Why massive - one or two in the heart or in the neck arteries feeding the brain. That is all it takes. Neither one of them is that deep so it does not need to be very powerfull.
The problem is that 99% of the parents out there are failures. Every time I go out shopping I see at least several another cretins feeding their offsprings with chocolate right off the shelf and I see at least several toddlers throwing tantrums that they "Waaaaaaaaaaaaant a chocolate cookieeeeeeeeeeeeee" and they want it now.
If you teach them that this is "junk food" and "it is nasty" and "have a banana or an apple instead" by the age of 3 there is no need to resort to any of these school systems. The kids will eat the right stuff themselves anyway.
Versioning all files and not deleting the old versions was a primary feature of VMS. It was enabled by default unless you turn it off. I for once was extremely surprised that this feature did not make it into Windows NT as it was built by the same people back in the 1990-es. It is entertaining to see Microsoft finally putting (with some minor semantic modifications) a VMS ancestral feature and making so much marketing noise about it.
By the way, nothing bad about it. It has saved my coursework on few occasions back in the late 1980-es. It will also keep revision control for all lusers who do not know how to do that.
UK, india, timbouktou as far as some UK companies are concerned does not make the tiniest difference. Just read timeless classic (which is still valid today).
Going around commercial websites and big news sites the image load nowdays is in the 50+ per page. BBC has 95, Yahoo has 60+, etc.
That definitely was not the case in 1998.
In fact this can be easily tested by running the web browser of choice (Netscrape 4.x) from 1998 on BBC or yahoo web pages (they will still load). It will crawl, cough and eat as much memory as FF if not even more.
At second - another thought. Birds of prey. Keeping alive from them requires similar improvements in vision. It also requires much more.
Current primates do not cooperate to defend against snakes. At the same time they cooperate even on interspecies level to keep track and warn the pack about forest eagles. There is some extremely good footage narrated by David Attenborough on that (forgot in which one of his movies). The most important characteristic of primates is their socialness. In fact the size of a primate brain for the lower primates is directly proportional to the group size (once again quoting Attenborough).
So the primary driver in primate development should be the predators which improved their pack social cohesion and group communication. Eagles, tree mammal predators from the polecat family and to some extent cats.
The simple fact is that the switches you claim were "eaten" were cheap. There's no reason for an on/off switch not to last for 10,000 to 10,00,000 cycles...
95% of the Taiwanese noname AT cases with switches moved "for convenience" to the front panel had under 1000 cycles life if the box was connected to a color VGA or higher (AT switch also turned off the monitor hard). I had to replace an average one of these every 2-3 days at one point out of population of about 500 in 1993-1997. At the end I starting rewiring the boxes for using 32 Amp switches. Anything less got eaten. By the way the switch on the original IBM AT power supply on the back is also 32 Amps. The kind people use with electric showers.
few modern systems.
While you may be correct as far as brand hardware is concerned, I have had to do this repair on a daily basis with nonames up to 1997 (I simply changed jobs after that). Considering that the same companies which used to build those nonames nowdays build the brand hardware (and some even design it)... Well...
Actually, that makes me wonder: For something like the "simple firewall" situation, is it more power-effective to build and deploy a new low-power device or to keep that old Pentium kicking?
We did that calculation recently. An old non-power management capable dual CPU P2 was eating in one year the price of a new Via mini-ITX (using UK residential pricing). So as far as Pentium-2 and early Pentium-3 are concerned it is better to dispose of them. A old Pentium "proper" from the days when they did not require fans or a K5/early K6 may actually be reasonably power effective by todays standard.
Purely mechanical switches have their energy and environmental cost too. It is just placed elsewhere.
Just ask anyone who has had to repair monitors from the 90-es and AT Computer cases. If the switch is purely mechanical, turning it off will cause a discharge from the capacitive/inductive charge in the device. This discharge will slowly eat into the switch contacts until they break. Manufacturing the switch costs energy so lamer energy saving measures like switching your monitor/TV/Computer/Console off the power switch may end up costing more than the electricity used in standby mode. Both in terms of money and environmental impact.
In fact, this is one of my standard instructions to the users - do not switch your monitor off the power switch, let it go into standby instead. Similarly, do not switch off your computer. The environmental and financial cost from correctly tuning power management and using it on everything (servers included) is less then making the users switch their machines on and off and all of them going through a cold start every day. Not that you can switch off an ATX from the switch. It actually powers down to a deep standby and parts of the motherboard as well as most of the power supply are always powered.
Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that EPIC does go on
Once more, you opened the door
And you're here in my heart,
And my heart will go on and on.
To the tune of 20 billion down the drain until it smashed into a simple AMD hack of the x86 instruction set. Yeah... It goes on... Nothing outlasts the Energiser...
You seem to misunderstand Antonio Bliar's PR droid Pinoccio No 34678 talk.
If a given news cannot be buried on a good day to bury bad news, the item should be polished in a manner in which there is no fault of the government. If anyone is at fault it is either paedophiles, or terrorists, the tories from whom they have inherited the rule or the bourgeois consumer (usually in this particular order).
In this case it is the bourgeois consumer which should not have expensive gadgets which provoke thugs to rob him or her.
But surely it is no fault of Bliar government. Ever.
While I agree with you about myspace, the exploit is not by any means MySpace specific.
On previous occasions Falk AG has served exploits like this through websites like www.theregister.co.uk. In that case Falk had their ad delivery servers broken into.
This is not the first time and as the time goes we will see much more of this.
You can program incorrectly in any language. Plenty of people still sprintf into SQL statements and directly execute them with no params instead of prepare-ing them first and doing an execute with parameters. They do it with perl, python and other languages.
A large portion of the programmers out there simply do not understand and do not care about the difference in security and performance between sprintf used with static-like SQL and proper dynamic SQL with parameter replacements. In addition to that, there are libraries and servers out there that simply do not support dynamic SQL. The DBI driver for Freetb which is used to access MSSQL and Sybase is a prime example. This DBI driver has no dynamic/prepare-with-params support so most of the code written with is likely to have at least one SQL injection problem. There are other drivers which suffer from the same problem.
So while I agree with you that PHP is a language whose security is b0rken by design, you can write insecure and unstable code in any language.
While noble and correct, your idea is never going to be accepted. At least in the US.
After all, why don't you suggest that stocks pay mandatory dividend and pay it with a 5 years delay. Alternatively, that you have to hold a stock for at least 5 years after buying to get the annual and the quaterly dividend immediately. Similarly...
I agree with you that this will create a considerably more stable financial system and will result in overall gain for the society. I just do not see it happening. After all 60%+ of all "investors" in the US look at their stocks as a gamble, not as an investment that is supposed to provide with some return on a regular basis year after year after year.
I still have fond memories of my first Am386DX. It was spread around the desk surface with the more critical components bolted to it (so we could use it to test boards and components). A few days after we put it into action we found out that the CPU heat sink (this was in the days before CPUs had fans) perfectly doubles up as a coffee warmer for one of those neat little copper kettles used for Turkish coffee. Just the right form factor (the later CPUs became too big for that).
I also remember burning my hand on the first slotted Celery after forgetting to plug the fan in. The scar is still visible, because I got my hand trapped in the case against it (it hurt like hell). I also remember cooking eggs on one of these after moderately overclocking it. Amazingly enough it was still working throughout the process. In those days (P2/P3) Intel used to have nearly perfect thermal throttle which prevented CPUs from baking. It lost it sometimes around P4.
Frankly, I would not be surprised if an egg will cook on the bottom of a new Mac. I am pretty sure that it will cook on the bottom of my HP if I run a make bzImage on it and turn the cpufreq off. Do not see why the Mac will be any different.
Otherwise Microsoft wouldn't have been able to kill the IETF Sender-ID protocol.
Subtle difference: It killed it by patenting the encoding scheme for the records. Encoding can be patented and when MSFT or the like want to limit the proliferation of interoperable applications they always go for an encoding related patent. Sender ID is one example, there are others.
Not all G8 countries are behind agricultural subsidies.
You have a whole spectrum of opinions on this. You start with France which is furthermost on the "pro subsidy" and "screw the africans, oh god they will flood us". On the other side you have UK and Germany which would like to see the subsidies abolished because they do not produce a lot, but provide Uncle Jacque with financial means for screwing the aftricans via their contributions to EU Common Agricultural Policy. Then you have the Russians, Canadians and the Americans which would like to see these abolished for a completely different reason. They think that they can outcompete everybody else on sheer scale and industrial methods in the absence of subsidies.
So on, so fourth. G8 is definitely not uniform on this. If it was it would have reached to an agreement on agricultural issues very long ago. That is not the case. They are on the agenda every time. Both in G8 and in the EU budget hearings.
Anyway, if you have objections to this, France is the right country to bitch about. They are clearly the worst as far as subsidies are concerned.
You write off 100 in BoGoF (Buy one get one free) by court decision. You lose 80, win 20 by taxes. That is what it seems.
Well... Not so.
You do that with old inventory only (after all you used to infringe and do not do it any more, why should you compensate punters with items that have nothing to do with the offence). You would have had to sell these at a loss to clear inventory anyway. So your loss is not 80, it is more like 40. As in any BoGoF case a certain percentage of the punters will buy some premium inventory which would otherwise stay on the shelves.
Depending on the numbers you can break even. Even have profit. But definitely, the supposedly punitive loss will be anything but a punishment.
And what if I do not want to upgrade in the next 90 days?
This way you are actually helping them by creating a gold rush which will clear their stock inventory in the next 90 days and they can even write it off as a loss as well.
A penalty is supposed to hurt the penalised, not the improve its financial and inventory positions.
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Seen that already: Nothing outlasts the energiser
Why massive - one or two in the heart or in the neck arteries feeding the brain. That is all it takes. Neither one of them is that deep so it does not need to be very powerfull.
I would second that.
The problem is that 99% of the parents out there are failures. Every time I go out shopping I see at least several another cretins feeding their offsprings with chocolate right off the shelf and I see at least several toddlers throwing tantrums that they "Waaaaaaaaaaaaant a chocolate cookieeeeeeeeeeeeee" and they want it now.
If you teach them that this is "junk food" and "it is nasty" and "have a banana or an apple instead" by the age of 3 there is no need to resort to any of these school systems. The kids will eat the right stuff themselves anyway.
You are nearly correct.
It is "amasing that an OLD good".
Versioning all files and not deleting the old versions was a primary feature of VMS. It was enabled by default unless you turn it off. I for once was extremely surprised that this feature did not make it into Windows NT as it was built by the same people back in the 1990-es. It is entertaining to see Microsoft finally putting (with some minor semantic modifications) a VMS ancestral feature and making so much marketing noise about it.
By the way, nothing bad about it. It has saved my coursework on few occasions back in the late 1980-es. It will also keep revision control for all lusers who do not know how to do that.
UK, india, timbouktou as far as some UK companies are concerned does not make the tiniest difference. Just read timeless classic (which is still valid today).
Indeed.
Going around commercial websites and big news sites the image load nowdays is in the 50+ per page. BBC has 95, Yahoo has 60+, etc.
That definitely was not the case in 1998.
In fact this can be easily tested by running the web browser of choice (Netscrape 4.x) from 1998 on BBC or yahoo web pages (they will still load). It will crawl, cough and eat as much memory as FF if not even more.
I would second that.
While for a single workstation Ubuntu may be OK, the stability of debian really comes to play in a large installation. There it is unbeatable.
I think it is about time to reread some of Neil Stephenson novels.
Snow Crash and especially the Cobweb...
I had the same thought at first.
At second - another thought. Birds of prey. Keeping alive from them requires similar improvements in vision. It also requires much more.
Current primates do not cooperate to defend against snakes. At the same time they cooperate even on interspecies level to keep track and warn the pack about forest eagles. There is some extremely good footage narrated by David Attenborough on that (forgot in which one of his movies). The most important characteristic of primates is their socialness. In fact the size of a primate brain for the lower primates is directly proportional to the group size (once again quoting Attenborough).
So the primary driver in primate development should be the predators which improved their pack social cohesion and group communication. Eagles, tree mammal predators from the polecat family and to some extent cats.
Not snakes.
The simple fact is that the switches you claim were "eaten" were cheap. There's no reason for an on/off switch not to last for 10,000 to 10,00,000 cycles...
95% of the Taiwanese noname AT cases with switches moved "for convenience" to the front panel had under 1000 cycles life if the box was connected to a color VGA or higher (AT switch also turned off the monitor hard). I had to replace an average one of these every 2-3 days at one point out of population of about 500 in 1993-1997. At the end I starting rewiring the boxes for using 32 Amp switches. Anything less got eaten. By the way the switch on the original IBM AT power supply on the back is also 32 Amps. The kind people use with electric showers. few modern systems.
While you may be correct as far as brand hardware is concerned, I have had to do this repair on a daily basis with nonames up to 1997 (I simply changed jobs after that). Considering that the same companies which used to build those nonames nowdays build the brand hardware (and some even design it)... Well...
We did that calculation recently. An old non-power management capable dual CPU P2 was eating in one year the price of a new Via mini-ITX (using UK residential pricing). So as far as Pentium-2 and early Pentium-3 are concerned it is better to dispose of them. A old Pentium "proper" from the days when they did not require fans or a K5/early K6 may actually be reasonably power effective by todays standard.
Purely mechanical switches have their energy and environmental cost too. It is just placed elsewhere.
Just ask anyone who has had to repair monitors from the 90-es and AT Computer cases. If the switch is purely mechanical, turning it off will cause a discharge from the capacitive/inductive charge in the device. This discharge will slowly eat into the switch contacts until they break. Manufacturing the switch costs energy so lamer energy saving measures like switching your monitor/TV/Computer/Console off the power switch may end up costing more than the electricity used in standby mode. Both in terms of money and environmental impact.
In fact, this is one of my standard instructions to the users - do not switch your monitor off the power switch, let it go into standby instead. Similarly, do not switch off your computer. The environmental and financial cost from correctly tuning power management and using it on everything (servers included) is less then making the users switch their machines on and off and all of them going through a cold start every day. Not that you can switch off an ATX from the switch. It actually powers down to a deep standby and parts of the motherboard as well as most of the power supply are always powered.
I believe that EPIC does go on
Once more, you opened the door
And you're here in my heart,
And my heart will go on and on.
To the tune of 20 billion down the drain until it smashed into a simple AMD hack of the x86 instruction set. Yeah... It goes on... Nothing outlasts the Energiser...
You seem to misunderstand Antonio Bliar's PR droid Pinoccio No 34678 talk.
If a given news cannot be buried on a good day to bury bad news, the item should be polished in a manner in which there is no fault of the government. If anyone is at fault it is either paedophiles, or terrorists, the tories from whom they have inherited the rule or the bourgeois consumer (usually in this particular order).
In this case it is the bourgeois consumer which should not have expensive gadgets which provoke thugs to rob him or her.
But surely it is no fault of Bliar government. Ever.
While I agree with you about myspace, the exploit is not by any means MySpace specific.
On previous occasions Falk AG has served exploits like this through websites like www.theregister.co.uk. In that case Falk had their ad delivery servers broken into.
This is not the first time and as the time goes we will see much more of this.
This is mostly correct.
You can program incorrectly in any language. Plenty of people still sprintf into SQL statements and directly execute them with no params instead of prepare-ing them first and doing an execute with parameters. They do it with perl, python and other languages.
A large portion of the programmers out there simply do not understand and do not care about the difference in security and performance between sprintf used with static-like SQL and proper dynamic SQL with parameter replacements. In addition to that, there are libraries and servers out there that simply do not support dynamic SQL. The DBI driver for Freetb which is used to access MSSQL and Sybase is a prime example. This DBI driver has no dynamic/prepare-with-params support so most of the code written with is likely to have at least one SQL injection problem. There are other drivers which suffer from the same problem.
So while I agree with you that PHP is a language whose security is b0rken by design, you can write insecure and unstable code in any language.
While noble and correct, your idea is never going to be accepted. At least in the US.
After all, why don't you suggest that stocks pay mandatory dividend and pay it with a 5 years delay. Alternatively, that you have to hold a stock for at least 5 years after buying to get the annual and the quaterly dividend immediately. Similarly...
I agree with you that this will create a considerably more stable financial system and will result in overall gain for the society. I just do not see it happening. After all 60%+ of all "investors" in the US look at their stocks as a gamble, not as an investment that is supposed to provide with some return on a regular basis year after year after year.
Fud - dunno.
I still have fond memories of my first Am386DX. It was spread around the desk surface with the more critical components bolted to it (so we could use it to test boards and components). A few days after we put it into action we found out that the CPU heat sink (this was in the days before CPUs had fans) perfectly doubles up as a coffee warmer for one of those neat little copper kettles used for Turkish coffee. Just the right form factor (the later CPUs became too big for that).
I also remember burning my hand on the first slotted Celery after forgetting to plug the fan in. The scar is still visible, because I got my hand trapped in the case against it (it hurt like hell). I also remember cooking eggs on one of these after moderately overclocking it. Amazingly enough it was still working throughout the process. In those days (P2/P3) Intel used to have nearly perfect thermal throttle which prevented CPUs from baking. It lost it sometimes around P4.
Frankly, I would not be surprised if an egg will cook on the bottom of a new Mac. I am pretty sure that it will cook on the bottom of my HP if I run a make bzImage on it and turn the cpufreq off. Do not see why the Mac will be any different.
Subtle difference: It killed it by patenting the encoding scheme for the records. Encoding can be patented and when MSFT or the like want to limit the proliferation of interoperable applications they always go for an encoding related patent. Sender ID is one example, there are others.
Not all G8 countries are behind agricultural subsidies.
You have a whole spectrum of opinions on this. You start with France which is furthermost on the "pro subsidy" and "screw the africans, oh god they will flood us". On the other side you have UK and Germany which would like to see the subsidies abolished because they do not produce a lot, but provide Uncle Jacque with financial means for screwing the aftricans via their contributions to EU Common Agricultural Policy. Then you have the Russians, Canadians and the Americans which would like to see these abolished for a completely different reason. They think that they can outcompete everybody else on sheer scale and industrial methods in the absence of subsidies.
So on, so fourth. G8 is definitely not uniform on this. If it was it would have reached to an agreement on agricultural issues very long ago. That is not the case. They are on the agenda every time. Both in G8 and in the EU budget hearings.
Anyway, if you have objections to this, France is the right country to bitch about. They are clearly the worst as far as subsidies are concerned.
What if Russia's copyright laws allowed GPL software to be unconditionally used as parts of commercial applications?
More interesting question is what if they allowed AllofSoftware.com.
I do not think they do, but the question is worth asking.
You are mostly correct.
So let's see.
You write off 100 in BoGoF (Buy one get one free) by court decision. You lose 80, win 20 by taxes. That is what it seems.
Well... Not so.
You do that with old inventory only (after all you used to infringe and do not do it any more, why should you compensate punters with items that have nothing to do with the offence). You would have had to sell these at a loss to clear inventory anyway. So your loss is not 80, it is more like 40. As in any BoGoF case a certain percentage of the punters will buy some premium inventory which would otherwise stay on the shelves.
Depending on the numbers you can break even. Even have profit. But definitely, the supposedly punitive loss will be anything but a punishment.
If one of them does it all the others wills cream about selling under cost and sue the living hell out Hynix. Oops... Maybe a different one this time.
If all of them will do it that will be price fixing and collusion.
Lose, lose.
But if the DOJ forces them to do that... Hmm... That is an entirely different matter...
That is if you can patent a protocol.
Protocol in itself is not an invention.
You can have a protocol as a part of an invention or rely on an invention to work, but in itself...
The chances of patenting it even in the US are pretty slim.
And what if I do not want to upgrade in the next 90 days?
This way you are actually helping them by creating a gold rush which will clear their stock inventory in the next 90 days and they can even write it off as a loss as well.
A penalty is supposed to hurt the penalised, not the improve its financial and inventory positions.