For a long time, Finnish domain names had to be of the form thecompletenameofthebusiness.fi. This of course led to some incredibly long and stupid names. For example, a magazine called Bisnes.FI got the domain bisnesfi.fi.
Heh, I was also thinking about Kinderkapitalismus, an economic system where people act like spoiled brats. Sometimes I think we already have that system, with Gates being a prime example. (Primarily because of his idea that "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be the development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.")
Einstein's theory of General Relativity predicts gravitational waves from certain kinds of astrophysical events. If these events take place but there are no g-waves, the theory is wrong.
In this sense, choosing MS as the virtualisation provider for the MS operating system is a win-win.
Of course MS-MS is a win-win, becauce 'win' is often associated with Windows. However, that in turn brings to mind 'loss' (of productivity, security, performance, etc.), so 'win-win' is not necessarily a good thing. I prefer saying 'lin-lin' when describing a mutually beneficial outcome.
thats just about every file MS Applications and OS creates no ?
unless files are saved in plain ini/text/xml/humanreadable format isnt everything else a form of binary ?
Even plain ini/text/xml etc. is eventually stored as ones and zeros. And I think I saw a 2...
Actually throughput is always 1024. It uses bits instead of bytes to cut corners.
Its storage which uses 1000 to boost their numbers.
I'm afraid the grandparent AC is correct. Channel capacity (aka throughput) is a physical quantity, and used in lots of applications besides computing.
Incidentally, since the field of error-correction codes is based on communication channels, you could argue that the usage in hard drives is derived from that of communication.
What exactly stops you from buying whatever laptop you want and installing Linux yourself? Given that you want a powerful laptop, wouldn't that be more consistent with your wishes than buying an Eee?
It's important to signal that there is a market for Linux machines, when you think about device drivers for example. First of all, when you buy a Linux machine, you know that the devices will work with Linux, even if you install another distro. More importantly, this sends a message to the hardware makers that mostly write Windows-only drivers.
In Finland, Sweden and possibly other Nordic countries there is Wippies.
The Wippies network is open to members only, much like the "Linus" scheme of Fon. With that authentication you can track the user who uses the network for something illegal. IMHO this pretty much moots the point of open, shared networks. Everyone should just open up their APs. It's silly that people in nearby apartments need to get separately connected via ADSL/cable or something, just because someone might upload some naughty bits.
Protein Folding should take precedence over pointless searches for noise-in-patterns.
So what are you doing here, wasting your important CPU cycles?
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One of my employers used a naming scheme for documents, so that the filename could tell about the intent, creation date, etc. of the text. Everything was saved as RTF to improve future compatibility.
Oddly, my proposal to name product manuals with.RTFM never took off.
I could use a 25 GB recordable format. It's not just a slight incremental upgrade from 4.7 GB DVDs.
The new formats are a reason why I decided against upgrading my 4-year old PATA DVD burner -- there's little point in buying a slightly faster drive for the same old format. I'm waiting for Blu-ray burners to become a little more affordable and ubiquitous.
I second this. My current server and media player has a 1 Ghz C3-2 Nehemiah, and it's fine for playing movies, though not much more than DVD quality. Which is why I'm currently in the process of upgrading to a 2 GHz C7. I know it probably won't be enough for the most demanding HD material, but I also like to keep things quiet. The only fans involved in my home theatre are the people. The machine is also my 24/7 server, and I like to save money and energy.
Upgrade the graphics to run X "speedily" it's got the horsepower, the onboard video chipset is really only good for console use.
As long as the onboard video does hardware scaling (Xv/xvidix) it's fine for me. Of course it's nice to have something like MPEG2/4 acceleration, but you can't just have every latest codec in your hardware.
MS uses \ (the backslash) for path separators, unix-a-likes use forward slash/. Everyone else uses/, so of course MS has to try and be different.
MS uses drive letters (C:, D:, etc) for partition labels, wherease unix-likes just use regular labels, like / or/swap.
Nope! MS uses drive letters to denote partitions. These are called e.g./dev/sda1 in unix. The unix way of looking at a whole filesystem tree with human-readable directory names is arguably more user-friendly than looking at raw partitions.
In both cases, you have to mount a partition in order to access it. Hiding the idea of mounting is another stupid move from MS -- the assumption that you always mount something that's plugged in. The problem comes up with removable drives, which need to be unmounted before ejecting. There are various workarounds now, but it was worse with floppy drives. Basically Windows would try to write a disk as soon as possible, disabling all multitasking, so that you could see when it was done.
A third, related stupidity is blurring the lines between formatting a partition and creating a filesystem. Yet a case where someome may want to do just one of them, but MS assumes you want to do both at once.
"I use pine - not because its necessarily the greatest email reader
ever, but because Im used to it, and it does what I need it to do with
a minimum of fuzz." -- Linus Torvalds
I use it for exactly the same reasons. Actually, when I went to university in 1998, Pine was the recommended mail client. I was a relative n00b to the Internet, though computer savvy, and I liked the text based interface. This was on Windows 3.1 with 32-bit extensions, on a 486 with 8 MB RAM, also my first web server;)
Anyone who has programmed with a language designed for concurrency, like Erlang, Termite, or a few Haskell dialects hates using threads. Threads are something that two kinds of people should use; operating system designers and compiler writers. Everyone else should be using a higher-level abstraction.
I agree completely. My experience is with Fortran 90, which with good compilers can distribute matrix/vector math over multiple CPUs. For example vector addition is a trivial example of such SIMD code, where the component additions are independent of each other. I would call it data parallelity rather than multithreading anyway.
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For a long time, Finnish domain names had to be of the form thecompletenameofthebusiness.fi. This of course led to some incredibly long and stupid names. For example, a magazine called Bisnes.FI got the domain bisnesfi.fi.
Heh, I was also thinking about Kinderkapitalismus, an economic system where people act like spoiled brats. Sometimes I think we already have that system, with Gates being a prime example. (Primarily because of his idea that "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be the development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.")
I tried to look harder, so I got myself a tattoo.
Einstein's theory of General Relativity predicts gravitational waves from certain kinds of astrophysical events. If these events take place but there are no g-waves, the theory is wrong.
Of course MS-MS is a win-win, becauce 'win' is often associated with Windows. However, that in turn brings to mind 'loss' (of productivity, security, performance, etc.), so 'win-win' is not necessarily a good thing. I prefer saying 'lin-lin' when describing a mutually beneficial outcome.
A "native" disk-oriented protocol is necessary for SMART, and probably for things like fancy hdparm settings as well.
Even plain ini/text/xml etc. is eventually stored as ones and zeros. And I think I saw a 2...
That's it! I've had it with these motherfucking eels on this motherfucking hovercraft!
Its storage which uses 1000 to boost their numbers.
I'm afraid the grandparent AC is correct. Channel capacity (aka throughput) is a physical quantity, and used in lots of applications besides computing.
Incidentally, since the field of error-correction codes is based on communication channels, you could argue that the usage in hard drives is derived from that of communication.
IP over your implementation.
It's important to signal that there is a market for Linux machines, when you think about device drivers for example. First of all, when you buy a Linux machine, you know that the devices will work with Linux, even if you install another distro. More importantly, this sends a message to the hardware makers that mostly write Windows-only drivers.
IIRC, the Cell uses way too much power for sensible laptop use. I'm waiting for PWRficient instead -- 2 GHz PPC at max 7 W per core.
...is "out-house" data centers. Powered entirely by human waste. Very green, very modern, it's recycling for the new millennium.Just beware of brownouts.
I've considered a Buffalo Linkstation with a custom Linux distro. http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.php/Main_Page
In Finland, Sweden and possibly other Nordic countries there is Wippies.
The Wippies network is open to members only, much like the "Linus" scheme of Fon. With that authentication you can track the user who uses the network for something illegal. IMHO this pretty much moots the point of open, shared networks. Everyone should just open up their APs. It's silly that people in nearby apartments need to get separately connected via ADSL/cable or something, just because someone might upload some naughty bits.
In that case I recommend you stay away from C shells.
What? BOINC is open source, so is SETI@home, and possibly some other BOINC projects too.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AnonymousPlatformhttp://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_porting.php
So what are you doing here, wasting your important CPU cycles?
One of my employers used a naming scheme for documents, so that the filename could tell about the intent, creation date, etc. of the text. Everything was saved as RTF to improve future compatibility.
Oddly, my proposal to name product manuals with .RTFM never took off.
I could use a 25 GB recordable format. It's not just a slight incremental upgrade from 4.7 GB DVDs.
The new formats are a reason why I decided against upgrading my 4-year old PATA DVD burner -- there's little point in buying a slightly faster drive for the same old format. I'm waiting for Blu-ray burners to become a little more affordable and ubiquitous.
I second this. My current server and media player has a 1 Ghz C3-2 Nehemiah, and it's fine for playing movies, though not much more than DVD quality. Which is why I'm currently in the process of upgrading to a 2 GHz C7. I know it probably won't be enough for the most demanding HD material, but I also like to keep things quiet. The only fans involved in my home theatre are the people. The machine is also my 24/7 server, and I like to save money and energy.
Upgrade the graphics to run X "speedily" it's got the horsepower, the onboard video chipset is really only good for console use.As long as the onboard video does hardware scaling (Xv/xvidix) it's fine for me. Of course it's nice to have something like MPEG2/4 acceleration, but you can't just have every latest codec in your hardware.
Nope! MS uses drive letters to denote partitions. These are called e.g. /dev/sda1 in unix. The unix way of looking at a whole filesystem tree with human-readable directory names is arguably more user-friendly than looking at raw partitions.
In both cases, you have to mount a partition in order to access it. Hiding the idea of mounting is another stupid move from MS -- the assumption that you always mount something that's plugged in. The problem comes up with removable drives, which need to be unmounted before ejecting. There are various workarounds now, but it was worse with floppy drives. Basically Windows would try to write a disk as soon as possible, disabling all multitasking, so that you could see when it was done.
A third, related stupidity is blurring the lines between formatting a partition and creating a filesystem. Yet a case where someome may want to do just one of them, but MS assumes you want to do both at once.
"I use pine - not because its necessarily the greatest email reader ever, but because Im used to it, and it does what I need it to do with a minimum of fuzz." -- Linus Torvalds
I use it for exactly the same reasons. Actually, when I went to university in 1998, Pine was the recommended mail client. I was a relative n00b to the Internet, though computer savvy, and I liked the text based interface. This was on Windows 3.1 with 32-bit extensions, on a 486 with 8 MB RAM, also my first web server ;)
I agree completely. My experience is with Fortran 90, which with good compilers can distribute matrix/vector math over multiple CPUs. For example vector addition is a trivial example of such SIMD code, where the component additions are independent of each other. I would call it data parallelity rather than multithreading anyway.
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