And best of all, there would be no "not in my backyard" syndrome.
Sure. Except our star actually *is* in our backyard. And if you think that its nuclear reactions have no incidence on our health, well... think again.
Bottom line : don't stand in front of a nuclear reaction without protection unless you actually understand what you're doing. And even then, lots of people *thought* they knew what they were doing (that's "thought" because they're no longer around). And Being in the sun all day certainly counts as standing in front of a nuclear reactor.
Don't be silly. If you let them leave, they'll come back. Catch 'em while they leave and let'em hang. That's what I say. Damn foreigners. Eating the bread from the mouth of our spics !
Of course, this was also said by a major figure of what we would call, today, an insurgent force, fighting against the established government of the country. He spent much of that war in another country
Hah, another country, but what country, he left the barely "United" States for Europe, specifically for France with its languid and willing women, its men who would talk of anything (even stuff, *ahem* down there), as opposed to the rational God fearing people back home. So he spent time there eating great food, meeting interesting people and [ THIS SECTION HAS BEEN CENSORED AS BEING TOO GRAPHIC FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC ] and more ! And so, being well integrated, he got the locals to defend his country. But he had lost his soul ! He had to [ SEVEN WORDS REMOVED ] and [ TWENTY TWO WORDS REMOVED ] ! No current politician would dare to do that. Insurgent force... Hah !
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If you'd read the TSA manual, you'd know that "if it's tanned, put your gloves on and tell it to bend over". And re telling the difference from a Liberian... Like TSA employees would know where they'd come from... "yeah, right, like there's a place like Liberion, Ya don't fool me! Bend over mister !"
And just when I thought it was safe to go back (or even switch planes) to the US too... Well, since I'm blond maybe I'll get through despite my French passport (although French bashing seems to have subsided, outside of web boards).
Don't think the US airport people are the only ones to be clueless though. I travel quite a bit and for some reason, the stupidest they are, the closest to the public they get. It's a worldwide trend. Why would the US be left out ?
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What in the hell would most of us even DO with a 16 or 24 core box besides crank up our electric and cooling bills?
I'm not sure how Windows handles this since I only run it for games and all I really do there is click on icons, but the PC Unix systems still have a way to go to handle multi-core CPUs efficiently.
I'm regularly looking at my (dual core) machines overloading one CPU while the other one is mostly idle. I know that it's fairly difficult to handle efficient load balancing, and that there are lots of apps that don't scale gracefully. But the CPU intensive current desktops really should start to look into this (presumably they already are, hopefully). Single CPU (or single core) machines are soon going to disappear, apparently even the CPU itself is getting distributed with things like CUDA. Getting the software to deal with this is the real challenge.
I managed to get extremely good throughput by getting disks that had cache as large as the drive size and by running "cat/dev/sda >/dev/null" on boot. They're a bit hard to come by but if you insist your reseller will surely find some.
Does this mean that Scientology now has to do their edits Anonymously?
This is unfair to other lesser known cults. As a member of the United Church of the Golden Spaghetti, I demand that we be banned from Wikipedia as well to give us some street cred.
Is this UK only? Seems that way from the articles, but the summary doesn't mention anything. If it is, that's good news for them, but kinda useless for the rest of us.
I don't believe this thing will cross the Channel any time soon. Beyond the strange idea of "connect your XBox to your TV to watch TV" (huh ?), all French ISPs already offer this as part as their standard plan. And you need Internet access to use the XBox thing. So it's kind of pointless (unless you're *really* fond of the XBox interface). Especially since it'll presumably be streaming from outside the ISP's network instead of (currently) from its own servers.
It is not at all clear that they "repaired the Hubble successfully". They performed their jobs well, but we won't know whether the Hubble has been successfully repaired until it is calibrated and producing images.
Presumably they used Hubble to shoot a few DVDs and were disappointed that they couldn't check the results.
Bragging that you can get better connectivity pretty much anywhere in the world other than the US is a bit like racing a legless kid. It isn't done in polite company. (at other times of course...)
Often users are advised to just backup their home directory and do a clean format (I like Ubuntu, don't get me wrong, but let's call a spade a spade here: This is a problem which many linux developers and ubuntu community members seem to gloss over, from what I've seen).
It's typically simpler to have/home on a separate partition for workstations. Then you can install whatever system you want.
The problem with dog breeds is that a Chihuahua can mate with a terrier, and a terrier can mate with a gun dog, and a gun dog can mate with the largest of dogs.
What's this "mating by proxy" theory of yours ? Is it so that one can claim "I screwed Angelina Jolie, through 17 intermediaries" ?
Should we create a new "degrees of separation" website ?
*duh* Guess it shows that I haven't used it for a while:) Since right before the name change I think. Their "bleeding edge" philosophy did indeed lead to a number of packages being flaky in each release. It was kind of tiresome in the long run. There's a middle ground between Debian stable and Mandriva I think.
Not just that but the natural way for an AI to preserve it self is to remove anything capable of harming it, even asimov's robots end up taking over the world.
If Skynet was so evolved, it could have easily removed the menace by building sexbots, thus creating a diversion and letting the humans focus on something else. It would have been energetically cheaper too.
More seriously, why hasn't Microsoft made a package manager+repositories yet?
It seems that they kind of have one for their own applications. It shouldn't be that difficult to allow it to register external applications. My guess is that MS doesn't want to make it easy to use non MS apps.
Of course there would be serious security implications, especially if users persist in clicking through all the popups without reading them...
Disclaimer : I'm really not familiar at all with Windows inner workings any more. Maybe it would all actually be very complicated.
The only worry here is that they are going to offer Win7 Starter for sooo cheap that we will end up with pretty much every PC, be it Netbook or low cost desktop, that would have come with XP Home or Vista Home Basic end up with Win7 Starter.
On the bright side, when installing Linux on those machines we'll waste much less money on the "Microsoft tax". Windows users may not be getting a great deal though.
I wonder if they'd consider someone who hasn't really gathered the hacking skills yet, but, would be VERY interested in learning how.
Sure. Especially if you can run for hours and still scream silly songs whenever any other platoon is within earshot, don't need much sleep, crawl in the mud and have spotless shoes 3 minutes afterwards, all valuable skills in any army. The electrical tape to fix your glasses will be provided. Bring your own cheetos.
Uuuhhh....because home users blow some serious cash? i know plenty of businesses that still have a lot of P3 and early P4 Win2K boxes doing day to day office work.
FWIW I recently upgraded a business' desktop machine to Ubuntu 9.04. It runs off a K6 and has something like 256 megs of RAM. Works fine.
hell i knew a business that just a couple of years back finally gave up trying to keep that POS WinNT4 server going.
I know a few that are still running as data/printing servers.
For every business that spends the bucks and upgrades on a schedule there are probably a dozen or more who are tight fisted as hell when it comes to spending anything on IT gear.
In my experience, it's more like "we fix what's broken, what works we keep". Makes sense to me.
I agree with the rest of your post though. Generic home users are used to the Windows way. If you buy amazingly crappy hardware, it will always come with a driver CD (the kind of drivers that you don't really want on a working machine but that get the gizmo to work). OTOH of course I bought a new fancy keyboard (Enermax Caesar) for my Linux box with an internal sound chip. Not only were all the extra keys functional but the USB sound thing worked at once. Not bad IMO, even though no driver is supposed to be required, it shows complete support from the USB and sound subsystems.
I claimed, and continue to, that linux can be a fine desktop for people who know how to set it up well enough. I personally don't want to invest the time to do that.
Most long time users don't want to fiddle with their machines any more. Been there done that... wrote X11 conf files and modelines, compiled kernels that would actually run their hardware (after getting the missing drivers), wrote window manager rc files... now most of the "old timers" I know just want their stuff to work. Hence the popularity of "ready to use" desktop distributions such as Mandrake, ?Ubuntu, SuSE or any of the less vocal ones. Even with experienced people (not to mention the newcomers of course).
It's really exceptional nowadays that you have to do anything more complicated than add a repository when you need some exotic software. I think I haven't even compiled anything in ages. It just works. And when it doesn't, it's a regular system that's (usually) easy to fix. So I can just do my stuff, process my images, talk to my servers, in a comfortable environment. Works for me at least. To each his own of course.
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And best of all, there would be no "not in my backyard" syndrome.
Sure. Except our star actually *is* in our backyard. And if you think that its nuclear reactions have no incidence on our health, well... think again.
Bottom line : don't stand in front of a nuclear reaction without protection unless you actually understand what you're doing. And even then, lots of people *thought* they knew what they were doing (that's "thought" because they're no longer around). And Being in the sun all day certainly counts as standing in front of a nuclear reactor.
Why not just let them leave?
Don't be silly. If you let them leave, they'll come back. Catch 'em while they leave and let'em hang. That's what I say.
Damn foreigners. Eating the bread from the mouth of our spics !
Of course, this was also said by a major figure of what we would call, today, an insurgent force, fighting against the established government of the country. He spent much of that war in another country
Hah, another country, but what country, he left the barely "United" States for Europe, specifically for France with its languid and willing women, its men who would talk of anything (even stuff, *ahem* down there), as opposed to the rational God fearing people back home. So he spent time there eating great food, meeting interesting people and [ THIS SECTION HAS BEEN CENSORED AS BEING TOO GRAPHIC FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC ] and more ! And so, being well integrated, he got the locals to defend his country. But he had lost his soul ! He had to [ SEVEN WORDS REMOVED ] and [ TWENTY TWO WORDS REMOVED ] ! ... Hah !
No current politician would dare to do that. Insurgent force
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If you'd read the TSA manual, you'd know that "if it's tanned, put your gloves on and tell it to bend over".
And re telling the difference from a Liberian...
Like TSA employees would know where they'd come from... "yeah, right, like there's a place like Liberion, Ya don't fool me! Bend over mister !"
And just when I thought it was safe to go back (or even switch planes) to the US too...
Well, since I'm blond maybe I'll get through despite my French passport (although French bashing seems to have subsided, outside of web boards).
Don't think the US airport people are the only ones to be clueless though. I travel quite a bit and for some reason, the stupidest they are, the closest to the public they get. It's a worldwide trend. Why would the US be left out ?
Advertisement:
"You have trouble deciphering this text, your friends hate you, you can barely mumble in English ? Have you considered a job in airport security ?"
What in the hell would most of us even DO with a 16 or 24 core box besides crank up our electric and cooling bills?
I'm not sure how Windows handles this since I only run it for games and all I really do there is click on icons, but the PC Unix systems still have a way to go to handle multi-core CPUs efficiently.
I'm regularly looking at my (dual core) machines overloading one CPU while the other one is mostly idle. I know that it's fairly difficult to handle efficient load balancing, and that there are lots of apps that don't scale gracefully. But the CPU intensive current desktops really should start to look into this (presumably they already are, hopefully). Single CPU (or single core) machines are soon going to disappear, apparently even the CPU itself is getting distributed with things like CUDA. Getting the software to deal with this is the real challenge.
But burst almost never comes into play.
I managed to get extremely good throughput by getting disks that had cache as large as the drive size and by running "cat /dev/sda > /dev/null" on boot. They're a bit hard to come by but if you insist your reseller will surely find some.
Of course YMMV.
Does this mean that Scientology now has to do their edits Anonymously?
This is unfair to other lesser known cults. As a member of the United Church of the Golden Spaghetti, I demand that we be banned from Wikipedia as well to give us some street cred.
Is this UK only? Seems that way from the articles, but the summary doesn't mention anything. If it is, that's good news for them, but kinda useless for the rest of us.
I don't believe this thing will cross the Channel any time soon. Beyond the strange idea of "connect your XBox to your TV to watch TV" (huh ?), all French ISPs already offer this as part as their standard plan. And you need Internet access to use the XBox thing. So it's kind of pointless (unless you're *really* fond of the XBox interface). Especially since it'll presumably be streaming from outside the ISP's network instead of (currently) from its own servers.
Then you get a dead or retarded baby. Nothing out of the normal as this stuff happens all the time.
Dammit Igor, ve have failed again !
But infinite power iz at our grasp, I can feel it !
Venn is ze next thunderstorm ?
It is not at all clear that they "repaired the Hubble successfully". They performed their jobs well, but we won't know whether the Hubble has been successfully repaired until it is calibrated and producing images.
Presumably they used Hubble to shoot a few DVDs and were disappointed that they couldn't check the results.
Unless it's region 0 it must be illegal.
Not at all. That's specifically what region 8 is for.
I guess this is what happens when you put a teddy bear in charge of implementing security protocols.
I dunno, I thought the "Do *not* leave at the pub" stickers on the drives were a brilliant idea.
Well, back to the drawing board.
And i always thought US was the forerunner in internet & broadband...
Um, you must be new here... ;)
Guess we have to compete against Korea which has insane speeds.
Yes, or Japan. Pick your poison...
Bragging that you can get better connectivity pretty much anywhere in the world other than the US is a bit like racing a legless kid. It isn't done in polite company.
(at other times of course...)
Often users are advised to just backup their home directory and do a clean format (I like Ubuntu, don't get me wrong, but let's call a spade a spade here: This is a problem which many linux developers and ubuntu community members seem to gloss over, from what I've seen).
It's typically simpler to have /home on a separate partition for workstations.
Then you can install whatever system you want.
The problem with dog breeds is that a Chihuahua can mate with a terrier, and a terrier can mate with a gun dog, and a gun dog can mate with the largest of dogs.
What's this "mating by proxy" theory of yours ? Is it so that one can claim "I screwed Angelina Jolie, through 17 intermediaries" ?
Should we create a new "degrees of separation" website ?
BTW Mandrake has beenMandriva for years.
*duh* Guess it shows that I haven't used it for a while :)
Since right before the name change I think. Their "bleeding edge" philosophy did indeed lead to a number of packages being flaky in each release. It was kind of tiresome in the long run. There's a middle ground between Debian stable and Mandriva I think.
Not just that but the natural way for an AI to preserve it self is to remove anything capable of harming it, even asimov's robots end up taking over the world.
If Skynet was so evolved, it could have easily removed the menace by building sexbots, thus creating a diversion and letting the humans focus on something else. It would have been energetically cheaper too.
More seriously, why hasn't Microsoft made a package manager+repositories yet?
It seems that they kind of have one for their own applications. It shouldn't be that difficult to allow it to register external applications. My guess is that MS doesn't want to make it easy to use non MS apps.
Of course there would be serious security implications, especially if users persist in clicking through all the popups without reading them...
Disclaimer : I'm really not familiar at all with Windows inner workings any more. Maybe it would all actually be very complicated.
Well, sort of. You can be 100% sure you're not infringing copyright. But many other laws can apply, such as patents or the DMCA.
Also nowadays, even if no specific law applies, you can get hit by some kind of legal troll à la SCO which can be a major nuisance.
It's a close call between that, and TWAIN
Technology Without An Inteligent Name...
Of course then there's SCSI which (apparently) was meant to sound "SEXY"
I've always heard it pronounced as "scuzzy" or spelled out. Maybe it's a Euro thing.
The only worry here is that they are going to offer Win7 Starter for sooo cheap that we will end up with pretty much every PC, be it Netbook or low cost desktop, that would have come with XP Home or Vista Home Basic end up with Win7 Starter.
On the bright side, when installing Linux on those machines we'll waste much less money on the "Microsoft tax".
Windows users may not be getting a great deal though.
I wonder if they'd consider someone who hasn't really gathered the hacking skills yet, but, would be VERY interested in learning how.
Sure. Especially if you can run for hours and still scream silly songs whenever any other platoon is within earshot, don't need much sleep, crawl in the mud and have spotless shoes 3 minutes afterwards, all valuable skills in any army.
The electrical tape to fix your glasses will be provided. Bring your own cheetos.
Uuuhhh....because home users blow some serious cash? i know plenty of businesses that still have a lot of P3 and early P4 Win2K boxes doing day to day office work.
FWIW I recently upgraded a business' desktop machine to Ubuntu 9.04. It runs off a K6 and has something like 256 megs of RAM. Works fine.
hell i knew a business that just a couple of years back finally gave up trying to keep that POS WinNT4 server going.
I know a few that are still running as data/printing servers.
For every business that spends the bucks and upgrades on a schedule there are probably a dozen or more who are tight fisted as hell when it comes to spending anything on IT gear.
In my experience, it's more like "we fix what's broken, what works we keep". Makes sense to me.
I agree with the rest of your post though. Generic home users are used to the Windows way. If you buy amazingly crappy hardware, it will always come with a driver CD (the kind of drivers that you don't really want on a working machine but that get the gizmo to work).
OTOH of course I bought a new fancy keyboard (Enermax Caesar) for my Linux box with an internal sound chip. Not only were all the extra keys functional but the USB sound thing worked at once. Not bad IMO, even though no driver is supposed to be required, it shows complete support from the USB and sound subsystems.
I claimed, and continue to, that linux can be a fine desktop for people who know how to set it up well enough. I personally don't want to invest the time to do that.
Most long time users don't want to fiddle with their machines any more. Been there done that... wrote X11 conf files and modelines, compiled kernels that would actually run their hardware (after getting the missing drivers), wrote window manager rc files... now most of the "old timers" I know just want their stuff to work. Hence the popularity of "ready to use" desktop distributions such as Mandrake, ?Ubuntu, SuSE or any of the less vocal ones. Even with experienced people (not to mention the newcomers of course).
It's really exceptional nowadays that you have to do anything more complicated than add a repository when you need some exotic software. I think I haven't even compiled anything in ages. It just works. And when it doesn't, it's a regular system that's (usually) easy to fix. So I can just do my stuff, process my images, talk to my servers, in a comfortable environment. Works for me at least. To each his own of course.