Re:Supercomputing and the future of the computer..
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Yeah, but try getting those virtual neighbors to babysit for you! Do yourself a favor - think long term and invite those whiny neighbors over the next time you barbecue.
Seems like in order to tell if a comment really was redundant then you'd have to go on a witch hunt through the comments and see if this was really the case. So, hypothetically, it could be obvious when there were two comments which were obviously cut-n-pasted copies of each other on the meta moderation page but if you just see one comment and it's been marked as redundant it's more trouble than it's worth to figure out if the moderation is fair or not.
Perhaps, it would be better to put in some information like how many posts the poster made in that article and a link that summarizes them so that the meta-moderator won't just mark it as fair or leave it unchecked because they don't want to take the time to look into it?
My experiance is that any zip drive older than 3 years of age is still working. Anything newer than that has a 50% fail rate and will always fail with one year of heavy use. I've dealt with about 20 of the things. My company originally got 5 epson drives 3 years ago (all still working) and then later had to get the Iomega drives. The Iomega drives are the ones failing (they are all two years old or newer) and they are the source of all media corruption as near as I can tell as well.
YMMV. At least I hope it would since based on what I've seen I must be doing something wrong
You have some valid questions there but dual processor machines still share the FSB. I have one here and sure I can get twice the power if I don't bust out of L2 but try doing anything with some serious FSB usage and.... well, you can always use that other processor to run mpg123.
If you have the gumption to put together a renderfarm then more power to you. Find the best bang/buck and buy all you can afford. My guess is that you'll be buying some of the soon to be announced G4 clone systems. Especially if IBM/Moto (Or whoever it is now) partners up with Cygnus and get's altivec support into gcc.
Amen and Hallelujah Brother. I don't think people really understand what a difference integrating 3D into all the distros will make. All you folks who make 3D on my Linux desktop a snappy, pleasant experience where I can code my own visualization for free are hero's in my book.
I think the MS person quoted in the article as much as admitted that as long as the sound output has to get to the speakers there is no way they can do anything about this.
All true and my general attitude too except that my boss doesn't care about who to sue when the software doesn't work. They just blame me!
I've always thought that this was an arguement slightly misunderstood by the free software world. I've never heard of any legal action against a vender where I work but I sure have seen folks catch hell for a bad choice in software, especially when it was free. It's not who do you sue, it's who do you blame. PHB's blame software venders when they pay money to them. They blame the engineer when the software was free. Not that it's logical or that I agree with it, it's just what I've seen happen.
Yes, but what about binary only apps? While this is not the norm for Linux some of these are out there and I know I've had some troubles where the only solution is to reach for the phone and pray that there is intelligent life manning the help desk...
Hmmm... Doesn't sound like fragmentation but version compatibility. My bad experience with this is having to pay extra for drivers for an NT box when 95 drivers came with the device. But.... IMHO, You should not make too much noise about this when issues like a.out->elf or libc5->glibc2->glibc2.1->glibc2.1.1 can be such a pain in the ass.
Anybody who's ever tried to give their toddler a haircut knows that the flobee does not belong on that list..... A year ago I would have laughed, now I laugh at the ignorance. And yes, you are missing something much more important than Madonna.
Engineers get the big picture. Some of them are just too honest and moral to do what needs to be done to make it happen. Jobs obviously does not suffer from these imparing traits and the world is a better place for it in my opinion. I don't know if he's a hero or a demon.... a hero as long as you don't actually get to know him maybe?
Moller's been out on his ranch making anouncements like this for decades. Nothing ever comes of it. I've known folks (fellow students at Davis) who have worked with him on the project. They were good students but I've never heard of this thing doing any more than a hover and a short (unmanned) run. Of course, that's how the wright brothers started.... but the Wrights only took about 5 years to go from a bike shop to the first controlled, powered flight....
I agree that wearing a black trenchcoat to school (if it's not raining) while the funerals are still going is in bad taste but IIRC, the girl who wore the coat that Katz quoted in one of his previous articles was ordered strip searched! There should be no tolerance shown for this sort of reaction, regardless if you can understand the fear that motivated it. The administrators responsible should be publicly dressed down and the girl apologized to. The only reason she probably shouldn't take them to court is that the nurse didn't actually go through with it.
Stip searched.... If she were your daughter would you understand?
Doesn't seem much different than having a camera stuffed in your face while doing your last minute christmas shopping and being asked how you think the economy is doing this year. The problem I see is one of permissions. Were the writers of those comments asked before they were quoted?
What are the legal aspects regarding ownership of the comments on this page and should we be asking Rob for a stronger copyright to keep this sort of thing from happenning? Personally, I don't care, but since people are fussing about it I thought I'd ask.
Seems like there is concerted effort to try and stamp out the flames both with this piece and what Rob wrote earlier. These are all very fine ideas which would make life much more productive and sane if people adhered to them. I see a problem though. The nature of peoples reaction to events really hasn't changed AFAICT, it's the individual's reaction to the corperation and it's management. Gates and Jobs are two individuals who come to mind.
What's new is now the folks who are flaming and the subjects of their gripes are getting harder to destiguish and are often at the same rung on our social ladder. What we see here on slashdot is essentially what goes on in the coffee room, but now it's written down for all to see and respond to, including the gripee. I, myself, have never been in an organization of more than 10 people where the social dynamics didn't get ugly at some point. Gossip, cliques, bigotry, (sometimes even mutany) are everywhere. They've just never been so obviously visable and well recorded before. If this is going to be fixed, it is going to be a fundamental change in how people behave. Getting the leaders to take their dirty laundry out of the public forum would be a good place to start and would set a nice example.
If the standard FUD doesn't work then argue that you should be uncertain of the Linux future because of FUD itself? That's a new one to me. The counterpoint is that Linux is here to stay because once you make the switch (assuming you like it at all) you are not going to go back. I can't go back now. Sitting at a machine that crashes is like sitting at an old 286 tapping my fingers waiting for the dumb thing to catch up with me.
Yes, people will say these things and stay away for a while but eventually they will talk to someone who uses Linux or visit a friend with it and be converted. And unless something better comes along or gnume and KDE still aren't ready (very unlikely), they will be converted for good.
To counter cliche with cliche: If you build it, they will come.
Funny, but the little command line input thing in KDE gave me that same errie feeling. Really ironic as I was just clicking around to see what stuff was and it came up on top of one of my shells.
From where I'm sitting, this fellow just outlined what any outsider sees apon entering our world. Anybody who's spent any time here or in the news/mail/chat groups knows that the our community prefers to use a bit less tact, diplomacy, and/or social grace than most folks. It was disconcerting to me the first time I saw Linus and the EGCS team flaming each other to black soot in public too. This community is mostly a bunch of engineers, programmers, and scientists who are trying to get things done the right way and to do that, you can't pull the punchs or let something like the APSL slide without trying to change it.
So, now that we are faced by an influx of PHB types, press, and other assorted newbies who aren't used to this sort of behaviour what should we do? Nothing. They will get used to it. In the meantime, the heated debate that goes on will shape our policies and make our world (and our software) better places to live and work in.
Reasonable? Not quite IMHO. People just don't upgrade that fast is the thing. I still know some stragglers holding on to Win 3.1. Not to mention the folks that will only give up that Next when the thing starts bellowing smoke. It really says nothing about the quality of these systems but rather that people just cling to what they know and what gets the job done for them.
I think what is reasonable to assume is that in two or three years Linux+KDE|Gnome will be the clear informed choice for a newbie or for someone who has found a compelling reason to leave windows. The ultimate pipe dream would be if people felt compelled to switch because they found some killer app that just doesn't run on windows quite yet......
I was skimming along the increasingly drab posts like this one and just noticed the "we put the borg in.org" comment above. Any chance that the moderators will single this out as something worth reading? I doubt it but I thought it stood out as good tounge in cheek humor. What are the chances of catagorizing the votes so that moderators can dub somthing as silly but readable if your in that sort of mood?
Sure, but if this was broadenned so that everybody could vote and some really clever ip spoofer decided to play rough.... I don't know enough about that sort of thing to be certain that it's possible but I'll throw the idea out there anyway just for kicks.
If it's limited to logged in users only then it's a non-issue I guess.
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Yeah, but try getting those virtual neighbors to babysit for you! Do yourself a favor - think long term and invite those whiny neighbors over the next time you barbecue.
Perhaps, it would be better to put in some information like how many posts the poster made in that article and a link that summarizes them so that the meta-moderator won't just mark it as fair or leave it unchecked because they don't want to take the time to look into it?
YMMV. At least I hope it would since based on what I've seen I must be doing something wrong
If you have the gumption to put together a renderfarm then more power to you. Find the best bang/buck and buy all you can afford. My guess is that you'll be buying some of the soon to be announced G4 clone systems. Especially if IBM/Moto (Or whoever it is now) partners up with Cygnus and get's altivec support into gcc.
Amen and Hallelujah Brother. I don't think people really understand what a difference integrating 3D into all the distros will make. All you folks who make 3D on my Linux desktop a snappy, pleasant experience where I can code my own visualization for free are hero's in my book.
I think the MS person quoted in the article as much as admitted that as long as the sound output has to get to the speakers there is no way they can do anything about this.
I've always thought that this was an arguement slightly misunderstood by the free software world. I've never heard of any legal action against a vender where I work but I sure have seen folks catch hell for a bad choice in software, especially when it was free. It's not who do you sue, it's who do you blame. PHB's blame software venders when they pay money to them. They blame the engineer when the software was free. Not that it's logical or that I agree with it, it's just what I've seen happen.
Yes, but what about binary only apps? While this is not the norm for Linux some of these are out there and I know I've had some troubles where the only solution is to reach for the phone and pray that there is intelligent life manning the help desk...
Hmmm... Doesn't sound like fragmentation but version compatibility. My bad experience with this is having to pay extra for drivers for an NT box when 95 drivers came with the device. But.... IMHO, You should not make too much noise about this when issues like a.out->elf or libc5->glibc2->glibc2.1->glibc2.1.1 can be such a pain in the ass.
Anybody who's ever tried to give their toddler a haircut knows that the flobee does not belong on that list..... A year ago I would have laughed, now I laugh at the ignorance. And yes, you are missing something much more important than Madonna.
Engineers get the big picture. Some of them are just too honest and moral to do what needs to be done to make it happen. Jobs obviously does not suffer from these imparing traits and the world is a better place for it in my opinion. I don't know if he's a hero or a demon.... a hero as long as you don't actually get to know him maybe?
No, this is powered lift using fans. It's more like the V22 but with four ducted fans instead of large props.
Moller's been out on his ranch making anouncements like this for decades. Nothing ever comes of it. I've known folks (fellow students at Davis) who have worked with him on the project. They were good students but I've never heard of this thing doing any more than a hover and a short (unmanned) run. Of course, that's how the wright brothers started.... but the Wrights only took about 5 years to go from a bike shop to the first controlled, powered flight....
Stip searched.... If she were your daughter would you understand?
But then I guess I'm being hypocritical... oh well.
What are the legal aspects regarding ownership of the comments on this page and should we be asking Rob for a stronger copyright to keep this sort of thing from happenning? Personally, I don't care, but since people are fussing about it I thought I'd ask.
I'm not so sure about the egoless part. Care to clarify that one?
What's new is now the folks who are flaming and the subjects of their gripes are getting harder to destiguish and are often at the same rung on our social ladder. What we see here on slashdot is essentially what goes on in the coffee room, but now it's written down for all to see and respond to, including the gripee. I, myself, have never been in an organization of more than 10 people where the social dynamics didn't get ugly at some point. Gossip, cliques, bigotry, (sometimes even mutany) are everywhere. They've just never been so obviously visable and well recorded before. If this is going to be fixed, it is going to be a fundamental change in how people behave. Getting the leaders to take their dirty laundry out of the public forum would be a good place to start and would set a nice example.
Good luck.
Yes, people will say these things and stay away for a while but eventually they will talk to someone who uses Linux or visit a friend with it and be converted. And unless something better comes along or gnume and KDE still aren't ready (very unlikely), they will be converted for good.
To counter cliche with cliche: If you build it, they will come.
Funny, but the little command line input thing in KDE gave me that same errie feeling. Really ironic as I was just clicking around to see what stuff was and it came up on top of one of my shells.
So, now that we are faced by an influx of PHB types, press, and other assorted newbies who aren't used to this sort of behaviour what should we do? Nothing. They will get used to it. In the meantime, the heated debate that goes on will shape our policies and make our world (and our software) better places to live and work in.
I think what is reasonable to assume is that in two or three years Linux+KDE|Gnome will be the clear informed choice for a newbie or for someone who has found a compelling reason to leave windows. The ultimate pipe dream would be if people felt compelled to switch because they found some killer app that just doesn't run on windows quite yet......
score = max(score-1,target) ! or whatever the perl equivalet is.
No need to recheck posts then.
I was skimming along the increasingly drab posts like this one and just noticed the "we put the borg in .org" comment above. Any chance that the moderators will single this out as something worth reading? I doubt it but I thought it stood out as good tounge in cheek humor. What are the chances of catagorizing the votes so that moderators can dub somthing as silly but readable if your in that sort of mood?
If it's limited to logged in users only then it's a non-issue I guess.