Let me get this right - people are shocked to find out that ground troops, in war, have their communications monitored, or are not informed of outside events? And as good liberals, we're supposed to rage against The Man, for blocking our freedoms? Get a clue folks. If troops knew that a truce was imminient, who would fight? If they knew the full scale of disasters back home, would they fight as effectively? If they were allowed unrestricted access to a global communication network, isn't it probably that eventually classified information would either leak, or be actively transmitted? These guys are at war, whether you want to believe it or not. I'll throw up my own straw men... What's next, complaining that they don't get to pick their own weapons, their own missions, and their own gear?
You know, you can buy all this crap, and your network can still suck. I work for a Large American Bank, and we have all kinds of network issues, WAN utilization problems, etc. The solution from the Datacom Weenies? "We need more hardware. We need SuperAgent, we need this, we need that." Hey, lets to VoIP on an MPLS fabric with QoS!... and the network goes down in flames, and nobody can keep intellectual control over the whole thing, so it takes 2x longer to fix (hint turn spanning tree OFF).
I started bringing laptops to class around my Junior year. I'm unconvinced that they helped me with my grades. But how did they help your WoW framerate?
I'm beginning to think that Taco is a bot. A few simple rules like "if subject like 'Mac' and subject like 'Intel' then insert.comment=$WOW_BENCHMARKING" and "if subject like 'spam' then insert.comment=$SIZE_OF_INBOX_WHINE" would cover it.
Are we so used to MS bundling the browser with the OS that we can't think that they're different things? Granted, Safari does come with OSX, but thats not the point - its the wording of the headline thats trollish.
This is the equivalent of either a dick-size or old-school engine displacement war. Its nothing than more Slashdot navel-gazing, about how über we all are, vs. the unwashed masses, with a subtle MS bash thrown in.
Instead of a "what trinkets do you have?" Ask Slashdot, how about a "Whats needed in a home lab?" Ask Slashdot question? Otherwise it degenerates into a wallet-size competition, or an obscure "my firmware version on my Linksys is better than yours because Fry's is teh suck, CompUSA is teh r0XX0r!" discussion.
Next questions from the content-with-no-value dept.: "What do you drive?" Or "What did you have for breakfast?"
They'll be worse than nightmares. "In this day and age" (to use a horrible cliche) to NOT know something about computers makes you a dinosaur, out of touch, etc. etc. No teacher is going to want this image, so they'll a) actively sabotage you and b) claim to know much more than they do. Expect this primarly from the mid-50s, "I'm just waiting to retire but I hate these computer almost as much as these kids", types.
This proves how broken the moderation system is. If anything, its Flamebait, not Troll, as the abusive tone was intended to insult (Flame) the poster, rather than creating a new (and pointless) argument (Troll).
It also highlights the overall poor quality of the site, as submissions like this are even accepted. The submission IS retarded, nobody is arguing that.
At a recent estimate, around 30% of the power consumed in my house is via these adapters.
You're new here, aren't you. By "new", I mean, new to this planet. Apparently you have no idea how much a TV uses, or how much a refridgerator or microwave uses.
So this article is a "tripe", and also has a stupider premise than the others. Thanks, "editors".
Which is exactly why I had a dual machine. Remember back in the 2.0 and 2.2 kernel days, and before IDE chipsets had DMA? And you wanted to master an ISO and burn a CD without making a coaster? If you had enough RAM you could pipe mkisofs right to cdrecord, but w/o SMP it was master, then burn, and hope that your machine could keep up with a 2x or God help you, a 4x burner. A dual proc machine sailed right along, and was even usable during the process. Especially once the CPUs started having their own L2 cache, unlike the poor dual P100 which had a shared L2 cache. While I originally cited a Windows app, at the time Win9x was all that was readily available (hello OEM version included cheap with a HD purchase), and unless you wanted to pirate NT, you were SOL if you wanted SMP support.
But, if you don't have much use for dual-core, AMD seems the way to go.
I'm sorry, but from this post I gather that you've never had an SMP workstation before. Trust me, once you go dual, you will NEVER want to go back. I had a DEC dual P-100, then a BP6 dual Celeron 550. Smooth as butta. My current Barton setup is fast, obviously faster than the old dual Celeron 550, but still gets bogged down firing up Java, or when IE craps out, etc. With a dual machine, you always have some extra room under the pedal, so to speak.
Windows 2003 Datacenter supports 64 processors (Which is more than enough for a regular commercial application. In case you want more, instead of scaling up, you should be scaling OUT.)
who buys their IP, that is, the IP which isn't secretly pwn3d by Microsoft already. That is, if SGI has any IP that isn't secretly pwn3d by IBM already, either. SGI gave us whizbang graphics, spiffy NUMA stuff, and XFS (and more, let the list begin here). Some of the people there are obviously clever. Let IBM buy them for a song, and set up a skunkworks project somewhere.
A tsunami is a giant wave, you're talking about drowning in a sea of tokens. And, before last year, calling something 'a tsunami' outside of oceanographic circles probably would get you a lot of strange looks. So an additional -1,Pop-Culture mod applies.
Or just hover over the link with your mouse and see the URL in your status bar. You DID learn from the pre [domain] label days not to click on goatse links, didn't you?
$PERSON makes $TRENDY style comment about $TECHNOLOGY. $EDITORS don't edit, they greenlight based on $TRENDY. Oh wait, we're talking about whether IPv6 is redundant, necessary, or useful? Thats actually secondary to the point of the accepted submission.
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Let me get this right - people are shocked to find out that ground troops, in war, have their communications monitored, or are not informed of outside events? And as good liberals, we're supposed to rage against The Man, for blocking our freedoms? Get a clue folks. If troops knew that a truce was imminient, who would fight? If they knew the full scale of disasters back home, would they fight as effectively? If they were allowed unrestricted access to a global communication network, isn't it probably that eventually classified information would either leak, or be actively transmitted?
These guys are at war, whether you want to believe it or not. I'll throw up my own straw men... What's next, complaining that they don't get to pick their own weapons, their own missions, and their own gear?
You know, you can buy all this crap, and your network can still suck. I work for a Large American Bank, and we have all kinds of network issues, WAN utilization problems, etc. The solution from the Datacom Weenies? "We need more hardware. We need SuperAgent, we need this, we need that." Hey, lets to VoIP on an MPLS fabric with QoS! ... and the network goes down in flames, and nobody can keep intellectual control over the whole thing, so it takes 2x longer to fix (hint turn spanning tree OFF).
I started bringing laptops to class around my Junior year. I'm unconvinced that they helped me with my grades.
But how did they help your WoW framerate?
I'm beginning to think that Taco is a bot. A few simple rules like "if subject like 'Mac' and subject like 'Intel' then insert.comment=$WOW_BENCHMARKING" and "if subject like 'spam' then insert.comment=$SIZE_OF_INBOX_WHINE" would cover it.
The good one? /rimshot
Perhaps the fact that my comment was moderated up has more to say about the current state of Slashdot, which was entirely my point.
Are we so used to MS bundling the browser with the OS that we can't think that they're different things? Granted, Safari does come with OSX, but thats not the point - its the wording of the headline thats trollish.
This is the equivalent of either a dick-size or old-school engine displacement war. Its nothing than more Slashdot navel-gazing, about how über we all are, vs. the unwashed masses, with a subtle MS bash thrown in.
Instead of a "what trinkets do you have?" Ask Slashdot, how about a "Whats needed in a home lab?" Ask Slashdot question? Otherwise it degenerates into a wallet-size competition, or an obscure "my firmware version on my Linksys is better than yours because Fry's is teh suck, CompUSA is teh r0XX0r!" discussion.
Next questions from the content-with-no-value dept.: "What do you drive?" Or "What did you have for breakfast?"
They'll be worse than nightmares. "In this day and age" (to use a horrible cliche) to NOT know something about computers makes you a dinosaur, out of touch, etc. etc. No teacher is going to want this image, so they'll a) actively sabotage you and b) claim to know much more than they do. Expect this primarly from the mid-50s, "I'm just waiting to retire but I hate these computer almost as much as these kids", types.
This proves how broken the moderation system is. If anything, its Flamebait, not Troll, as the abusive tone was intended to insult (Flame) the poster, rather than creating a new (and pointless) argument (Troll).
It also highlights the overall poor quality of the site, as submissions like this are even accepted. The submission IS retarded, nobody is arguing that.
I've always loved that hack.
It seems to me that, just as AC power is standardised, portable electronics power requirements should be also be standardised
TYPICAL Euro-troll. Why can't everything be the same? (i.e. the way I want it) Isn't everything arbitrary> (so why not MY whim)
Other nice things:
One world currency
One world religion
One world governing body
One world form of government
New World Order
At a recent estimate, around 30% of the power consumed in my house is via these adapters.
You're new here, aren't you. By "new", I mean, new to this planet. Apparently you have no idea how much a TV uses, or how much a refridgerator or microwave uses.
So this article is a "tripe", and also has a stupider premise than the others. Thanks, "editors".
Which is exactly why I had a dual machine. Remember back in the 2.0 and 2.2 kernel days, and before IDE chipsets had DMA? And you wanted to master an ISO and burn a CD without making a coaster? If you had enough RAM you could pipe mkisofs right to cdrecord, but w/o SMP it was master, then burn, and hope that your machine could keep up with a 2x or God help you, a 4x burner. A dual proc machine sailed right along, and was even usable during the process. Especially once the CPUs started having their own L2 cache, unlike the poor dual P100 which had a shared L2 cache. While I originally cited a Windows app, at the time Win9x was all that was readily available (hello OEM version included cheap with a HD purchase), and unless you wanted to pirate NT, you were SOL if you wanted SMP support.
But, if you don't have much use for dual-core, AMD seems the way to go.
I'm sorry, but from this post I gather that you've never had an SMP workstation before. Trust me, once you go dual, you will NEVER want to go back. I had a DEC dual P-100, then a BP6 dual Celeron 550. Smooth as butta. My current Barton setup is fast, obviously faster than the old dual Celeron 550, but still gets bogged down firing up Java, or when IE craps out, etc. With a dual machine, you always have some extra room under the pedal, so to speak.
Don't forget the fact that he "signed" his post with his username... in case you couldn't tell from the title of the post who had written it.
Windows 2003 Datacenter supports 64 processors (Which is more than enough for a regular commercial application. In case you want more, instead of scaling up, you should be scaling OUT.)
Translation: 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
who buys their IP, that is, the IP which isn't secretly pwn3d by Microsoft already. That is, if SGI has any IP that isn't secretly pwn3d by IBM already, either. SGI gave us whizbang graphics, spiffy NUMA stuff, and XFS (and more, let the list begin here). Some of the people there are obviously clever. Let IBM buy them for a song, and set up a skunkworks project somewhere.
A tsunami is a giant wave, you're talking about drowning in a sea of tokens. And, before last year, calling something 'a tsunami' outside of oceanographic circles probably would get you a lot of strange looks. So an additional -1,Pop-Culture mod applies.
Wow, if only we could moderate submissions.
OMFG, Ubuntu has a problem? Say it isn't so!!1! You must be a Mandrake Troll! Nothing is wrong with Ubuntu!
Or just hover over the link with your mouse and see the URL in your status bar. You DID learn from the pre [domain] label days not to click on goatse links, didn't you?
whats the point of bitching about coral cache, except to be an elitist slashbot? Half the people reading this are at work and can't hit 8090 anyway.
A free LiveJournal account? Boy, my friends on MySpace will be so jealous!
$PERSON makes $TRENDY style comment about $TECHNOLOGY. $EDITORS don't edit, they greenlight based on $TRENDY. Oh wait, we're talking about whether IPv6 is redundant, necessary, or useful? Thats actually secondary to the point of the accepted submission.
Great... and then you're stuck with the .NET Framework^WDRM^Wspyware^Wkludgeware on your system.