If customers are the way you make money, then yes.
Put another way, if you take your total costs, divide by number of customers, then they better be paying you more than that.
If my businesss costs me 100 bucks a month to run, and I've got 10 customers paying 10 bucks a month for my product, I'm happy. Each new customer I get probably isn't going to increase my costs by 10 bucks, but I can charge 10 bucks...then I'm really happy. Once I get enough customers, I can drop prices a bit; makes customers happy, brings in new ones, I'm making even more money.
Then, of course, the competition comes in, undercuts me, and within a year or two, we're both making literally pennies above cost, and nobody's making money, but damn, the customers are happy...until we both go out of business, and the customers have nothing left. But, at least they weren't getting 'gouged' or 'screwed.'
My friend, I have never claimed to be a god, let alone the Christian one, nor would I care to be.
But that's the crux, isn't it? Osama, in this case, honestly believes that Allah, his God, has commanded him to blow up Americans. What matter, then, this 'right to life' that you speak of?
Then, my good man, perhaps it is time to practice what you preach, and remove your President, who, I might add, didn't win the election, in a resounding tribute to the revolutionary spirit which founded your country in the first place.
Liberty is being secure in our persons. You can't kill someone else because they have the right to live! Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.
Bullshit. You have no 'right to live,' other than what your society has granted. My right to swing my fist ends where I decide it ends; in this case, it ends where I personally don't like inflicting unnecessary harm on an innocent, (or at least, innocent as far as I'm concerned) and a deep desire not to attend the penal facility my society has declared awaits me for beating up random people.
To restate: you have no 'inalienable rights,' you have whatever rights you a)choose to have, and b) can take, and prevent others from removing from you. Groups and societies are formed to help defend these 'rights' that they wish to have.
Not violating others' rights, and others' not violating your rights - that's what liberty is. Don't equate liberty with license.
Again, what rights? By definition, then, you have no liberty as soon as you come up against somebody who is quite willing to violate your rights; you're a slave to their ability.
Is your 'right to life' more imperitive than Osama's right to exercise his religious requirement to kill you? If you say anything other than 'Yes, because his concept of rights, and my concept of rights are different, and cannot be reconciled, and I want to survive,' then you're going to lose.
So, you have a man who deeply and truly believes that his God has told him to kill you all, and he is willing to send people, and quite possibly himself, to their deaths to do it. So, you have three choices. One, ignore him. Two, modify your society to prevent him from being able to harm you. Three, directly stop him.
One is no good; you'll be meat on the skewer. Two's no good; you honestly believe that you shouldn't have to change for anything. Three won't happen; you've decreed that the price of a single high-caliber sniper bullet is just too high. And, for some reason, believe that he can be 'reasoned with,' in many instances.
As far as I'm concerned, *NO* law is about crime prevention; any punishment is about criminal prevention.
If you've killed somebody, and you may very well kill again, killing you won't prevent anybody else from killing, but damn, you sure as hell ain't going to murder anybody else.
Saying 'murder rates are unaffected by the death penalty, therefore it must be stricken' is the same as saying 'well, gee, prison time doesn't seem to affect the murder rates, so strike them as well!'
I have always said that the 'digerati,' for lack of a better term, are a modern-day priesthood.
You've got a group of people, specially trained, who speak in tongues, and have the power to commune with these magical boxes which most people can only pray to (please work, please work) and perform rituals with (for example, the Holy Ritual of the Installation; takest thou the Silver Disk, and place it within the donation tray; request that the wisdom and power contained within be bestowed upon you; agree to surrender your ever lasting faith to the most sacred EULA, and anger it not, lest it exact a terrible vengence upon your data and flee thy magic box)...
Or, put another way, God said 'Do not look back, lest thee be turned to a piller of salt...' and the sys admin said 'No, don't click there! No! NO! DON'T CLI....ok, now all your data is gone.'
Ah, but the question here is, 'would anybody of even THOUGHT of the MEREST POSSIBILITY of POSSIBLY CONSIDERING full-blown felony charges had the kid found a paper grade-book, taken an eraser and pencil to it, and done the same thing?
No, of course not. But, it involves one of those magical boxes, so suddenly the exact same action is incalculably worse.
It's like I was told in driving class; stab a man to death, you risk life in prison. Run him over, you risk seven years. Same crime, different punishments, all due to a completly superfluous detail.
I trust you don't have a lock on your door? If so, you're sacrificing a little bit of liberty for a little bit of security, and therefore deserve neither.
I trust you're legally allowed to kill anybody who annoys you? No? Because then they'd be able to do the same to you? Ooops...liberty for security.
Just because a dead white man says something, and you (mis)quote (and mis-attribute, but that's beside the point) it, out of context, no less, does NOT make it the wisdom of the ages.
Not to give anybody any ideas, but screw payload rockets; just adapt the old 'put tempura paint power in with the parachute for a neat visual pop' trick and Bob's your uncle.
That having been said, watch out at the local park for some guy flying a kite REALLY high, who suddenly yanks savagely on the string, then puts a wet cloth over his face and runs like hell...
FYI, NT has pretty much always had this; run a dos app in NT, and you get a virtual 386 to run it on. That way, dos app crashes, it doesn't take NT with it.
Actually, it's more like 'the fact that your vest isn't bulletproof doesn't matter until somebody invents the gun.'
UNIX had the exact same problem; the entire point behind UNIX was that it was MULTICS with a bunch of the security stuff REMOVED. Go look on some old security lists; many daemons, such as sendmail or lpd, would give you root just for the asking.
Yes, and they quite clearly say that they're not compiling the NT kernal, they're compiling the contents of the CD; everything from notepad, calc and solitare to the admin tools and everything in between.
Speaking as a Jedi, I have to say, the movie portrayals are quite unrealistic, but frankly, it's the only way to get new members.
I mean, for every trade negotiation that turns into an assassination attempt and daring escape from a battle fortress, there are thousands that are just plain boring; you sit around, listen to proposal and counter-proposal repeated verbatium for hours, until somebody changes something a whit, repeat, for a few weeks, then you break up for consultations.
For every five minutes you get to duel with a Sith Lord, you spend YEARS doing the sword-technique equivalent of sitting at a keyboard, typing 'jjj[space]fff[space]jjj[space]fff[space]'
Anywho, I don't mean to get off on a rant here, but the life of your typical Jedi is NOTHING like those flashy bastards you see in the movies.
Morality is always contextual. And contextually, it can be argued, Symmantec had the *moral* obligation *not* to release information to any but their own customers.
For a 'render farm,' you can't really call it a 'cluster.' You can do it all with shell scripts.
You have one machine that you submit rendering requests to; it acts on a last in, first out basis. As individual machines in the farm become available, they contact the switchboard machine, maybe through NFS, maybe through HTTP/wget, maybe through somethign else, and ask for the next task. It's given the task, that task is marked as 'in progress' on the switch board, and the client computer eventually comes back and says 'done, and here's the file name that I dumped into the repository' or after a while, it's marked as 'not done' again and goes back into the queue, on the assumption that the client computer has crashed.
To add more systems to the farm is simply a matter of plugging them in and installing and croning the 'get a file to render and render it' shell script.
To put it in perspective, say you want to render one second of film. That's 24 frames.
If each frame takes two hours to render, then you're looking at 48 hours. But if you've got 24 computers, each one can render one frame, then it takes two hours.
So with a render farm, you plug in as many random computers as you can, you have a central 'switchboard' computer that you submit a rendering request to, it gets farmed out to the next available farm member, and when it's done, it gets dumped into a repository.
Oh, I don't say it's truth. I don't say it's untruth. I'm sure that, as with any organization, there are people who agree with the party line, and there are people who disagree.
If anything, I'd say that a lot of the sentiment expressed is probably very true, even if the memo itself is false; I'm sure there are people in Sun who hate Java. And there very likely are battles between the Java division and the Solaris division; the left hand often isn't allowed to know what the right hand is doing, for fear that it will break under interrogation. Or just the fact that the right hand is jealous of the left, as the left got that pretty ring last month....
Go look up some studies on why people betray their countries; it's often for much less then you'd think.
The acronym is MICE; Money, Ideology, Coercion, Ego. In this case, it's probably Ego.
Probably some guy at Sun had been trying to point this out to Management for quite a while, but getting the 'shut up, our stuff is perfect' line. Then, finally, some other guy says the same thing and gets some attention, so this guy gets pissed and leaks it.
Do you think, perhaps, that this is because if you're using IE, OWA simply schlumps down a raging buttload of activeX objects, which can do all sorts of nifty stuff, whereas if you're using a different browser, it has to fake everything in HTML?
I personally feel far more worried strapping myself into my car and braving the highways and roads of, say, Toronto, than I would strapping myself into a space shuttle; two failures out of 117 isn't bad.
I'd like to see some statistics comparing shuttle rides to, say, commutes over 20 minutes in large urban areas.
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If customers are the way you make money, then yes.
Put another way, if you take your total costs, divide by number of customers, then they better be paying you more than that.
If my businesss costs me 100 bucks a month to run, and I've got 10 customers paying 10 bucks a month for my product, I'm happy. Each new customer I get probably isn't going to increase my costs by 10 bucks, but I can charge 10 bucks...then I'm really happy. Once I get enough customers, I can drop prices a bit; makes customers happy, brings in new ones, I'm making even more money.
Then, of course, the competition comes in, undercuts me, and within a year or two, we're both making literally pennies above cost, and nobody's making money, but damn, the customers are happy...until we both go out of business, and the customers have nothing left. But, at least they weren't getting 'gouged' or 'screwed.'
My friend, I have never claimed to be a god, let alone the Christian one, nor would I care to be.
But that's the crux, isn't it? Osama, in this case, honestly believes that Allah, his God, has commanded him to blow up Americans. What matter, then, this 'right to life' that you speak of?
Then, my good man, perhaps it is time to practice what you preach, and remove your President, who, I might add, didn't win the election, in a resounding tribute to the revolutionary spirit which founded your country in the first place.
Bullshit. You have no 'right to live,' other than what your society has granted. My right to swing my fist ends where I decide it ends; in this case, it ends where I personally don't like inflicting unnecessary harm on an innocent, (or at least, innocent as far as I'm concerned) and a deep desire not to attend the penal facility my society has declared awaits me for beating up random people.
To restate: you have no 'inalienable rights,' you have whatever rights you a)choose to have, and b) can take, and prevent others from removing from you. Groups and societies are formed to help defend these 'rights' that they wish to have.
Again, what rights? By definition, then, you have no liberty as soon as you come up against somebody who is quite willing to violate your rights; you're a slave to their ability.Is your 'right to life' more imperitive than Osama's right to exercise his religious requirement to kill you? If you say anything other than 'Yes, because his concept of rights, and my concept of rights are different, and cannot be reconciled, and I want to survive,' then you're going to lose.
So, you have a man who deeply and truly believes that his God has told him to kill you all, and he is willing to send people, and quite possibly himself, to their deaths to do it. So, you have three choices. One, ignore him. Two, modify your society to prevent him from being able to harm you. Three, directly stop him.
One is no good; you'll be meat on the skewer. Two's no good; you honestly believe that you shouldn't have to change for anything. Three won't happen; you've decreed that the price of a single high-caliber sniper bullet is just too high. And, for some reason, believe that he can be 'reasoned with,' in many instances.
Kind of leaves you in a bit of a quandry, eh?
As far as I'm concerned, *NO* law is about crime prevention; any punishment is about criminal prevention.
If you've killed somebody, and you may very well kill again, killing you won't prevent anybody else from killing, but damn, you sure as hell ain't going to murder anybody else.
Saying 'murder rates are unaffected by the death penalty, therefore it must be stricken' is the same as saying 'well, gee, prison time doesn't seem to affect the murder rates, so strike them as well!'
I have always said that the 'digerati,' for lack of a better term, are a modern-day priesthood.
You've got a group of people, specially trained, who speak in tongues, and have the power to commune with these magical boxes which most people can only pray to (please work, please work) and perform rituals with (for example, the Holy Ritual of the Installation; takest thou the Silver Disk, and place it within the donation tray; request that the wisdom and power contained within be bestowed upon you; agree to surrender your ever lasting faith to the most sacred EULA, and anger it not, lest it exact a terrible vengence upon your data and flee thy magic box)...
Or, put another way, God said 'Do not look back, lest thee be turned to a piller of salt...' and the sys admin said 'No, don't click there! No! NO! DON'T CLI....ok, now all your data is gone.'
Ah, but the question here is, 'would anybody of even THOUGHT of the MEREST POSSIBILITY of POSSIBLY CONSIDERING full-blown felony charges had the kid found a paper grade-book, taken an eraser and pencil to it, and done the same thing?
No, of course not. But, it involves one of those magical boxes, so suddenly the exact same action is incalculably worse.
It's like I was told in driving class; stab a man to death, you risk life in prison. Run him over, you risk seven years. Same crime, different punishments, all due to a completly superfluous detail.
I trust you don't have a lock on your door? If so, you're sacrificing a little bit of liberty for a little bit of security, and therefore deserve neither.
I trust you're legally allowed to kill anybody who annoys you? No? Because then they'd be able to do the same to you? Ooops...liberty for security.
Just because a dead white man says something, and you (mis)quote (and mis-attribute, but that's beside the point) it, out of context, no less, does NOT make it the wisdom of the ages.
Well, actually....
The core chip was a SHA4, powerPC as I recall. The graphics bit, though, was a PowerVR2 system, released for PCs as a Kyro2.
So it's not PC in that it uses 'mainstream' parts, but it is PC in that it uses lots of off the shelf parts.
But aye, the WinCE environment was just that; an environment. You could program in WinCE, or in the dreamcast native stuff.
Not to give anybody any ideas, but screw payload rockets; just adapt the old 'put tempura paint power in with the parachute for a neat visual pop' trick and Bob's your uncle.
That having been said, watch out at the local park for some guy flying a kite REALLY high, who suddenly yanks savagely on the string, then puts a wet cloth over his face and runs like hell...
FYI, NT has pretty much always had this; run a dos app in NT, and you get a virtual 386 to run it on. That way, dos app crashes, it doesn't take NT with it.
Actually, it's more like 'the fact that your vest isn't bulletproof doesn't matter until somebody invents the gun.'
UNIX had the exact same problem; the entire point behind UNIX was that it was MULTICS with a bunch of the security stuff REMOVED. Go look on some old security lists; many daemons, such as sendmail or lpd, would give you root just for the asking.
Yes, and they quite clearly say that they're not compiling the NT kernal, they're compiling the contents of the CD; everything from notepad, calc and solitare to the admin tools and everything in between.
Speaking as a Jedi, I have to say, the movie portrayals are quite unrealistic, but frankly, it's the only way to get new members.
I mean, for every trade negotiation that turns into an assassination attempt and daring escape from a battle fortress, there are thousands that are just plain boring; you sit around, listen to proposal and counter-proposal repeated verbatium for hours, until somebody changes something a whit, repeat, for a few weeks, then you break up for consultations.
For every five minutes you get to duel with a Sith Lord, you spend YEARS doing the sword-technique equivalent of sitting at a keyboard, typing 'jjj[space]fff[space]jjj[space]fff[space]'
Anywho, I don't mean to get off on a rant here, but the life of your typical Jedi is NOTHING like those flashy bastards you see in the movies.
I still use an Aureal A3d V2 card...in my P4, GeForce3 powered beasty box.
Morality is always contextual. And contextually, it can be argued, Symmantec had the *moral* obligation *not* to release information to any but their own customers.
C program, run.
Run, program, run.
Please, run?
A one time pad cannot be broken. It can, however, be compromised.
A small, but important, distinction.
For a 'render farm,' you can't really call it a 'cluster.' You can do it all with shell scripts.
You have one machine that you submit rendering requests to; it acts on a last in, first out basis. As individual machines in the farm become available, they contact the switchboard machine, maybe through NFS, maybe through HTTP/wget, maybe through somethign else, and ask for the next task. It's given the task, that task is marked as 'in progress' on the switch board, and the client computer eventually comes back and says 'done, and here's the file name that I dumped into the repository' or after a while, it's marked as 'not done' again and goes back into the queue, on the assumption that the client computer has crashed.
To add more systems to the farm is simply a matter of plugging them in and installing and croning the 'get a file to render and render it' shell script.
It's not at all like a 'cluster,' actually.
To put it in perspective, say you want to render one second of film. That's 24 frames.
If each frame takes two hours to render, then you're looking at 48 hours. But if you've got 24 computers, each one can render one frame, then it takes two hours.
So with a render farm, you plug in as many random computers as you can, you have a central 'switchboard' computer that you submit a rendering request to, it gets farmed out to the next available farm member, and when it's done, it gets dumped into a repository.
Oh, I don't say it's truth. I don't say it's untruth. I'm sure that, as with any organization, there are people who agree with the party line, and there are people who disagree.
If anything, I'd say that a lot of the sentiment expressed is probably very true, even if the memo itself is false; I'm sure there are people in Sun who hate Java. And there very likely are battles between the Java division and the Solaris division; the left hand often isn't allowed to know what the right hand is doing, for fear that it will break under interrogation. Or just the fact that the right hand is jealous of the left, as the left got that pretty ring last month....
My boyfriend's a pilot!
Go look up some studies on why people betray their countries; it's often for much less then you'd think.
The acronym is MICE; Money, Ideology, Coercion, Ego. In this case, it's probably Ego.
Probably some guy at Sun had been trying to point this out to Management for quite a while, but getting the 'shut up, our stuff is perfect' line. Then, finally, some other guy says the same thing and gets some attention, so this guy gets pissed and leaks it.
Or something like that.
Do you think, perhaps, that this is because if you're using IE, OWA simply schlumps down a raging buttload of activeX objects, which can do all sorts of nifty stuff, whereas if you're using a different browser, it has to fake everything in HTML?
No, that was Flanders as the King of Troy, upon receipt of the Trojan Horse: 'From now on, when anybody gets wood, they'll think of Trojans!'
Tonight, we'll interview a man who's had the hiccups for 27 years!
*cut to clip from interview*
*hic* Kill me. *hic* Kill me. *hic* Kill me. *hic* Kill me.
I personally feel far more worried strapping myself into my car and braving the highways and roads of, say, Toronto, than I would strapping myself into a space shuttle; two failures out of 117 isn't bad.
I'd like to see some statistics comparing shuttle rides to, say, commutes over 20 minutes in large urban areas.