Seriously, wait 18 months and the price of this rig drops
Never, ever, plan to buy computers at some point in the future with any firm criteria other than "budget allows a new computer in X time frame". You will play the wait-and-the-price-will-come-down game for the rest of your life and never have a new computer because in 18 months there's going to be something better on the market that you want to wait 18 months for to get at a lower price. Buy what best fits your needs today and all you can do is hope the next great thing that comes out next week doesn't render it instantly worthlessly obsolete. So far, nothing has ever done that to the prior generation so it isn't a real concern.
one of the busiest websites on earth was having problems with the current generation
You can either get the right tool for the job or you can use your production website as a stress test for your own product that isn't quite up to snuff and not whine about it. Look, the "busiest site on Earth" should be hosted on a farm of serious big iron and not x86i32. It shouldn't even be on x86i64. Just like I wouldn't run Walmart's data warehouse with SQL Server but I do use it for my company's because it fits the size.
Well, are we supposed to have much sympathy for him? He is a thief after all. And he doesn't help his own case by being such a whiner:
"Baldino wrote in a statement for police. "Please let me go for I am terribly sorry!!! I'm only a kid! Help me out. I just want to go home. I am extremely sad now, and I just want to go to bed," he wrote. "Please let me sleep in my own bed tonight."
Waaaa. Sounds like a spoiled kid who was never told "no" by Mom and Dad.
From my experience, having lived in 9 other states from one end of the country to the other, that's pretty much the way it works everywhere.
Well, you're very special to have lived in 10 states and therefore safely deduce ten are like fifty and call people names.
But maybe all fifty aren't like ten.: Because the retailer is reimbursed by the manufacturer for the amount of the reduction, sales tax applies to the full selling price before the deduction for the manufacturer's coupon.
do they cunningly assume you'll file the rebate and refrain from paying that portion of the tax
Impressively cynical, although devoid of understanding of the use tax. Read the fine print on any coupon; "purchaser is responsible for all taxes". If groceries are taxed in your area, check the next time you buy a box of pop tarts with a coupon from the sunday paper. You pay tax on the original amount, not the coupon discounted amount, and yes the store has to pass it on. Same goes for rebates even if it's you who has to send in the coupon to the manufacturer and not the store Think of rebates as just coupons that the consumer, instead of the vendor, remits to the manufacturer.
If the "spiritual" side becomes nothing more than an outside force to which you're ceding control, it's never been clear to me how that'd be any different than shrugging and saying it was in your genes.
It's simple enough. Blaming the genes does ABSOLUTELY zero to encourage the drunks/fatties/whatever to improve their habits and actually reinforces the behavior. Externalizing it to a parental substitute, god in the case of AA, is at least a disapproving force that attempts to get them to improve. If they can't do it on their own and need someone to be Dad and tell them to be good then that's what it takes.
So who's to say that the aliens haven't found a magic kind of purely software technology, far beyond our own, to take over our own computer systems?
lol; My PC can barely run the demo version of Age of Empires 3 and you want it to run ultra advanced magic software technology? I'd think from the nonresponsiveness it was locked up and just power it off.
but are lacking something as simple as faster-than-light travel
I love your can-do attitude. When can we expect your FTL drive to hit the market?
vowed to leave the United States in response to government policies and mainstream cultural malaise
Given that the current Executive and Legislative branches at the Federal level are (nominally) conservative and mainstream cultural malaise is driven by Hollywood liberalism, who is offended by BOTH of these categories???
They can't maintain a Linux server on a home LAN because they don't have enough money to own more than one computer at a time
This is 100% BS. Someone in this predicament of needing a computer on which to learn shouldn't have much problem. Go to the local user's group meeting. Explain his predicament. Someone will give him an old Pentium 1 that is perfectly capable of running Linux enough to learn the basics. And he can get a spare hub and network cables from someone too as long as he's polite and appreciative. This might require more than one attendance at said user's group meetings to build up some raport with the current members but will eventually pan out. Or they can sit at home and feel sorry for themselves that they've only got one PC at a time. A lot of learning obstacles really boil down to initiative (or lack thereof) on the part of the would-be student.
You should have been taught that two 1Ghz CPUs may or may not be slower than one 2Ghz CPU depending on what the server does for a living. The OS consideration is miniscule; cross CPU communication is almost as fast as the internals of the CPUs until you get up to NUMA type machines. Even then, no, a blanket statement such as the one you say you've been taught is incorrect for at least as many cases as it is correct.
PS - From this article about HT issues versus the article a couple of weeks back about the new Xeon dual cores and their memory architecture, I think rather just stick with single core HT models.
Anybody who understands HT has been saying this since chips supported it
People also have to trouble themselves to configure things properly which isn't the obvious or the default. HT pretends to Windows that its another processor but as you know it isn't. So you have to set SQL Server's '# of processors for parallel processing' setting to the number of real processors, not virtual. We changed ours to this spec and performance went up markedly. SQL Server defaults to what Win tells it the number of procs are and tries to run a full CPU's worth of load on the HT. Not gonna happen.
My original Walkman, about 1.5 inches thick by an inch wider and taller than a cassette tape had an AM tuner. It had no external antenna. So it can't be all that hard given the size of some of these devices.
Plenty of models have FM radio but what's so hard about AM? I want to listen to talk radio and have MP3 as a backup for when hosts I don't like come on. And I'm sure there are plenty of people who want to listen to sports broadcasts.
No, no, what's *REALLY* pointless is what's shown in the link given. Amazon says that if I'm interested in buying the complete everything collection, I may also be interested in buying second and even third duplicates in smaller boxed sets.
You've obviously mistaken China for a poor country
Not quite but it's the next best (?) thing. China is a country full of poor people. These space missions are rah-rah points for the leadership to show how great the country is on the world scene so the sustinence farmers making do on $800/year will feel as if their sacrifices are not in vain.
In an ideal world, Habeas Corpus and speedy trial rules should require that charges be brought and the trial begin in a timely manner
Here I was thinking that in an ideal world trials wouldn't be needed in the first place. Too bad here in the real world it works a little differently. Kinda like what you learn in college versus how things are actually done at your workplace.
And just where in the 1st Amendment does it say that money is equivalent to speech
It's very simple: I want to get my message (speech) out via mass media. To do that, mass media wants to charge me $X. Campaign finance law says I may not spend more than $X/2. Campaign fiance law has just limited my speech. It's a large scale equivalent of coming up to me on at a town hall meeting and telling me I have to speak more quietly when it's my turn to talk so not everyone in the room can hear me.
That's clever to accuse me of ommission and claim "I guess unions would be Democrat" with a snide bit at Republicans when clicking the profiles of said union 527s shows they pay for ads promoting Democrat candidates and they give money almost exclusively to Democrat candidates. Hmm, 99% of the State/County/Muni Workers Union's spending went towards Democrat candidates. There is no "I guess" about it. Unions are Socialist in nature so of course they fall in well with the Democrats who have as many Socialists as the Republicans do free marketers. Same goes for the League of Environmental Voters. They spent all their money running negative ads against Republican cadidates and for Democrat candidates. Also no need for "I guess" and a snide comment.
527s that appear suddenly with massive amounts of cash
Checking the 2004 expenditures, the Swift Boat Vets with their $17M is "massive" compared to America Coming Together's $79M. Sorry, $17M isn't much in the scheme of big politics.
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Seriously, wait 18 months and the price of this rig drops
Never, ever, plan to buy computers at some point in the future with any firm criteria other than "budget allows a new computer in X time frame". You will play the wait-and-the-price-will-come-down game for the rest of your life and never have a new computer because in 18 months there's going to be something better on the market that you want to wait 18 months for to get at a lower price. Buy what best fits your needs today and all you can do is hope the next great thing that comes out next week doesn't render it instantly worthlessly obsolete. So far, nothing has ever done that to the prior generation so it isn't a real concern.
Why can't Kansas just secede from the union?
They might be a little crazy but they're not completely stupid. Look what happened the last time a state tried to secede.
one of the busiest websites on earth was having problems with the current generation
You can either get the right tool for the job or you can use your production website as a stress test for your own product that isn't quite up to snuff and not whine about it. Look, the "busiest site on Earth" should be hosted on a farm of serious big iron and not x86i32. It shouldn't even be on x86i64. Just like I wouldn't run Walmart's data warehouse with SQL Server but I do use it for my company's because it fits the size.
Ouch, ... that's gonna leave a mark
Well, are we supposed to have much sympathy for him? He is a thief after all. And he doesn't help his own case by being such a whiner:
"Baldino wrote in a statement for police. "Please let me go for I am terribly sorry!!! I'm only a kid! Help me out. I just want to go home. I am extremely sad now, and I just want to go to bed," he wrote. "Please let me sleep in my own bed tonight."
Waaaa. Sounds like a spoiled kid who was never told "no" by Mom and Dad.
Pot, meet kettle.
Special person, meet me.
From my experience, having lived in 9 other states from one end of the country to the other, that's pretty much the way it works everywhere.
Well, you're very special to have lived in 10 states and therefore safely deduce ten are like fifty and call people names.
But maybe all fifty aren't like ten.:
Because the retailer is reimbursed by the manufacturer for the amount of the reduction, sales tax applies to the full selling price before the deduction for the manufacturer's coupon.
do they cunningly assume you'll file the rebate and refrain from paying that portion of the tax
Impressively cynical, although devoid of understanding of the use tax. Read the fine print on any coupon; "purchaser is responsible for all taxes". If groceries are taxed in your area, check the next time you buy a box of pop tarts with a coupon from the sunday paper. You pay tax on the original amount, not the coupon discounted amount, and yes the store has to pass it on. Same goes for rebates even if it's you who has to send in the coupon to the manufacturer and not the store Think of rebates as just coupons that the consumer, instead of the vendor, remits to the manufacturer.
They do have such a sound. Wayne Newton or Celine Dion
I wouldn't go that far, but instead of an annoying noise maker can't this guy just play opera at the teens to make them run off?
If the "spiritual" side becomes nothing more than an outside force to which you're ceding control, it's never been clear to me how that'd be any different than shrugging and saying it was in your genes.
It's simple enough. Blaming the genes does ABSOLUTELY zero to encourage the drunks/fatties/whatever to improve their habits and actually reinforces the behavior. Externalizing it to a parental substitute, god in the case of AA, is at least a disapproving force that attempts to get them to improve. If they can't do it on their own and need someone to be Dad and tell them to be good then that's what it takes.
So who's to say that the aliens haven't found a magic kind of purely software technology, far beyond our own, to take over our own computer systems?
lol; My PC can barely run the demo version of Age of Empires 3 and you want it to run ultra advanced magic software technology? I'd think from the nonresponsiveness it was locked up and just power it off.
but are lacking something as simple as faster-than-light travel
I love your can-do attitude. When can we expect your FTL drive to hit the market?
vowed to leave the United States in response to government policies and mainstream cultural malaise
Given that the current Executive and Legislative branches at the Federal level are (nominally) conservative and mainstream cultural malaise is driven by Hollywood liberalism, who is offended by BOTH of these categories???
can someone expound a little on what "stateless Linux" is?
It's a rogue Linux out in international waters.
They can't maintain a Linux server on a home LAN because they don't have enough money to own more than one computer at a time
This is 100% BS. Someone in this predicament of needing a computer on which to learn shouldn't have much problem. Go to the local user's group meeting. Explain his predicament. Someone will give him an old Pentium 1 that is perfectly capable of running Linux enough to learn the basics. And he can get a spare hub and network cables from someone too as long as he's polite and appreciative. This might require more than one attendance at said user's group meetings to build up some raport with the current members but will eventually pan out. Or they can sit at home and feel sorry for themselves that they've only got one PC at a time. A lot of learning obstacles really boil down to initiative (or lack thereof) on the part of the would-be student.
You watched TV for 48 hours?
This is slashdot after all, must have been a Dr Who marathon.
You should have been taught that two 1Ghz CPUs may or may not be slower than one 2Ghz CPU depending on what the server does for a living. The OS consideration is miniscule; cross CPU communication is almost as fast as the internals of the CPUs until you get up to NUMA type machines. Even then, no, a blanket statement such as the one you say you've been taught is incorrect for at least as many cases as it is correct.
PS - From this article about HT issues versus the article a couple of weeks back about the new Xeon dual cores and their memory architecture, I think rather just stick with single core HT models.
Anybody who understands HT has been saying this since chips supported it
People also have to trouble themselves to configure things properly which isn't the obvious or the default. HT pretends to Windows that its another processor but as you know it isn't. So you have to set SQL Server's '# of processors for parallel processing' setting to the number of real processors, not virtual. We changed ours to this spec and performance went up markedly. SQL Server defaults to what Win tells it the number of procs are and tries to run a full CPU's worth of load on the HT. Not gonna happen.
Try to translate "That's so bad!" from English to Dutch and back again in Babelfish
That's nothing; try 'Slap me a side of beef with a walk through the garden'.
My original Walkman, about 1.5 inches thick by an inch wider and taller than a cassette tape had an AM tuner. It had no external antenna. So it can't be all that hard given the size of some of these devices.
Plenty of models have FM radio but what's so hard about AM? I want to listen to talk radio and have MP3 as a backup for when hosts I don't like come on. And I'm sure there are plenty of people who want to listen to sports broadcasts.
I really don't see the point of this.
No, no, what's *REALLY* pointless is what's shown in the link given. Amazon says that if I'm interested in buying the complete everything collection, I may also be interested in buying second and even third duplicates in smaller boxed sets.
But what exactly did he explain about it, ah?
Did he explain it at all? From tfa:
The interview was conducted mainly with the senior Song since Yoo-geun is lacking in his ability to communicate with adults.
This entire situation smacks of a publicity stunt and/or parents that are waaaaay over projecting on their child.
You've obviously mistaken China for a poor country
Not quite but it's the next best (?) thing. China is a country full of poor people. These space missions are rah-rah points for the leadership to show how great the country is on the world scene so the sustinence farmers making do on $800/year will feel as if their sacrifices are not in vain.
In an ideal world, Habeas Corpus and speedy trial rules should require that charges be brought and the trial begin in a timely manner
Here I was thinking that in an ideal world trials wouldn't be needed in the first place. Too bad here in the real world it works a little differently. Kinda like what you learn in college versus how things are actually done at your workplace.
And just where in the 1st Amendment does it say that money is equivalent to speech
It's very simple: I want to get my message (speech) out via mass media. To do that, mass media wants to charge me $X. Campaign finance law says I may not spend more than $X/2. Campaign fiance law has just limited my speech. It's a large scale equivalent of coming up to me on at a town hall meeting and telling me I have to speak more quietly when it's my turn to talk so not everyone in the room can hear me.
That's clever to accuse me of ommission and claim "I guess unions would be Democrat" with a snide bit at Republicans when clicking the profiles of said union 527s shows they pay for ads promoting Democrat candidates and they give money almost exclusively to Democrat candidates. Hmm, 99% of the State/County/Muni Workers Union's spending went towards Democrat candidates. There is no "I guess" about it. Unions are Socialist in nature so of course they fall in well with the Democrats who have as many Socialists as the Republicans do free marketers. Same goes for the League of Environmental Voters. They spent all their money running negative ads against Republican cadidates and for Democrat candidates. Also no need for "I guess" and a snide comment.
527s that appear suddenly with massive amounts of cash
Checking the 2004 expenditures, the Swift Boat Vets with their $17M is "massive" compared to America Coming Together's $79M. Sorry, $17M isn't much in the scheme of big politics.