Someone else (pgn674) has already supposed that these were the 2 hits (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=59755147&blogID=106406778), based on their search when there were just 12 hits. Having seen the comic early on and did the search myself, I visited the link when google was still reporting just the original 2 hits, I can confirm that pgn674 is correct that they were the 2 links, at least as google reported to me.
Pay no attention to the US navel vessel charting all the currents and making very detailed charts (for the US teams only). Can't have any of those darn foreigners holding the "Americas Cup" now. Wonder how much that cost the tax payers.
Where did you hear that? I haven't heard anything on the radio or TV here about that, and I'm SURE that would have made the news, what with NZ's anti-nuclear stance and the US Navy's Neither Confirm Nor Deny policy concerning whether Navy vessels are nuclear powered or armed - which has effectively banned US Navy vessels from NZ territorial waters.
Of course, there isn't anything to stop a syndicate from privately organising marine and weather research locally to try and give themselves an edge. I remember last time a couple of syndicates were sharing data off a privately owned weather bouy...
The America's Cup has been dominated by US syndicates, but it is an international affair. Initially started by the Brits, they lost it straight away and then the Yanks hung onto it for the next 100 years or so. Then the Aussies beat the field to take the cup, the USAians won it back, and eventually Team New Zealand won the cup, and successfully defended it. The upcoming race series is again being defended from NZ...
It's down: and no one is saying "ow ow ow ow ow my head hurts" so I guess that it all burnt up or unburnt bits didn't hit anything important. Now to check Ebay to see if I can get some Genuine Melted Satellite Gunk at an exorbitant price...
Although a cell phone causing a spark that ignites a gas station is dubious, I could see a cell phone ban in gas stations due to the inattentiveness caused by them. Someone somewhere probably drove off with the gas nozzle still in his tank, ripped it off, and caused an explosion because he/she was talking on his cell phone and not paying attention.
I think the signs in petrol stations indicating that cellphones should be turned off are the result of the cellphone's heritage. A Cellphone is essentially a radio. Radios have long been restricted in places where there are "explosive environments" unless the radios are "intrinsically safe". Most radios *won't* cause failures that spark an explosion... but rather than risk the remote possibility, they should be off or intrinsically safe radios used - ones that will not cause ignition even in failure conditions. Cellphones aren't designed to be intrinsically safe, low voltage levels or not, so to avoid their stations getting blown up, station owners slap up "no cellphones on" signs.
You aren't allowed to smoke on station forecourts or outside the terminal on the way to your plane either. Sure, the fuel:air ratio might be low enough to make ignition unlikely, but no one wants to take the chance, right?
...and not only is it going to get harder for US citizens who lose their license, but it will become harder for non-US citizens who are visiting.
Like when I went into a bank in south Texas, to get a cash advance off my temporary/replacement VISA (due to having been pick-pocketed in Pisa, Italy a couple od days beforehand). I explained to the cashier that I couldn't use the ATM because it was a temp card, and I needed a cash advance. She asked to see my drivers license. I explained I wasn't a US citizen, and so I didn't have a US license, and my NZ license went with the lost VISA. But here is my Passport, I said. I'm sorry, the teller said, I need a driver's license. A careful re-explanation including a reminder that a passport was a legal identification document that was good enough for US Customs, and a query as to what about people who didn't drive resulted in no joy. My US guide, an uncle, lamented about droids behind tills in small town banks who weren't encouraged to think for themselves and so we went to the San Benito Bank to the Bank Of America in Harlingen. Explained my circumstances again, and was asked "Can I see your passport please?" Ah, someone with a future, someone who was helpful! Bigger bank, maybe someone who was encouraged to think for herself.
As I see it, if driver's licenses become the defacto ID, then it'll be harder for people like travellers (without them) to get by, because droids like my first bank teller seem to vastly outnumber thinking-people-with-a-future like my second teller. Most people get given by their boss this party line of "ask for a driver's license as ID" and they then stick to that rigidly without any common-sense flexibility. This can only be exacerbated by having d/l's as *standard* and *official* mechanisms for identification, because then it will become esconced in the minds of millions of droids that a d/l is the one and only means of identification.
If they had said that the dual athlon system was 142% as fast as the uniprocessor system, then it would have been disappointing, but 142% faster is more than twice as fast.
I think that perspective is important as well - ie what is the baseline? If you take the 2:00 dual processor time as the baseline then the 4:51 single processor time is 142.5% slower. Which is how the article described it. If you take the 4:51 time as the baseline then you can really only say that the dual processor build took 41.2% of the time, at 2:00. Anything else starts being ambiguous.
Philosophical question: from that perspective (the 4:51 is the baseline) is that really only a 58.8% increase in compile time performance? If 100% of 4:51 is 4:51 then would it indeed be impossible (given that things do not occur instantaneously) to have a 100% faster compile time?
What you are measuring is important too - A car moving constantly at 100km/h over 100km does the trip in 1hr. Another car doing the same thing at 200km/h does the trip in 0.5hr. It travels twice as fast. It is 100% faster. The time elapsed is only 50% that of the first car however. What figure you use depends on what you are using to compare performance. Velocity? Time Elapsed?
We are using time elapsed to measure the performance of 2 PCs. Unfortunately this is a function of the inverse of the aspect we are actually interested in: the performance ie speed of the 2 CPU system compared to the 1 CPU system.
You are really accusing/. readers of lacking in knowledge? About an issue like *this*? Speak for yourself!
In fact, while *you* might not find RFCs light bed-time reading, there ARE many people here who are fully cognisant of the issues. Which is why it *hasn't* been an issue.
I don't understand some of you people. Are you looking to stir? To cause trouble? Don't be so *quick* to take umbrage at the slightest suggestion that there may be a Bad Thing going on. Don't leap up and say 'where can we lobby?'. The worst thing you can do for any issue is to loudly protest about things you don't fully understand - you can only serve to make a fool of yourself and you may even weaken the case of the cause you are trying to fight for.
Go back to lurking first. See what the learned people have to say first. Do some research. Educate yourself.
I think we broke the server... go the slashdot effect!... unfortunately I can't actually get my basketful of goodies on it's merry way to me because the 'check out' and 'buy now' links seem to be very very.... quiet.
if you are not having problems and you have scanned the list of mods and can't see anything that would affect you, then don't upgrade it. Save yourself the effort. You don't need to do it.
If you are having problems of one sort or another, it might help. If a fix relates to something you use, or a security issue, then you should consider updating.
It isn't compulsory to upgrade the kernel everytime.
So, tell me, exactly what got added to bloat the OS?
These releases are necessary mods to keep the high quality reputation of Linux. The frequent patches ensure issues are addressed when there is a problem (c.f. Windows, where you are lucky to get a patch at all, certainly months later than you needed it, and which probably totally screws your system when you install it)
This is a stable release. No big splendiferous features are being added that could *possibly* be called bloat.
I'd also be very interested to see benchmarks comparing operating systems straight out of the box, untuned. Then a race between the Linux gurus and the NT gurus to tune their machines to the point they believe the performance will be optimum. *Then* compare the tweaked systems.
The guy isn't suggesting billg reveal how many times a week he has sex. What he *is* saying is how about citing some personal examples about how xyz was applied (personally, in MS, by some other). He is saying the personal touch is lacking, that it is not an appealing read because it is bland and tepid, unenthralling and without a semblance of life and realism.
Awwwwwww, go on, I'd hand over $NZ50/yr (~$US25) or maybe even more for a slashdot.org email address. And as noted, you only need forward...
Go on, it'll be a nice additional revenue... you *know* you've been wanting that K7 with a 10000rpm SCSI and TNT2 graphics topped by a nice 21" trinitron to play Half-life on...
Slashdot Mirror
They were 2 hits to the same blog
http://blog.myspace.com/thekevinwhite
Someone else (pgn674) has already supposed that these were the 2 hits (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=59755147&blogID=106406778), based on their search when there were just 12 hits. Having seen the comic early on and did the search myself, I visited the link when google was still reporting just the original 2 hits, I can confirm that pgn674 is correct that they were the 2 links, at least as google reported to me.
Pay no attention to the US navel vessel charting all the currents and making very detailed charts (for the US teams only). Can't have any of those darn foreigners holding the "Americas Cup" now.
Wonder how much that cost the tax payers.
Where did you hear that? I haven't heard anything on the radio or TV here about that, and I'm SURE that would have made the news, what with NZ's anti-nuclear stance and the US Navy's Neither Confirm Nor Deny policy concerning whether Navy vessels are nuclear powered or armed - which has effectively banned US Navy vessels from NZ territorial waters.
Of course, there isn't anything to stop a syndicate from privately organising marine and weather research locally to try and give themselves an edge. I remember last time a couple of syndicates were sharing data off a privately owned weather bouy...
The America's Cup has been dominated by US syndicates, but it is an international affair. Initially started by the Brits, they lost it straight away and then the Yanks hung onto it for the next 100 years or so. Then the Aussies beat the field to take the cup, the USAians won it back, and eventually Team New Zealand won the cup, and successfully defended it. The upcoming race series is again being defended from NZ...
It's down: and no one is saying "ow ow ow ow ow my head hurts" so I guess that it all burnt up or unburnt bits didn't hit anything important. Now to check Ebay to see if I can get some Genuine Melted Satellite Gunk at an exorbitant price...
I think the signs in petrol stations indicating that cellphones should be turned off are the result of the cellphone's heritage. A Cellphone is essentially a radio. Radios have long been restricted in places where there are "explosive environments" unless the radios are "intrinsically safe". Most radios *won't* cause failures that spark an explosion... but rather than risk the remote possibility, they should be off or intrinsically safe radios used - ones that will not cause ignition even in failure conditions. Cellphones aren't designed to be intrinsically safe, low voltage levels or not, so to avoid their stations getting blown up, station owners slap up "no cellphones on" signs.
You aren't allowed to smoke on station forecourts or outside the terminal on the way to your plane either. Sure, the fuel:air ratio might be low enough to make ignition unlikely, but no one wants to take the chance, right?
very similar.
Aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons
...and not only is it going to get harder for US citizens who lose their license, but it will become harder for non-US citizens who are visiting.
Like when I went into a bank in south Texas, to get a cash advance off my temporary/replacement VISA (due to having been pick-pocketed in Pisa, Italy a couple od days beforehand). I explained to the cashier that I couldn't use the ATM because it was a temp card, and I needed a cash advance. She asked to see my drivers license. I explained I wasn't a US citizen, and so I didn't have a US license, and my NZ license went with the lost VISA. But here is my Passport, I said. I'm sorry, the teller said, I need a driver's license. A careful re-explanation including a reminder that a passport was a legal identification document that was good enough for US Customs, and a query as to what about people who didn't drive resulted in no joy. My US guide, an uncle, lamented about droids behind tills in small town banks who weren't encouraged to think for themselves and so we went to the San Benito Bank to the Bank Of America in Harlingen. Explained my circumstances again, and was asked "Can I see your passport please?" Ah, someone with a future, someone who was helpful! Bigger bank, maybe someone who was encouraged to think for herself.
As I see it, if driver's licenses become the defacto ID, then it'll be harder for people like travellers (without them) to get by, because droids like my first bank teller seem to vastly outnumber thinking-people-with-a-future like my second teller. Most people get given by their boss this party line of "ask for a driver's license as ID" and they then stick to that rigidly without any common-sense flexibility. This can only be exacerbated by having d/l's as *standard* and *official* mechanisms for identification, because then it will become esconced in the minds of millions of droids that a d/l is the one and only means of identification.
*sigh*
REALLY?!? I wonder why... is there anything on the web about it? JT
If they had said that the dual athlon system was 142% as fast as the uniprocessor system, then it would have been disappointing, but 142% faster is more than twice as fast.
I think that perspective is important as well - ie what is the baseline? If you take the 2:00 dual processor time as the baseline then the 4:51 single processor time is 142.5% slower. Which is how the article described it. If you take the 4:51 time as the baseline then you can really only say that the dual processor build took 41.2% of the time, at 2:00. Anything else starts being ambiguous.
Philosophical question: from that perspective (the 4:51 is the baseline) is that really only a 58.8% increase in compile time performance? If 100% of 4:51 is 4:51 then would it indeed be impossible (given that things do not occur instantaneously) to have a 100% faster compile time?
What you are measuring is important too - A car moving constantly at 100km/h over 100km does the trip in 1hr. Another car doing the same thing at 200km/h does the trip in 0.5hr. It travels twice as fast. It is 100% faster. The time elapsed is only 50% that of the first car however. What figure you use depends on what you are using to compare performance. Velocity? Time Elapsed?
We are using time elapsed to measure the performance of 2 PCs. Unfortunately this is a function of the inverse of the aspect we are actually interested in: the performance ie speed of the 2 CPU system compared to the 1 CPU system.
The font is so small and odd looking that I can hardly read it - and Ctrl+] doesn't help me scale it.
White on Black, so I can't print it.
Lucky I can read the source! But man, some people to make it difficult for you to read what they want to tell you....
You are really accusing /. readers of lacking in knowledge? About an issue like *this*? Speak for yourself!
In fact, while *you* might not find RFCs light bed-time reading, there ARE many people here who are fully cognisant of the issues. Which is why it *hasn't* been an issue.
I don't understand some of you people. Are you looking to stir? To cause trouble? Don't be so *quick* to take umbrage at the slightest suggestion that there may be a Bad Thing going on. Don't leap up and say 'where can we lobby?'. The worst thing you can do for any issue is to loudly protest about things you don't fully understand - you can only serve to make a fool of yourself and you may even weaken the case of the cause you are trying to fight for.
Go back to lurking first. See what the learned people have to say first. Do some research. Educate yourself.
*Then* open your mouth.
I think we broke the server... go the slashdot effect!... unfortunately I can't actually get my basketful of goodies on it's merry way to me because the 'check out' and 'buy now' links seem to be very very.... quiet.
if you are not having problems and you have scanned the list of mods and can't see anything that would affect you, then don't upgrade it. Save yourself the effort. You don't need to do it.
If you are having problems of one sort or another, it might help. If a fix relates to something you use, or a security issue, then you should consider updating.
It isn't compulsory to upgrade the kernel everytime.
So, tell me, exactly what got added to bloat the OS?
These releases are necessary mods to keep the high quality reputation of Linux. The frequent patches ensure issues are addressed when there is a problem (c.f. Windows, where you are lucky to get a patch at all, certainly months later than you needed it, and which probably totally screws your system when you install it)
This is a stable release. No big splendiferous features are being added that could *possibly* be called bloat.
Stable does not mean "there are no problems with this" - it means "we aren't going to make any significant changes to this."
regards
I'd also be very interested to see benchmarks comparing operating systems straight out of the box, untuned. Then a race between the Linux gurus and the NT gurus to tune their machines to the point they believe the performance will be optimum. *Then* compare the tweaked systems.
Who said visionaries had to be perfect? Who said they had to be right about everything?
In retrospective, impossibilities aside, the world might be a little better if we had listened to him and HAD left if out of our thinking.
No need to get hissy.
The guy isn't suggesting billg reveal how many times a week he has sex. What he *is* saying is how about citing some personal examples about how xyz was applied (personally, in MS, by some other). He is saying the personal touch is lacking, that it is not an appealing read because it is bland and tepid, unenthralling and without a semblance of life and realism.
Awwwwwww, go on, I'd hand over $NZ50/yr (~$US25) or maybe even more for a slashdot.org email address. And as noted, you only need forward...
Go on, it'll be a nice additional revenue... you *know* you've been wanting that K7 with a 10000rpm SCSI and TNT2 graphics topped by a nice 21" trinitron to play Half-life on...
Gromit