First off, I'm Malaysian. This story was out on one of our main papers on Tuesday. The thing that I'm trying to figure out is why is Malaysia included in the list. Heck, the title of the parent post is "English First World". Doesn't anybody else find it weird that Malaysia's in the list?
No offense to anyone, but Malaysia's hardly a first world English country[1].
[1] We're working on getting the first world part, but I don't think any amount of trying would make us "English".
Perhaps you are familiar with the phrase "standing on the shoulders of giants"?
There is a school of thought that Sir Isaac said that not so much to be humble, but as a backhanded compliment towards Robert Hooke. Hooke was a bit of a dwarf with a bent back. In other words, Newton was saying that Hooke contributed nothing to his (Newton's) greatness.
Not really, but combined with the HA stuff at Linux-HA, we can get a load-balanced, HA system. We have a running hack at Virtual Malaysia that does this. Basically, we put a Linux box at the front of a couple of NT web servers with monitoring software to check for downed boxes. We just have to add another box for failover and LVS + HA should be complete.
I'm not going to directly say that overclocking is wrong, but I think that overclocking is a childish pursuit and for many people it is nothing more than a dick size contest. Why not just go out and buy a fast processor? Considering the cost of some of the cooling devices that are used (Peltier coolers etc), it would probably be cheaper to buy a fast processor in the first place.
In my case, I wouldn't say that it's a penis thing. The reason that I don't go out and buy a faster processor is because I can't afford a faster processor. And when I can afford one, the first thing I'd do with it is to overclock it.
As for those people spending money on Peltier's, thermal compounds and such like. Maybe some of them do it on a penis agenda. But some of them just do it for fun. I know I do. It's all about driving the equipment as far as it can go, in the name of experimentation. Pushing the envelope and all that, wot.
It's more a case of a division of labour, I'd say. There are people already working on trying to end world starvation. If you dig around a bit you'd find that there's different organisations doing it too, directly and indirectly. And then there's the ones trying to save the environment, which also involves going to some less developed countries and asking them to ease off on the greenhouse gases. And then there's this: Geekcorps. Similar to, say, the VSO in the UK except in a much narrower focus and maybe slightly different aim of an end result. We need ALL of these. Concurrently. In parrallel. It's good to have your heart in the right place. Even better when you act on it.
Rather than a lesson in the power and value of Open Source, would it not be a lesson in the weakness and worthlessness of Open Source? I mean, more than a century after the original author got dead...
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Yeah, well, sometimes there's nothing wrong with following the shiny, if the shiny is good.
And what do you mean about forgetting all that was done before? They're planning to expand, not stay put or contract. Sounds like a good thing to me.
And I would like to echo the parent, in reply to you:
What?
I, for one, welcome our new genetically modified insect overlords.
I commented elsewhere about this, but doesn't anyone else find the list weird. Here's a "find the odd one out" question:
Of the five countries below, which one doesn't belong?
1. USA
2. UK
3. Australia
4. New Zealand
5. Malaysia
To my mind, there can only be two answers:
a. USA since it is not part of the Commonwealth
b. Malaysia since it is not a predominantly Caucasian, English speaking country.
And why not do it in China, India, Germany, Philippines or Trinidad and Tobago too/instead?
As a Malaysian, I am somehow bemused, though at the same time inordinately proud that we merit such attention from Redmond.
First off, I'm Malaysian. This story was out on one of our main papers on Tuesday. The thing that I'm trying to figure out is why is Malaysia included in the list. Heck, the title of the parent post is "English First World". Doesn't anybody else find it weird that Malaysia's in the list?
No offense to anyone, but Malaysia's hardly a first world English country[1].
[1] We're working on getting the first world part, but I don't think any amount of trying would make us "English".
Perhaps you are familiar with the phrase "standing on the shoulders of giants"?
There is a school of thought that Sir Isaac said that not so much to be humble, but as a backhanded compliment towards Robert Hooke. Hooke was a bit of a dwarf with a bent back. In other words, Newton was saying that Hooke contributed nothing to his (Newton's) greatness.
Argh... Link to Virtual Malaysia was wrong. It's a dotcom thingy.
Here's the right link.
Not really, but combined with the HA stuff at Linux-HA, we can get a load-balanced, HA system. We have a running hack at Virtual Malaysia that does this. Basically, we put a Linux box at the front of a couple of NT web servers with monitoring software to check for downed boxes. We just have to add another box for failover and LVS + HA should be complete.
In my case, I wouldn't say that it's a penis thing. The reason that I don't go out and buy a faster processor is because I can't afford a faster processor. And when I can afford one, the first thing I'd do with it is to overclock it.
As for those people spending money on Peltier's, thermal compounds and such like. Maybe some of them do it on a penis agenda. But some of them just do it for fun. I know I do. It's all about driving the equipment as far as it can go, in the name of experimentation. Pushing the envelope and all that, wot.
It's more a case of a division of labour, I'd say. There are people already working on trying to end world starvation. If you dig around a bit you'd find that there's different organisations doing it too, directly and indirectly. And then there's the ones trying to save the environment, which also involves going to some less developed countries and asking them to ease off on the greenhouse gases. And then there's this: Geekcorps. Similar to, say, the VSO in the UK except in a much narrower focus and maybe slightly different aim of an end result. We need ALL of these. Concurrently. In parrallel. It's good to have your heart in the right place. Even better when you act on it.
Rather than a lesson in the power and value of Open Source, would it not be a lesson in the weakness and worthlessness of Open Source? I mean, more than a century after the original author got dead...