Yeah, i figured out how to do it. The point is though that they distribute a floppy image for a machine for which a floppy drive is not an official option. I don't own a USB floppy drive and I think it is ridiculous that HP would expect you to.
Contract work, most likely. If you're good and you've done some networking (social, not data), you can easily have more work than you know what to do with... at $50+/hr. Want to take 3 months off? Don't take on any new contracts. Easy.
I'm not so much worried about the "science" behind the benchmarks. I'm still wondering about the point of the benchmarks. I can't think of a more boring set of benchmarks than comparing minor revisions of the same kernel on the same hardware. That is, unless there was some reason to believe that one would be faster. Somehow their "LAME" comparison seems appropriate. "In this set of benchmarks, what we are comparing is LAME."
I must admit that I was also little puzzled by "PS3 support in the kernel." For some reason my first thought was that you could play PS3 games under some kind of kernel based emulation. So this is a "duh" moment for me as well.
And BIOS updates! Boy, was I pissed when I wanted to update the BIOS on my brand new HP DL140 1U server last month only to find out that the update comes on a floppy image. Normally I'd temporarily install an old floppy drive for such thing, but this is 1U so uses some slimline drives and hence does not have a normal floppy drive header. So... had to make a bootable CD. I don't even think a floppy drive is an option for this server. WTF are they thinking?
It is almost embarrassing, as a PC user, that floppy disks are only just now in their final death throws. Floppies and DOS. God, I'm sick of utilities that still use DOS. What a piece of crap "operating system" (if you can even call it that), DOS is/was.
It might work. The thing is that we already have batteries to power our flashlights (that is probably about all you'd power with this configuration)
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I'm guessing that it is more of a constant trickle. Doubt it would generate much electricity. Might as well try to build a dam at the curb of your street to generate electricity from teh water flowing into the sewers:P
Yeah, my mother is getting a new laptop and I SOO want to recommend a Mac, but I'm not sure the change is feasable. She's older and her eyesight is going. Something totally unfamilar might be more trouble than it is worth.
I do live pretty far from family now, so it isn't often that I have to work on their PCs these days. But when holidays come, you can be sure I'll be cleaning up after viruses and such.;-)
Microsoft is crippling Windows and making life harder for their customers? Good. I welcome this change and hope to see more changes like this one!
I don't welcome it because no matter what, most people are still going to use it anyway. This just means that users'll be calling YOU to make it work and make YOUR life harder. Then again, maybe you make money working on Windows. I do it for free for family members. So I want things to be as simple as possible.
Meanwhile, in the real world, someone who is paying $60/month for cable and watching TV for 40hrs/month, might find $1.99 for a show quite reasonable.
Well, assume that the average show is 45 minutes. That is 40h/.75 = 53 episodes = $106/month. Doesn't seem like a good deal to me when you could just schedule your TiVo or whatever to record all kinds of stuff for a flat monthly rate (no worrying about watching too much).
$1.99 per episode is only worth it if you KNOW there is only one or maybe two shows that you are going to watch, and that is it.
Who knew that someone could come out with an entertainment scheme that would make cable, of all things, seem like a good deal.:-P
Agreed. Speaking as someone who despises most forms of advertisement, I don't have any problem with product placement. I mean, they have to put SOMETHING in the background. Might as well be paid for by an advertiser. So the star of the movie is holding a Coke, so what? At least it doesn't stand out like the old generic cola can used to. Now, if only they would get rid of those stupid 555- phone numbers in a movie and use a real(ish) number. 555-1234 just screams "Hey! Look at me! I'm a fake movie prop! Stop suspending disbelief! This is just a movie!"
When you Google "national mall" you don't get a page full of stories about Martin Luther King or Vietnam War protests or the Million Man March, but nobody seems to think that's absurd;
Because that is the genuine, uncensored search results!
when you do that search, chances are you care more about the place itself than about any particular historical event that took place there.
I care about getting what is actually on the web concerning what I'm searching for. I expect to get an uncensored result. If there were pages full of stories about Martin Luther King when I searched for "national mall" and that is a genuine result, then that is what I care about. Which part of this is causing you problems?
The only kind of filtering I would consider valid is voluntary filtering of spam sites, phishing sites, and the like. I do not want those fake sites included in results. Unless, of course, I'm doing research on spam/phishing sites, in which case the filtering should be optional.
Which isn't to say that it's right for the Chinese government to force search engines to make it harder to dig up stories about that protest. (You might be surprised that a lot of Chinese do know about it, and simply don't consider it the source of outrage we Westerners do, but they should still be able to find out more about it without interference.) But honestly, the results Google returns on its home page are probably what most Chinese people actually want when they enter that search term. It's the English-language Google results for that term that are out of whack in my opinion.
So don't you think that the Chinese have the right to know that westerners talk about Tiananmen Square a lot? Who are you to decide what the Chinese people actually want to find with any given search and what is "out of whack"? Maybe they want to see that westerers obsess over T. Square.
Google have made it easier for Chinese users to find uncensored content and clearly labels pages where results have been censored. Since they would not be allowed to conduct business if they didn't allow this, I can't really see how what they did can be considered morally wrong.
Ok, lets take this to a logical extreme. Lets say that I can profit by joining a group that tortures people for money. And I can't join unless I also torture people. Is it not morally wrong to torture people in this case, if I can find a way to torture a little bit less painfully than everyone else in the group and still make profit?
I'm sorry, but Google clearly broke their vow of "Do No Evil." It was nothing but a marketing slogan.
It's not extrapolation. (Nor was it my analogy in the first place) I believe that once the cost of the trip is reasonable, people will choose to stay on the other side. What you are saying is that the cost will never be reasonable
I'm saying that nobody knows what things will be like that far into the future and any talk about it is pointless speculation unless your're a sci-fi author.
This is like--to continue the analogy--stating that in 1493, that no average joe will *ever* sail west across the Atlantic, and that every voyage would need to be funded by royalty. So it took perhaps 130 years before that was not true... so?
AFAIK, sailing distances as far as the Atlantic was not cost prohibitive even in 1493. It was just that nobody had tried (well, the Vikings did, but they never settled).
Regardless, I've actually thought along the same lines about colonization, and it has a lot to do with the economic rationale for going in the first place. Once there is one good reason to establish a population, everyone else follows to support that population. Columbus thought that we'd settle to get gold and silver, at Jamestown it was tobacco (eventually), in New England and Atlantic Canada it had a lot to do with just leaving Olde England and perhaps a very little to do with cod fisheries and fur trading. But once those settlements started, other economic activites were established to support the local population.
Difference between settling North America and settling Mars is that just about anyone could get on a boat and travel across the Atlantic. In fact, many poor people did exactly that. I'm not saying the journey was always pleasant, but it certainly didn't require too many resources. And once there, you could conceivable live by your own means. On the other hand, nobody is going to Mars without very significant backing from Earth bound organizations such as corporations or governments. And once you are there, the organization that sent you there pretty much owns you. Going to Mars would be anything but an escape from "Olde England." You'd effectively be a slave.
Once it becomes cheap enough to visit Mars with regularity, be it for simple science or tourism, it would actually make sense to establish a permanent base, rather than bringing everything along each time.
You're extrapolating an aweful lot from an analogy that only has superficial significance.
I'll take a one-way mission, too. Hell, imagine never having to wear bug spray anymore.
No need to imagine. I live in NW Oregon. No bug spray needed... even out camping in the lush forests. It is pretty great, actually.
No more poison ivy.
Talk about throwing out the baby with the bathwater...
No more dimwits trying to push their religion on you by force if necessary.
Can't say that happens to me here. The only time I ever come into (virtual) contact with a religious freak is if I opt to visit some forum or usenet group. Besides, who knows what kind of fucked up cults might develop in Martian settlements.
And you'd be spending your life building a new world.
Insofar as a corporate/government owned industrial complex outside the legal jurisdiction of Earth bound society is a "new world," sure. See, there is one huge difference between pioneering in space and pioneering on Earth. On Earth, anyone could set out and claim land on their own and live by their own means. On Mars, there would be no "on your own." The ONLY way you're going to survive on Mars is through significant investment by Earth bound corporations and/or governments. And once you're there, there may be no way back if the powers that be don't want you to go. So, if you like the idea of being a slave, have fun.
That would be a wonderful place to die.
Sounds horrible. I mean, once the novelty of being on another planet wears off.
I have to admit, I was tempted to believe it. I mean, technically, you can transmit power with microwaves.... just not with devices meant to transmit A/V signals across a room.:-)
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Yeah, i figured out how to do it. The point is though that they distribute a floppy image for a machine for which a floppy drive is not an official option. I don't own a USB floppy drive and I think it is ridiculous that HP would expect you to.
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Computer Science == solid foundation for programming
Contract work, most likely. If you're good and you've done some networking (social, not data), you can easily have more work than you know what to do with... at $50+/hr. Want to take 3 months off? Don't take on any new contracts. Easy.
-matthew
I'm not so much worried about the "science" behind the benchmarks. I'm still wondering about the point of the benchmarks. I can't think of a more boring set of benchmarks than comparing minor revisions of the same kernel on the same hardware. That is, unless there was some reason to believe that one would be faster. Somehow their "LAME" comparison seems appropriate. "In this set of benchmarks, what we are comparing is LAME."
-matthew
I must admit that I was also little puzzled by "PS3 support in the kernel." For some reason my first thought was that you could play PS3 games under some kind of kernel based emulation. So this is a "duh" moment for me as well.
-matthew
And BIOS updates! Boy, was I pissed when I wanted to update the BIOS on my brand new HP DL140 1U server last month only to find out that the update comes on a floppy image. Normally I'd temporarily install an old floppy drive for such thing, but this is 1U so uses some slimline drives and hence does not have a normal floppy drive header. So... had to make a bootable CD. I don't even think a floppy drive is an option for this server. WTF are they thinking?
It is almost embarrassing, as a PC user, that floppy disks are only just now in their final death throws. Floppies and DOS. God, I'm sick of utilities that still use DOS. What a piece of crap "operating system" (if you can even call it that), DOS is/was.
-matthew
I am not a meterologist, but I would guess that very low altitude moisture doesn't play a huge role in precipitation.
It might work. The thing is that we already have batteries to power our flashlights (that is probably about all you'd power with this configuration)
-matthew
I'm guessing that it is more of a constant trickle. Doubt it would generate much electricity. Might as well try to build a dam at the curb of your street to generate electricity from teh water flowing into the sewers :P
-matthew
Looks like reverse video to me... not necessarily high contrast.
-matthew
I'm not going to lie to my family.
Yeah, my mother is getting a new laptop and I SOO want to recommend a Mac, but I'm not sure the change is feasable. She's older and her eyesight is going. Something totally unfamilar might be more trouble than it is worth.
;-)
I do live pretty far from family now, so it isn't often that I have to work on their PCs these days. But when holidays come, you can be sure I'll be cleaning up after viruses and such.
-matthew
I don't use Windows. And I do tell them that, but I'll always be the first person they go to for computer problems anyway.
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2. You're paying for the convenience of seeing whenever you want Tivo. Tivo.
$1.99 per episode is only worth it if you KNOW there is only one or maybe two shows that you are going to watch, and that is it.
Who knew that someone could come out with an entertainment scheme that would make cable, of all things, seem like a good deal.
-matthew
Agreed. Speaking as someone who despises most forms of advertisement, I don't have any problem with product placement. I mean, they have to put SOMETHING in the background. Might as well be paid for by an advertiser. So the star of the movie is holding a Coke, so what? At least it doesn't stand out like the old generic cola can used to. Now, if only they would get rid of those stupid 555- phone numbers in a movie and use a real(ish) number. 555-1234 just screams "Hey! Look at me! I'm a fake movie prop! Stop suspending disbelief! This is just a movie!"
-matthew
The only kind of filtering I would consider valid is voluntary filtering of spam sites, phishing sites, and the like. I do not want those fake sites included in results. Unless, of course, I'm doing research on spam/phishing sites, in which case the filtering should be optional. So don't you think that the Chinese have the right to know that westerners talk about Tiananmen Square a lot? Who are you to decide what the Chinese people actually want to find with any given search and what is "out of whack"? Maybe they want to see that westerers obsess over T. Square.
-matthew
I'm sorry, but Google clearly broke their vow of "Do No Evil." It was nothing but a marketing slogan.
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I have to admit, I was tempted to believe it. I mean, technically, you can transmit power with microwaves.... just not with devices meant to transmit A/V signals across a room. :-)
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