I believe the present is an ugly place. Read a newspaper. Look at some pictures of dead Palestinians, and think how complacent the US is in their deaths.
And as for "evil, soulless facist governments," are you implying that the US is any better? We only ban this research because of the religious right. Get religion out of government and we'd be doing this, no question.
Apple has complete control over their hardware. Microsoft, for all we hate them, should at least have a little. ACPI basically eliminates the hardware problems due to IRQs that we've been dealing with for something like ten years.
XP with ACPI runs beautifully on my Asus A7V with Athlon chip and even the dreaded Via 4 in 1 chipset.
Look at IRQ 9:
IRQ 0 System timer OK IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK IRQ 9 NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 OK IRQ 9 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK IRQ 9 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK IRQ 9 Intel(R) PRO/100+ Management Adapter OK IRQ 9 SB PCI(WDM) OK IRQ 9 Promise Technology Inc. Ultra IDE Controller OK IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK
Now ask me how many times XP has crashed since I installed it after purchasing on day one...
(The answer is zero. Not once. The thing is more stable even than my G4 running OSX)
Give 'em a break for once. They may suck as a corporation, but XP is a decent product, and there's nothing at all wrong with them requiring ACPI "always on." It'll save most users the trouble of IRQ conflicts while still letting them plug the latest shit from CompUSA into their PC every month.
Shouldn't roads and irrigation be more important. Hospitals. Schools.
If you spend all your time building roads and irrigation without developing technology, you'll get clobbered. These things need to happen concurrently. Always set your Science spending to at least 40% and let the roads and irragation sort themselves out in good time. (hint, set the workers on auto)
I wonder what this guy is smoking. It's ugly, just like the original Blackberry.
I do love mine, and wouldn't give it up for the world, however iPaq and Palm V are great looking, but certainly not the RIM. That and the UI is sub-par, compared to just about anything except for a Casio watch.
For the most part, SLAs for business lines are regulated by state "department of public utilities" organizations in the US. The rules vary from state to state. In some places, ISDN is regulated so, in some places not.
In my experience however, no state, nor the federal government, has ever regulated Cable Modem or DSL as a business service. Of course my experience is limited to Kansas, Connecticut and Massachusetts. (I've ended up with business-grade and regulated ISDN lines in each)
I think this sounds to me quite like natural selection. Here we have one couple with the knowledge (she is a geneticist) and the resources (obviously they have money/insurance/both) to produce a baby who won't lose her mind by age 40.
This type of genetic screening doesn't seem to be any less against natural selection than picking the right food and shelter (requires knowledge) and working/paying for it. (requires resources).
And their actions certainly don't preclude that same couple from being extremely moral, or even donating a significant portion of their time/earnings to helping other people. (Your unwanted children.)
When I'm ready for a family in a few years I'm certainly going to have my sperm/eggs/embryo screened for Tay-Sachs, provlivity for heart disease or hypertension, and whatever else I can at the time.
I wouldn't feel right about bringing a child into the world without doing so.
And, of course, at that time I'll ask those like you: What *is* natural selection, and where *is* the moral high ground?
And to show for it, Connecticut has some of the best roads in the country! Having driven 42 states worth, I can say this with some assurance.
I didn't mind the gas tax at all when I lived in CT. I do however have a 45mpg TDI VW Golf.:-)
I think roads should be fully funded with gas / use tax. I don't like that roads take so much more of our taxes than public transportation. If Boston (where I reside at the moment) spent 1/10th of what they do on roads on their metro (the T), it would be one of the best systems in the world.
The only thing I don't like about the proposed British system is the privacy issue. (which could be fixed with a decent "Chinese Wall" between the state/police and the road tax administrators.)
I've been an East Coast subscriber for over 18 months now, and have rented around 80 movies. Some months I watch only two, others I watch six or eight. Depending on where I've lived during that time, (Connecticut, Cambridge, and Boston) I've had fair to good turnaround time that's depended entirely on the post office servicing me. I find that if I send my movies back from the office in Cambridge, they get to Netflix in two days, and I have my next one three days after that. In Killingworth CT however, it would frequently take eight or nine days.
I think Netflix is a fantastic thing, and just don't bother with rentals any other way anymore. If you have good mail service and reasonable expectations of a $20/month service, you'd do great to subscribe.
And then somebody discovers this "PostgresSQL" thing....
And they laugh their ass off.
I wouldn't switch from Oracle for any relational database on the market or in the pipeline. It runs, and there are plenty of good DBAs for it. Last time I looked at resumes for DBAs, I didn't see too many listing PostgreSQL experience.
And Oracle runs fine on Linux. We do it frequently for dev instances. It's kind of nice not to have to fuck around with Solaris quirks or deal with the performance of NT.
A long time ago I watched the rags weekly for news of CHRP PPC boards. This was in the age of NT4, which shipped with binaries for Alpha, i386, PowerPC, (MIPS?) on each CD. PowerPC was going to be an excellent platform for computationally intensive problems on NT. Combined with Apple machines, PowerPC was going to be one of the big players in the desktop and workstation market.
Once M$ gave up on support for PowerPC for NT, PowerPC was instantly marginalized as a workstation platform. Sure it's fantastic in Macs, IBM workstations, and massively parallel supercomputers, but without NT support this PenguinPPC announcement really means nothing in the grand scheme of things.
I have attended recent seminars at MIT sponsored by the Industrial Liaison program, and have found the work Media Lab is doing to be quite good. In fact, I'm disappointed that the 2001 MIT Information Technology Conference was given nary a mention in Slashdot. And especially the Media Lab presentations given there.
Back to the point, programs like Media Lab's Digital Nations eDevelopment are worth every penny spent. Go read about their research before you spout such drivel.
To run multiple linux instances on one "middle of the road" server, you need VMWare GSX. It ain't free. In fact, it's $3,550.00. (there goes your "a lot less money" idea, T.)
As for the value of this product, I see it clearly. Not all computational problems need high data throughput between nodes. And their Redstone-A product gives you an 8 node PIII 1Ghz cluster with 4GB of ram for $6000. And all the networking set up and ready to go. Give it to your Scientist and they don't need to know jack about network or configuration, they just treat it like another unix workstation.
When I think of the ~ $20k each we spend on Sun and SGI workstations for our scientists, I cringe. This I wouldn't (won't?) think twice about buying.
What, you think the heart of gold's improbability drive actually bothers with recompiles? it turns missles into potted geraniums and sperm whales, for g-d's sake.
It'll pluck you out of space by 30th second no matter what.
Civ III is an absolute dog on my Athlon 800, which just 18 months ago was so incredibly fast.
Civ CTP is insane on my PC, just amazing speed. Age of Empires runs 1280*1024 with 1000 pieces on the board (five empires with 200 player max) I think this also is insane. AOE was the reason I bought the Athlon.:-)
But Civ III, alas, is slow as shit in winter. 800 MHz (with 512MB RAM and a 32MB TNT2 and IBM disks) isn't fast enough anymore.
Thanks man. I do think I'll buy one. At $109 it would be silly not to. Especially since I've extra CF cards around, having upgraded my camera's primary CF card several times.
All I can say, Mr. Katz, is that your condemnation of another outspoken techie has drawn a thousand comments in a day, which is quite good for Slashdot.
That and I'll be buying a Macintosh this year, but not just because I don't agree with your analysis of Mr. Jobs. (but partly!)
I'll be buying a Macintosh because they're well designed, long-lasting computers, with a phenomenal new OS. (which I now use at work.) My last Mac purchase was in 1994, and that machine is still in daily use. I've gone through no less than six PCs since then, and that's just at home. (another five at work.)
I am very happy that such an egotist is at the helm of Apple. This means that the product turned out is going to be damn good, as usual. Get back to your Ayn Rand roots and maybe you'll gain some new insight on why Mr. Jobs is the way he is, and just maybe you'll admire him for it all the more.
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It really is.
It's also your right as an end user or mail server administrator to block traffic from his server / network.
A common carrier, however, does not have the right to block his traffic because they want to stop spam.
This is really clear-cut.
the future might turn out an ugly place.
I believe the present is an ugly place. Read a newspaper. Look at some pictures of dead Palestinians, and think how complacent the US is in their deaths.
And as for "evil, soulless facist governments," are you implying that the US is any better? We only ban this research because of the religious right. Get religion out of government and we'd be doing this, no question.
Apple has complete control over their hardware. Microsoft, for all we hate them, should at least have a little. ACPI basically eliminates the hardware problems due to IRQs that we've been dealing with for something like ten years.
XP with ACPI runs beautifully on my Asus A7V with Athlon chip and even the dreaded Via 4 in 1 chipset.
Look at IRQ 9:
IRQ 0 System timer OK
IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK
IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK
IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK
IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK
IRQ 9 NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 OK
IRQ 9 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 9 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 9 Intel(R) PRO/100+ Management Adapter OK
IRQ 9 SB PCI(WDM) OK
IRQ 9 Promise Technology Inc. Ultra IDE Controller OK
IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK
Now ask me how many times XP has crashed since I installed it after purchasing on day one...
(The answer is zero. Not once. The thing is more stable even than my G4 running OSX)
Give 'em a break for once. They may suck as a corporation, but XP is a decent product, and there's nothing at all wrong with them requiring ACPI "always on." It'll save most users the trouble of IRQ conflicts while still letting them plug the latest shit from CompUSA into their PC every month.
Shouldn't roads and irrigation be more important. Hospitals. Schools.
If you spend all your time building roads and irrigation without developing technology, you'll get clobbered. These things need to happen concurrently. Always set your Science spending to at least 40% and let the roads and irragation sort themselves out in good time. (hint, set the workers on auto)
I wonder what this guy is smoking. It's ugly, just like the original Blackberry.
I do love mine, and wouldn't give it up for the world, however iPaq and Palm V are great looking, but certainly not the RIM. That and the UI is sub-par, compared to just about anything except for a Casio watch.
For the most part, SLAs for business lines are regulated by state "department of public utilities" organizations in the US. The rules vary from state to state. In some places, ISDN is regulated so, in some places not.
In my experience however, no state, nor the federal government, has ever regulated Cable Modem or DSL as a business service. Of course my experience is limited to Kansas, Connecticut and Massachusetts. (I've ended up with business-grade and regulated ISDN lines in each)
I quote "this goes against natural selection"
And I answer:
I think this sounds to me quite like natural selection. Here we have one couple with the knowledge (she is a geneticist) and the resources (obviously they have money/insurance/both) to produce a baby who won't lose her mind by age 40.
This type of genetic screening doesn't seem to be any less against natural selection than picking the right food and shelter (requires knowledge) and working/paying for it. (requires resources).
And their actions certainly don't preclude that same couple from being extremely moral, or even donating a significant portion of their time/earnings to helping other people. (Your unwanted children.)
When I'm ready for a family in a few years I'm certainly going to have my sperm/eggs/embryo screened for Tay-Sachs, provlivity for heart disease or hypertension, and whatever else I can at the time.
I wouldn't feel right about bringing a child into the world without doing so.
And, of course, at that time I'll ask those like you: What *is* natural selection, and where *is* the moral high ground?
GW
Telnet or ssh? Well, I can tell you that telnet works just fine over 2400 baud dialup, and quite nicely over 9600 baud GSM.
I can't wait to get Ricochet so I can replace this ISDN that's sucking a few hundred out of my pockets every month.
(yeah, I live in the middle of Boston and no Cable Modem and no DSL. Thanks Verizon.)
Someone trolled:
the overpriced 2Ghz P4s they're having difficulties unloading right now
I wonder why my recent purchase of an IBM Intellistation M Pro was delayed for three weeks because of a shortage of PIV 2GHz processors?
(Yes, it was worth the wait. No, I didn't pay for it.)
And to show for it, Connecticut has some of the best roads in the country! Having driven 42 states worth, I can say this with some assurance.
:-)
I didn't mind the gas tax at all when I lived in CT. I do however have a 45mpg TDI VW Golf.
I think roads should be fully funded with gas / use tax. I don't like that roads take so much more of our taxes than public transportation. If Boston (where I reside at the moment) spent 1/10th of what they do on roads on their metro (the T), it would be one of the best systems in the world.
The only thing I don't like about the proposed British system is the privacy issue. (which could be fixed with a decent "Chinese Wall" between the state/police and the road tax administrators.)
I didn't know N'Sync had names!
Maybe they named them so they could sell dolls and 7 tshirts instead of just one? (Or was that Meneudo that had seven?)
And here I thought the answer was 42.
Congratulations User 1 and User 570.
If anyone thinks $20k is expensive for 150k documents, they haven't bought a search engine recently!
Check out prices for Inktomi . Of course the more documents you have, the lower the per-document cost, but still they charge $7500 for 10k documents.
The "average" price of a Verity K2 license is $200k. (check this itworld.com link.
Good content indexing is expensive. Google will be undercutting the competition with this release. $20k really is a bargain.
I've been an East Coast subscriber for over 18 months now, and have rented around 80 movies. Some months I watch only two, others I watch six or eight. Depending on where I've lived during that time, (Connecticut, Cambridge, and Boston) I've had fair to good turnaround time that's depended entirely on the post office servicing me. I find that if I send my movies back from the office in Cambridge, they get to Netflix in two days, and I have my next one three days after that. In Killingworth CT however, it would frequently take eight or nine days.
I think Netflix is a fantastic thing, and just don't bother with rentals any other way anymore. If you have good mail service and reasonable expectations of a $20/month service, you'd do great to subscribe.
And then somebody discovers this "PostgresSQL" thing....
And they laugh their ass off.
I wouldn't switch from Oracle for any relational database on the market or in the pipeline. It runs, and there are plenty of good DBAs for it. Last time I looked at resumes for DBAs, I didn't see too many listing PostgreSQL experience.
And Oracle runs fine on Linux. We do it frequently for dev instances. It's kind of nice not to have to fuck around with Solaris quirks or deal with the performance of NT.
A long time ago I watched the rags weekly for news of CHRP PPC boards. This was in the age of NT4, which shipped with binaries for Alpha, i386, PowerPC, (MIPS?) on each CD. PowerPC was going to be an excellent platform for computationally intensive problems on NT. Combined with Apple machines, PowerPC was going to be one of the big players in the desktop and workstation market.
Once M$ gave up on support for PowerPC for NT, PowerPC was instantly marginalized as a workstation platform. Sure it's fantastic in Macs, IBM workstations, and massively parallel supercomputers, but without NT support this PenguinPPC announcement really means nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Thanks!
:-)
The first time I saw kimble.org, I thought it was a parody.
There certainly connections to draw between Herr Schmitz and Mr. Romero.
The bit about a live suicide was lacking in taste though.
Ta,
J
Kimble really in prison? Any links to point me to?
thanks,
J
Covered in Slashdot, quite some time ago. Here's a link. For fullest enjoyment, browse this one at -1.
(hi Stevie.)
I have attended recent seminars at MIT sponsored by the Industrial Liaison program, and have found the work Media Lab is doing to be quite good. In fact, I'm disappointed that the 2001 MIT Information Technology Conference was given nary a mention in Slashdot. And especially the Media Lab presentations given there.
Back to the point, programs like Media Lab's Digital Nations eDevelopment are worth every penny spent. Go read about their research before you spout such drivel.
To run multiple linux instances on one "middle of the road" server, you need VMWare GSX. It ain't free. In fact, it's $3,550.00. (there goes your "a lot less money" idea, T.)
As for the value of this product, I see it clearly. Not all computational problems need high data throughput between nodes. And their Redstone-A product gives you an 8 node PIII 1Ghz cluster with 4GB of ram for $6000. And all the networking set up and ready to go. Give it to your Scientist and they don't need to know jack about network or configuration, they just treat it like another unix workstation.
When I think of the ~ $20k each we spend on Sun and SGI workstations for our scientists, I cringe. This I wouldn't (won't?) think twice about buying.
What, you think the heart of gold's improbability drive actually bothers with recompiles? it turns missles into potted geraniums and sperm whales, for g-d's sake.
It'll pluck you out of space by 30th second no matter what.
Civ III is an absolute dog on my Athlon 800, which just 18 months ago was so incredibly fast.
:-)
Civ CTP is insane on my PC, just amazing speed. Age of Empires runs 1280*1024 with 1000 pieces on the board (five empires with 200 player max) I think this also is insane. AOE was the reason I bought the Athlon.
But Civ III, alas, is slow as shit in winter. 800 MHz (with 512MB RAM and a 32MB TNT2 and IBM disks) isn't fast enough anymore.
So, speed is still important.
Thanks man. I do think I'll buy one. At $109 it would be silly not to. Especially since I've extra CF cards around, having upgraded my camera's primary CF card several times.
Too bad they're sold out 'till March...
All I can say, Mr. Katz, is that your condemnation of another outspoken techie has drawn a thousand comments in a day, which is quite good for Slashdot.
That and I'll be buying a Macintosh this year, but not just because I don't agree with your analysis of Mr. Jobs. (but partly!)
I'll be buying a Macintosh because they're well designed, long-lasting computers, with a phenomenal new OS. (which I now use at work.) My last Mac purchase was in 1994, and that machine is still in daily use. I've gone through no less than six PCs since then, and that's just at home. (another five at work.)
I am very happy that such an egotist is at the helm of Apple. This means that the product turned out is going to be damn good, as usual. Get back to your Ayn Rand roots and maybe you'll gain some new insight on why Mr. Jobs is the way he is, and just maybe you'll admire him for it all the more.
Cheers.
JB