I don't see why they are so important for an organization
Apparently you've never tried to organize anything
that requires five or more people with full schedules to agree on an appointment.
I've always thought that your
mail client should be your mail client, not your toaster or PDA.
Scheduling a meeting requires the people who are involved to communicate, i.e. send messages. Therefore, it actually makes sense to integrate such functionality with the mail client/server.
That's just the same thing as Unix's logical volume manager: convenient, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with RAID, which gives you higher performance and/or fault tolerance.
I also know that if I raid 0 a 15g and a 30 g, I get a 30g(100% of the 15g and 50% of the 30g) Is there a way to raid 0
them to a 45g?
No.
Maybe that is the softraid you talked about
"Soft RAID" just means that the RAID functionality is implemented in software instead of a separate hardware RAID controller. Cheaper, but less reliable and lower performance. As far as I know, no RAID level can efficiently use disks of different size.
Compatiility is a question of a stable, clearly specified and open file format. It has nothing whatsover to do with "document functionality", advanced or not.
BTW, what is Office, if not a fancy editor with formatting and spell checking gradually slapped on?
The prefab kernels redhat, mandrake, suse, et al slap
on thier CD's are junk! Lets just compile everything in, so it works for everybody!
It hasn't been like that for years, at least not with SuSE. There's just too many different configurations out there. Now they boot with a rahter minimal kernel and use a ramdisk that has all the modules.
You can get a pretty good performance boost by rolling your own kernel
That's a myth. With the amount of memory available nowadays, a customized kernel gets you very, very little performance improvements.
Yup, selling media in the UK without owning a UK distribution license is not legal. But owning it, i.e. by mail-odering it from the US, is perfectly legal.
Either that, or the industry will (gasp!) be forced to re-connect with reality and find something else than continuous exponential growth (which is simply impossible in the long run) to support it.
Perhaps you should have read the article, then you'd know that this is exactly one of the core points behind the man's argument: that capitalism may be an increasingly unfit system for a society where a growing percentage of "products" is not material and not subject to the same rules as material products.
Not quite. He actually did win the election mostly by telling people who'd been living in poverty for years that they were superior, part of something wonderful, and that he'd solve all their problems if they'd let him. i.e. patriotism and empty promises, same formula that all politicians use.
Actually, the law if it is ever formally suggested (which is not yet the case), let alone passed, would only make it illegal to have certain content available to everyone at certain times. Age-based access restrictions would be required at other times. This wouldn't faze most porn sites a bit, since they make their money by implementing access restrictions.
Anyway, it's simply an ignorant attempt to translate a law that was designed for TV and works well there onto the internet. But again, this isn't even yet an officially suggested law.
The original posting didn't doubt the validity of the theory of relativity (which is supported pretty well by experiments), but the validity of results like the assumed age of the universe. He said that they depend on "constants" such as the speed of light which might have changed. My point was that such a change would not affect the results because in the theory of relativity units such as time are derived from the speed of light so that there would effectively be no observable change. If the speed of light suddenly dropped by half, we wouldn't even notice it.
Actually, in the theory of realitvity, as far as I understand it, the speed of light is the central constant around which everything is built. It can't change because it determines everything, including the passing of time. If the speed of light became slower, then so would the passing of time of time, with the result that light would still travel the same distance in the same time.
The question is not what it requires, the question is what it produces. Producing shadows that vaguely look like a thing you're trying to describe doesn't require anything that someone with two working hands can't do, so would you call that a promising new digital video codec? And the idea that big names guarantee a non-vapor product is a joke.
It's a question of human dignity. Do you really want to create people explicitly for the single purpose of being good at something pointless and (quite possibly) not much else? How far is it from there to a Brave new World of genetically engineered slaves and cannon fodder?
As opposed to one that provides service only to those increasinly few who can afford it? Profitability is not an asset when faced with a widespread infectious disease...
This isn't business news, it's tech history. It's not a company going down, it's a service which predated public use of the Internet, but was eventually superseded it.
Well, "not deterministic" may not be the best way of putting it, what I meant is that the format itself isn't so strict that the same input always has to result in the same output.
gzip and bzip2 compression isn't completely deterministic, different implementations of the algoritm, or command options can yield more or less different (but correct) output.
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Apparently you've never tried to organize anything
that requires five or more people with full schedules to agree on an appointment.
I've always thought that your
mail client should be your mail client, not your toaster or PDA.
Scheduling a meeting requires the people who are involved to communicate, i.e. send messages. Therefore, it actually makes sense to integrate such functionality with the mail client/server.
Sure, only the result would be a total waste of effort, not much more immersive than using a single monitor.
That's just the same thing as Unix's logical volume manager: convenient, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with RAID, which gives you higher performance and/or fault tolerance.
them to a 45g?
No.
Maybe that is the softraid you talked about
"Soft RAID" just means that the RAID functionality is implemented in software instead of a separate hardware RAID controller. Cheaper, but less reliable and lower performance. As far as I know, no RAID level can efficiently use disks of different size.
Three little words: logical volume manager
BTW, what is Office, if not a fancy editor with formatting and spell checking gradually slapped on?
on thier CD's are junk! Lets just compile everything in, so it works for everybody!
It hasn't been like that for years, at least not with SuSE. There's just too many different configurations out there. Now they boot with a rahter minimal kernel and use a ramdisk that has all the modules.
You can get a pretty good performance boost by rolling your own kernel
That's a myth. With the amount of memory available nowadays, a customized kernel gets you very, very little performance improvements.
Yup, selling media in the UK without owning a UK distribution license is not legal. But owning it, i.e. by mail-odering it from the US, is perfectly legal.
Yeah, six feet under, most likely. It is very definitely something that every secret service in the world would kill for.
Either that, or the industry will (gasp!) be forced to re-connect with reality and find something else than continuous exponential growth (which is simply impossible in the long run) to support it.
Perhaps you should have read the article, then you'd know that this is exactly one of the core points behind the man's argument: that capitalism may be an increasingly unfit system for a society where a growing percentage of "products" is not material and not subject to the same rules as material products.
Not quite. He actually did win the election mostly by telling people who'd been living in poverty for years that they were superior, part of something wonderful, and that he'd solve all their problems if they'd let him. i.e. patriotism and empty promises, same formula that all politicians use.
It's not even a suggested law yet, let alone passed.
Anyway, it's simply an ignorant attempt to translate a law that was designed for TV and works well there onto the internet. But again, this isn't even yet an officially suggested law.
Big words, coming from a bunch of ignorant nitwits like the Americans...
The original posting didn't doubt the validity of the theory of relativity (which is supported pretty well by experiments), but the validity of results like the assumed age of the universe. He said that they depend on "constants" such as the speed of light which might have changed. My point was that such a change would not affect the results because in the theory of relativity units such as time are derived from the speed of light so that there would effectively be no observable change. If the speed of light suddenly dropped by half, we wouldn't even notice it.
Actually, in the theory of realitvity, as far as I understand it, the speed of light is the central constant around which everything is built. It can't change because it determines everything, including the passing of time. If the speed of light became slower, then so would the passing of time of time, with the result that light would still travel the same distance in the same time.
The question is not what it requires, the question is what it produces. Producing shadows that vaguely look like a thing you're trying to describe doesn't require anything that someone with two working hands can't do, so would you call that a promising new digital video codec? And the idea that big names guarantee a non-vapor product is a joke.
It's a question of human dignity. Do you really want to create people explicitly for the single purpose of being good at something pointless and (quite possibly) not much else? How far is it from there to a Brave new World of genetically engineered slaves and cannon fodder?
As opposed to one that provides service only to those increasinly few who can afford it? Profitability is not an asset when faced with a widespread infectious disease...
This isn't business news, it's tech history. It's not a company going down, it's a service which predated public use of the Internet, but was eventually superseded it.
I've always heard the third version number being called the "minor" one. If the second is the minor, what's the third? The minuscule version number?
Well, "not deterministic" may not be the best way of putting it, what I meant is that the format itself isn't so strict that the same input always has to result in the same output.
gzip and bzip2 compression isn't completely deterministic, different implementations of the algoritm, or command options can yield more or less different (but correct) output.
Your school experience sounds quite different from mine (I recieved my Abitur in 96 in Munich). We had a quite thorough treatment of the 3rd Reich.