There's also the case where a person is very different on-line than they are in person because of the anonymity. I knew this chick that was really quiet in person, but if she was on-line she'd go on and on and on. She wasn't lying about herself, she wasn't trying to make me believe something, she just was way more confident when she didn't have to come face to face with someone. It was frustrating, because I'd want to spend time with her and she'd prefer to speak with me via chat.
I doubt that there are going to be many psychos out there. You're better off getting to know them on-line, but not putting much thought or heart into it. Then go on a couple physical dates with them to get to know how they are in real life. If you stay distant enough in the begninning, you won't be burned or surprised by.... um... 19 year old strippers named "Frank."
Not necessarily. All that is needed for a contract is an offer and an acceptance. A verbal contract is just as binding as a notorized contract, but it's just harder to prove it exists
I don't recall it being necessary for a hard disk to be present in order for the terminals to be a part of a beowulf system. All that's needed is either a network boot or a nice 3.5" floppy.
Considering the failure rate of HDD's, that would be the only thing I'd be concerned about. The CPUs are fairly solid.
They're probably very upset, since I could see them transitioning AIM over to it. If this were to occur, then AOL would have to release AIM under the GPL.
Since they don't really make money off of it, I don't see what the problem is, but to most companies the GPL is taboo.
Even better: Dual male plug RCA jack from the speaker/headphone output to the microphone input. They can't have completely secure audio path, the sound has to go somewhere.
I'm sure it's possible to capture stereo that way.
Better yet, Levi's will start selling jeans with lead-coated pockets. They'll use the line "Avoid getting mugged by wearing Levi's jeans."
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VI isn't available with the install cd. You're only choice is nano.
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It makes things easier with the tools, as well as the merge scripts. If you merge something on a Gentoo machine, you can be sure that the emerge program will recursively check the dependancies, compile them, install them to a set location, compile the program you want to install, and install that to a set location. Afterwards, two config files are usually put into/etc, one is the default, the other is the one that you modify. This way, even if you completely botch a program with how you've configured it, you can just remove the conf file and the program will run.
Other good things are the java-config utility, which lets you set the system and user JVMs on the fly. opengl-config (or is it -update) lets you specify which GL version that you're gonna be running. etc-update is pretty "eh," as the reviewer states, I would've designed it with curses to make the menu a bit cleaner.
The best thing about Gentoo is the way that it installs to set paths, like a tyical distro. You can be sure that if you emerge OpenOffice, for instance, that OO menu items will show up in KDE and Gnome. There's a reasonable structure to everything too. If you run into a bad version, you can just unmerge that version, and Gentoo will put the old version back into place without harming anything (if you set it to keep packages around after compile, it'll do this without recompiling.) Also, about the desktops, I like how Gentoo hasn't fucked with any of them. I like seeing the original version of KDE and Gnome, and not any integrated / special system type of crap.
I like how clean the configuration is too. They've got it set up pretty simply, and if you're not afraid of a CLI, you can configure to your heart's content. Configuring X was a breeze, and I only used the text X configurator to generate a template XF86Config, and then edited it to suit my system. If you check out/etc/make.conf, you'll see a nice area to put your machine-specific USE flags too.
The portage tree is pretty useful too. You can surf through it and look for packages to install... you know that they're all going to be free in some way (as in beer, or GPL). They've got ebuilds for most commercial game executables, so that you can have a specific Quake 3 compiled for your box, and not have to rely on a vanilla compile that comes with the game.
emerge -up world emerge -u world
Is quite possibly the easiest way to update your system, EVER. You don't have to register your machine, you don't have to log on to a "special" network, or any crap like that. The merge system uses RSync, which is cool because it minimizes the actual amount of stuff you have to download, and it also does checksums on all tar.gz files that are being merged.
I'll tell ya, though... You start to get used to nano after a while, and then you're hitting "-O" in emacs, and it isn't doing what you intended.
When it comes to desktop apps running on a server, you have to ask yourself if you actually should be running desktop apps on a server. In my company, the servers run only one desktopish application in addition to whatever their task may be, and that is PCAnywhere. Even that runs as a service, and is most likely going to be compatible.
You can be sure that SQL Server is going to run happily on this server, as well as IIS. Since it's built upon.NET, the "Application Server" (basically a separate process that handles object state in IIS) will run perfectly. Open source applications may need some re-writing, like Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and others... but those are all server programs. I don't care if solitaire is not going to work on the server, I'm probably going to be connecting to that server with a win2K machine that runs those programs very well.
It sounds like an old-school claim, but this really does set us back a century. We'll take a look at it: Huge media giant buys up a bunch of smaller television stations, and doubles commercial time. Instead of watching a television show, we will be watching a string of commercials with small breaks in between.
This isn't so bad, however. This will push the mass of people that don't want to read for entertainment onto the internet. I spend more time on-line than in front of television. Those that get fed up with the mass abusage of the internet will give up, go to IRC or start reading books for entertainment.
Reading is awesome. I think that everyone's time is better spent reading a book instead of watching a television. Reading affects your articulation skills, enhances spelling ability, and grows your vocabulary. People will eventually get smarter over time, and will be more interesting to speak with.
All of this because some huge media company decided to give ads instead of content. I already gave up on listening to the radio.
According to Paul, faith is a gift from God. You cannot have "weak" faith, since it is not quantifiable. You either have it, or you don't. If you have faith, than you will not end up anywhere but in paradise. Take a look at John 3:16, the verse that hard-core evangelicals will shove in everyone's face: "Whoever believes in me, shall not perish, but have eternal life."
That verse alone is an affront to the concept of purgatory, which is just a human invention to allow for the medi-evil belief in justification of faith through works. The Catholic church had found (perverting the works of Aquinas at times) that they grew richer and richer when they stressed that works and tithes were your ticket to heaven.
Sorry if everything here is Biblical based, but that's the nature of faith. I believe that the entire Bible is the inspired work of God. There's nothing that you can do to disprove this, nor is there anything that I can do to prove it. This is what I believe.
If you don't believe, then try to "prove" your faith to me. Give me concrete examples that yours is the one true way. You cannot, as I cannot. I can point out to you various things about the Bible that would amaze you, but I can not prove God, or his movements. If I could, then I would be like God, something that is not possible. You can bring to me all of the theories, those which I am probably familiar with already (lovely secular/pagan American education, baby).
I can bring up Intelligent Design to counter your evolution. I can bring God's book against any other teaching that you have. There is nothing, repeat nothing, that you can bring to the table against Christianity, that I can bring that is for Chrisitianity.
If you want to bring up the Crusades, only realize that they were man-made wars. Christ does not say "Strike your enemy." Christ said "If your enemy strikes you, turn the other cheek." Christ's teachings counter every other religion that exists, because he states that our faith is the choice of God, not ours. If you look at every other faith, you'll notice that they all have some sort of method that you need to follow in order to achieve "paradise", "nirvana", or whatever. There's always something that you can do to save yourself. According to Christ, we are sheep... stupid ass, stinky sheep. We get ourselves into dangerous situations, and God's this guy that loves us and saves us no matter. He does have one stipulation, and that is that you submit yourself... to deny that you are your own God.
Mod me as flaimbait if you want. I merely state what I believe, just as all of the other "flamebait" posts above. It's unfortunate that the heavy theology posts are censored, while the heavy athiestic posts are modded insightful. They're two different faiths, neither one bends in the face of the other. I guess one is just the favored faith among geeks.
But I guess that's what art's about, and sometimes narrowminded people aren't going to change no matter what you show them.
-Says the speaker....
You have to come up with definitive proof of everything before you can make a blanket statement like that. Organized religion is not wrong, as it seems that you yourself subscribe to one of them. Just becuase it is "anti-religion" does not mean that it is itself, a religion.
Learn that religion takes something called "faith," which basically means that you have to hold the belief without having definitive proof. There is no definitive proof that God exists, yet there is none that says he doesn't. There is no definitive proof that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, and one with God at the same time. There is no definitive proof that we evolved from single-celled organisms.
There is only philosophies and hypothesis based upon them. You cannot make it otherwise....If only such narrowminded people could only realize...
The arrival of the nExT generation desktop! This desktop will include all-new technology, such as scalable icons and a specialized bar at the bottom that we like to call "the port." You can now land programs in the port, and ship programs from the port.
At the windows developers meeting, we will be unvailing the UCAPI, or universal component API. This API will be a C++/C# centric API, where MS nExT developers can place descendant classes of current coponents in a directory, and they will be automatically "turned on" for use in all programs that used the original component! Imagine the possibilities, such as a multi-threaded spell-checking text box!
We at MS are very excited to be the frontrunners in this brand-new nExT-generation technology!
I scored extremely high on the ACT, but sucked on the SAT. I think that my tendancy to fall asleep in the middle of the SAT brought me down a little. They have really long reading sections as well, which doesn't help me out, because I visualize everything. When I visualize what I'm reading, I tend to see it all, climb into the scene, and then play around with it. All of this contributes to me being a slow and methodical reader.
Anyway, my grades in high school were above average, but shitty compared to what my parents wanted. I was generally considered as the "Ultra intelligent slacker kid" in high school, because I saw very little use in home work. I read in my room instead. Social skills came late, I didn't have friends until later in high school, when I decided to sand the humongous chip off my shoulder. When humility is introduced to an individual, amazing things are done for the social skills.
Then I went into the advanced placement program, which gave me some mental stretching room while relaxing on the home work requirements. When people ask me what kind of grades I had, and what sort of student I was, I tell them "I'm the student that the teachers all heard about, hated the fact that I was on their roster, but then appreciated the raise in average test scores."
Now, I do programming, but I'm looking into going into clergy. Theology is the only thing left for someone like me... Hey, it was either that or bartending. Maybe I can do both. Programming is rote and boring. Research holds no attractiveness to me. Now, God does, and so do women.
Hey, anyone notice that the screen shots for this game across all sites are pretty much the same? It makes me think that the thing that Valve handed out was just a demo movie that ran on the engine, and that there was a limited number of sequences.
I like to see more than just 4 shots of a huge spider thing with four legs walking over a fence, or 4 shots of the scientist dude's face. I wanna see more schtuff!
Our initial tests showed that using the TcpAckFrequency registry value on the testbed clients running Windows XP Professional resulted in lower File server performance when testing with Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 and Red Hat Linux 8.0 Professional. As a result, we removed the TcpAckFrequency registry setting from the testbed client systems running Windows XP Professional when testing the Linux configurations. With the exception of TcpAckFrequency, all other client registry changes listed above were in effect during testing with the Linux configurations.
It looks like they're also pulling the same crap that they do with IIS to "speed up" IE. Hmm, this world-wide STANDARD doesn't work for us, so let's change it!
Yeah, it does look like they've updated about 10 registry keys to change various things, also testing each configuration like above. If they thought that a certain setting caused a performance hit, they eliminated it from the test. They didn't do so with Red Hat / ext3.
They should also bench it with different filesystems as well. I hear the ReiserFS is better for lots of small files, XFS has some major performance benefits, and JFS was made by IBM. hmm... IBM. Anyways, let's run our own benchmark of both in their default configurations. Let's run a benchmark with these things as tweaked out as we can get them. Let's make nice bar graphs and charts, so that other people can understand them. After all of that, we'll probably see that RH is far more suitable for a business file/web/database/whateveh server than MS Win2K3.
I was thinkin.. I wouldn't be surprised if MS ran a test with their server on RAID 0 / SCSI, and RH on IDE-RAID 1 / ATA-66.
Since MS has developed/designed this hardware and software package, that they should have a free unlimited warrauntee if it's purchased through OEM or not. It's their brainchild, and if it has a flaw in the hardware design that lets untrusted code be executed (you know there will be), then yes... MS should be burdened with the responsibility. People are going to be trusting MS with their data now, to the point of MS selling this thing using security as the foundation. If there's one bug... just one bug, then MS must be responsible for fixing that and every other problem caused by that.
They didn't sell IIS with security as a point, therefore Code Red is no big deal to them. I don't want to see a DRM Code Red running amok, because it would fix things so that you might have to trash the hardware if you got it.
Therefore, I'll propose this: Make the hardware stuff programmed in flash ROM, and not at the transistor level. Sure, it'll be a little slower, but you won't need a microscopic soddering iron to apply patches. Make it so that patches can only be applied by inserting a flash card (with an unusual shape, for instance) into a proprietary drive that's hooked directly to the mobo. This way, that flash ROM can only be updated locally, and not by some malicious program. These flash cards should only be distributed by MS, we'll say weekly (judging by past performance).
The day after it's deployed, every legitimate mailing list on the planet will get challenges from all the Earthlink subscribers...
Geesh, Michael. You'd think that it would become the default choice or something. When something is "Offered," it usually means that you have to turn it on. If someone is geeky enough to be a member of a real mailing list, he/she is probably not going to use this. Granted, there will be a few loonies that do, but when they realize that they got 0 messages in 5 minutes from Gentoo-users, they're going to suspect something.
Otherwise, I think it's fantastic. I just sifted through 2,500 spam messages yesterday, from a period of time starting April 20th.
Consider some of these other Linux commands: "sleep", "mount", "unzip", "strip" and "touch". All highly suggestive in a sexual nature. I know that our Lord cannot approve of these, and I urge them to be renamed to something appropriate to the Christian community.
Hey now. Little Christians have to come from somewhere. I think what you are referring to is the Catholics, a large sect of people that lost their faith in the middle ages. It was rediscovered through the discourse over the fallacy of justification by works.
Sometimes, it's best to know that Luther was a heavy beer drinker that was really into sex (with his ex-nun wife).
:shrug: It's my place to defend, even if it's in jest.:-)
Legal defense for scientists who feel that dissemination of knowledge for the good of mankind is more important than laws based on the abovementioned hysteria or the "homeland security" boogeyman.
The first two are just fine. I have issues with your third statement, primarily because it would mean that I would not support such a foundation. It is important that something like this be open to all sides, ensuring a freedom of opinion and thought. If the foundation begins to provide legal defense for individuals that break the law "in the name of science," then it's encroaching upon an ethical issue.
Say you have a scientist that kills people "in the name of science." Perhaps he's murdered thousands or millions, doing various things like cutting the head open and removing a chunk of brain, all while the test subject is living and conscious. Sorry, but no. We've had Hitler already, and the world decided what to do with him. We don't need an organization going around and defending people that ignore humanity "in the name of knowledge."
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There's also the case where a person is very different on-line than they are in person because of the anonymity. I knew this chick that was really quiet in person, but if she was on-line she'd go on and on and on. She wasn't lying about herself, she wasn't trying to make me believe something, she just was way more confident when she didn't have to come face to face with someone. It was frustrating, because I'd want to spend time with her and she'd prefer to speak with me via chat.
I doubt that there are going to be many psychos out there. You're better off getting to know them on-line, but not putting much thought or heart into it. Then go on a couple physical dates with them to get to know how they are in real life. If you stay distant enough in the begninning, you won't be burned or surprised by .... um... 19 year old strippers named "Frank."
Hah... That's pretty funny.
The eggs of Satan have NO Eggs! It uses brown sugar, Hashish (turkish), a half pound of butter? and nuts and vanilla extract...
Looks like you would have a pretty relaxing time with those "eggs"
Not necessarily. All that is needed for a contract is an offer and an acceptance. A verbal contract is just as binding as a notorized contract, but it's just harder to prove it exists
oh-so-reliable commodity disks and CPUs...
I don't recall it being necessary for a hard disk to be present in order for the terminals to be a part of a beowulf system. All that's needed is either a network boot or a nice 3.5" floppy.
Considering the failure rate of HDD's, that would be the only thing I'd be concerned about. The CPUs are fairly solid.
They're probably very upset, since I could see them transitioning AIM over to it. If this were to occur, then AOL would have to release AIM under the GPL.
Since they don't really make money off of it, I don't see what the problem is, but to most companies the GPL is taboo.
It isn't. The actual link is:
Oreilly link
All the Quake 3 based games I have tried work perfectly under Wine, fully hardware accelerated.
Umm... The Q3 executable is available for linux, you know. I'm sure you can find the rpm somewhere. Gentoo has it in its portage too.
All you need to do is copy the .pk0 file from your CD into the baseq3 subdirectory, and you're good to go. No need for WINE at all.
Even better: Dual male plug RCA jack from the speaker/headphone output to the microphone input. They can't have completely secure audio path, the sound has to go somewhere.
I'm sure it's possible to capture stereo that way.
Better yet, Levi's will start selling jeans with lead-coated pockets. They'll use the line "Avoid getting mugged by wearing Levi's jeans."
VI isn't available with the install cd. You're only choice is nano.
It makes things easier with the tools, as well as the merge scripts. If you merge something on a Gentoo machine, you can be sure that the emerge program will recursively check the dependancies, compile them, install them to a set location, compile the program you want to install, and install that to a set location. Afterwards, two config files are usually put into /etc, one is the default, the other is the one that you modify. This way, even if you completely botch a program with how you've configured it, you can just remove the conf file and the program will run.
Other good things are the java-config utility, which lets you set the system and user JVMs on the fly. opengl-config (or is it -update) lets you specify which GL version that you're gonna be running. etc-update is pretty "eh," as the reviewer states, I would've designed it with curses to make the menu a bit cleaner.
The best thing about Gentoo is the way that it installs to set paths, like a tyical distro. You can be sure that if you emerge OpenOffice, for instance, that OO menu items will show up in KDE and Gnome. There's a reasonable structure to everything too. If you run into a bad version, you can just unmerge that version, and Gentoo will put the old version back into place without harming anything (if you set it to keep packages around after compile, it'll do this without recompiling.) Also, about the desktops, I like how Gentoo hasn't fucked with any of them. I like seeing the original version of KDE and Gnome, and not any integrated / special system type of crap.
I like how clean the configuration is too. They've got it set up pretty simply, and if you're not afraid of a CLI, you can configure to your heart's content. Configuring X was a breeze, and I only used the text X configurator to generate a template XF86Config, and then edited it to suit my system. If you check out /etc/make.conf, you'll see a nice area to put your machine-specific USE flags too.
The portage tree is pretty useful too. You can surf through it and look for packages to install... you know that they're all going to be free in some way (as in beer, or GPL). They've got ebuilds for most commercial game executables, so that you can have a specific Quake 3 compiled for your box, and not have to rely on a vanilla compile that comes with the game.
Is quite possibly the easiest way to update your system, EVER. You don't have to register your machine, you don't have to log on to a "special" network, or any crap like that. The merge system uses RSync, which is cool because it minimizes the actual amount of stuff you have to download, and it also does checksums on all tar.gz files that are being merged.I'll tell ya, though... You start to get used to nano after a while, and then you're hitting "-O" in emacs, and it isn't doing what you intended.
When it comes to desktop apps running on a server, you have to ask yourself if you actually should be running desktop apps on a server. In my company, the servers run only one desktopish application in addition to whatever their task may be, and that is PCAnywhere. Even that runs as a service, and is most likely going to be compatible.
You can be sure that SQL Server is going to run happily on this server, as well as IIS. Since it's built upon .NET, the "Application Server" (basically a separate process that handles object state in IIS) will run perfectly. Open source applications may need some re-writing, like Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and others... but those are all server programs. I don't care if solitaire is not going to work on the server, I'm probably going to be connecting to that server with a win2K machine that runs those programs very well.
It sounds like an old-school claim, but this really does set us back a century. We'll take a look at it: Huge media giant buys up a bunch of smaller television stations, and doubles commercial time. Instead of watching a television show, we will be watching a string of commercials with small breaks in between.
This isn't so bad, however. This will push the mass of people that don't want to read for entertainment onto the internet. I spend more time on-line than in front of television. Those that get fed up with the mass abusage of the internet will give up, go to IRC or start reading books for entertainment.
Reading is awesome. I think that everyone's time is better spent reading a book instead of watching a television. Reading affects your articulation skills, enhances spelling ability, and grows your vocabulary. People will eventually get smarter over time, and will be more interesting to speak with.
All of this because some huge media company decided to give ads instead of content. I already gave up on listening to the radio.
According to Paul, faith is a gift from God. You cannot have "weak" faith, since it is not quantifiable. You either have it, or you don't. If you have faith, than you will not end up anywhere but in paradise. Take a look at John 3:16, the verse that hard-core evangelicals will shove in everyone's face: "Whoever believes in me, shall not perish, but have eternal life."
That verse alone is an affront to the concept of purgatory, which is just a human invention to allow for the medi-evil belief in justification of faith through works. The Catholic church had found (perverting the works of Aquinas at times) that they grew richer and richer when they stressed that works and tithes were your ticket to heaven.
Sorry if everything here is Biblical based, but that's the nature of faith. I believe that the entire Bible is the inspired work of God. There's nothing that you can do to disprove this, nor is there anything that I can do to prove it. This is what I believe.
If you don't believe, then try to "prove" your faith to me. Give me concrete examples that yours is the one true way. You cannot, as I cannot. I can point out to you various things about the Bible that would amaze you, but I can not prove God, or his movements. If I could, then I would be like God, something that is not possible. You can bring to me all of the theories, those which I am probably familiar with already (lovely secular/pagan American education, baby).
I can bring up Intelligent Design to counter your evolution. I can bring God's book against any other teaching that you have. There is nothing, repeat nothing, that you can bring to the table against Christianity, that I can bring that is for Chrisitianity.
If you want to bring up the Crusades, only realize that they were man-made wars. Christ does not say "Strike your enemy." Christ said "If your enemy strikes you, turn the other cheek." Christ's teachings counter every other religion that exists, because he states that our faith is the choice of God, not ours. If you look at every other faith, you'll notice that they all have some sort of method that you need to follow in order to achieve "paradise", "nirvana", or whatever. There's always something that you can do to save yourself. According to Christ, we are sheep... stupid ass, stinky sheep. We get ourselves into dangerous situations, and God's this guy that loves us and saves us no matter. He does have one stipulation, and that is that you submit yourself... to deny that you are your own God.
Mod me as flaimbait if you want. I merely state what I believe, just as all of the other "flamebait" posts above. It's unfortunate that the heavy theology posts are censored, while the heavy athiestic posts are modded insightful. They're two different faiths, neither one bends in the face of the other. I guess one is just the favored faith among geeks.
But I guess that's what art's about, and sometimes narrowminded people aren't going to change no matter what you show them.
-Says the speaker....
You have to come up with definitive proof of everything before you can make a blanket statement like that. Organized religion is not wrong, as it seems that you yourself subscribe to one of them. Just becuase it is "anti-religion" does not mean that it is itself, a religion.
Learn that religion takes something called "faith," which basically means that you have to hold the belief without having definitive proof. There is no definitive proof that God exists, yet there is none that says he doesn't. There is no definitive proof that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, and one with God at the same time. There is no definitive proof that we evolved from single-celled organisms.
There is only philosophies and hypothesis based upon them. You cannot make it otherwise. ...If only such narrowminded people could only realize...
Microsoft now announces:
The arrival of the nExT generation desktop! This desktop will include all-new technology, such as scalable icons and a specialized bar at the bottom that we like to call "the port." You can now land programs in the port, and ship programs from the port.
At the windows developers meeting, we will be unvailing the UCAPI, or universal component API. This API will be a C++/C# centric API, where MS nExT developers can place descendant classes of current coponents in a directory, and they will be automatically "turned on" for use in all programs that used the original component! Imagine the possibilities, such as a multi-threaded spell-checking text box!
We at MS are very excited to be the frontrunners in this brand-new nExT-generation technology!
Lutherans can have sex.
I scored extremely high on the ACT, but sucked on the SAT. I think that my tendancy to fall asleep in the middle of the SAT brought me down a little. They have really long reading sections as well, which doesn't help me out, because I visualize everything. When I visualize what I'm reading, I tend to see it all, climb into the scene, and then play around with it. All of this contributes to me being a slow and methodical reader.
Anyway, my grades in high school were above average, but shitty compared to what my parents wanted. I was generally considered as the "Ultra intelligent slacker kid" in high school, because I saw very little use in home work. I read in my room instead. Social skills came late, I didn't have friends until later in high school, when I decided to sand the humongous chip off my shoulder. When humility is introduced to an individual, amazing things are done for the social skills.
Then I went into the advanced placement program, which gave me some mental stretching room while relaxing on the home work requirements. When people ask me what kind of grades I had, and what sort of student I was, I tell them "I'm the student that the teachers all heard about, hated the fact that I was on their roster, but then appreciated the raise in average test scores."
Now, I do programming, but I'm looking into going into clergy. Theology is the only thing left for someone like me... Hey, it was either that or bartending. Maybe I can do both. Programming is rote and boring. Research holds no attractiveness to me. Now, God does, and so do women.
Hey, anyone notice that the screen shots for this game across all sites are pretty much the same? It makes me think that the thing that Valve handed out was just a demo movie that ran on the engine, and that there was a limited number of sequences.
I like to see more than just 4 shots of a huge spider thing with four legs walking over a fence, or 4 shots of the scientist dude's face. I wanna see more schtuff!
Our initial tests showed that using the TcpAckFrequency registry value on the testbed clients running Windows XP Professional resulted in lower File server performance when testing with Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 and Red Hat Linux 8.0 Professional. As a result, we removed the TcpAckFrequency registry setting from the testbed client systems running Windows XP Professional when testing the Linux configurations. With the exception of TcpAckFrequency, all other client registry changes listed above were in effect during testing with the Linux configurations.
It looks like they're also pulling the same crap that they do with IIS to "speed up" IE. Hmm, this world-wide STANDARD doesn't work for us, so let's change it!
Yeah, it does look like they've updated about 10 registry keys to change various things, also testing each configuration like above. If they thought that a certain setting caused a performance hit, they eliminated it from the test. They didn't do so with Red Hat / ext3.
They should also bench it with different filesystems as well. I hear the ReiserFS is better for lots of small files, XFS has some major performance benefits, and JFS was made by IBM. hmm... IBM. Anyways, let's run our own benchmark of both in their default configurations. Let's run a benchmark with these things as tweaked out as we can get them. Let's make nice bar graphs and charts, so that other people can understand them. After all of that, we'll probably see that RH is far more suitable for a business file/web/database/whateveh server than MS Win2K3.
I was thinkin.. I wouldn't be surprised if MS ran a test with their server on RAID 0 / SCSI, and RH on IDE-RAID 1 / ATA-66.
Since MS has developed/designed this hardware and software package, that they should have a free unlimited warrauntee if it's purchased through OEM or not. It's their brainchild, and if it has a flaw in the hardware design that lets untrusted code be executed (you know there will be), then yes... MS should be burdened with the responsibility. People are going to be trusting MS with their data now, to the point of MS selling this thing using security as the foundation. If there's one bug... just one bug, then MS must be responsible for fixing that and every other problem caused by that.
They didn't sell IIS with security as a point, therefore Code Red is no big deal to them. I don't want to see a DRM Code Red running amok, because it would fix things so that you might have to trash the hardware if you got it.
Therefore, I'll propose this: Make the hardware stuff programmed in flash ROM, and not at the transistor level. Sure, it'll be a little slower, but you won't need a microscopic soddering iron to apply patches. Make it so that patches can only be applied by inserting a flash card (with an unusual shape, for instance) into a proprietary drive that's hooked directly to the mobo. This way, that flash ROM can only be updated locally, and not by some malicious program. These flash cards should only be distributed by MS, we'll say weekly (judging by past performance).
The day after it's deployed, every legitimate mailing list on the planet will get challenges from all the Earthlink subscribers...
Geesh, Michael. You'd think that it would become the default choice or something. When something is "Offered," it usually means that you have to turn it on. If someone is geeky enough to be a member of a real mailing list, he/she is probably not going to use this. Granted, there will be a few loonies that do, but when they realize that they got 0 messages in 5 minutes from Gentoo-users, they're going to suspect something.
Otherwise, I think it's fantastic. I just sifted through 2,500 spam messages yesterday, from a period of time starting April 20th.
No kidding. This is one patent holding that I will only object to from the sidelines, and not try to disprove. :-)
Consider some of these other Linux commands: "sleep", "mount", "unzip", "strip" and "touch". All highly suggestive in a sexual nature. I know that our Lord cannot approve of these, and I urge them to be renamed to something appropriate to the Christian community.
Hey now. Little Christians have to come from somewhere. I think what you are referring to is the Catholics, a large sect of people that lost their faith in the middle ages. It was rediscovered through the discourse over the fallacy of justification by works.
Sometimes, it's best to know that Luther was a heavy beer drinker that was really into sex (with his ex-nun wife).
:shrug: It's my place to defend, even if it's in jest. :-)
Legal defense for scientists who feel that dissemination of knowledge for the good of mankind is more important than laws based on the abovementioned hysteria or the "homeland security" boogeyman.
The first two are just fine. I have issues with your third statement, primarily because it would mean that I would not support such a foundation. It is important that something like this be open to all sides, ensuring a freedom of opinion and thought. If the foundation begins to provide legal defense for individuals that break the law "in the name of science," then it's encroaching upon an ethical issue.
Say you have a scientist that kills people "in the name of science." Perhaps he's murdered thousands or millions, doing various things like cutting the head open and removing a chunk of brain, all while the test subject is living and conscious. Sorry, but no. We've had Hitler already, and the world decided what to do with him. We don't need an organization going around and defending people that ignore humanity "in the name of knowledge."