Re:Isn't there something wrong with the riddle?
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It was a given in the problem that all the sinners left on the third day. Not that it stops the problem being badly worded, but your "counterexample" that nobody leaves on the third day is crap.
Its as much of a law as most of the crap outputted by Congress. And Hookes Law is pretty suspect too. The only thing is we don't know the boundary conditions of Moore's Law yet...
They never changed enough to cover costs. but they were making it up on volume.
As many dot-coms are finding out it doesn't matter how much volume you sell if you aren't charging enough to cover costs. Especially when most are shifting next to nothing.
But we need market share bleats the dot-comma as he goes down with his sinking virtual ship.
The pictures you saw where a carefully constructed backup of "Astronauts" bouncing around on elasic bands in Nevada. The Australians fucked it up and the real pictures were lost forever.
Of course not having seen the film it probably has a better ending than "The pictures were broadcast, science was advanced and all lived happily ever after" but it does make you wonder what.
I'm getting about 35 Mbit/s (according to hdparm - no idea how close to a real world situation this is) out of both of my IDE drives - now the kernel lets me use UDMA 5 on my VIA chipset. My ancient P133 with a new Promise Ultra is even getting about 18Mb/s out of each channel (Which is half its cache speed, unlike the onboard VIA which gets 200Mb/s cache which I guess is because the i/f to the cache is 32bits wide though that's only a wild stab in the dark)
The scientists did NOT violate the laws of physics.
When it comes down to it scientists can't break the laws of physics. When they appear to its our approximations to the laws that are wrong, not the laws themselves
State diagrams are occasionally useful - Like most parts of UML you shouldn't feel the need to use use it for all classes. In my last project we had of the order of a hundred business classes, and only six state diagrams. Each state diagram was for a different subclass of our transaction object. Nothing else had an interesting enough lifecycle to warrant one.
As far as servers go, who cares? AT&T has one server that scans for any unauthorized servers, and my portsentry firewalled that machine a long time ago. If they can't automatically test it, how will they know?
These guys carry both your incoming and outgoing traffic. If it became a big enough problem they could figure it out whether you are running servers.
At the least they could prove that incoming packets are getting responses. If you are not using encrypted protocols they could show, for instance, that incoming http requests are producing http outputs...
Think about it... the Omega number puts a limit on the accuracy to which we can know mathematical theorems... Maybe it's the equivalent of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal?
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal is a mathematical theorem.
It depends what you mean by secure - if you mean that only you can access can access certain bits of your web site - then you can generate your own certificates and (assuming you're in control of the server) you can force client authentication when accessing the web site - only allowing the certificate you generated. CAs should only come into play where you want to be trusted by unknown third parties.
it's not completly secure because of a self signed cert.
Certificates are about trust not security - though they can carry keys - If you trust yourself you'll probably be secure if the other bits of infrastructure are set up right
Germany is a very powerful force within the European Union as well so chances of this rubbing off into other countries will likely take place in the not-to-distant future.
Germany are about as popular in Europe as the US is throughout the world. The chances of France, Italy or the UK following them "just because Germany did it" are pretty slim.
So you are saying that decompression doesn't use the processor?
All I said was that compression is only going to give you a performance boost if disk IO is your bottleneck. If your processor is often at 100% adding decompression to the mix is going to slow it down...
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It was a given in the problem that all the sinners left on the third day. Not that it stops the problem being badly worded, but your "counterexample" that nobody leaves on the third day is crap.
Didn't your mother teach you how to comment
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What the fuck?
Sounds like it would just be pushing their problem over the horizon - they need more processing power so they can figure out what is worth keeping
Its probably for the best, people would keep losing them, or mistaking them for sugar cubes if not
You don't have to read Slashdot as part of your job surely?
which begs the question is it really a "law"
Its as much of a law as most of the crap outputted by Congress. And Hookes Law is pretty suspect too. The only thing is we don't know the boundary conditions of Moore's Law yet...
They never changed enough to cover costs. but they were making it up on volume.
As many dot-coms are finding out it doesn't matter how much volume you sell if you aren't charging enough to cover costs. Especially when most are shifting next to nothing.
But we need market share bleats the dot-comma as he goes down with his sinking virtual ship.
Turn away now if you don't want to know.
The pictures you saw where a carefully constructed backup of "Astronauts" bouncing around on elasic bands in Nevada. The Australians fucked it up and the real pictures were lost forever.
Of course not having seen the film it probably has a better ending than "The pictures were broadcast, science was advanced and all lived happily ever after" but it does make you wonder what.
I'm getting about 35 Mbit/s (according to hdparm - no idea how close to a real world situation this is) out of both of my IDE drives - now the kernel lets me use UDMA 5 on my VIA chipset. My ancient P133 with a new Promise Ultra is even getting about 18Mb/s out of each channel (Which is half its cache speed, unlike the onboard VIA which gets 200Mb/s cache which I guess is because the i/f to the cache is 32bits wide though that's only a wild stab in the dark)
linux is written by people who care more about the kernel than anything else.
That's because linux is the fricking kernel
Boeing might have the dibs on that one. though they seemed to have topped out at 777 for now in their 7x7 range.
The scientists did NOT violate the laws of physics.
When it comes down to it scientists can't break the laws of physics. When they appear to its our approximations to the laws that are wrong, not the laws themselves
State diagrams are occasionally useful - Like most parts of UML you shouldn't feel the need to use use it for all classes. In my last project we had of the order of a hundred business classes, and only six state diagrams. Each state diagram was for a different subclass of our transaction object. Nothing else had an interesting enough lifecycle to warrant one.
Somebody gave you hardware prebuild hardware, you lucky bastard we had to make do matches and bits of string and the odd tin can
And tell that to the kids today and they won't believe you
As far as servers go, who cares? AT&T has one server that scans for any unauthorized servers, and my portsentry firewalled that machine a long time ago. If they can't automatically test it, how will they know?
These guys carry both your incoming and outgoing traffic. If it became a big enough problem they could figure it out whether you are running servers.
At the least they could prove that incoming packets are getting responses. If you are not using encrypted protocols they could show, for instance, that incoming http requests are producing http outputs...
Think about it... the Omega number puts a limit on the accuracy to which we can know mathematical theorems... Maybe it's the equivalent of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal?
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal is a mathematical theorem.
Last Call in Dublin is just a legal convinience, it doesn't appear to stop the availability of Guinness.
It depends what you mean by secure - if you mean that only you can access can access certain bits of your web site - then you can generate your own certificates and (assuming you're in control of the server) you can force client authentication when accessing the web site - only allowing the certificate you generated. CAs should only come into play where you want to be trusted by unknown third parties.
it's not completly secure because of a self signed cert.
Certificates are about trust not security - though they can carry keys - If you trust yourself you'll probably be secure if the other bits of infrastructure are set up right
Germany is a very powerful force within the European Union as well so chances of this rubbing off into other countries will likely take place in the not-to-distant future.
Germany are about as popular in Europe as the US is throughout the world. The chances of France, Italy or the UK following them "just because Germany did it" are pretty slim.
If you want to complain about frivilous lawsuits, remember, lawyers don't sue people, plaintifs sue people.
Yeah, but they don't have any problem finding legal representation.
So you are saying that decompression doesn't use the processor?
All I said was that compression is only going to give you a performance boost if disk IO is your bottleneck. If your processor is often at 100% adding decompression to the mix is going to slow it down...
"He had to ice his wrists at night because of the fury with which he created this extraordinarily complex piece of code."
Kudos to Mr Kent, but talk to RMS about what you are doing to your self...
So RAID them - there aren't that many disks that can fill the top end SCSI or ATA bandwidths on their own...
This of course was only true if you weren't using your processor for anything else at the same time...