I thought everyone on Slashdot built their own firewalls using Linux and / or OpenBSD. WTF? I guess they'll give an account to just about anyone these days.
So... every time I open my inbox in Facebook, it has to search through 50TB of data? That sounds like a design problem. What has always floored me is why people think everything needs to be stuffed into a database. Terabyte sized binary blobs? You know, there's a certain point where people need to stop and actually think about the implimentation.
Could be worse. They could try to find something on my desk.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't give a rusty fuck what some study says people should or should not go into. I work in the fields I love, and I'd recommend it to everyone else. If you want to do science, do science. If you don't then don't. Who really cares what some frigtarded academic thinks anyway? Final thought - how often is it that we look back on these studies five or ten years later to find out they were somewhere around, oh, dead wrong. if these guys are such friggin' geniuses at predicting the future they should go make $Billions in the stock market.
If all you care about is money than go into politics or join the mob (it's ethically about the same).
I just put together a SuperMicro 5014A-H 1U server (dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor) with two 320GB 2.5" hard drives (in a RAID-1 configuration) and an 8-port Digium card (AEX800) for Asterisk use. Aside from the Digium card (which was inherited from another server), the total cost of parts including tax and delivery was under $500. The system runs Asterisk, Samba, Apache, PostFix, and Dovecot and does so consuming (according to Kill-A-Watt) roughly 40 watts of power. It's also reasonably quiet and compact. The only downside is that the chassis was designed to hold one 3.5" HDD, and the adapter they sell for it makes it impossible to use anything larger than a half-height PCIe card, so mounting the two 2.5" drives required some drilling new mounting holes - no big deal, but something that should have been foreseen by SuperMicro.
If their titles are bogged down with DRM I'm not buying it. Not as a political or philosophical statement; I've just burned my hand on that stove too many times. The music companies have figured it out (or at least have been clubbed into submission). Hopefully the book publishers will come to their senses as well.
The stupid tiered rates also have the unintended side effect of hammering people with home-based businesses. But, since anything that makes money in California (outside of Hollywood or Silicon Valley) is immoral and evil, I guess I should just STFU and pay my (insanely high) bill as my penance for turning a profit.
The flat-line of per capita electricity consumption is proabably^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
absolutely, positively
because all the energy intensive industries have moved out of state and out of country along with the jobs. But if you want to promote California's technological backwardness in regards to energy production go right ahead.
That system you have with SSH facing outwards - right now: PermitRootLogin no, PubkeyAuthentication yes, PasswordAuthentication no, Allowusers one-guy-only
You mean there are other ways to configure a system?!?!?:-)
TFA says the car is running on a 5% mix Algae, with the rest being gasoline. What exactly does this prove, apart from being a marketing stunt?
Easy answer - it's just a marketing stunt. As mentioned above, they don't include the oil / coal / etc. used to produce the electricity that will provide, oh, say, 99.9% of the motive power. And since of the.1% (and that's probably an over-estimate) of energy used to move the car that's in the form of liquid fuel only 5% is algae... the real questions are: 1) so what? and 2) who cares? If this stuff is so great, why can't you use it exclusively to go across the country? Or at least provide 50% of the energy?
Even as marketing stunts go, this just completely sucks ass.
Bingo! You are 100% correct. I base this statement on my own experience in retail, and that of many of my friends.
The real reason that printers don't include USB cables (or Parallel before them), DVD players and consoles and televisions don't include HDMI cables is that if they do the retailers will flat-out refuse to stock them. The reason? People price-shop for the "big-ticket" portion of their purchase, but don't price-compare accessories. The big-ticket portion is usually sold near cost or even at a small loss, while all of the profit is made on the cables, ink, blank disks, mousepads, etc.
In fact, salespeople are often trained to steer customers away from the "big purchase" if they're not going to buy the accessories - because the retailer almost always loses money once the cost of keeping the merchandise in inventory, the overhead of the store, salespeople, etc. are figured in. There's nothing really immoral or unethical about this - they have the right to sell whatever they want to whomever they want, but it's more a way of making a quick buck rather than developing a high-quality, long-term, trust-based relationship with the customer.
These days I actually own a retail store - we sell quality merchandise with no stupid pricing gimmicks. Our customers love us and our conversion and retention rates are phenomenal. The funny thing is that one of your highest costs in retail is actually getting a customer to buy from you the first time. Your second highest cost is a dissatisfied customer who makes people avoid you. That you would do anything but try to give your customer the best treatment is so stupid it makes my head hurt just thinking about it. But hey, if other companies want to run their businesses that way it's just more money for me in the long run.
Shakeycam is used to hide crappy FX. I don't care what BS the director tries to put out there it's really easy to hide crappy EFX if you shake the hell out of the camera.
That's not true. Shaky-cam is also used by hack directors to hide a complete lack of fight choreography.
According to NewsFactor, Pandora founder Tim Westergren proclaims that 'the royalty crisis is over, and we don't have to worry about any small competitors sneaking up and taking our business!'. I may have added that last part, but I'm sure he was thinking it. Like most regulations, it serves mainly to fuck small business and eliminate competition.
Give me a break. Fuck off and DO SOMETHING FOR THE PEOPLE FOR ONCE!!!!!!
Or better yet, don't do something for "the people." Everytime they claim to be doing something for us they actually wind up doing something to us. You'd be better off truncating your request to just "fuck off."
Astronomers say that it may be the weakest supernova ever seen.
What actually happened is that the astronomers were told that a 14-year-old child found a supernova that they'd all missed, and they groaned "Oh, that's weak!"
I agree completely. Once a band becomes known, then giving away their music helps promote their tours and merchandise (where the real money is made, at least for the band).
And some bands get it. I bought tickets to the upcoming No Doubt show here, and they (unexpectedly) e-mailed me a link and code I could use to download their entire catalog as DRM-free 256Kbps MP3s. Nice.
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I thought everyone on Slashdot built their own firewalls using Linux and / or OpenBSD. WTF? I guess they'll give an account to just about anyone these days.
Does this theory suck or is there some pull to it? It just seems so weighty to me.
So... every time I open my inbox in Facebook, it has to search through 50TB of data? That sounds like a design problem. What has always floored me is why people think everything needs to be stuffed into a database. Terabyte sized binary blobs? You know, there's a certain point where people need to stop and actually think about the implimentation.
Could be worse. They could try to find something on my desk.
Whoops - it's a SuperServer 5015A-H (see http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015A-H.cfm?typ=H). Stupid me didn't copy/paste.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't give a rusty fuck what some study says people should or should not go into. I work in the fields I love, and I'd recommend it to everyone else. If you want to do science, do science. If you don't then don't. Who really cares what some frigtarded academic thinks anyway? Final thought - how often is it that we look back on these studies five or ten years later to find out they were somewhere around, oh, dead wrong. if these guys are such friggin' geniuses at predicting the future they should go make $Billions in the stock market.
If all you care about is money than go into politics or join the mob (it's ethically about the same).
I just put together a SuperMicro 5014A-H 1U server (dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor) with two 320GB 2.5" hard drives (in a RAID-1 configuration) and an 8-port Digium card (AEX800) for Asterisk use. Aside from the Digium card (which was inherited from another server), the total cost of parts including tax and delivery was under $500. The system runs Asterisk, Samba, Apache, PostFix, and Dovecot and does so consuming (according to Kill-A-Watt) roughly 40 watts of power. It's also reasonably quiet and compact. The only downside is that the chassis was designed to hold one 3.5" HDD, and the adapter they sell for it makes it impossible to use anything larger than a half-height PCIe card, so mounting the two 2.5" drives required some drilling new mounting holes - no big deal, but something that should have been foreseen by SuperMicro.
If their titles are bogged down with DRM I'm not buying it. Not as a political or philosophical statement; I've just burned my hand on that stove too many times. The music companies have figured it out (or at least have been clubbed into submission). Hopefully the book publishers will come to their senses as well.
The stupid tiered rates also have the unintended side effect of hammering people with home-based businesses. But, since anything that makes money in California (outside of Hollywood or Silicon Valley) is immoral and evil, I guess I should just STFU and pay my (insanely high) bill as my penance for turning a profit.
The flat-line of per capita electricity consumption is proabably^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
absolutely, positively
because all the energy intensive industries have moved out of state and out of country along with the jobs. But if you want to promote California's technological backwardness in regards to energy production go right ahead.
There, fix that for you.
That Boing Boing was able to get us the skinny on this.
That system you have with SSH facing outwards - right now: PermitRootLogin no,
PubkeyAuthentication yes, PasswordAuthentication no, Allowusers one-guy-only
You mean there are other ways to configure a system?!?!? :-)
Scientific ignorance from the organic produce industry? Really? That's just so shocking.
Easy answer - it's just a marketing stunt. As mentioned above, they don't include the oil / coal / etc. used to produce the electricity that will provide, oh, say, 99.9% of the motive power. And since of the .1% (and that's probably an over-estimate) of energy used to move the car that's in the form of liquid fuel only 5% is algae... the real questions are: 1) so what? and 2) who cares? If this stuff is so great, why can't you use it exclusively to go across the country? Or at least provide 50% of the energy?
Even as marketing stunts go, this just completely sucks ass.
Bingo! You are 100% correct. I base this statement on my own experience in retail, and that of many of my friends.
The real reason that printers don't include USB cables (or Parallel before them), DVD players and consoles and televisions don't include HDMI cables is that if they do the retailers will flat-out refuse to stock them. The reason? People price-shop for the "big-ticket" portion of their purchase, but don't price-compare accessories. The big-ticket portion is usually sold near cost or even at a small loss, while all of the profit is made on the cables, ink, blank disks, mousepads, etc.
In fact, salespeople are often trained to steer customers away from the "big purchase" if they're not going to buy the accessories - because the retailer almost always loses money once the cost of keeping the merchandise in inventory, the overhead of the store, salespeople, etc. are figured in. There's nothing really immoral or unethical about this - they have the right to sell whatever they want to whomever they want, but it's more a way of making a quick buck rather than developing a high-quality, long-term, trust-based relationship with the customer.
These days I actually own a retail store - we sell quality merchandise with no stupid pricing gimmicks. Our customers love us and our conversion and retention rates are phenomenal. The funny thing is that one of your highest costs in retail is actually getting a customer to buy from you the first time. Your second highest cost is a dissatisfied customer who makes people avoid you. That you would do anything but try to give your customer the best treatment is so stupid it makes my head hurt just thinking about it. But hey, if other companies want to run their businesses that way it's just more money for me in the long run.
Shakeycam is used to hide crappy FX. I don't care what BS the director tries to put out there it's really easy to hide crappy EFX if you shake the hell out of the camera.
That's not true. Shaky-cam is also used by hack directors to hide a complete lack of fight choreography.
Greenpeace has not only jumped the shark, they're now in geosynchronous orbit above it.
According to NewsFactor, Pandora founder Tim Westergren proclaims that 'the royalty crisis is over, and we don't have to worry about any small competitors sneaking up and taking our business!'. I may have added that last part, but I'm sure he was thinking it. Like most regulations, it serves mainly to fuck small business and eliminate competition.
It's nice to see them running it on Ubuntu 9.04, but if they want to make money they should go after the LTS releases and SLES / RedHat.
Looks cool though.
Or better yet, don't do something for "the people." Everytime they claim to be doing something for us they actually wind up doing something to us. You'd be better off truncating your request to just "fuck off."
What actually happened is that the astronomers were told that a 14-year-old child found a supernova that they'd all missed, and they groaned "Oh, that's weak!"
Yeah, but would he be able to avoid canary traps?
Oh, I think he'll be fine.
Just don't be surprised when all of a sudden "Hail to the Chief" gets replaced with "All your base are belong to us."
I'm investing my life savings in Seattle-based office furniture retailers.
I agree completely. Once a band becomes known, then giving away their music helps promote their tours and merchandise (where the real money is made, at least for the band).
And some bands get it. I bought tickets to the upcoming No Doubt show here, and they (unexpectedly) e-mailed me a link and code I could use to download their entire catalog as DRM-free 256Kbps MP3s. Nice.
I thought the process was more along the lines of:
1: Wait for Microsoft to cut them a check
2: Release DLC for X-Box
3: Profit!
(no ambiguous steps here).