Unfortunately, when the NFS server goes down, every single connected machine locks up tight! That's graceful?
Yes it is, if when the server comes back the processes unhang and go back to normal as if nothing happened.
As opposed to an SMB connection which is just plain broken at this point and will likely require a manual umounting/remounting. God help you if you have an application that's open that uses the share, can't be kill -9'd because the samba share is hanging, and you can't umount the share because it's "busy" because the application is holding it open. In fairness, the same can happen under NFS, but in general the SMB shares are more prone to badness under less than ideal circumstances. It's not as well-tested or robust as NFS, and once you add enough machines to the mix, the problems become glaring.
The answer is that the Nvidia drivers could very easily be supported by/installed on Fedora and other such distributions. They aren't because of philosophical and political reasons, not technical ones.
Those reasons being "we don't ever want to deal with anything that isn't open source."
This is the biggest problem I have with Blizzard's GMs: no consistency. You mentioned "in which blizzard had stated that using..." No, Blizzard didn't say anything, a GM said something. The distinction is important because the GMs seem to make their own decisions without a unified front, and they contradict each other on the same issues often. One GM might say a macro keyboard is ok. Another might think about for awhile and decide that's too close to automation.
The fact that "pimp" and "black" are synonyms in your mind makes every decent person on/. sick.
I don't think they really were synonyms in the original poster's mind. He was trying to set up a strawman arguement against the grandparent by injecting a nonexistant racial arguement into the grandparent's post to make it easier to take down.
Lieberman was one reason Gore failed to get enough votes to overcome the fraud in 2000.
I'd rethink that a bit. Lieberman did a bit of a job propping up Gore who lost the election because he became a fairly unappealing candidate. If only Gore could have shown the same sort of personality during debates that he did when interviewed by ESPN about football he might have had more appeal. After the first vice-presidential debate, many people wished the election had been Cheney vs. Lieberman instead Bush vs. Gore.
The Republicans control congress, the judiciary, and the executive branch. What power do Democrats have at all?
I'd say the judiciary is a little more split than being firmly in Republican control, though that has shifted a little more recently. The Democratic hope there is that either Scalia has a heart attack (since it's hard to get much worse than Scalia...) or that the new appointments pull a Souter.
Why is it all aimlessly pointed at harmless centrist targets like Hillary? Why not Laura Bush, who actually did kill someone (accidentally, mind you, according to the police record)?
Hey, any first lady who can make horse sex jokes about her husband is fine with me.;)
And Hillary is centrist? Bill Clinton was centrist and much of his appeal came from his ability to bridge those gaps. Hillary is (unfortunately) not Bill Clinton and has neither her husband's charisma nor his polical acumin.
[Hillary Clinton]... Will give away civil rights at the drop of a hat.
Yes, but she does so in a leftist sort of way.;)
You have a bit of a chip on your shoulder and project an exceptionally smug attitude about "left = good, right = evil." If you're trying to convince conservatives or even centrists that they're on the wrong side of the issues, you really couldn't pick a worse way to argue.
Enix ended up buying Square and not the other way around because the Final Fantasy movie was just a financial drain and flop at the box office that it left Square quite weakened. Sadly, the movie division hurt the games division.
Was it Steve-O? He takes on a woman boxer from Japan and gets his ass handed to him in about a minute. And he fits your definition of an average, in-shape male -- and certainly able to withstand punishment as shown by the rest of the movie. It wasn't even close -- she pummeled him despite his best efforts.
Boxing however is hardly like real fighting however. There are too many rules about contact, what you can and can't do.
But even if we accepted the unlikely and a bit silly situation that people would want or could even afford privately owned nuclear weapons, do you think that is some how more dangerous than Bush and Putin having nuclear weapons?
Umm... YES. Yes I do think that's a hell of a lot more dangerous. Bush and Putin at least have checks placed upon them. If Average Joe could have nuclear weapons.. well. That's "end times" right there. Not so much than the not-so-great times under Bush and Putin.
Yeah, make sure that "almost" stays there.:) I'd certainly rather rewatch the underappreciated Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock rather than the Most recent Star Trek: More Brent Spiner and Johnathan Frakes-Written Movie.
Titanic, by contrast, was also a remake and was also "very sad." But, no animals die, and the star of the movie -- the heroine (a woman) -- lives.
I was just about to bring up Titanic as a counterpoint as well! It's debatable whether Jack or Rose is the star of Titanic, just as it's debatable whether Kong or Ann is the star of King Kong (which of the two gets more screen time?) I think the circumstances of the two movies are remarkably similar.
There was a lot more romance between the leads of Titanic than there was between the leads of King Kong (err... probably a good thing). Titanic didn't have long, involved dinosaur battles or a pointless insect attack that did nothing but pad out the film.
I feel the Kong remake was excellent, don't get me wrong. But heavens, it dragged on.
I'm suer it will, but that defeats the purpose of having free memory in the first place - if I have to run a cache flush every time I try to load something from disk...
You mean how nearly every other modern operating system currently does? Earlier linux 2.6 kernels had the problem where they cached too aggressively, sometimes driving applications that hadn't been accessed for hours into swap. The difference between how it sounds vista and linux will do it is that Vista will be caching disk blocks where frequently-used applications live, while the linux kernel caches disk blocks in a non-application-specific manner.
You don't want "free" memory. Memory that is completely empty and used by nothing is wasted when it could be used to speed up system performance. The operations to drop cache when applications request it are trivial enough to be worth it.
AOL may have implmented it slightly wrong but charging a postage stamp for e-mail is exactly what need to be done. We need some form of micro payment system for sending e-mail. One concept here is that the payment is only collected if the recipient marks the mail as spam, otherwise it's refunded.
What do we do when someone signs up for several mailing lists and maliciously marks it as spam? There's going to be a lot of overhead involved in handling those sorts of situations.
Actually, the system I want is rather more ambitious than AOL's plan. I want all email to require a micropayment. I also want that money to end up (almost entirely) at the sender. For most people, there would be no change, because they probably receive about as much email as they send.
Mmmmhmm. What about legitimate mailing lists then?
Split the world in regions, hold different regions on different physical servers, or just have a freakin' supercomputer running the realm... but have a huge network of PROXIES all around the world that lets people access the SINGLE existant world.
This is already done, to a certain extent. Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms run on seperate servers. If Kalimdor crashes, it usually won't kick off anyone in the eastern kingdoms. Instances also run on seperate servers. Anything that requires a "loading" screen when you move across boundaries can be considered to be on different servers. That is why the Zepplins require a loading screen while the tram is able to move you quickly in real time.
I've tried it and I can't tell the difference between the Audio CD and the original AAC file. Oh, wait, that's because THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE. It's lossless digital, you get the same waveform on the CD
Erm... maybe that's because you ripped the original audio as lossless digital, but I can assure you that the ITMS tracks are not lossless. Can you provide a link that says otherwise?
In UO, there were quite a few people interested in starting up an acting troupe and stage an entire play at the local theater house. And even more interesting, there were quite a bit of people interested in watching. Yes yes, it's incredibly geeky, but who the hell cares, it's a role playing game. Can you even imagine something like that in WoW?
It doesn't happen all the time, but I've seen it. My guild has done it a few times.. of course, we are on an RP server, and I've gone on a few user-created role-played events. A bit fun.
You're probably more in the minority instead of the majority if you would have moderated that down. As for 'wasting' mod points, I look at each comment and if I really think it deserves to be modded up or down, I'll spend the point. Most of the time I have mod points that expire unallocated.
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I'd classify that more as showmanship than zealotry.
On the other hand, who often leads a group of zealots?
Those issues are hard to rectify when they're all placed to together.
Yes it is, if when the server comes back the processes unhang and go back to normal as if nothing happened.
As opposed to an SMB connection which is just plain broken at this point and will likely require a manual umounting/remounting. God help you if you have an application that's open that uses the share, can't be kill -9'd because the samba share is hanging, and you can't umount the share because it's "busy" because the application is holding it open. In fairness, the same can happen under NFS, but in general the SMB shares are more prone to badness under less than ideal circumstances. It's not as well-tested or robust as NFS, and once you add enough machines to the mix, the problems become glaring.
The answer is that the Nvidia drivers could very easily be supported by/installed on Fedora and other such distributions. They aren't because of philosophical and political reasons, not technical ones.
Those reasons being "we don't ever want to deal with anything that isn't open source."
This is the biggest problem I have with Blizzard's GMs: no consistency. You mentioned "in which blizzard had stated that using..." No, Blizzard didn't say anything, a GM said something. The distinction is important because the GMs seem to make their own decisions without a unified front, and they contradict each other on the same issues often. One GM might say a macro keyboard is ok. Another might think about for awhile and decide that's too close to automation.
The jail cell is mightier than the root shell.
Don't get too cocky and inflate the power of the freedom-loving geek.
I don't think they really were synonyms in the original poster's mind. He was trying to set up a strawman arguement against the grandparent by injecting a nonexistant racial arguement into the grandparent's post to make it easier to take down.
I'd rethink that a bit. Lieberman did a bit of a job propping up Gore who lost the election because he became a fairly unappealing candidate. If only Gore could have shown the same sort of personality during debates that he did when interviewed by ESPN about football he might have had more appeal. After the first vice-presidential debate, many people wished the election had been Cheney vs. Lieberman instead Bush vs. Gore.
The Republicans control congress, the judiciary, and the executive branch. What power do Democrats have at all?
I'd say the judiciary is a little more split than being firmly in Republican control, though that has shifted a little more recently. The Democratic hope there is that either Scalia has a heart attack (since it's hard to get much worse than Scalia...) or that the new appointments pull a Souter.
Why is it all aimlessly pointed at harmless centrist targets like Hillary? Why not Laura Bush, who actually did kill someone (accidentally, mind you, according to the police record)?
Hey, any first lady who can make horse sex jokes about her husband is fine with me. ;)
And Hillary is centrist? Bill Clinton was centrist and much of his appeal came from his ability to bridge those gaps. Hillary is (unfortunately) not Bill Clinton and has neither her husband's charisma nor his polical acumin.
[Hillary Clinton] ... Will give away civil rights at the drop of a hat.
Yes, but she does so in a leftist sort of way. ;)
You have a bit of a chip on your shoulder and project an exceptionally smug attitude about "left = good, right = evil." If you're trying to convince conservatives or even centrists that they're on the wrong side of the issues, you really couldn't pick a worse way to argue.
I laugh because it's true!
Enix ended up buying Square and not the other way around because the Final Fantasy movie was just a financial drain and flop at the box office that it left Square quite weakened. Sadly, the movie division hurt the games division.
Boxing however is hardly like real fighting however. There are too many rules about contact, what you can and can't do.
Umm... YES. Yes I do think that's a hell of a lot more dangerous. Bush and Putin at least have checks placed upon them. If Average Joe could have nuclear weapons.. well. That's "end times" right there. Not so much than the not-so-great times under Bush and Putin.
Yeah, make sure that "almost" stays there. :) I'd certainly rather rewatch the underappreciated Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock rather than the Most recent Star Trek: More Brent Spiner and Johnathan Frakes-Written Movie.
I was just about to bring up Titanic as a counterpoint as well! It's debatable whether Jack or Rose is the star of Titanic, just as it's debatable whether Kong or Ann is the star of King Kong (which of the two gets more screen time?) I think the circumstances of the two movies are remarkably similar.
There was a lot more romance between the leads of Titanic than there was between the leads of King Kong (err... probably a good thing). Titanic didn't have long, involved dinosaur battles or a pointless insect attack that did nothing but pad out the film.
I feel the Kong remake was excellent, don't get me wrong. But heavens, it dragged on.
You mean how nearly every other modern operating system currently does? Earlier linux 2.6 kernels had the problem where they cached too aggressively, sometimes driving applications that hadn't been accessed for hours into swap. The difference between how it sounds vista and linux will do it is that Vista will be caching disk blocks where frequently-used applications live, while the linux kernel caches disk blocks in a non-application-specific manner. You don't want "free" memory. Memory that is completely empty and used by nothing is wasted when it could be used to speed up system performance. The operations to drop cache when applications request it are trivial enough to be worth it.
Aaah, right. Can you tell I don't play Alliance? (very often)
With all the "harmonizing" going on of IP laws, software hackers shouldn't consider themselves safe because they live in, say, Germany or Hungary.
What do we do when someone signs up for several mailing lists and maliciously marks it as spam? There's going to be a lot of overhead involved in handling those sorts of situations.
Mmmmhmm. What about legitimate mailing lists then?
This is already done, to a certain extent. Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms run on seperate servers. If Kalimdor crashes, it usually won't kick off anyone in the eastern kingdoms. Instances also run on seperate servers. Anything that requires a "loading" screen when you move across boundaries can be considered to be on different servers. That is why the Zepplins require a loading screen while the tram is able to move you quickly in real time.
Erm... maybe that's because you ripped the original audio as lossless digital, but I can assure you that the ITMS tracks are not lossless. Can you provide a link that says otherwise?
Utah outlawed that years ago. So now you have the repressiveness of the Morman Church without the polygamy.
It doesn't happen all the time, but I've seen it. My guild has done it a few times.. of course, we are on an RP server, and I've gone on a few user-created role-played events. A bit fun.
Erm, only bad priests who don't know how their skills work chain-cast flash heals in a raid.. they tend to run out of mana quickly.
You're probably more in the minority instead of the majority if you would have moderated that down.
As for 'wasting' mod points, I look at each comment and if I really think it deserves to be modded up or down, I'll spend the point. Most of the time I have mod points that expire unallocated.