"For reference, the large file test comprised 39 files in 1 folder, making 399MB in total; the small file test comprised 2,154 files in 127 folders, making 603MB in total."
The small file test took 89.8 seconds for Windows 7/x86.
The large file took 5.9 seconds for Windows 7/x86.
Unless small means large and large means small, then for that version, they're claiming transferring a larger, more complex file is 15x quicker than transferring a smaller, less complex file.
but I can't seriously imagine this being a widespread problem.
Maybe a few people in a town would end up affected, but the cost in time/effort required to trap victims is impractical considering what a simple email can do.
Protecting other species because we feel that it is wrong to kill one off is just ridiculous. If they were strong species, they'd adapt, just like rats, wolves (dogs), and numerous other animals have.
They cannot adapt to the evolutionary pressure caused by us so they must go extinct. Science trying to reverse this process is hypocritical.
I don't see why Negroponte's OLPC project didn't succeed before. I can buy a netbook on Newegg for 250$... yet a laptop with a quarter of the power and less functionality can't be built for less than 200$ for the OLPC.
Even though you feel like your budget is significant, you still need to make your budget the biggest consideration, because chances are, a year from now you won't be able to afford paper for the printers.
I'm not saying that's the case with you, but a lot of school start the same way: buying smart boards, 10 computer labs, expensive televisions in the classroom, and end up the same way: not being able to afford the basics.
A friend of mine worked under 9/80 and loved it. He felt like he could be more productive staying later on the busy days and he took the extra friday off to take small trips with the family.
I worked for the same company but different location under a flexible hour system where the only requirement was that I met the 40 hrs per week. It made things much more difficult to free up space on the weekends, but allowed me to be more available during the week.
Or instead of having the woman take her shirt off in public to expose her breast to the world, she could just keep the baby's head under her shirt as well...
In 50 million servers in america (number for number's sake), that makes 10 people who crashed at midnight. Most of them were IT people given the nature of owning a server, and IT people often read slashdot.
Hence, you, and the 7-9 other people who shared your experience... and nobody else.
You replied to the wrong guy. I'm O('_')O_BUSH. You meant to send that reply to CTS (circletimessquare) who is a notorious troll here and on other sites.
...yes, and probably the single most repeated key word in those comments were "Gnome". A vast amount of those comments were just continuing the Gnome vs KDE war.
You really can't deny that Slashdot is flooded with Linux/FOSS fanboys.
It's a cultural thing. There's a difference between designing a distro for a need (I.E., embedded, desktop, server, special applications) and going gun-ho into creating a new distro organization for nearly every new feature.
That's the problem that I see with all of these niche distros. Many rarely see a user, simply because they're either indistinguishable from their dozen other competing niche variants or their features are already blanket covered by another distro.
"Wikipedia's entry on cataract surgery still has no mention of acommodating lenses. Any time someone adds the CrystaLens to wikipedia, somebody edits it out. Too newfangled for wikipedia I guess, they only just came out five years ago (there's one in my eye right now)."
That's because an article on a medical condition doesn't require an advertisement for a related product to be complete. I'm assuming since you are closely watching the article, you are the one who keeps slipping the CrystaLens brandname into the encyclopedia article. It's people like you that make Wikipedia an unreliable resource, even after 5 years.
You really should read that article on morality, or at least the sources it references, because it clearly shows that neuromanc3r is correct, regardless of your opinion of the Wikimedia foundation.
It has a defined shape and finite size, but we are not yet sure what those are. I am not a mathematician, but I do know that cosmologists have found predictions for these things. Research is being done into finding the shape (spherical, flat, curved, toroidal, or a geodesic of some kind). I don't know if we'll be able to find a size in miles, because as far as we know, the observable universe hasn't filled the space that it occupies yet.
As for what lies beyond those boundaries, to my understanding, it's the other side of the universe. It's kinda like how you can roll a marble on a table, and to the table there is one continuous line, but to us, we can see that the marble isn't an infinitely long line, but rather a short line that is looping around.
Those are just my simplistic views of physics. I am a computer engineer after all, not a physicist.
It's interesting you mention Warhammer and Eve, when WoW's biggest competition (by far) is actually... Runescape.
Blizzard toots it's horn about having 10+ million players, but Jagex hit that number back in 2007, and in 2008, an estimate was placed that the current RS community is over 16 million players.
Unlike in WoW, RS is extremely difficult to make a powerful avatar (Less than 100 players have reached max level), the game almost encourages individualistic gameplay, the graphics are unimpressive, and playing is dangerous (dying means most all items, no matter what the value, are lost on death).
What's the secret to success? Easy access. Unlike many other MMORPGs, Runescape doesn't require a 50$ upfront cost. The subscription fee is cheap at a little over $6.00 per month, and there is plenty to do for a willful individual in the free game.
Most importantly though, the game can be played from almost any computer that can run Java. There are no hard requirements or lengthy installs. Most users choose to play the game through the web browser.
Perhaps instead of making games that require a player jump through hoops to play, and fork out a stack of cash each month, developers should make the game easier to access and cheaper to play.
Except many of the scenarios described involve situations that aren't dependent on the world population, such as freak asteroids and self replicating nano-goo.
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Besides them flipping their numbers :
"For reference, the large file test comprised 39 files in 1 folder, making 399MB in total; the small file test comprised 2,154 files in 127 folders, making 603MB in total."
The small file test took 89.8 seconds for Windows 7/x86.
The large file took 5.9 seconds for Windows 7/x86.
Unless small means large and large means small, then for that version, they're claiming transferring a larger, more complex file is 15x quicker than transferring a smaller, less complex file.
but I can't seriously imagine this being a widespread problem.
Maybe a few people in a town would end up affected, but the cost in time/effort required to trap victims is impractical considering what a simple email can do.
Protecting other species because we feel that it is wrong to kill one off is just ridiculous. If they were strong species, they'd adapt, just like rats, wolves (dogs), and numerous other animals have.
They cannot adapt to the evolutionary pressure caused by us so they must go extinct. Science trying to reverse this process is hypocritical.
I don't see why Negroponte's OLPC project didn't succeed before. I can buy a netbook on Newegg for 250$... yet a laptop with a quarter of the power and less functionality can't be built for less than 200$ for the OLPC.
Best of luck to India.
Even though you feel like your budget is significant, you still need to make your budget the biggest consideration, because chances are, a year from now you won't be able to afford paper for the printers.
I'm not saying that's the case with you, but a lot of school start the same way: buying smart boards, 10 computer labs, expensive televisions in the classroom, and end up the same way: not being able to afford the basics.
A friend of mine worked under 9/80 and loved it. He felt like he could be more productive staying later on the busy days and he took the extra friday off to take small trips with the family.
I worked for the same company but different location under a flexible hour system where the only requirement was that I met the 40 hrs per week. It made things much more difficult to free up space on the weekends, but allowed me to be more available during the week.
It's just preference.
I don't get why this is news?
Hence why the date Volvo wants to achieve this is in 2020, not 2009.
Or instead of having the woman take her shirt off in public to expose her breast to the world, she could just keep the baby's head under her shirt as well...
In 50 million servers in america (number for number's sake), that makes 10 people who crashed at midnight. Most of them were IT people given the nature of owning a server, and IT people often read slashdot.
Hence, you, and the 7-9 other people who shared your experience... and nobody else.
Man... only on slashdot can a troll be modded +5 insightful.
Good thing the religion police is here to protect them.
Yea, I think so. :)
You replied to the wrong guy. I'm O('_')O_BUSH. You meant to send that reply to CTS (circletimessquare) who is a notorious troll here and on other sites.
He also wants to use broadband for health care facilities.
Since I know that most of you don't RTFA and the summary is lacking that point, I figured I'd point it out.
The article doesn't mention anything about China specifically.
...still come packaged with that WildTanget spyware mess?
...yes, and probably the single most repeated key word in those comments were "Gnome". A vast amount of those comments were just continuing the Gnome vs KDE war.
You really can't deny that Slashdot is flooded with Linux/FOSS fanboys.
It's a cultural thing. There's a difference between designing a distro for a need (I.E., embedded, desktop, server, special applications) and going gun-ho into creating a new distro organization for nearly every new feature.
That's the problem that I see with all of these niche distros. Many rarely see a user, simply because they're either indistinguishable from their dozen other competing niche variants or their features are already blanket covered by another distro.
How about the fact that there are way too many distrobutions, some of which are separated by nothing more than ideological lines?
"Wikipedia's entry on cataract surgery still has no mention of acommodating lenses. Any time someone adds the CrystaLens to wikipedia, somebody edits it out. Too newfangled for wikipedia I guess, they only just came out five years ago (there's one in my eye right now)."
That's because an article on a medical condition doesn't require an advertisement for a related product to be complete. I'm assuming since you are closely watching the article, you are the one who keeps slipping the CrystaLens brandname into the encyclopedia article. It's people like you that make Wikipedia an unreliable resource, even after 5 years.
You really should read that article on morality, or at least the sources it references, because it clearly shows that neuromanc3r is correct, regardless of your opinion of the Wikimedia foundation.
Slashdot bashing in hope of getting +5 Insightful, followed by an internet meme? Surprising? I for one find it not.
It has a defined shape and finite size, but we are not yet sure what those are. I am not a mathematician, but I do know that cosmologists have found predictions for these things. Research is being done into finding the shape (spherical, flat, curved, toroidal, or a geodesic of some kind). I don't know if we'll be able to find a size in miles, because as far as we know, the observable universe hasn't filled the space that it occupies yet.
As for what lies beyond those boundaries, to my understanding, it's the other side of the universe. It's kinda like how you can roll a marble on a table, and to the table there is one continuous line, but to us, we can see that the marble isn't an infinitely long line, but rather a short line that is looping around.
Those are just my simplistic views of physics. I am a computer engineer after all, not a physicist.
It's interesting you mention Warhammer and Eve, when WoW's biggest competition (by far) is actually... Runescape.
Blizzard toots it's horn about having 10+ million players, but Jagex hit that number back in 2007, and in 2008, an estimate was placed that the current RS community is over 16 million players.
Unlike in WoW, RS is extremely difficult to make a powerful avatar (Less than 100 players have reached max level), the game almost encourages individualistic gameplay, the graphics are unimpressive, and playing is dangerous (dying means most all items, no matter what the value, are lost on death).
What's the secret to success? Easy access. Unlike many other MMORPGs, Runescape doesn't require a 50$ upfront cost. The subscription fee is cheap at a little over $6.00 per month, and there is plenty to do for a willful individual in the free game.
Most importantly though, the game can be played from almost any computer that can run Java. There are no hard requirements or lengthy installs. Most users choose to play the game through the web browser.
Perhaps instead of making games that require a player jump through hoops to play, and fork out a stack of cash each month, developers should make the game easier to access and cheaper to play.
"A question for you math geeks: can an object of infinite size even HAVE a center?"
It's commonly accepted that the universe is of finite size and has a defined shape.
Except many of the scenarios described involve situations that aren't dependent on the world population, such as freak asteroids and self replicating nano-goo.