The original observations posted to the Harvard project site were pulled. I'm guessing they feared controversies such as have occurred in the recent past when estimates were revised to preclude impact. I think hiding the data is irresponsible in all cases, and it makes me distrust astronomers across the board.
Actually, it doesn't much matter whether you are distributing content or not: They sue lots of people without any credible pretext. I got a letter from my cable provider at the instigation of the BSA, for example, claiming that I was sharing Delphi 7 on eDonkey. This is fundamentally absurd, as I have never run eDonkey, nor have I ever had a copy of Delphi 7. But they could cut off my Internet connection and put me out of work without so much as a by-your-leave, and my only recourse would be to spend more money than I make in a year to get a lawyer in order to get a whisper of a hint of a chance of convincing some bought-and-paid-for judge to force my cable company to provide service to me, laws saying that they don't have to do so notwithstanding.
Yeah, my whole family has to live in fear of RIAA/MPAA/BSA barratry because our legal system is corrupt. It sucks. That's why I support assassination politics, the only meaningful form of democracy that's left.
> in an era when nuclear devestation may strike > American soil in our lifetime, courtesy of > terrorists supplied with nuclear weapons by North > Korea or Iran
That's unrealistic to the point of being delusional. It's vastly more probable that the first U.S. city to be destroyed by a nuclear attack will be destroyed by a former Soviet or a present Israeli device. These are real weapons which real people are pointing at real cities, whereas the hypothetical future Iranian or Korean devices are not presently targeting U.S. soil.
Since you can get a Palm for about $80 and a keyboard for $25, I can't image why you would want to fish for $500 solutions, but - hey - it's a free world (in some locales).
Barbara and David Mikkelson are so full of crap they make glopping sounds when they sit. The article cites facts that refute the very points it claims.
Good point. RAID striping would be essential to reasonable performance at such speeds. Then there's the issue of the IO bus and bridge bandwidth, which becomes the next bottleneck. What good is a superfast disk on an IDE bus, or for that matter, a PCI bus?
A CF/IDE adapter is a cheap, commodity item. With COTS parts, you can run 4GB of flash for about $500. Problem is, you need a filesystem designed for memory with limited write cycles. Just turning off metadata updates would help a lot.
> I think we should remodel the memory/storage > model to fall fully in line with "everything is > a file" - including blocks of memory! Treat > memory as though it were simply a buffer for a > file, and make the concept of "in memory" merely > a detail for the disk cache controller.
Yeah, so instead of
a = 42; you can write
if (lseek(memfd,A_OFFSET,L_SET)) == A_OFFSET) {
int retcode = write(memfd,&newvalue,sizeof(newvalue));... oops, forgot that i had to set "newvalue"...
Beginning to see the absurdity here?
> Writing to memory and writing to disk/network > share etc. should be the same operation and > would eliminate all kinds of un-needed software > complexity.
Yes, but that is done by making everything look like local memory, not like a file.
I have no use for windows firewall, being offline, but sp2 turned my whole network into bubblegum with its rate-limiting tcpip.sys bug. A lot of expensive paperweights, here.
I'd probably just buy 10 blade enclosures with 14 2-way Xeon blades each from ibm off the shelf. They have blades with dual gigabit nics. A Pair of 3-Com 16-ways nics give you 2 parallel networks, which makes it flexible. Run OpenMOSIX. I'm pegging the whole shooting match at roughly $420k. Spend the rest on NAS, pack out the RAM, get a nice visualization wall, etc.
Wow, that's really ludicrous. I posted a dispassionate, factual comment, and got modded as a troll. I don't give a rat sphincter about my karma, but I do hope the mod who did that gets smeared. Adolph Hitler could post my post, and it still wouldn't have been a troll.
solder one pole of your antenna cable to one end of the wire mesh behind the plaster, and solder the other pole to the other end of the mesh. Voila, what was previously shielding has become your antenna.
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The original observations posted to the Harvard project site were pulled. I'm guessing they feared
controversies such as have occurred in the recent past when estimates were revised to preclude impact.
I think hiding the data is irresponsible in all cases, and it makes me distrust astronomers across the board.
Actually, it doesn't much matter whether you are distributing content or not: They sue lots of people without any credible pretext. I got a letter from my cable provider at the instigation of the BSA, for example, claiming that I was sharing Delphi 7 on eDonkey. This is fundamentally absurd, as I have never run eDonkey,
nor have I ever had a copy of Delphi 7. But they could cut off my Internet connection and put me out of work without so much as a by-your-leave, and my only recourse would be to spend more money than I make in a year to get a lawyer in order to get a whisper of a hint of a chance of convincing some bought-and-paid-for judge to force my cable company to provide service to me, laws saying that they don't have to do so notwithstanding.
Yeah, my whole family has to live in fear of RIAA/MPAA/BSA barratry because our legal system is corrupt. It sucks. That's why I support assassination politics, the only meaningful form of democracy that's left.
Well, Ariel Sharon said so, hence it must be true.
And I think we'll be finding those weapons of mass destruction any day now.
Satan:
"...was a murderer from the beginning."
"...is a liar and the father of lies."
"...comes but to kill, steal and destroy."
What president does this fittingly describe?
> in an era when nuclear devestation may strike
> American soil in our lifetime, courtesy of
> terrorists supplied with nuclear weapons by North
> Korea or Iran
That's unrealistic to the point of being delusional.
It's vastly more probable that the first U.S. city to be
destroyed by a nuclear attack will be destroyed by a former
Soviet or a present Israeli device. These are real
weapons which real people are pointing at real cities,
whereas the hypothetical future Iranian or Korean devices
are not presently targeting U.S. soil.
The viruses worms and spyware trojans that run in IE should also run in Xandros, ne c'est pas?
Since you can get a Palm for about $80 and a keyboard for $25, I can't image why you would want to fish for $500 solutions, but - hey - it's a free world (in some locales).
You'd get more deaths from Ricin. And it's cheaper.
Or a Rush Limbaugh fan.
Barbara and David Mikkelson are so full of crap
they make glopping sounds when they sit.
The article cites facts that refute the very
points it claims.
And there are a whole lot of alkaloids that can't get past the blood-brain barrier any other way.
You could deliver drugs and take payment with it.
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Good point. RAID striping would be essential to reasonable performance at such speeds. Then there's the issue of the IO bus and bridge
bandwidth, which becomes the next bottleneck.
What good is a superfast disk on an IDE bus,
or for that matter, a PCI bus?
72 or 80 columns. But you can only write
to them so many times. Even the erasable
ones tend to get too worn out by the rubber
eraser.
Hmm, maybe that's how flash works too.
They are microdrives. The largest commodity-priced flash memories in CF are 1GB.
A CF/IDE adapter is a cheap, commodity item.
With COTS parts, you can run 4GB of flash for
about $500. Problem is, you need a filesystem designed for memory with limited write cycles. Just turning off metadata updates would help a lot.
> I think we should remodel the memory/storage
... oops, forgot that i had to set "newvalue"...
> model to fall fully in line with "everything is
> a file" - including blocks of memory! Treat
> memory as though it were simply a buffer for a
> file, and make the concept of "in memory" merely
> a detail for the disk cache controller.
Yeah, so instead of
a = 42;
you can write
if (lseek(memfd,A_OFFSET,L_SET)) == A_OFFSET) {
int retcode = write(memfd,&newvalue,sizeof(newvalue));
Beginning to see the absurdity here?
> Writing to memory and writing to disk/network
> share etc. should be the same operation and
> would eliminate all kinds of un-needed software
> complexity.
Yes, but that is done by making everything look like
local memory, not like a file.
I have no use for windows firewall, being offline,
but sp2 turned my whole network into bubblegum with its rate-limiting tcpip.sys bug. A lot of expensive paperweights, here.
the courts awarded clearchannelsucks.com to clear channel, so you're wrong. there is no free speech in the u.s.
Of course there is a simple solution to this problem:
I'm firing every employee who specs an Intel product.
I'd probably just buy 10 blade enclosures with 14
2-way Xeon blades each from ibm off the shelf.
They have blades with dual gigabit nics. A Pair of
3-Com 16-ways nics give you 2 parallel networks,
which makes it flexible. Run OpenMOSIX.
I'm pegging the whole shooting match at roughly
$420k. Spend the rest on NAS, pack out the RAM,
get a nice visualization wall, etc.
Wow, that's really ludicrous. I posted a dispassionate, factual comment, and got modded as a troll. I don't give a rat sphincter about my karma, but I do hope the mod who did that gets smeared. Adolph Hitler could post my post, and it still wouldn't have been a troll.
solder one pole of your antenna cable to one end of
the wire mesh behind the plaster, and solder the
other pole to the other end of the mesh. Voila,
what was previously shielding has become your
antenna.
Admit it, you're a bot.
Which, patently, they do, being major contributors
to GNOME, OpenOffice, etc.