happens when a company fails to remain competitive in their field.
Should we give Ford or Chrysler a few billion more to see if their luck changes? What is the government, an industrial bookie? Maybe they need to start busting knee caps to get some of the money back. There is a bigger problem then the fact a company hit a bad luck streak, and we need more restrictions on when subsidies are used.
How much money do you think Al Gore made from the "Inconvenient Truth"? I'm not with the right or the left, neither democrat or republican, but all these Gore groupies make the idiots in big business look like rocket scientists. You make claims like "follow the money", but you are unwilling to follow the money when it leads you anywhere other then where you want to go.
People in glass houses should not throw stones.
Here in Oregon they run some interceptors because of the freeways. The cars usually are camaros or corvettes and have computer work, stiffer suspension, sway bars, etc. It all depends on the agency and their intentions. The new ones are Chargers, big fat chargers. Of course it's nothing like back in the day when they supercharged and seriously built the cars, but the targets are changing. Back in the day the fastest cars you would come across were big block muscle cars and you just needed to run them down in a straight line. In todays world, the cops are getting far more worried about the imports. When you can pull over a little Japanese car and not know if it's got 80 horse power or 400 horse power, and it will out handle the crown vic in the corners, you really have to start making some tough calls. Of course I'm not talking about a Honda with a wing, I'm talking about a purpose built car and a driver that really has the ability and the desire to get away.
Generally the new rules are that if it's risky it's better to just call off the chase and catch them later rather then kill somebody. If a car is running from the cops at over 120, they generally deem that as too hazardous and call off the chase anyway, so no reason to build cars to go much faster. This is why I think they should stop buying Fords and start buying more fuel efficient cars to replace most of their fleets with.
I have relatives in law enforcement, and we use to get a good laugh from arguing who could out run who. In the end, you can't outrun Motorola and a radio doesn't get in a wreck. My car might have been able to out corner and had a higher top speed then an interceptor, but it doesn't matter then they can just call in a chopper or phone in a road block.
What about that was Google/YouTube's fault? If they are served with a take down notice, they have to take it down. If they delay they can face huge lawsuits for not acting in a timely manner. All YouTube did was obey the law, a law that is being abused far to often and abused in this instance. If my content was taken down, I would go after Viacom for filing an unlawful take down, since they have to claim ownership of my material to use the take down. There are two fronts here, on one side Viacom violated the law by using the DMCA on material that was not their own, and on the other, they infringed on the rights and free will of the people who's material they had taken down.
They are just trying to use the same tactics the RIAA uses when they attack a massive group of individuals and don't care about collateral damage. In this case, just like the fail RIAA lawsuits, the collateral damage has a chance to fight back.
Getting the IT department to agree means nothing. It's a matter of picking one and mandating it. Of course, your argument goes around the fact that you don't have a choice with Windows, you better pick the one MS will continue to support (for a couple years anyway). If they don't have a mandate and half the systems are running XP, some running 2000, and some running 98, do you think the overhead is lower? Of course not, because they mandated what version people would be running.
This whole debate is a joke, statistics will say anything you want them to say. If I wanted Windows cost more then linux I would just combine factors that are negatives for Windows such as virus issues, required third party apps, security fixes, hardware upgrades required for vista, etc. In the end I could come back with a statistic that shows Windows is the cause of Global Warming if I really wanted to. Remember, statistics mean nothing unless you check the agenda behind the research.
Yes, his post did suggest that, but the Bible suggests that it has already been proven. There is a big difference between an idea looking to be proved right or wrong, even if we can't do it yet, and one that has declared it's self to be truth.
Gee, I'm sorry I didn't have time to go back and double check my post, but I kind of had more pressing business. Anyway, I have done a lot of research actually, learned way more then I care to (my wife works in the medical field and all through school I had to participate on her research papers). I hate to tell you, but the draw backs are insignificant in comparison to the benefits. The risk reduction from STDs alone is staggering. Almost all the draw backs are due to poor quality doctors, not the procedure. What exactly are the draw backs to the procedure that you are so concerned about?
I don't even really know how to respond to that. First of all, if you think circumcision is more of a hazard then not being circumcised, your wrong (not really any other way of saying it). Second, where the hell did that comment even come from? Does Gates remind you of a penis?
People always want easier cars; cars that drive for them. How about we tell people that you can't have a smart car until your a smart person? Sounds like a plan to me.... driving not a right, it's a privilege and a lot of people do not deserve it. The more the car does, the less the person pays attention.
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I won't buy one unless it's got a flux capacitor.
That' is exactly right. They just made it easier to do quickly. Back in the day, I ran little Thoroughbred B core AMD's for over 3ghz; the only reason they stayed running is because of the connection between heatsink and CPU. The issue is not the amount of heat you can move from the heatsink (with newer heatsinks), but rather how fast you can move it away from the CPU. On some of my really high over clocking experiments it's not possible to even use a heatsink, but rather I need to force cool the die it's self... but that's not a problem for manufacturers yet ;)
The non-gun-toting people are not as interesting. Besides, I do not condone the voyeurism of animals.
It's pretty damn funny. He's so arrogant that he actually states, even in your article, that it was his efforts to create the internet... he just likes to link his name to whatever is important at the time and hopes no one will check to see what he really contributed. Besides, no one needs to launch a smear campaign, just look at the guy. Yeah, and don't whip out the political card, I'm pretty much neutral (Not Democrat or Republican). I just hate stupid people.
I hope to god that ATI has a driver pack in the sources now that works with the x200m in my laptop. That was the only pain in the ass the last time I installed Ubuntu (and it's not even Ubuntu's fault). ATI just decided to screwup their drivers on the latter releases. The card would detect and work great... just no opengl support at all. That just won't work for me, and leads me to a weeks worth of insanity and driver hacking to get it working (more or less).
They think that they can squeeze YouTube out, but since the take down notices, I have not had my YouTube searching impacted at all. I don't spend my day searching for stupid TV shows (that's why I don't watch NBC). There are only a few channels I actually watch, and none of them have shows I watch all the time. TV is going the way of the music industry. They are losing focus on what people want and are following equations to make shows that will make profit. The problem is that people are starting to get smarter and are figuring it out. Why do they think people like fast forwarding the commercials and TIVO is such a hit? People are sick of the current system. Making commercials harder to fast forward and pulling videos from the web only hurts themselves in the long run... to bad they can't think that far ahead.
True, but I'm more looking at it from a consulting or temp side of things. Most of the time you get moved to salary as soon as you start spending enough time with the company that your actually making money. I know as soon as I moved into an administration or developer role with any company, the first thing they talk about is my salary and my salary cap. I might be in charge of a lot more stuff, but in reality, they just promote people to the point of in being ineffectual rather the firing them. You are either doing really good or really bad when you get promoted 3 times in a year and end up in your own corner of the company, talking to yourself. Since I have played on both sides of the fence, there is a feeling of security and purpose that comes with salary, but there is also a feeling of being trapped. You know that unless you can move up a rung, your stuck in your current salary bracket... and no matter how much extra time you work, all your going to get is comp time (in most cases).
When I worked hourly, I made more money then salary with equal positions. With an hourly position you always have the potential for at least some overtime. The only reason people don't like hourly pay is because it doesn't sound as official as salary and because it means they actually have to show up to be paid. Think of it this way, $50,000 a year is only $27 per hour if you work 5 days a week and have paid holidays and such. With benefits such as health care and the like, you are actually making around $35-$45 depending. Know, let's add a little over time. Let's say I wanted to work for time and a half another 8 hours a week (a pretty low number for someone who really wants to work). That's ($27 * 1.5) = $40.50 * 8 hours a week * 4 in a month = $1296 per month extra. Over a year that can earn an extra $15,552 from just 8 hours a week overtime. That's more then some minimum wage jobs and it doesn't even factor double time. If you think salary is a great deal, your mistaken. That hourly guy making 10k less then you actually might be making more then you in the end.
I don't think I would attend a school that tried to restrict my internet access or had a poor infrastructure. If I'm going to school, and paying a fortune to attend, I expect to have access to every tool I might need any time I might need it (barring physical limitations).
By the time you reach college you should be self sufficient enough to manage your own affairs. If your not, you deserve what you get (fail/get pregnant/have a kid/get arrested/etc). It's not the schools place to babysit the students at this level.
You could just line your living room with lead... and this way I'm getting 0 interference.
Quick, everyone trade routers! Let's make some poor data entry grunt cry.
My wife has a theory that guys compensate with a bigger truck or bigger spoiler on their cars when they are lacking in other areas... but I'm sure you look good in it with your matching sunglasses and a bottle of Viagra. The hummer is turning into a joke. The H1 was an interesting vehicle because it cost an incredible amount of money and was pretty good off road. The H2 and H3 are nothing but jokes. Same thing as their respective GM vehicles (IE Suburbans), except you pay more for a badge. No thanks, if I'm going to pay for a decal on my car, it's going to be German or Italian, and I'll stick to higher class girls.
The European invasion of North America hardly constitutes a genocide. The sole purpose was not to eradicate a race, but to destroy the fabric of the culture and remove them from the land. I do believe I have friends that have some native american ancestry... The only difference is that it happened in a modern era, and the conquered people were allowed to retain some continuity. People act as if the inhuman treatment that befell the natives was in some way out of the ordinary for human nature. You can not compare the destruction of the Native Americans to Rome conquering Greece. Greece was a well developed empire that fell to another and was absorbed. There was technology and racial similarities that promoted integration. By comparison, the native people of North America had no such technology, literature, and had no relationship with the Europeans. In the beginning people negotiated, but the problem is that negotiations are a farce, and they only matter if neither side has an advantage. In the case of the Native Americans, they never really had a choice, and the some of them knew it. They had absolutely no chance against European powers simply because of the lacking of technology and cultural cohesion. One thing that people forget is that the idea of a superior people has been around forever and still continues. It is part of the human psyche and almost every major religion in the world. Don't think of it so much as a racial superiority, but rather religious. This is very much what is going on in the middle east and why they can't have peace. The religions of the region believe they are chosen to possess the holy land, and they can't let the sub humans have it. This has happened throughout all of history to ever race in the world (even among the same peoples)... just this one was more well documented.
How often do you restore backups? Do you even know if they all work? How do you verify the integrity of the archives? It's fine to know what the label on a tape says, but the problem is restoring back to the point before a corruption. It's way easier just punch in a date, have it hand me a list of backups for that date, pick the database I want to restore, and move on... and I have all the benefits without any of the trouble. But, as much of the IT world, to each his own. People have preferences and the choices are almost always more of a personal taste then any particular reason. In a few years I hope to not use any form of magnetic media and move to flash based storage for everything. Right now we have a few large flash drives, but nothing to the scale of our current magnetic media.
Sure, a decade ago people needed things like zip disks and tape drives, but I don't know anyone who puts any faith in those things in todays world. Tapes rarely work for restores and the degradation times are not nearly what people claim them to be. Also, have you ever tried digging for something in a mountain of tapes?
At my current employer we backup out databases each night to several locations. The first are a couple of terra servers (network drives) next to the server that have a few terrabytes worth of storage a piece. We also ftp the files to an off-site backup as well. The files end up getting pasted to another server as well that is used for both maintaining the backup files as well as a point for development and testing of applications on a current structure and data. Going this route is far more dependable then trusting a glorified VHS with our data (yeah yeah they are encoded and read differently).
Besides, how many times have you opened a tape and had it bad before you even get files on it? That never served to comfort me.
"Because all evidence has shown that every $1 the government spends on subsidies translates into $2-3 of additional wealth across the economy."
You must mean it can or on average. Have you looked at Ford recently? How much money has been poured into the American auto industry through out the 90's? You can't save a sinking ship by throwing money at it. The company is not competitive, therefore, it goes under. It is unfortunate for the employees, but it happens when a company fails to remain competitive in their field.
Should we give Ford or Chrysler a few billion more to see if their luck changes? What is the government, an industrial bookie? Maybe they need to start busting knee caps to get some of the money back. There is a bigger problem then the fact a company hit a bad luck streak, and we need more restrictions on when subsidies are used.
How much money do you think Al Gore made from the "Inconvenient Truth"? I'm not with the right or the left, neither democrat or republican, but all these Gore groupies make the idiots in big business look like rocket scientists. You make claims like "follow the money", but you are unwilling to follow the money when it leads you anywhere other then where you want to go. People in glass houses should not throw stones.
Here in Oregon they run some interceptors because of the freeways. The cars usually are camaros or corvettes and have computer work, stiffer suspension, sway bars, etc. It all depends on the agency and their intentions. The new ones are Chargers, big fat chargers. Of course it's nothing like back in the day when they supercharged and seriously built the cars, but the targets are changing. Back in the day the fastest cars you would come across were big block muscle cars and you just needed to run them down in a straight line. In todays world, the cops are getting far more worried about the imports. When you can pull over a little Japanese car and not know if it's got 80 horse power or 400 horse power, and it will out handle the crown vic in the corners, you really have to start making some tough calls. Of course I'm not talking about a Honda with a wing, I'm talking about a purpose built car and a driver that really has the ability and the desire to get away. Generally the new rules are that if it's risky it's better to just call off the chase and catch them later rather then kill somebody. If a car is running from the cops at over 120, they generally deem that as too hazardous and call off the chase anyway, so no reason to build cars to go much faster. This is why I think they should stop buying Fords and start buying more fuel efficient cars to replace most of their fleets with. I have relatives in law enforcement, and we use to get a good laugh from arguing who could out run who. In the end, you can't outrun Motorola and a radio doesn't get in a wreck. My car might have been able to out corner and had a higher top speed then an interceptor, but it doesn't matter then they can just call in a chopper or phone in a road block.
If we are nitpicking, he did spell it right....
What about that was Google/YouTube's fault? If they are served with a take down notice, they have to take it down. If they delay they can face huge lawsuits for not acting in a timely manner. All YouTube did was obey the law, a law that is being abused far to often and abused in this instance. If my content was taken down, I would go after Viacom for filing an unlawful take down, since they have to claim ownership of my material to use the take down. There are two fronts here, on one side Viacom violated the law by using the DMCA on material that was not their own, and on the other, they infringed on the rights and free will of the people who's material they had taken down. They are just trying to use the same tactics the RIAA uses when they attack a massive group of individuals and don't care about collateral damage. In this case, just like the fail RIAA lawsuits, the collateral damage has a chance to fight back.
Getting the IT department to agree means nothing. It's a matter of picking one and mandating it. Of course, your argument goes around the fact that you don't have a choice with Windows, you better pick the one MS will continue to support (for a couple years anyway). If they don't have a mandate and half the systems are running XP, some running 2000, and some running 98, do you think the overhead is lower? Of course not, because they mandated what version people would be running.
This whole debate is a joke, statistics will say anything you want them to say. If I wanted Windows cost more then linux I would just combine factors that are negatives for Windows such as virus issues, required third party apps, security fixes, hardware upgrades required for vista, etc. In the end I could come back with a statistic that shows Windows is the cause of Global Warming if I really wanted to. Remember, statistics mean nothing unless you check the agenda behind the research.
Yes, his post did suggest that, but the Bible suggests that it has already been proven. There is a big difference between an idea looking to be proved right or wrong, even if we can't do it yet, and one that has declared it's self to be truth.
Gee, I'm sorry I didn't have time to go back and double check my post, but I kind of had more pressing business. Anyway, I have done a lot of research actually, learned way more then I care to (my wife works in the medical field and all through school I had to participate on her research papers). I hate to tell you, but the draw backs are insignificant in comparison to the benefits. The risk reduction from STDs alone is staggering. Almost all the draw backs are due to poor quality doctors, not the procedure. What exactly are the draw backs to the procedure that you are so concerned about?
I don't even really know how to respond to that. First of all, if you think circumcision is more of a hazard then not being circumcised, your wrong (not really any other way of saying it). Second, where the hell did that comment even come from? Does Gates remind you of a penis?
People always want easier cars; cars that drive for them. How about we tell people that you can't have a smart car until your a smart person? Sounds like a plan to me.... driving not a right, it's a privilege and a lot of people do not deserve it. The more the car does, the less the person pays attention.