AFAIK Christian doctrine states different. Jesus was human and God, not half human and half God.
As for the Original Sin thing, I personally don't believe that it all comes from Adam, or that Adam somehow had superpowers and managed to taint the whole of creation just by sinning.
After all the serpent in Eden was a created creature and arguably the serpent sinned before Adam.
BUT, it is definitely true that we are all flawed creatures - all have sinned and fallen short.
Sun Fire? That comes under 'servers for areas where reliability and availability didn't really matter as much as the real "high end" stuff'.
Sun's lucky that many people were/are willing to pay a lot for something that's not really much more reliable than Linux/BSD on decent x86 hardware.
Maybe those people were accustomed to Microsoft levels of reliability and assumed you had to pay much more.
Then again with the sort of people about nowadays it's often no point having servers and software that can run for decades. Just only today someone rebooted one of our servers that was running fine, well as fine as it could be - the actual problem was network related.
But maybe that could mean something with Dell's level of "quality" making more sense.:(
Uh, how does that stop them from getting blasted by x86 stuff from Dell, HP, IBM etc?
Selling x86 stuff is a bitter pill that Sun has to swallow since they've had duds with SPARC so far (unlike IBM with POWER).
There's probably a market for better x86 servers and Sun might be the one. BUT currently why should anyone buy a Sun x86 server instead of from the others? So that you can run Solaris 10[1]? Is there any evidence that they make the best x86 hardware for the price?
[1] IBM/HP consultants will happily charge companies with more money than available skilled staff to help them put/build all sorts of stuff on Solaris on Sun/HP/IBM/Dell/whitebox, what does Sun offer in that area? Other companies will just use stuff like Linux or even windows (IBM/HP will still be happy to "help" you for a fee in any case).
If you don't like the Anandtech benchmark I linked to, go check the SAP one:
http://www50.sap.com/benchmarkdata/sd2tier.asp
And you'll see what I meant about Sun being squished between x86 and IBM. Look at the T1 showings (add the 4 linked entries together to get the total performance, or go for the single one at: http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/pdf/cert470 5.pdf).
Compare with x86 or IBM POWER or even Fujitsu's 2 year old stuff (http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/pdf/cert13 05.pdf).
Go compare the SPEC benchmarks too if there are any T1 ones.
While I'm sure your 20k T1 outperformed your 100k v880. It does not show that the T1 is a better choice than an Intel/AMD system.
Sun's stuff are slower than IBM's POWER line, and they are nowhere in the same league as IBM mainframes, and IBM mainframes are not in the same league as real nonstop computing clusters.
Mainframes = very good uptimes, but you have _scheduled_ downtimes. Stuff like OpenVMS or Tandem = uptimes of _decades_ possible, don't even need scheduled downtimes where you turn everything off, you can run while replacing the hardware. With the Tandem stuff you even have CPUs running the same thing at the same time for real redundancy. Only thing is HP seems to be burying VMS and Tandem.
Sun? They didn't even have hardware instruction retry till Fujitsu SPARC. For many years it was pretty embarassing that the really high end SPARCs were Fujitsu rather than Sun - the fastest SPARC systems till just a few years ago were all Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER (I haven't bothered checking recently, the last I recall Sun started using Fujitsu stuff for their high end systems).
Sun got where they were by making relatively cheap Unix RISC workstations and they provided servers for areas where reliability and availability didn't really matter as much as the real "high end" stuff. They caught the internet wave for "cheap" webservers etc and made a lot of money then.
The problem now with Sun is, they get blasted at the low end by x86, and at the high end they pale in comparison to IBM's stuff.
For "normal" webserver/db/internet/corporate stuff it's x86. In the HPC arena it's x86 (for scale out), and IBM (for scale up). So where does Sun fit?
Just go google for benchmarks of T1 vs Intel vs AMD. The T1 doesn't even do that well for performance/power consumption when compared to the Intel woodcrest CPU: http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2772
For Sun's sake, their Niagara 2 better be magnitudes much better than their T1, if not it'll be out of date even before it's released.
Don't get me wrong, I'll be happy if Sun succeeds, but they've fallen way behind.
That actually doesn't scare me at all. It'll only scare me the few seconds/minutes before "wipe out" but that's it.
There's nothing much we can do about that one, so might as well only worry about it for a few seconds every year or decade (just to check if we can actually do something about it).
Well apparently she taped the _ending_ only. That should be easily confirmed without going to court etc.
There were many possible "endings" to the story the theatre could have picked, many legal too. e.g. theatre gives them option 1) Cops or 2) "Give us camera, stay while we check to see if you're telling the truth". If lying - cops, if true, tell them "DO NOT EVER DO THIS AGAIN". Theatre could even "forget and accidently" leave the 20 sec clip there instead of deleting it.
I think the theatre picked a crap ending to that, even for themselves.
Even if they had every legal right to be dickheads (and ruin an allegedly stupid someone's birthday) that does not make them any less dickheads for doing so.
Dickhead and stupid are both legal human states. But dickhead is far worse IMO. And definitely a lot worse than the "stupid for assuming it's fine to make a 20 sec clip of the ending".
Sure by not being dickheads the theatre could make themselves vulnerable to other dickheads (the lawyers could tell them leave it all to the cops to handle it - and thus not risk being accused of tampering with evidence etc). But really some things just increase amount of dickheadism in the world, and I feel this is one of them.
I'd rather live in a world where I can _safely_ assume that people won't be dickheads. e.g. even when they are, I'm still fairly safe.
Why should having a camcorder in a theatre be automatically a bad idea? What next? Ban phones with cameras?
Next ban humans with "memory augmenting" implants AND "virtual telepathy" add-ons? Or require such humans to pay USD0.01 for each recall? A penny for your thoughts? Maybe the *AA will think that's too cheap?
I don't think I'd like that ending. The future could be so much better, but I guess it won't.
Lastly: yeah, common sense is relative. Most people are really stupid and they can't see the long term consequences of their actions. Most can't even see the short term consequences.
But "making a stupid choice" is still better than "making a dickhead choice".
You mean they were stupid to go to a cinema to _pay_ to watch a movie, when they could have just downloaded it for free from the internet AND be much safer from such incidents?
Yeah, I suppose that's criminally stupid eh?
IMO filming a short clip of the _ending_ shows they're definitely not copying the movie.
Whether it's true that it's to get "little brother" hyped about it, I dunno. After all that kind of gives away the ending doesn't it? But does it have a surprise ending? (I haven't watched it yet - even in the safety of my home;) ).
That's not the key. That's the _problem_ with IPv6.
The problems with IPv6: a) It's a bad design just for the reason it's not backward compatible with IPv4. BEFORE anyone mentions mapping and all that, please show me how an IPv6 _only_ machine is going to talk to an IPv4 _only_ machine AND vice versa. REMEMBER: any "solution" that requires IPv4 addresses on both machines is NOT a solution. After all if we are really running out then you MUST assume one side no longer has access to IPv4 addresses.
In the solution please include how DNS resolution, SSL, VPNs and all other popular things are to work (or not work - explicitly state the popular services/features that will not be supported).
If any solution to a) involves convincing everybody running a useful IPv4 service to somehow get an IPv6 address and DNS entry, I'm going to laugh at it.
b) The popularly proposed transition methods involve convincing lots of people to do stuff that they don't even know they need to do, nor is it certain that they would be able to do it - it may be beyond their control or ability.
For example they need to at least: 1) Get an IPv6 IP address that actually works from their ISP. 2) Get their DNS sorted out so that the IPv6 address is advertised. 3) Configure their machines accordingly 4) Figure out how to deal with a)
IPv6 is about as compatible with IPv4 as OSI. I'm sticking to the Internet which Google etc are on. The rest of you can go switch to "AOL/Compuserve 2011" for all I care.
"I really, really like Java, more for all the wonderful shared libraries of useful code than anything else"
I find Java requires just too much work for me. Sure it's faster nowadays, but still a lot more work to do simple stuff - maybe it's the sort of stuff I do. I prefer Perl for most stuff. Lots of decent modules around, e.g. Net::RawIP, Net::DHCP::Packet, LWP. One day I might even use Acme::Bleach:).
Actually I have no problems with the Gov watching me everywhere at anytime - especially in public places. As long as I and everyone else get to do the same to _everyone_, and everyone can know what's happening.
Basically if you want to have "cameras everywhere" paid for with public money, at least the public paying for it should be able to use them or even check that they are working properly. Too often you hear of crimes being committed and the cameras at the scene allegedly not working during the time.
For some sort of accountability they should give each citizen their own account for logging in to the view stuff. So you get to see what you want, and people can find out who was looking and at what.
I think the last detail should make it acceptable. Even if an account is stolen and misused, the cops have a starting point.
"And I also suspect that you (and Ingo) will get many regression reports when 2.6.23 is released (and months later too... or maybe you won't because users will be to "scared" to report such hard to mensure and reproduce "unimportant" bugs)"
Scared? Nah. But why should I report bugs to Linus when it's obvious from this that he's not interested in listening objectively? Same goes for Ingo. Would be a waste of time. Linus didn't even bother to see what Con Kolivas wrote either in software or in messages. CK already reported a "bug" in Linux and submitted patches, and look how far it got him.
People are excusing the rudeness of Linus and the rest of the kernel hackers, but in my opinion the process/culture is _broken_ if you regularly have to be rude. It's not like all contributors are being paid to put up with unnecessary unpleasantness. There are other open source software projects out there where the developers aren't as rude, and they do a pretty good job too.
The process/culture is broken anyway, since it seems that decisions are not made based on merit.
Anyway, in the big picture it's no big deal, I've no plans of using Linux for games or serious audio (linux audio is broken). In the office-apps arena X, KDE and Gnome are proably more responsible for making the Linux desktop sluggish. If those are fixed, the linux kernel will be easy in comparison.
"Remember that the state can print as much money as it likes, so taxation is purely to keep the overall amount of money out there from spiralling upwards"
Actually printing money is a form of taxation. Whoever gets to print the money taxes the rest who don't. Think about it.
It is a great advantage to the USA that so many countries trade in US dollars, and many keep billions of it in reserve. A vast amount of USD is outside the USA.
1) The US Gov can print more money and automatically "tax" everyone else (including other countries!) by reduce the value of the USD. Remember the prices of lots of international stuff are in USD and it takes a while between "more money printed" and "people to figure out the USD has gone down in value". 2) The USA doesn't need to keep reserves of other country's currencies
Remember: you can also "print money" by issuing IOUs. The US Gov issues a lot of these and Japan, China etc buy them (after all what can they do with the excess billions of USD they earn from selling stuff to the USA? They sure don't spend as much as the US). The US then promptly buys more stuff from them;).
It's a weird scheme that's probably going to blow up eventually, but so far it's lasted longer than the other strange schemes:).
It'll probably last longer if more of the money just kept circling about between USA, Japan and China, and less was "burnt" in Iraq etc.
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I believe diamond has better heat conductivity than BeO and could make for louder shrieks in some scenarios ;).
"Jesus was half-mankind, half-God"
AFAIK Christian doctrine states different. Jesus was human and God, not half human and half God.
As for the Original Sin thing, I personally don't believe that it all comes from Adam, or that Adam somehow had superpowers and managed to taint the whole of creation just by sinning.
After all the serpent in Eden was a created creature and arguably the serpent sinned before Adam.
BUT, it is definitely true that we are all flawed creatures - all have sinned and fallen short.
I bet the other reason is you only see the ones still standing ;).
Sun Fire? That comes under 'servers for areas where reliability and availability didn't really matter as much as the real "high end" stuff'.
:(
Sun's lucky that many people were/are willing to pay a lot for something that's not really much more reliable than Linux/BSD on decent x86 hardware.
Maybe those people were accustomed to Microsoft levels of reliability and assumed you had to pay much more.
Then again with the sort of people about nowadays it's often no point having servers and software that can run for decades. Just only today someone rebooted one of our servers that was running fine, well as fine as it could be - the actual problem was network related.
But maybe that could mean something with Dell's level of "quality" making more sense.
Uh, how does that stop them from getting blasted by x86 stuff from Dell, HP, IBM etc?
Selling x86 stuff is a bitter pill that Sun has to swallow since they've had duds with SPARC so far (unlike IBM with POWER).
There's probably a market for better x86 servers and Sun might be the one. BUT currently why should anyone buy a Sun x86 server instead of from the others? So that you can run Solaris 10[1]? Is there any evidence that they make the best x86 hardware for the price?
[1] IBM/HP consultants will happily charge companies with more money than available skilled staff to help them put/build all sorts of stuff on Solaris on Sun/HP/IBM/Dell/whitebox, what does Sun offer in that area? Other companies will just use stuff like Linux or even windows (IBM/HP will still be happy to "help" you for a fee in any case).
If you don't like the Anandtech benchmark I linked to, go check the SAP one:
0 5.pdf).
3 05.pdf).
http://www50.sap.com/benchmarkdata/sd2tier.asp
And you'll see what I meant about Sun being squished between x86 and IBM. Look at the T1 showings (add the 4 linked entries together to get the total performance, or go for the single one at: http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/pdf/cert47
Compare with x86 or IBM POWER or even Fujitsu's 2 year old stuff (http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/pdf/cert1
Go compare the SPEC benchmarks too if there are any T1 ones.
While I'm sure your 20k T1 outperformed your 100k v880. It does not show that the T1 is a better choice than an Intel/AMD system.
Sun's stuff are slower than IBM's POWER line, and they are nowhere in the same league as IBM mainframes, and IBM mainframes are not in the same league as real nonstop computing clusters.
Mainframes = very good uptimes, but you have _scheduled_ downtimes.
Stuff like OpenVMS or Tandem = uptimes of _decades_ possible, don't even need scheduled downtimes where you turn everything off, you can run while replacing the hardware. With the Tandem stuff you even have CPUs running the same thing at the same time for real redundancy. Only thing is HP seems to be burying VMS and Tandem.
Sun? They didn't even have hardware instruction retry till Fujitsu SPARC. For many years it was pretty embarassing that the really high end SPARCs were Fujitsu rather than Sun - the fastest SPARC systems till just a few years ago were all Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER (I haven't bothered checking recently, the last I recall Sun started using Fujitsu stuff for their high end systems).
Sun got where they were by making relatively cheap Unix RISC workstations and they provided servers for areas where reliability and availability didn't really matter as much as the real "high end" stuff. They caught the internet wave for "cheap" webservers etc and made a lot of money then.
The problem now with Sun is, they get blasted at the low end by x86, and at the high end they pale in comparison to IBM's stuff.
For "normal" webserver/db/internet/corporate stuff it's x86.
In the HPC arena it's x86 (for scale out), and IBM (for scale up).
So where does Sun fit?
Just go google for benchmarks of T1 vs Intel vs AMD. The T1 doesn't even do that well for performance/power consumption when compared to the Intel woodcrest CPU: http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2772
For Sun's sake, their Niagara 2 better be magnitudes much better than their T1, if not it'll be out of date even before it's released.
Don't get me wrong, I'll be happy if Sun succeeds, but they've fallen way behind.
Just as easily as I can imagine animals/pets without the three laws.
Asimov's 3 laws are fiction. They're fun for stories and all that, but if you had real AI I doubt you'd find a place to put the "3 laws".
prob is who'd still be around to get the info from the probe? And how'd we get it?
That actually doesn't scare me at all. It'll only scare me the few seconds/minutes before "wipe out" but that's it.
There's nothing much we can do about that one, so might as well only worry about it for a few seconds every year or decade (just to check if we can actually do something about it).
"Space flight isn't alchemy or a black art,"
:).
Yeah, it's rocket science.
Sorry couldn't resist
Well apparently she taped the _ending_ only. That should be easily confirmed without going to court etc.
There were many possible "endings" to the story the theatre could have picked, many legal too. e.g. theatre gives them option 1) Cops or 2) "Give us camera, stay while we check to see if you're telling the truth". If lying - cops, if true, tell them "DO NOT EVER DO THIS AGAIN". Theatre could even "forget and accidently" leave the 20 sec clip there instead of deleting it.
I think the theatre picked a crap ending to that, even for themselves.
Even if they had every legal right to be dickheads (and ruin an allegedly stupid someone's birthday) that does not make them any less dickheads for doing so.
Dickhead and stupid are both legal human states. But dickhead is far worse IMO. And definitely a lot worse than the "stupid for assuming it's fine to make a 20 sec clip of the ending".
Sure by not being dickheads the theatre could make themselves vulnerable to other dickheads (the lawyers could tell them leave it all to the cops to handle it - and thus not risk being accused of tampering with evidence etc). But really some things just increase amount of dickheadism in the world, and I feel this is one of them.
I'd rather live in a world where I can _safely_ assume that people won't be dickheads. e.g. even when they are, I'm still fairly safe.
Why should having a camcorder in a theatre be automatically a bad idea? What next? Ban phones with cameras?
Next ban humans with "memory augmenting" implants AND "virtual telepathy" add-ons? Or require such humans to pay USD0.01 for each recall? A penny for your thoughts? Maybe the *AA will think that's too cheap?
I don't think I'd like that ending. The future could be so much better, but I guess it won't.
Lastly: yeah, common sense is relative. Most people are really stupid and they can't see the long term consequences of their actions. Most can't even see the short term consequences.
But "making a stupid choice" is still better than "making a dickhead choice".
Just curious: how do you automatically "nice" transient processes?
Say a program forks transient processes off where you'd want different processes to be run at different nice levels?
Would you have to modify the program or other executables?
Yeah, she shouldn't have gone to the cinema and paid to see the show in the first place.
I mean what was she thinking? That she'll have a good time there?
Stupid?
;) ).
You mean they were stupid to go to a cinema to _pay_ to watch a movie, when they could have just downloaded it for free from the internet AND be much safer from such incidents?
Yeah, I suppose that's criminally stupid eh?
IMO filming a short clip of the _ending_ shows they're definitely not copying the movie.
Whether it's true that it's to get "little brother" hyped about it, I dunno. After all that kind of gives away the ending doesn't it? But does it have a surprise ending? (I haven't watched it yet - even in the safety of my home
Pity not many rulers are like that king. He did a lot of other interesting stuff as well.
That's not the key. That's the _problem_ with IPv6.
The problems with IPv6:
a) It's a bad design just for the reason it's not backward compatible with IPv4. BEFORE anyone mentions mapping and all that, please show me how an IPv6 _only_ machine is going to talk to an IPv4 _only_ machine AND vice versa. REMEMBER: any "solution" that requires IPv4 addresses on both machines is NOT a solution. After all if we are really running out then you MUST assume one side no longer has access to IPv4 addresses.
In the solution please include how DNS resolution, SSL, VPNs and all other popular things are to work (or not work - explicitly state the popular services/features that will not be supported).
If any solution to a) involves convincing everybody running a useful IPv4 service to somehow get an IPv6 address and DNS entry, I'm going to laugh at it.
b) The popularly proposed transition methods involve convincing lots of people to do stuff that they don't even know they need to do, nor is it certain that they would be able to do it - it may be beyond their control or ability.
For example they need to at least:
1) Get an IPv6 IP address that actually works from their ISP.
2) Get their DNS sorted out so that the IPv6 address is advertised.
3) Configure their machines accordingly
4) Figure out how to deal with a)
IPv6 is about as compatible with IPv4 as OSI. I'm sticking to the Internet which Google etc are on. The rest of you can go switch to "AOL/Compuserve 2011" for all I care.
"I really, really like Java, more for all the wonderful shared libraries of useful code than anything else"
:).
I find Java requires just too much work for me. Sure it's faster nowadays, but still a lot more work to do simple stuff - maybe it's the sort of stuff I do. I prefer Perl for most stuff. Lots of decent modules around, e.g. Net::RawIP, Net::DHCP::Packet, LWP. One day I might even use Acme::Bleach
I should try to get better at Python though.
Also might come in handy when Skynet goes online.
;).
You missed out stuff like the shotgun though
Uh, didn't you leave out one important thing:
Make sure your fingerprints aren't on them?
Actually I have no problems with the Gov watching me everywhere at anytime - especially in public places. As long as I and everyone else get to do the same to _everyone_, and everyone can know what's happening.
Basically if you want to have "cameras everywhere" paid for with public money, at least the public paying for it should be able to use them or even check that they are working properly. Too often you hear of crimes being committed and the cameras at the scene allegedly not working during the time.
For some sort of accountability they should give each citizen their own account for logging in to the view stuff. So you get to see what you want, and people can find out who was looking and at what.
I think the last detail should make it acceptable. Even if an account is stolen and misused, the cops have a starting point.
Maybe there's lots of data loss but the records of data loss are also lost. ;)
"innovation was grudgingly adopted by reinventing it"
;).
Heh, isn't that a bit like the story of UNIX and Linux?
It gets old after a while
"And I also suspect that you (and Ingo) will get many regression reports
when 2.6.23 is released (and months later too... or maybe you won't
because users will be to "scared" to report such hard to mensure and
reproduce "unimportant" bugs)"
Scared? Nah. But why should I report bugs to Linus when it's obvious from this that he's not interested in listening objectively? Same goes for Ingo. Would be a waste of time. Linus didn't even bother to see what Con Kolivas wrote either in software or in messages. CK
already reported a "bug" in Linux and submitted patches, and look how far it got him.
People are excusing the rudeness of Linus and the rest of the kernel hackers, but in my opinion the process/culture is _broken_ if you regularly have to be rude. It's not like all contributors are being paid to put up with unnecessary unpleasantness. There are other open source software projects out there where the developers aren't as rude, and they do a pretty good job too.
The process/culture is broken anyway, since it seems that decisions are not made based on merit.
Anyway, in the big picture it's no big deal, I've no plans of using Linux for games or serious audio (linux audio is broken). In the office-apps arena X, KDE and Gnome are proably more responsible for making the Linux desktop sluggish. If those are fixed, the linux kernel will be easy in comparison.
"Remember that the state can print as much money as it likes, so taxation is purely to keep the overall amount of money out there from spiralling upwards"
;).
:).
Actually printing money is a form of taxation. Whoever gets to print the money taxes the rest who don't. Think about it.
It is a great advantage to the USA that so many countries trade in US dollars, and many keep billions of it in reserve. A vast amount of USD is outside the USA.
1) The US Gov can print more money and automatically "tax" everyone else (including other countries!) by reduce the value of the USD. Remember the prices of lots of international stuff are in USD and it takes a while between "more money printed" and "people to figure out the USD has gone down in value".
2) The USA doesn't need to keep reserves of other country's currencies
Remember: you can also "print money" by issuing IOUs. The US Gov issues a lot of these and Japan, China etc buy them (after all what can they do with the excess billions of USD they earn from selling stuff to the USA? They sure don't spend as much as the US). The US then promptly buys more stuff from them
It's a weird scheme that's probably going to blow up eventually, but so far it's lasted longer than the other strange schemes
It'll probably last longer if more of the money just kept circling about between USA, Japan and China, and less was "burnt" in Iraq etc.
But what do I know, I'm not an economist.