My understanding is that the next release of Oracle & JD Edwards Enterprise One will be certified for VMWare, but I'm taking that understanding with a very large grain of salt...
A major issue with virtualization in the enterprise is certification by various enterprise software vendors. If your entire platform stack (hardware, Virtualization, OS, etc.) (can you believe we actually have platform stacks now? Geez...) isn't certified, you just give them an excuse to not support you. VMWare has made some solid inroads here, but the last time I saw Xen on the list of certified platforms for something I was integrating was, oh, I'd say never. Not to say such apps don't exist, but they certainly aren't anywhere near what one would call ubiquitous. For many companies, paying the ridiculous price of VMWare is worth it for this reason alone.
...as if thousands of terrorists (and the dinner-jacket wearing leader of a certain country, but I repeat myself) are simultaneously slapping themselves on the forehead and saying "Doh!"
I mean, the way I usually go around getting people to give me deeply considered answers is to do a poll. How many of these scientists actually thought the question through? How many actually have enough expertise and experience to make their responses meaningful even if they had thought it through.
Seriously, is this science or fucking American Idol?!?
With any poll, you also have to consider who commissioned the poll, who implemented it, what the agendas are, etc. Because nobody does this shit for free, and there's always an angle.
DNSSec uses hierarchical signature chains (similar to SSL). So, um, they're going to sign our keys out of the goodness of their hearts, right? Oh, they're not? So the real reason that these registrars are running around with giant erections over DNSSec is because it's a whole new revenue stream for them? Makes sense now.
Not that I'm against anyone making a buck, but if there's a decent way to accomplish the same goal without having another set of keys to sign (and having to update ZSKs every freaking month) then I'd be happy to give it a fair shake. It's not like most admins have all sorts of free time to deal with additional overhead.
Another point in favor of DJB - Yes, he's abrasive, but when was the last time tinydns needed to be updated because of a security vulnerability? Now compare with BIND and Windows Server. We can argue his quirks all day long, but dude does have hands down the best record (pun semi-intended) when it comes to DNS security.
Funny. I put that quote in the story submission, but it was edited out (I also mentioned that he was Obama's AG pick in the headline).
I suppose we mustn't offend out new Hope n' Change overlords or something like that.
I've answered this before, but I'll do it again - I regularly have lunch with a tools programmer at Sony, and to dispel any rumours, Sony aren't against providing an opengl implementation to linux. I can't say too much, but there is work going on on this, but with no urgency and there are technical hurdles. Firstly, the PS3 doesn't come with opengl - the 3D api is called RSX. They won't be releasing this technology, and it wouldn't allow immediate compilation of 3D linux games anyway. An opengl implementation has to be implemented from the ground up, and in a way that protects the bios and copy protection layer from hacking. It might sell one or two more ps3s, but it won't sell any ps3 games, which is where sony make their profit.
In other words, someone is doing it, more as a hobby project, but I wouldn't hold your breath. Your friend might want to consider setting up a bounty for his work. I'd kick in $50. I'm sure at least 2 or 3 other people might, too;-)
Those habitats survived thousands of years of flooding before we created the dam, what makes him think a single flood would destroy it? And, why does he say both that the flood will destroy the habitat and that without the flood the habitat will be destroyed? Superintendent, yes. Elegant speaker/thinker and specialist, I think not.
Of course, there are probably 1800 or so different theories as to what will happen which just goes to show that the pursuit of science and truth is alive and well (also that at the end of the day we still know fuck-all about much of the natural world).
Form the tests that the developers have been running, most of the memory leaks in Firefox itself seem to be fixed (there are probably still some left). However, memory usage still remains a problem. ...
Unfortunately, I think the damage to Firefox's reputation is already done. There are many people who have had negative experiences with Firefox who keep on harping about the "memory leaks" and I don't see how Mozilla devs can change this public perception.
A large part of their problem is the vehement denials issued by the Firefox team regarding the memory leaks over the years. We all knew they were completely full of shit. I verified this myself - I tried uninstalling, deleting my profile and any left-over program files, reinstalling, and loading one of my favorite pages - Nagios Service Detail view. This is a reasonably long page with very few graphics that auto-refreshes itself every few minutes. After 24 hours, I'd have Firefox using about 1GB of RAM.
One of the theoretical benefits of representative democracies is that our legislatures have to deal with immensely complex issues with long-term ramifications. Additionally, the emotional tenor of politics has become increasingly strident, fueled by war and (at least in my opinion) 24-hour cable news channels desperate for content and viewers pushing increasingly tabloid-style "infotainment". A few of us try to stay rational about things, but let's be honest - if we had direct democracy far too many people would be voting their day-to-day whims rather than prioritizing our needs and taking the long view. We'd be voting to spend 10% of the national budget to save cute puppies or on whatever cause is being promoted by the latest hit documentary (foot warmers for penguins or something). That being said, we're actually spending our money on whatever projects are most successfully lobbied... but this actually scares me less than direct democracy.
My solution for whoever cares: 1) Two-term limits for congress - limited the seniority system and the amount of time over which favors can be accumulated and dispensed, 2) pay them eight figures (say, $20,000,000 per year) - just over ten billion per year in congressional salaries should eliminate enough low-level graft to pay for itself ten times over.
Well-deserved? I hardly think he's the first person to point out that Pollution is Bad. What he has done is latched onto a populist cause that's not supported by any scientific (scientific = testable theories that provide repeatable results in the real world) evidence. This actually causing peace is beyond ridiculous. It might, hypothetically, many decades from now, provide some sort of benefit. I seriously doubt it and you may seriously agree with it, but it doesn't matter because right here and now it exists only in our imaginations.
What is real is that we're spending serious money already on "preventing climate change", and wreaking havoc in poorer countries in the process. If they use freon to provide cheap refrigeration to improve their food and medicine supplies, we take away their foreign aid. We have them grow crops for biofuels (even though they create more greenhouse gases than gasoline or diesel when burned), which has greatly increased the prices of staple foods (rice, corn, etc) - often by 200% - 300%. Massively poor countries have measurably higher crime and war rates. This is real human suffering, right here, right now, and the people contributing to it - like Al Gore - are given a free pass because their hearts are in the right place.
This is hardly the first time the anti-science environmental crowd has caused disaster in the third world. When the EPA declared that DDT was t3h evil (ignoring scientific evidence to the contrary - the political crony heading up the EPA just got all weepy over "Silent Spring") and used the clout of the US and the UN to prevent its use for fighting malaria in the third world, it directly contributed to the deaths of tens of millions of poor people (and children are affected in disproportionately higher numbers). These are real, provable, countable deaths caused for absolutely no reason other than the feel-good politics of a few rich people (compared to the third world, even American crack whores are "rich") in a wealthy nation who needed to feel good about themselves. The cold, hard, provable reality is that the anti-science environmental movement kills people on a level comparable with Stalin and Hitler. That's not some flippant and casual attempt to invoke Godwin's Law - it's the brutal, very literal truth. The evidence is all over Africa.
And please let go of that stupid "lost by a vote of 4 to 5" - Gore lost every physical recount (we can still agree that Bush is an asshat). His stupid scheme to recount only the counties where he hypothesized he would gain the most votes clearly violated the equal protection clause. If he had half a brain and some competent legal advice he might have hypothetically won if the votes were in his favor (they weren't). Gore is just another stupid, greedy politician in a long line of many. He gets a lot of undeserved sympathy because he lost to another (also stupid and greedy) politician who happened to become very unpopular during his term. Get over it.
"If the scientific method is trashed, no amount of resources or loud declarations of intent to develop science can compensate. In those circumstances, scientific research becomes, at best, a kind of cataloging or 'butterfly-collecting' activity. It cannot be a creative process of genuine inquiry in which bold hypotheses are made and checked."
For a minute there I though he was talking about Global Warming.
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unless it comes wrapped in a mountain of DRM. Let's face it - the entire recording industry's existence is based on its ability to gouge artists on one ends and consumers on the other. They could get away with this because they controlled who had access to their expensive studios and who could get heard on the radio (Payola lives to this day), what was carried in stores, and more importantly what was promoted in stores. The value of each and every one of these points of control is diminishing by the minute. The labels are all fucked, they know it and they're grasping at whatever straws they can and dragging their feet wherever possible. It's all just delaying the inevitable - people will buy reasonably priced music (look at the success of iTunes), but they won't get fucked if they no longer have to. Siooma, motherfuckers.
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My understanding is that the next release of Oracle & JD Edwards Enterprise One will be certified for VMWare, but I'm taking that understanding with a very large grain of salt...
A major issue with virtualization in the enterprise is certification by various enterprise software vendors. If your entire platform stack (hardware, Virtualization, OS, etc.) (can you believe we actually have platform stacks now? Geez...) isn't certified, you just give them an excuse to not support you. VMWare has made some solid inroads here, but the last time I saw Xen on the list of certified platforms for something I was integrating was, oh, I'd say never. Not to say such apps don't exist, but they certainly aren't anywhere near what one would call ubiquitous. For many companies, paying the ridiculous price of VMWare is worth it for this reason alone.
Sadly, most people's philosophies and whatnot could be encoded and fit into a thimble using 1800's technology.
It was explicitly stated in the armistice agreement that Hussien signed that when he got rid of his WMDs he had to save the receipt. So to speak.
...as if thousands of terrorists (and the dinner-jacket wearing leader of a certain country, but I repeat myself) are simultaneously slapping themselves on the forehead and saying "Doh!"
So does it put little text ads into your TCP connections?
I mean, the way I usually go around getting people to give me deeply considered answers is to do a poll. How many of these scientists actually thought the question through? How many actually have enough expertise and experience to make their responses meaningful even if they had thought it through.
Seriously, is this science or fucking American Idol?!?
With any poll, you also have to consider who commissioned the poll, who implemented it, what the agendas are, etc. Because nobody does this shit for free, and there's always an angle.
DNSSec uses hierarchical signature chains (similar to SSL). So, um, they're going to sign our keys out of the goodness of their hearts, right? Oh, they're not? So the real reason that these registrars are running around with giant erections over DNSSec is because it's a whole new revenue stream for them? Makes sense now.
Not that I'm against anyone making a buck, but if there's a decent way to accomplish the same goal without having another set of keys to sign (and having to update ZSKs every freaking month) then I'd be happy to give it a fair shake. It's not like most admins have all sorts of free time to deal with additional overhead.
Another point in favor of DJB - Yes, he's abrasive, but when was the last time tinydns needed to be updated because of a security vulnerability? Now compare with BIND and Windows Server. We can argue his quirks all day long, but dude does have hands down the best record (pun semi-intended) when it comes to DNS security.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss!
Funny. I put that quote in the story submission, but it was edited out (I also mentioned that he was Obama's AG pick in the headline). I suppose we mustn't offend out new Hope n' Change overlords or something like that.
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I checked mine (and my wife's) at about 1AM on Jan 1... they both rolled over just fine. Sounds like our SEP field is working just fine.
"Sooooo... if the reactor weighs the same as a duck... then it's made of wood."
"And therefore...."
"a witch!!!!!"
(with apologies to Monty Python)
Too bad we can't apply the Stupid Filter to the patent system.
Is that an upgrade to RS232?
/me runs, ducks, and hides...
High-school chemestry, on a geek-pr0n scale:
20,000 lbs of metallic Sodium being dropped in a lake.
Oh yeah baby, you roll those barrels in there!
I'm debugging a connection right now, and it appears that Comcast is blocking inbound IPSec packets (and NAT-T over UDP)...
Or am I just a greedy bastard?
One of the theoretical benefits of representative democracies is that our legislatures have to deal with immensely complex issues with long-term ramifications. Additionally, the emotional tenor of politics has become increasingly strident, fueled by war and (at least in my opinion) 24-hour cable news channels desperate for content and viewers pushing increasingly tabloid-style "infotainment". A few of us try to stay rational about things, but let's be honest - if we had direct democracy far too many people would be voting their day-to-day whims rather than prioritizing our needs and taking the long view. We'd be voting to spend 10% of the national budget to save cute puppies or on whatever cause is being promoted by the latest hit documentary (foot warmers for penguins or something). That being said, we're actually spending our money on whatever projects are most successfully lobbied... but this actually scares me less than direct democracy.
My solution for whoever cares: 1) Two-term limits for congress - limited the seniority system and the amount of time over which favors can be accumulated and dispensed, 2) pay them eight figures (say, $20,000,000 per year) - just over ten billion per year in congressional salaries should eliminate enough low-level graft to pay for itself ten times over.
Well-deserved? I hardly think he's the first person to point out that Pollution is Bad. What he has done is latched onto a populist cause that's not supported by any scientific (scientific = testable theories that provide repeatable results in the real world) evidence. This actually causing peace is beyond ridiculous. It might, hypothetically, many decades from now, provide some sort of benefit. I seriously doubt it and you may seriously agree with it, but it doesn't matter because right here and now it exists only in our imaginations.
What is real is that we're spending serious money already on "preventing climate change", and wreaking havoc in poorer countries in the process. If they use freon to provide cheap refrigeration to improve their food and medicine supplies, we take away their foreign aid. We have them grow crops for biofuels (even though they create more greenhouse gases than gasoline or diesel when burned), which has greatly increased the prices of staple foods (rice, corn, etc) - often by 200% - 300%. Massively poor countries have measurably higher crime and war rates. This is real human suffering, right here, right now, and the people contributing to it - like Al Gore - are given a free pass because their hearts are in the right place.
This is hardly the first time the anti-science environmental crowd has caused disaster in the third world. When the EPA declared that DDT was t3h evil (ignoring scientific evidence to the contrary - the political crony heading up the EPA just got all weepy over "Silent Spring") and used the clout of the US and the UN to prevent its use for fighting malaria in the third world, it directly contributed to the deaths of tens of millions of poor people (and children are affected in disproportionately higher numbers). These are real, provable, countable deaths caused for absolutely no reason other than the feel-good politics of a few rich people (compared to the third world, even American crack whores are "rich") in a wealthy nation who needed to feel good about themselves. The cold, hard, provable reality is that the anti-science environmental movement kills people on a level comparable with Stalin and Hitler. That's not some flippant and casual attempt to invoke Godwin's Law - it's the brutal, very literal truth. The evidence is all over Africa.
And please let go of that stupid "lost by a vote of 4 to 5" - Gore lost every physical recount (we can still agree that Bush is an asshat). His stupid scheme to recount only the counties where he hypothesized he would gain the most votes clearly violated the equal protection clause. If he had half a brain and some competent legal advice he might have hypothetically won if the votes were in his favor (they weren't). Gore is just another stupid, greedy politician in a long line of many. He gets a lot of undeserved sympathy because he lost to another (also stupid and greedy) politician who happened to become very unpopular during his term. Get over it.
unless it comes wrapped in a mountain of DRM. Let's face it - the entire recording industry's existence is based on its ability to gouge artists on one ends and consumers on the other. They could get away with this because they controlled who had access to their expensive studios and who could get heard on the radio (Payola lives to this day), what was carried in stores, and more importantly what was promoted in stores. The value of each and every one of these points of control is diminishing by the minute. The labels are all fucked, they know it and they're grasping at whatever straws they can and dragging their feet wherever possible. It's all just delaying the inevitable - people will buy reasonably priced music (look at the success of iTunes), but they won't get fucked if they no longer have to. Siooma, motherfuckers.