In other supercomputer news, it turns out the Windows-based cluster that lost out to Linux stumbled because of a bug in Microsoft's software package.
As it should. That's not news; that's how the game is played. If your software is buggy, and those bugs drag your performance far enough down, you don't deserve a top500 spot.
If they fix their software, rerun the test, and perform better than Linux, then they will have won that battle (the battle for the top500 spot, not the battle for market share) fair and square.
There's just one little problem: "Don't drink the water. Don't even touch it. Not one drop."
But seriously, if there is a calculated, viable way to survive on Mars once dropped there, I support this idea. But we really shouldn't go in blind. The colonists need some idea of what they're going to do when they get there.
And they built it for good reason, too. Have you seen what they put under that place-marker? There's a prison whose sole purpose is to absolutely contain the most feared creature in the universe.
Well, that's just great. If you hadn't said anything, this phenomenon could have remained in relative obscurity. However, because you brought it up, now everyone's gonna know about the Streisand effect. Way to go.
When selling to users who want their devices to just work, we believe integrated will trump fragmented every time.
That's nice, Jobs. Let me know the instant you've made that philosophy work in the Mac vs. PC debate, and then I might pretend to take your argument seriously.
PC: Windows NT microkernel with hardware drivers from any number of manufacturers. Sounds fragmented to me! Mac: The hardware is practically part of the OS. It's all nice and integrated. How much desktop market do you control, again?
Steve Jobs can seriously enter the debates on hardware-software manufacturing paradigms as soon as his philosophy looks viable.
Pay your service fees if you wish to receive your service.
This is supposed to be called taxes and the government is supposed to collect them in order to provide adequate public services, like fire departments.
I'd rather pay taxes for a fire department that never needs to rescue me than watch a fire department refuse to rescue me when I need to be rescued.
Stories like this are ultimately caused by the Republican philosophy of small, non-interfering government. If this county commission (which I read in a different article is 100% Republican) hadn't decided that lowering taxes was worth not having a fire department, Cranick would still have his house.
I know! It's weird. Among the various law office results for the name, I also came across this Slashdot article and the Wikipedia article on the Streisand Effect.
Damn it. Clicked "Submit" instead of "Continue Editing" by mistake. Cassandra's name should end in a "dot-delta-17". Silly Slashdot support for whatever the hell kind of code that is.
Stupid force of habit, clicking buttons that make posts like that. >_<
I just re-watched "Voyage of the Damned" several hours ago.:)
However, I disagree that that's anything like this problem. In that episode, Mr. Copper wasn't from Earth to begin with. A closer match to this story might be the misinformation possessed by Lady Cassandra O'Brien.17 in the episode "The End of the World" (2005, ep 2) (although in Cassandra's defense, she's separated from the 20th century by about five billion Earth years).
This was the plot of an episode of Doctor Who back in 2007 ("Utopia"). In that story, Utopia was said to be a planet where the skies were made of diamonds.
Maybe the Master is on his way to our time right now to be elected Prime Minister of Great Britain?
Users of the stable version of Google's Webkit-based browser might be surprised to find out that, so far, passwords are stored on the hard disk as clear text.
I see. So that's why I keep my passwords stored in my head. No virus that can live in my head can read my passwords out of there, AFAIK.
Slashdot has definitely turned into a News Aggregator
FTFY.
I'm sorry if English is not your native language, but I would hold myself to similar standards, such as spelling words properly, if I were posting on a non-English site. I therefore request that you learn how to spell the words of my native language before you try to use them.
Slashdot Mirror
In other supercomputer news, it turns out the Windows-based cluster that lost out to Linux stumbled because of a bug in Microsoft's software package.
As it should. That's not news; that's how the game is played. If your software is buggy, and those bugs drag your performance far enough down, you don't deserve a top500 spot.
If they fix their software, rerun the test, and perform better than Linux, then they will have won that battle (the battle for the top500 spot, not the battle for market share) fair and square.
Think of the Children/Terrorist.
Huh. I've never heard anyone say, "Think of the Terrorist" before.
There's just one little problem: "Don't drink the water. Don't even touch it. Not one drop."
But seriously, if there is a calculated, viable way to survive on Mars once dropped there, I support this idea. But we really shouldn't go in blind. The colonists need some idea of what they're going to do when they get there.
I cannot wait for more episodes of that show.
I actually found myself pretty interested in the story they had planned when they got to that plot twist in the first episode.
Repeat after me
after me
after me
after me
after me
after me
after me
after me
after me
You take one down, pass it around...
...89 critical flaws on the wall! ...shit, wait. My bad. These bugs are harder to fix than I thought they would be.
Oh, Slashdot...didn't you sillies read their "do not 403 this website" warning?
What "do not 403 this website" warning? I couldn't see anything; the page 403'd on me.
Apparently this is legal, so why should I care?
Because "Die, Economy, die!"
And they built it for good reason, too. Have you seen what they put under that place-marker? There's a prison whose sole purpose is to absolutely contain the most feared creature in the universe.
Er, so said the British TV show, anyway.
Apparently, if IPv4 addresses keep getting returned at an average rate of at least 16,000,000 per month, they could keep this up forever.
the Streisand effect
Well, that's just great. If you hadn't said anything, this phenomenon could have remained in relative obscurity. However, because you brought it up, now everyone's gonna know about the Streisand effect. Way to go.
When selling to users who want their devices to just work, we believe integrated will trump fragmented every time.
That's nice, Jobs. Let me know the instant you've made that philosophy work in the Mac vs. PC debate, and then I might pretend to take your argument seriously.
PC: Windows NT microkernel with hardware drivers from any number of manufacturers. Sounds fragmented to me!
Mac: The hardware is practically part of the OS. It's all nice and integrated. How much desktop market do you control, again?
Steve Jobs can seriously enter the debates on hardware-software manufacturing paradigms as soon as his philosophy looks viable.
When will this actually happen?
At the rate we're going and projected to be going, probably around the time we run out of oil.
I want to choose an adjective!
"Opera is a very athletic supporter of Web standards..."
This post will be either +4, Funny or -1, Troll. Either way, I'm happy with my pun. :)
Exactly what is so damn special about that particular plot of land, anyway?
Pay your service fees if you wish to receive your service.
This is supposed to be called taxes and the government is supposed to collect them in order to provide adequate public services, like fire departments.
I'd rather pay taxes for a fire department that never needs to rescue me than watch a fire department refuse to rescue me when I need to be rescued.
Stories like this are ultimately caused by the Republican philosophy of small, non-interfering government. If this county commission (which I read in a different article is 100% Republican) hadn't decided that lowering taxes was worth not having a fire department, Cranick would still have his house.
I know! It's weird. Among the various law office results for the name, I also came across this Slashdot article and the Wikipedia article on the Streisand Effect.
I was amused.
Damn it. Clicked "Submit" instead of "Continue Editing" by mistake. Cassandra's name should end in a "dot-delta-17". Silly Slashdot support for whatever the hell kind of code that is.
Stupid force of habit, clicking buttons that make posts like that. >_<
I just re-watched "Voyage of the Damned" several hours ago. :)
However, I disagree that that's anything like this problem. In that episode, Mr. Copper wasn't from Earth to begin with. A closer match to this story might be the misinformation possessed by Lady Cassandra O'Brien.17 in the episode "The End of the World" (2005, ep 2) (although in Cassandra's defense, she's separated from the 20th century by about five billion Earth years).
You say children as young as two years are saying "fuck"?
Did anybody else think of this?
This was the plot of an episode of Doctor Who back in 2007 ("Utopia"). In that story, Utopia was said to be a planet where the skies were made of diamonds.
Maybe the Master is on his way to our time right now to be elected Prime Minister of Great Britain?
Is there be a more noble cause anywhere on this planet?
You mean, I make him better, Humperdinck suffers? Ha ha ha! That is a noble cause!
Users of the stable version of Google's Webkit-based browser might be surprised to find out that, so far, passwords are stored on the hard disk as clear text.
I see. So that's why I keep my passwords stored in my head. No virus that can live in my head can read my passwords out of there, AFAIK.
Slashdot has definitely turned into a News Aggregator
FTFY.
I'm sorry if English is not your native language, but I would hold myself to similar standards, such as spelling words properly, if I were posting on a non-English site. I therefore request that you learn how to spell the words of my native language before you try to use them.
This guy is a representation of all atheists, right? :)
Yes, in the same way that Christians can be generalized from the Crusades and Muslims can be generalized from 9/11.
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