>Next year they will present you with a program that makes it possible
#include
main()
{
while(1) {
printf("It's a small world after all,\n");
printf("It's a small world after all,\n");
printf("It's a small world after all,\n");
printf("It's a small, small world!\n\n");
}
}
I once tried to access a companies website to look at their products - I was seriously shopping for a $2500.00 item. Well, their website used java, but only MS java, and would not work with netscape at all. So I bought one elsewhere.
>And how about selling groceries over the internet.
That is a great idea for the infirm/elderly, and others who going to the store is difficult, if not impossible. It's alot cheaper than getting a taxi to the store if you cannot drive, too. Hopefully, the idea will come back as a sustainable business model.
And patches from Sun never have any bugs. Yeah. Sure.
And the completely redesigned VM in Linux 2.4.10 meant that my cluster had a speedup of 1-2 orders of magnitude (heavy swap vs virtually none). And all of my systems running 2.4.10 (12 of them) have been up since the first boot. I'd rather have them fix things in the kernel than use a band-aid approach.
>because the Solaris development team were stuck in a mailing list flamewar.
Are you in elementary school? You seem to have no grasp of corporate politics. First, I wouldn't call it a real flame war. I read the mailing list every day, so I'm familiar with what is going on. Second, one difference between open source projects like Linux is that discussions are public; proprietary projects can have real warfare going on, but the conflict might not be known to the public. I bet you that the fight at Sun going from SunOS to Solaris would make any lkml flamewar look quite tame.
>Computer games are the ONLY applications that tax a home-users cutting-edge machine...
Wrong. Video editing. To convert a 20 minutes of video to mpeg2 takes 82 minutes with a 450 mhz celery, and 49 minutes with a 850 celery. I still have to convert some 50 8mm video tapes to mpeg2.
>(and yes this is partly a dig at the huge swap requirements on the 2.4 kernel)
Linux 2.4.10 doesn't have the huge swap requirements of the older kernels. I went from using 500MB of swap per node in my cluster to using 50MB of swap running a cfd code by upgrading the kernels to 2.4.10 (512MB of memory per node).
People were raving about Trigon. Preordered the first disk. I thought it was mediocre; still, I gave it another try. Preordered the next DVD. Same thing. People were claiming that it would start getting better in later episodes, so I preordered the 3rd disk. Same thing. Repeat above for the 4th disk. Then I gave up. It just sucked. Thank ghod I did that back when I could buy DVDs for $6-$9 including shipping.
One of the themes of Trigun - Vash is an Idiot; Vash is deep - is done far better in Tylor.
The three shows that seem to be grouped together are Trigun, Bebop, and Outlaw Star. Bebop is the best, followed by Outlaw Star, and then Trigun is a distant third. Even if Ed is Bebop's equivalent to Jar Jar Binks.
Linux runs on watches and goes up to a *real* mainframe, the IBM S/390, and is more robust than any MS operating system. Something the Microsoft proprietary software will never achieve.
-asb
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Die Tru64, DIE! What a POS OS. I have to deal with it here, and it is the *worst* unix OS that I have seen in terms of layout of their file systems and utilities. They don't even have their own official version of "top" (There is one, but it is not part of the normal distribution, and is on the "open source software collection" cd-rom.)
Well, I got mine back when the e-tailers were busy trying to burn their VC money as fast as possible.
$35 for the OVA set, including shipping. And I paid $57 for FY1 (list: $200). But sadly, those days are gone.
>But give the fans something, anything, a little cheaper, and they immediately start whining about how "grossly overpriced" everything else is.
No, it's when *everybody else* has dropped their prices. And, since I've got 5 complete series from Pioneer (BAV, FY1, FY2, TiT, TU), plus a crapload of other Pioneer DVDs, I guess I've earned the right to whine:).
You mean that piece of shit called Trigun? I tried hard as hell to like it - So many people raved about it that I kept on buying DVDs thinking that it had to get better. It got worse, so I stopped at the fourth DVD. I'll probably dump them on ebay.
As far as ADV, other than Eva on DVD (where I think that Gainmax may have charged them out the wazzo for it), all of their recent series have been 6 DVDs for 26 episodes, vs 8 DVDs for 26 episodes from Pioneer.
Speaking of ADV, have you seen the Original Dirty Pair DVD that just came out? They did a nice job with the alternate camera angles, so you can have either the English or Japanese episode titling.
While ADV made quite a few mistakes when they first started with DVDs, they have really listened - especially David Williams.
Undoubtably it will be released in the US by Pioneer, and grossly overpriced. The TV show will be released as a 3 episode/disk, and the OAVs will be listed at 50% higher cost per episode than other OAVs. This has been Pioneers track record.
Compare Pioneer's box sets to other companies:
FY (season 1 and 2): $200
Other companies usually charged around 130-140. (Tylor, Slayers, ROLW, etc).
And Pioneer has really lagged in the DVD extras - considering their premium pricing, they are the worst in the industry (some have fewer extras, but they are *much* cheaper).
Considering that Pioneer electronics are only a step above Emerson in quality, it's hard to feel good about spending so much on their DVD releases.
Yep - we use a 3ware controller with 5 75GB ide drives, using linux 2.2.18 and ReiserFS. Our uptime right now is 126 days - when I finished putting the hardware together. The linux distro we are using is Redhat 5.1 (long story).
Actually, about 12-14 years ago, consumers report listed the temperature of the coffee in the pots of various brands of coffeemakers. Many of them were at 180F.
Jiffies are no longer a problem with newer kernels. Also, on older versions of Linux w/o the fix, I know of people who didn't have any problems when the jiffies wrapped around, and I don't know of anyone who had problems when it did.
The downside to long uptimes is that if the box has been reconfigured alot, you can have problems booting - and the more changes, the harder it can be to find the problem.
I use a small ISP, and I made the selection based in part on being able to get a shell account with them. I could pay less if I went to a different ISP w/o a shell account, but I find it to be too useful to be without.
Unfortunately, as these small ISPs are bought out, the shell accounts usually are dropped. I guess I'll have to get my own T1 line in the future.
The hull form of the "Fastship" is basically a patrol craft type hull form, but just scaled up in size. Nothing really new there, despite the claims. And high speed cargo ships aren't all
that new - SeaLand came out with the high speed SL-7 container ships around 30 years ago - they would do around 33 knots or so. They entered service not long before the first oil crisis, and were an economic disappointment, since they usually were run at much lower speeds because of the cost of fuel. (A ship's power requirement goes up roughly as a cubic power of the the speed, so lower speeds can provide significant fuel savings). A number of years ago, SeaLand sold (unloaded:) ) the SL-7s to the U.S. Navy, and were converted to rapid deployment ships.
Even though "FastShip" may take three days to cross the Atlantic, you still have to load and unload the ship. And the goods have to be trucked to/from the ports. So being 40-50% faster across doesn't translate into putting goods into your customers 40-50% faster overall. Some will feel that the actual time saved will be worth the premium shipping charges; but is there a large enough market?
From what I understand, this "Fastship" idea has been marketed for quite a number of years. But with oil prices at high prices, and with little evidence of future substantial lower prices, the idea may have a harder time of it to be sucessful.
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And "Baywatch" remains the most popular show in Iran
Actually, they draw full length veils on all of the women, and call it VeilWatch instead.
-asb
>Next year they will present you with a program that makes it possible
#include
main()
{
while(1) {
printf("It's a small world after all,\n");
printf("It's a small world after all,\n");
printf("It's a small world after all,\n");
printf("It's a small, small world!\n\n");
}
}
-asb
But gee! it won't be as k00l! :).
I once tried to access a companies website to look at their products - I was seriously shopping for a $2500.00 item. Well, their website used java, but only MS java, and would not work with netscape at all. So I bought one elsewhere.
-asb
>And how about selling groceries over the internet.
That is a great idea for the infirm/elderly, and others who going to the store is difficult, if not impossible. It's alot cheaper than getting a taxi to the store if you cannot drive, too. Hopefully, the idea will come back as a sustainable business model.
-asb
And patches from Sun never have any bugs. Yeah. Sure.
And the completely redesigned VM in Linux 2.4.10 meant that my cluster had a speedup of 1-2 orders of magnitude (heavy swap vs virtually none). And all of my systems running 2.4.10 (12 of them) have been up since the first boot. I'd rather have them fix things in the kernel than use a band-aid approach.
>because the Solaris development team were stuck in a mailing list flamewar.
Are you in elementary school? You seem to have no grasp of corporate politics. First, I wouldn't call it a real flame war. I read the mailing list every day, so I'm familiar with what is going on. Second, one difference between open source projects like Linux is that discussions are public; proprietary projects can have real warfare going on, but the conflict might not be known to the public. I bet you that the fight at Sun going from SunOS to Solaris would make any lkml flamewar look quite tame.
-asb
>Hmmm. True - but /. is hardly a Critical Mission.
./ 'ed all of the time :).
But it is continually
-asb
>Computer games are the ONLY applications that tax a home-users cutting-edge machine...
Wrong. Video editing. To convert a 20 minutes of video to mpeg2 takes 82 minutes with a 450 mhz celery, and 49 minutes with a 850 celery. I still have to convert some 50 8mm video tapes to mpeg2.
-asp
>(and yes this is partly a dig at the huge swap requirements on the 2.4 kernel)
Linux 2.4.10 doesn't have the huge swap requirements of the older kernels. I went from using 500MB of swap per node in my cluster to using 50MB of swap running a cfd code by upgrading the kernels to 2.4.10 (512MB of memory per node).
-asb
People were raving about Trigon. Preordered the first disk. I thought it was mediocre; still, I gave it another try. Preordered the next DVD. Same thing. People were claiming that it would start getting better in later episodes, so I preordered the 3rd disk. Same thing. Repeat above for the 4th disk. Then I gave up. It just sucked. Thank ghod I did that back when I could buy DVDs for $6-$9 including shipping.
One of the themes of Trigun - Vash is an Idiot; Vash is deep - is done far better in Tylor.
The three shows that seem to be grouped together are Trigun, Bebop, and Outlaw Star. Bebop is the best, followed by Outlaw Star, and then Trigun is a distant third. Even if Ed is Bebop's equivalent to Jar Jar Binks.
-asb
Gekiganger III!
I've never had any problems with any ADV DVD (And I have quite a few). I can't say the same about Bandai or Pioneer, though.
-asb
Linux runs on watches and goes up to a *real* mainframe, the IBM S/390, and is more robust than any MS operating system. Something the Microsoft proprietary software will never achieve.
-asb
-asb
And the OVAs have 13 episodes, not 6.
No, it's when *everybody else* has dropped their prices. And, since I've got 5 complete series from Pioneer (BAV, FY1, FY2, TiT, TU), plus a crapload of other Pioneer DVDs, I guess I've earned the right to whine :).
As far as ADV, other than Eva on DVD (where I think that Gainmax may have charged them out the wazzo for it), all of their recent series have been 6 DVDs for 26 episodes, vs 8 DVDs for 26 episodes from Pioneer.
Speaking of ADV, have you seen the Original Dirty Pair DVD that just came out? They did a nice job with the alternate camera angles, so you can have either the English or Japanese episode titling. While ADV made quite a few mistakes when they first started with DVDs, they have really listened - especially David Williams.
Compare Pioneer's box sets to other companies:
FY (season 1 and 2): $200
Other companies usually charged around 130-140. (Tylor, Slayers, ROLW, etc).
And Pioneer has really lagged in the DVD extras - considering their premium pricing, they are the worst in the industry (some have fewer extras, but they are *much* cheaper).
Considering that Pioneer electronics are only a step above Emerson in quality, it's hard to feel good about spending so much on their DVD releases.
I'm really impressed by the 3ware product.
-me
Actually, about 12-14 years ago, consumers report listed the temperature of the coffee in the pots of various brands of coffeemakers. Many of them were at 180F.
Incoming!
The downside to long uptimes is that if the box has been reconfigured alot, you can have problems booting - and the more changes, the harder it can be to find the problem.
-me
It's not as bad as "microsoft", which sounds like someone who needs Viagra and PVC piping. -me
When I first saw this, my mind translated it into this:
For all the time and effort spent into developing Linux, they could buy a thousand copies of Windows.
Unfortunately, as these small ISPs are bought out, the shell accounts usually are dropped. I guess I'll have to get my own T1 line in the future.
-me
The hull form of the "Fastship" is basically a patrol craft type hull form, but just scaled up in size. Nothing really new there, despite the claims. And high speed cargo ships aren't all that new - SeaLand came out with the high speed SL-7 container ships around 30 years ago - they would do around 33 knots or so. They entered service not long before the first oil crisis, and were an economic disappointment, since they usually were run at much lower speeds because of the cost of fuel. (A ship's power requirement goes up roughly as a cubic power of the the speed, so lower speeds can provide significant fuel savings). A number of years ago, SeaLand sold (unloaded :) ) the SL-7s to the U.S. Navy, and were converted to rapid deployment ships.
Even though "FastShip" may take three days to cross the Atlantic, you still have to load and unload the ship. And the goods have to be trucked to/from the ports. So being 40-50% faster across doesn't translate into putting goods into your customers 40-50% faster overall. Some will feel that the actual time saved will be worth the premium shipping charges; but is there a large enough market?
From what I understand, this "Fastship" idea has been marketed for quite a number of years. But with oil prices at high prices, and with little evidence of future substantial lower prices, the idea may have a harder time of it to be sucessful.