Since we're limited to moving 3 spatial dimensions, and a unidirectional path through the time dimension, wake me when somehow these 'extra' dimensions matter to humanity, and I'm not talking about the crystal people, faith healers, Platonists, and trekkies, who base their world view on denying the three dimensions we live in. Will it build the space plane? Will it allow FTL travel, in real terms, not some sort of "it would work, if only we had an infinite energy source"? Will it cure HIV, will it stop the third world from breeding like rats? Will it stop the onward march of socialism?
Seriously, not trolling... why bother? Say you're a designer, and you have either Mac OSX on a Mac, or XP on a PC. Both are relatively modern, fast machines. What would switching to Linux get you?
With the proper NEMA watertight enclosure (a 4A rating, IIRC), you could put the computer IN the dungeon. Much easier to do a wireless link to the PC there, than long cables from the PCs to the dungeon cameras.
This works well, even in young people, because once you master counting from 1 to 10, its trivial to distinguish shapes that have from 1 to 10 sides. Its trivial to integrate them (all pointy shapes) and differentiate them (square shapes vs. pointy shapes), and even create more advanced concepts like acute and obtuse angles. Granted, a child may not use those words to describe a star shape vs. a hexagon. At a young age, you can easily form shapes out of simple materials, further reinforcing the concepts. This is why old Terrapin Logo was so fun for kids - they GOT it. Contrast this with math (remember how superior you felt when you mastered long division?), where its much more abstract... imaging a 5 year old trying to take a pile of blocks and divide the total (73) by some smaller number (7)... its not intuitive with physical entities.
I know you shouldn't feed AC trolls, but I'll bite. First, we identify the troll: 1) pedantic reliance on security policy 2) Euro spelling of 'unauthorized' 3) excluded middle fallacy invoked to formally document and submit your request 4) ITIL-like flamage about change control procedures 5) assertion that its wrong de jure, instead of right, de facto
Ok, so now we know it's a troll. What to do? 1) hopefully metamod the positive mods that he received to correct the error 2) offer brief counterargument, demolishing the troll, thus:
You're job is to get work done, and act in the best interests of your employer. If you are doing both, no good manager will complain.
Don't waste your time. Before all you mods flame me down as a troll, hear me out. What's your target audience? The people who need it fall into two group - those who can't understand, and those who refuse to. Your mother falls into the former - the benefit of knowing the difference between a firewall and a hub is outweighed by the cost of learning something completely alien. The latter group is that obnoxious guy you overhear at the counter of your local CompUSA, blithering on about how you HAVE to have a 3.4 GHz P4 with hyperthreading, else you're obsolete. You can talk to him until you are blue in the face, but he knows better because he read something somewhere. Lastly, if you CAN attract people like your mother, you'll be doing a disservice to your fellow geeks - you'll basically have to refer to things like switches as "splitters" and operating systems as "Windows" - VASTLY oversimplifying things. This results in disbelief and outrage when broken things start costing real money - in effect, you'll be turning people from group 1 into the people in group 2.
So yes, Windows95 will INSTALL on a 486SX-25 with 16 MB of RAM, but can you do anything? I think WinXP probably WONT even install on that. Is a P2-350 with 64MB of RAM a decent Win2003 box? Not on your life. Welcome to swapville.
This is the dumbest, most shill-like "benchmark" I've read about in a while. Come back when they do webserver benchmarks on the legacy HW. How many of the tests will read "No results for Windows because the OS won't install on this platform" ?
That they will shell out $DOLLARS for one of these behemoths? So you can record the Superbowl and Desparate Housewives at the same time? So you can wire it into your home network, and have instant access to all of the DVDs and CDs that you bought and carefully ripped to your home terabyte SAN? Do people no longer read books, play Uno, or throw frisbee with their dogs? Go to neighborhood bars to watch sports games? I don't see it. Of course the geek factor is high, so it will likely be talked up much on Slashdot and in some circles, and eventually, Joe Walmart will buy them when they have to upgrade their TVs else they fall behind, but is there really a compelling reason for this? We're SWIMMING in media these days, barraged by content, and look at the results - dumbing down of everything, even the Discovery Channel, kids with no reading or writing skills, no attention span, etc. etc.
Nice troll. Let's examine: username of 'unixpro', subtle hint of being a gamer, poor knowledge of Unix (install to/bin? are you fscking serious?), the word 'Windoze', poor knowledge of Windows (yeah TRY and install everything as a user and see how THAT breaks, why do you think everyone ends up with local admin?), subtle clue that there's a Linux client for an online multiplayer game, whiff of moral relativism, and a cheesy strawman example. Yep, troll.
No, this means that companies like Sony can trample your rights (i.e. sell you a rootkit you didn't know about) and get away with it if they pay enough. How many retards out there won't get the incremental-cost-to-sony "free" downloads or rebates? How many people will stop buying their stuff? None. Its a trial balloon - and Sony now knows what the market will bear. Like MS continuing to violate monopoly laws, or the famous exploding Ford Pinto, companies will break the laws of the land and of decency when it makes them money. note that you don't have a "right" NOT to be rooted, or a "right" to free music, or a "right" to much else other than "this product is exactly what is advertised, no more, no less, and since it is a product, I have right of First Sale".
Great, so your average college student, who's been told his or her whole life that THEY are a beautiful and unique snowflake, that protesting outside Starbucks BEFORE they go inside makes them virtuous, that everyone is special, that every child can learn, and that mommy and daddy can't wait to hear their next opinion, now are going to be out video blogging, spewing content into the ether in hopes that its picked up by someone. College girls already do this, but at least they show their hooters. Not while they're protesting WTO or advocating Fair Trade hemp-based guatemalan thongs though. College guys already do this, but its typically things like the video of the guy shooting the fireworks from his butt. How will this be any different, because its related to blogging and somehow related to the iPod, then its cool?
Just what I need, another username and password which, if I ever change browsers, will be lost. For what? Content that I can get elsewhere online, or through word-of-mouth chitchat at the office? Trust me, I am NOT clicking your banner ads, so the # of distinct page views is a meaningless metric to try and track. Just give me the content, or don't do it. The usefulness of the online medium is the a la carte mentality, don't try and apply an old model to it. Or come up with a way for anonymous micropayments (again, no FSCKING username/password) and for.25 USD, I'll read your damn paper online.
RISC architectures need large cache, because the penalty for a miss is high. x86 CISC->RISC cores don't have this problem (and do less work per MHz) because the translation to the inner RISCy instructions has already sorted out the data access issues.
Good point about the clever admins. Monkey admins can make your $10,000+ exchange setup suck tail, but a clever admin can make an old PC + $600 for RHEL work like a champ. You need clever admins regardless.
BioDiesel is great. My understanding is that it takes a lot of time and effort to collect and refine, since you can't just get it from a gas station, but if you're willing to do all that, more power to you. Biodiesel is a vegetable-derived fuel which is produced from vegetable oil through a process known as transesterification. It is readily available at gas stations; it pours and burns just like diesel fuel, but without the sulphur and other compounds. It is NOT raw or waste vegetable oil.
7 servers and 400 PCs sounds like a small shop, one prone to growth-by-accretion. Are you daisychaining hubs? Breaking the 5-4-3 rule anywhere? Using crappy cabling, thats at (or over) the distance limit? Are you all on a switch or switches? Do they suck? Try some network partitioning, if you can swing it, drop a PC-based router in (Linux, Win2K, whatever) and DHCP all the PCs off onto a separate subnet. Are all the servers Windows-based? Set up 1 master Perfmon screen with NIC and CPU usage stats for each server - manually correlate the slowdowns with what you see on Perfmon. Just some ideas.
And wasting fuel to produce it in the first place. Hybrids don't use any less fuel than a well-maintained VW TDI, and with the TDI you have the added benefits of :
Not sitting inside a giant magnetic field More power Ability to burn 100% plant-derived fuel oil, aka BioDiesel In general, not perceived as an insufferable prick
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Since we're limited to moving 3 spatial dimensions, and a unidirectional path through the time dimension, wake me when somehow these 'extra' dimensions matter to humanity, and I'm not talking about the crystal people, faith healers, Platonists, and trekkies, who base their world view on denying the three dimensions we live in. Will it build the space plane? Will it allow FTL travel, in real terms, not some sort of "it would work, if only we had an infinite energy source"? Will it cure HIV, will it stop the third world from breeding like rats? Will it stop the onward march of socialism?
Seriously, not trolling... why bother? Say you're a designer, and you have either Mac OSX on a Mac, or XP on a PC. Both are relatively modern, fast machines. What would switching to Linux get you?
And since it will burn up in re-entry, who gives a crap?
Is this Fark, where the wittiest headline gets submitted?
With the proper NEMA watertight enclosure (a 4A rating, IIRC), you could put the computer IN the dungeon. Much easier to do a wireless link to the PC there, than long cables from the PCs to the dungeon cameras.
This works well, even in young people, because once you master counting from 1 to 10, its trivial to distinguish shapes that have from 1 to 10 sides. Its trivial to integrate them (all pointy shapes) and differentiate them (square shapes vs. pointy shapes), and even create more advanced concepts like acute and obtuse angles. Granted, a child may not use those words to describe a star shape vs. a hexagon. At a young age, you can easily form shapes out of simple materials, further reinforcing the concepts. This is why old Terrapin Logo was so fun for kids - they GOT it. Contrast this with math (remember how superior you felt when you mastered long division?), where its much more abstract... imaging a 5 year old trying to take a pile of blocks and divide the total (73) by some smaller number (7)... its not intuitive with physical entities.
I know you shouldn't feed AC trolls, but I'll bite. First, we identify the troll:
1) pedantic reliance on security policy
2) Euro spelling of 'unauthorized'
3) excluded middle fallacy invoked to formally document and submit your request
4) ITIL-like flamage about change control procedures
5) assertion that its wrong de jure, instead of right, de facto
Ok, so now we know it's a troll. What to do?
1) hopefully metamod the positive mods that he received to correct the error
2) offer brief counterargument, demolishing the troll, thus:
You're job is to get work done, and act in the best interests of your employer. If you are doing both, no good manager will complain.
Done.
Are you typing while drunk, or surfing slashdot from your cell phone?
Don't waste your time. Before all you mods flame me down as a troll, hear me out. What's your target audience? The people who need it fall into two group - those who can't understand, and those who refuse to. Your mother falls into the former - the benefit of knowing the difference between a firewall and a hub is outweighed by the cost of learning something completely alien. The latter group is that obnoxious guy you overhear at the counter of your local CompUSA, blithering on about how you HAVE to have a 3.4 GHz P4 with hyperthreading, else you're obsolete. You can talk to him until you are blue in the face, but he knows better because he read something somewhere.
Lastly, if you CAN attract people like your mother, you'll be doing a disservice to your fellow geeks - you'll basically have to refer to things like switches as "splitters" and operating systems as "Windows" - VASTLY oversimplifying things. This results in disbelief and outrage when broken things start costing real money - in effect, you'll be turning people from group 1 into the people in group 2.
So yes, Windows95 will INSTALL on a 486SX-25 with 16 MB of RAM, but can you do anything? I think WinXP probably WONT even install on that. Is a P2-350 with 64MB of RAM a decent Win2003 box? Not on your life. Welcome to swapville.
This is the dumbest, most shill-like "benchmark" I've read about in a while. Come back when they do webserver benchmarks on the legacy HW. How many of the tests will read "No results for Windows because the OS won't install on this platform" ?
Honestly, I don't understand this, but I think it makes me a little bit happier that I'm living in Europe...
Why troll?
That they will shell out $DOLLARS for one of these behemoths? So you can record the Superbowl and Desparate Housewives at the same time? So you can wire it into your home network, and have instant access to all of the DVDs and CDs that you bought and carefully ripped to your home terabyte SAN? Do people no longer read books, play Uno, or throw frisbee with their dogs? Go to neighborhood bars to watch sports games?
I don't see it. Of course the geek factor is high, so it will likely be talked up much on Slashdot and in some circles, and eventually, Joe Walmart will buy them when they have to upgrade their TVs else they fall behind, but is there really a compelling reason for this? We're SWIMMING in media these days, barraged by content, and look at the results - dumbing down of everything, even the Discovery Channel, kids with no reading or writing skills, no attention span, etc. etc.
Nice troll. Let's examine: username of 'unixpro', subtle hint of being a gamer, poor knowledge of Unix (install to /bin? are you fscking serious?), the word 'Windoze', poor knowledge of Windows (yeah TRY and install everything as a user and see how THAT breaks, why do you think everyone ends up with local admin?), subtle clue that there's a Linux client for an online multiplayer game, whiff of moral relativism, and a cheesy strawman example. Yep, troll.
No, this means that companies like Sony can trample your rights (i.e. sell you a rootkit you didn't know about) and get away with it if they pay enough. How many retards out there won't get the incremental-cost-to-sony "free" downloads or rebates? How many people will stop buying their stuff? None. Its a trial balloon - and Sony now knows what the market will bear. Like MS continuing to violate monopoly laws, or the famous exploding Ford Pinto, companies will break the laws of the land and of decency when it makes them money. note that you don't have a "right" NOT to be rooted, or a "right" to free music, or a "right" to much else other than "this product is exactly what is advertised, no more, no less, and since it is a product, I have right of First Sale".
Great, so your average college student, who's been told his or her whole life that THEY are a beautiful and unique snowflake, that protesting outside Starbucks BEFORE they go inside makes them virtuous, that everyone is special, that every child can learn, and that mommy and daddy can't wait to hear their next opinion, now are going to be out video blogging, spewing content into the ether in hopes that its picked up by someone. College girls already do this, but at least they show their hooters. Not while they're protesting WTO or advocating Fair Trade hemp-based guatemalan thongs though. College guys already do this, but its typically things like the video of the guy shooting the fireworks from his butt. How will this be any different, because its related to blogging and somehow related to the iPod, then its cool?
Since everyone's hitting the site, can someone throw up a torrent?
Just what I need, another username and password which, if I ever change browsers, will be lost. For what? Content that I can get elsewhere online, or through word-of-mouth chitchat at the office? Trust me, I am NOT clicking your banner ads, so the # of distinct page views is a meaningless metric to try and track. Just give me the content, or don't do it. The usefulness of the online medium is the a la carte mentality, don't try and apply an old model to it. Or come up with a way for anonymous micropayments (again, no FSCKING username/password) and for .25 USD, I'll read your damn paper online.
RISC architectures need large cache, because the penalty for a miss is high. x86 CISC->RISC cores don't have this problem (and do less work per MHz) because the translation to the inner RISCy instructions has already sorted out the data access issues.
Good point about the clever admins. Monkey admins can make your $10,000+ exchange setup suck tail, but a clever admin can make an old PC + $600 for RHEL work like a champ. You need clever admins regardless.
No, Rush had it right, back in 1990. We are made from the dust of stars, and the oceans flow in our veins.
Nothing to see here, Farkers, move along. This story is at least a day old.
They don't track you when you pull the battery between calls.
BioDiesel is great. My understanding is that it takes a lot of time and effort to collect and refine, since you can't just get it from a gas station, but if you're willing to do all that, more power to you.
Biodiesel is a vegetable-derived fuel which is produced from vegetable oil through a process known as transesterification. It is readily available at gas stations; it pours and burns just like diesel fuel, but without the sulphur and other compounds. It is NOT raw or waste vegetable oil.
7 servers and 400 PCs sounds like a small shop, one prone to growth-by-accretion. Are you daisychaining hubs? Breaking the 5-4-3 rule anywhere? Using crappy cabling, thats at (or over) the distance limit? Are you all on a switch or switches? Do they suck? Try some network partitioning, if you can swing it, drop a PC-based router in (Linux, Win2K, whatever) and DHCP all the PCs off onto a separate subnet.
Are all the servers Windows-based? Set up 1 master Perfmon screen with NIC and CPU usage stats for each server - manually correlate the slowdowns with what you see on Perfmon.
Just some ideas.
And wasting fuel to produce it in the first place. Hybrids don't use any less fuel than a well-maintained VW TDI, and with the TDI you have the added benefits of :
Not sitting inside a giant magnetic field
More power
Ability to burn 100% plant-derived fuel oil, aka BioDiesel
In general, not perceived as an insufferable prick