*Sigh*. Yes, I know what Penny Black means (btw, your comment is incorrect - the Penny Black was the first stamp to be introduced by the British Royal Mail, although it wasn't the world's first stamp). The "penny a mail" was figurative.
Small correction: "...the innocents who don't know they're bothered by it".
Strange as it may seem, spam damages everyone who uses email. It costs ISPs more in storage and bandwidth, which gets passed onto the enduser. It slows down legitimate email. It makes it harder for "innocents" to determine which mail is geniune and which is not.
Face it. Spam is bad for everybody, whether they know it or not.
(And don't even get me started on worms. I've got over 100MB of crap from SoBig.F so far.)
Unfortunately, due to the limitation in server testing software, the benchmarks we used didn't require the power of multiple processors to operate. In turn, this causes the computer to do more than is required to which produces the slow down.
Very scientific. More work? Um-hummm...
The benchmarking software that would give us the opportunity to test the SMP Opteron platform to its fullest extent costs many thousands of dollars (Ed. Note - If any company wishes to sponsor us with this type of software, you are most welcomed!). Such software also needs a minimum of 10 computers running on a network at one time which makes it quite difficult for a lot of people to test with - which is the dilemma most media faces. With all this equipment, one benchmark with the program can take over 24hrs, making testing of multiple processors very time consuming.
Suuure... last time I looked, Linux cost exactly $0.
People who have an understanding of SMP equipment would understand why the benchmarks are slower and also understand why you would purchase such equipment. Many programs aimed at people who use their computer as a Graphics Workstation have support for multiple processors and thus make good use of the powerful technology.
I think somebody who has "an understanding of SMP equipment" wouldn't be reading this article. C'mon, it's obvious these guys are out of their league benchmarking this board. Back to comparing driver version 6.277654 on the latest nVidia FX8800ZZJZ running Star Wars: Jedi WankJob or whatever.
Note that the "no work" restriction on student, tourist or foreign spouse visas only really applies to working for a company with a presence in Japan. If he's telecommuting to the States, the immigration office doesn't really care (unless he goes out of his way to make it obvious).
It's quite considerably harder. On the books, they require 5 years residence, but in practice, the requirements are more like this: - 10 years or more living in Japan (with no breaks). - Married to a Japanese person. - 1 or more kids. It may be easier if you're a second or third generation Japanese descendant, but either way, the application procedure can take anywhere from 4 to 12 months to be approved.
I dunno - might be interesting to see the FTC's notes on these calls.
"Got another call today from somebody complaining about this company called, uh, "hell-bound bastards", or possibly "Skoh". The complaint was along the lines of 'that fucking Darl better not leave Utah, because if he does he'll get a giant penguin made of barbed wire crammed up his ass'. Caller sounded fairly annoyed. Possibly bears further investigation, in light of the 4000 other calls we've received today saying much the same thing. Sure wouldn't want to be this Darl guy. What kind of a name is Darl, anyway? Sounds like some fatass lawyer to me."
Probably not. One of the members of the SCO legal team is Brent O. Hatch.
Don't know who he is? He's the son of Orrin Hatch, i.e. the Senator from Disney, I mean Utah.
The moment the Utah A-G's office starts getting "frisky", you can be sure there'll be a call made from the Senator's office to the A-G. Forget about Utah - it's a lost cause.
More to the point, someone should raise this issue in SCOX's next investor conference call. Perhaps something along these lines:
"At the recent SCO forum, you indicated that you consider the GPL to be damaging to intellectual property. At the same Forum, you announced that you would be shipping Samba 3 with your next release in order to provide a higher level of Windows compatibility. Considering that Samba is licensed to you under the GPL, your arguments against it would actually prevent including such functionality. Do you plan to remove Samba from your coming release if you win your lawsuit on the grounds that the GPL is invalid under Federal copyright law? If so, how do you intend to provide the Windows compatibility that you have announced?"
The reason that older writing systems don't necessarily match the way words are pronounced isn't that the creator was an idiot - it's just that older systems have had longer to get "out of sync".
Pronounciation shifts fairly rapidly, so give Finnish a few more centuries, and it'll be just like English in its randomness of spelling.
Well, the fact that the XBox gained a reputation in its first week of sales in Japan as a "disc grinder", it's not really very surprising that sales aren't too great.
Yeah, cause those Windows developers don't have to actually develop anything - they just pop the Magic Install(TM) CD in the drive, and there you go! Entirely new desktop!...
In case you hadn't noticed, this was a review of a pre-release. When it's ready, distributions will package it so that it's just as easy to install as Windows.
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*Sigh*. Yes, I know what Penny Black means (btw, your comment is incorrect - the Penny Black was the first stamp to be introduced by the British Royal Mail, although it wasn't the world's first stamp). The "penny a mail" was figurative.
If it's a choice between your users and my bandwidth, I'll take my bandwidth, thank you very much.
Filtering doesn't help the ISP - the spammer has already done his job by the time his crap has hit your filter.
I love these people who assume that the problem can be solved if everybody would just get used to 'using their D key', as you put it.
I think Microsoft is working on something called 'penny black' or something which does something similar.
So, a penny a mail... and any guesses as to where the money goes?
A .44 Magnum sounds like a good place to start.
Small correction: "...the innocents who don't know they're bothered by it".
Strange as it may seem, spam damages everyone who uses email. It costs ISPs more in storage and bandwidth, which gets passed onto the enduser. It slows down legitimate email. It makes it harder for "innocents" to determine which mail is geniune and which is not.
Face it. Spam is bad for everybody, whether they know it or not.
(And don't even get me started on worms. I've got over 100MB of crap from SoBig.F so far.)
Gotta love this part...
Unfortunately, due to the limitation in server testing software, the benchmarks we used didn't require the power of multiple processors to operate. In turn, this causes the computer to do more than is required to which produces the slow down.
Very scientific. More work? Um-hummm...
The benchmarking software that would give us the opportunity to test the SMP Opteron platform to its fullest extent costs many thousands of dollars (Ed. Note - If any company wishes to sponsor us with this type of software, you are most welcomed!). Such software also needs a minimum of 10 computers running on a network at one time which makes it quite difficult for a lot of people to test with - which is the dilemma most media faces. With all this equipment, one benchmark with the program can take over 24hrs, making testing of multiple processors very time consuming.
Suuure... last time I looked, Linux cost exactly $0.
People who have an understanding of SMP equipment would understand why the benchmarks are slower and also understand why you would purchase such equipment. Many programs aimed at people who use their computer as a Graphics Workstation have support for multiple processors and thus make good use of the powerful technology.
I think somebody who has "an understanding of SMP equipment" wouldn't be reading this article. C'mon, it's obvious these guys are out of their league benchmarking this board. Back to comparing driver version 6.277654 on the latest nVidia FX8800ZZJZ running Star Wars: Jedi WankJob or whatever.
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I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but it costs a minimum of $US25,000 to start a company in Japan.
Note that the "no work" restriction on student, tourist or foreign spouse visas only really applies to working for a company with a presence in Japan. If he's telecommuting to the States, the immigration office doesn't really care (unless he goes out of his way to make it obvious).
It's quite considerably harder. On the books, they require 5 years residence, but in practice, the requirements are more like this:
- 10 years or more living in Japan (with no breaks).
- Married to a Japanese person.
- 1 or more kids.
It may be easier if you're a second or third generation Japanese descendant, but either way, the application procedure can take anywhere from 4 to 12 months to be approved.
It'll cost a minimum of $US25,000 to incorporate a business in Japan. Good luck.
I dunno - might be interesting to see the FTC's notes on these calls.
"Got another call today from somebody complaining about this company called, uh, "hell-bound bastards", or possibly "Skoh". The complaint was along the lines of 'that fucking Darl better not leave Utah, because if he does he'll get a giant penguin made of barbed wire crammed up his ass'. Caller sounded fairly annoyed. Possibly bears further investigation, in light of the 4000 other calls we've received today saying much the same thing. Sure wouldn't want to be this Darl guy. What kind of a name is Darl, anyway? Sounds like some fatass lawyer to me."
Probably not. One of the members of the SCO legal team is Brent O. Hatch.
Don't know who he is? He's the son of Orrin Hatch, i.e. the Senator from Disney, I mean Utah.
The moment the Utah A-G's office starts getting "frisky", you can be sure there'll be a call made from the Senator's office to the A-G. Forget about Utah - it's a lost cause.
Strangely enough, I don't know anyone who does that (and at my workplace, we spend about 70-80% of our time in vi).
More to the point, someone should raise this issue in SCOX's next investor conference call. Perhaps something along these lines:
"At the recent SCO forum, you indicated that you consider the GPL to be damaging to intellectual property. At the same Forum, you announced that you would be shipping Samba 3 with your next release in order to provide a higher level of Windows compatibility. Considering that Samba is licensed to you under the GPL, your arguments against it would actually prevent including such functionality. Do you plan to remove Samba from your coming release if you win your lawsuit on the grounds that the GPL is invalid under Federal copyright law? If so, how do you intend to provide the Windows compatibility that you have announced?"
The reason that older writing systems don't necessarily match the way words are pronounced isn't that the creator was an idiot - it's just that older systems have had longer to get "out of sync".
Pronounciation shifts fairly rapidly, so give Finnish a few more centuries, and it'll be just like English in its randomness of spelling.
Well, the fact that the XBox gained a reputation in its first week of sales in Japan as a "disc grinder", it's not really very surprising that sales aren't too great.
I've got a PS1 manufactured in ~1995, and I haven't had to replace it yet.
Up until last year or so, a machine I'd deployed at my old company was still running with 1.9.16 or so.
Yeah, cause those Windows developers don't have to actually develop anything - they just pop the Magic Install(TM) CD in the drive, and there you go! Entirely new desktop! ...
In case you hadn't noticed, this was a review of a pre-release. When it's ready, distributions will package it so that it's just as easy to install as Windows.
As is Greenland, I believe - one of the largest islands in the world.
RTFA - boron doping allows them to produce P/N semiconductors.
Department of Motor Vehicles?
So, you prefer to have installation be fast, but don't care if it's right? Hmmm...