In much of the USA, you still won't get death for first-degree, but only if it's aggravated. That's even if the state HAS the death penalty, and then the guy has to be convicted without plea-bargaining out of the death penalty. And, even then, it's not given out often - and especially in light of the recent controversy over the "botched" execution.
Most hard disk drives transfer on the order of 25MB/s
Maybe you should upgrade that machine you bought four years ago.:-)
A lot of drives today can write at twice that speed, and read even faster. I've got an external firewire 800 drive (a single drive, not one of the RAIDs-in-a-box setups) that can write at a little over 60 MB/s. Your point is, of course, still valid... few users are even able to make use of a gigabit - or sometimes even half of that.
First would be Laika, who gave her life in space exploration. Second would be Freud's Chow-Chow. Determining the mental state of a patient through pheromones and other bodily odors gets two dew-claws up.
On a somewhat related note of sniffing out people's mental state, one of my neighbors is a K9 cop. He said that several times, the cuplrit of a crime has stayed at the scene and just blended in with the crowd, and as soon as he showed up, without being given a scent or anything, his dog simply went straight into the crowd and picked out the party who turned out to be guilty.
While they *can* supply upwards of 2 amps, they're not supposed to - 500 ma is the spec. It's generally the cheap cards that will just push any amount of current through until the resistance (and heat) begin to self-limit, better cards will shut the port off, and report to the OS *why* the port was shut off.
Give them a task. Give them a broken computer, and watch them try to fix it. Whether they fix it or not, *how* they go about the attempt will probably tell you more than any question you could ask them.
I'm typing this on an XP-64 machine. The driver hastles DO NOT outweigh any benefits except for one: Memory management. If you need huge amounts of memory in a machine, and your app is 64-bit as well(*), then it's an easy win. If not, then it's just not worth it.
(*) Sometimes, a 32-bit app will still benefit. Photoshop is one, under Win32, it can only use 2 gigs of memory. Under Win64, it can use up to around 3 gigs, depending on your hardware. Still, with a 64-bit version, it would be able to use anything you could stuff in your DIMM sockets.
64-bit Linux is vastly better, and IBM's contributions to the NUMA code really make it shine on the Opterons. I run it on Opteron-based machines with anywhere from 2 to 8 sockets, and it does terrifically. Wait until you see how fast an RDBMS can run when your 10 gigs of data all fit into your *disk cache*. Turn off fsync if you really, really trust your hardware and software, and watch things fly.
By giving people one entire day to remove their mailer configuration, they didn't leave people much time. Of course, that's sort of moot, I noticed early last week that my mailer wasn't getting responses from them any more, causing timeout delays on the query for every incoming message.
Ah, well. I guess I shouldn't complain, since this one inconsiderate act is vastly overshadowed by the usefulness they've provided over the years.
Well, it can be, but doesn't have to. Behind a decently-configured firewall, the machine can download patches without any connections from the outside getting through. YOU might ruin things by initiating connections to non-trusted sources, but that's your fault, not the OS. Of course, the security of other machines on the same network is important, but it's easy enough to maintain a seperate, firewalled network for "fresh" machines, or any sort of machine you're not sure of.
Because the memory image that you speak of is dependent upon every single bit of hardware you have, every single driver you have, every single system file, your BIOS version, and every single CMOS setting.
So, each time you get a Windows Update hotfix, you'd have to re-build the image. Every time you installed something that loaded at startup, you'd have to rebuild the image. Every time you changed a CMOS setting, you'd have to rebuild the image - and so on, and so forth.
While that's entirely doable for some folks, it is either impractical or beyond the reach of over 99% of the computer users in the world, and Microsoft (and the hardware manufacturers, BIOS writers, etc.) simply aren't going to expend the resources necessary - it would be a money-losing endeavor.
In the case of a television or other settop box, it's more practical as the various settings and hardware aren't going to change, you can build an image once, slap it on half of a million units, and ten years later, having those units run from that image will still be just fine.
Many devices with embedded Linux still don't do that, they use the regular boot process, but have the kernel and OS *HIGHLY* stripped down, so that it happens very, very quickly.
Usually, I hate this sort of comment, but I can't help it. Since decent OSs have had this sort of feature for at least a generation (or more, in some cases), shouldn't this be a "Three Generations Old" IP stack?
My first thought was "Bah. Put solar panels on the roofs."
Then my brain kicked into gear, and I realized that data centers need a *minimum* of 100 watts per square foot, and preferably much more, but solar panels only deliver 10-15 watts per square foot. Oh well, so much for saving the environment and Silicon Valley's datacenter industry at the same time.:-(
The nice part, however, is that web-serving is so easily and cheaply scalable that it's almost pathetic. If your alternative is to buy an extra few megabits (at guaranteed bandwidth rates, not shared-connection rates), then for what you'd pay for bandwidth in a single month, you can throw in another Apache machine to help carry the load.
I'm pretty excited for "hardware season" this year (making purchases to accomodate growth in our peak season). These are sexy, cheap, and compact. At 14" deep, I can double them up, mounting them in both the front and back of the rack.
Because video conferencing is ever-so-slightly less convenient than just saying "Bob, let's walk to the conference room", it discourages useless meetings. If the meeting was at all useful, it would still get conducted with the video link. A great way to reduce "conferenceitis".
LaCie makes a nice bus-powered hard drive that is sufficiently low-draw on the USB port that it works on *all* of my computers (even my laptop), and several of the aforementioned computers are incapable of supplying various other bus-powered drives that I've tried.
When I bought my DVD player, I got a *really* good deal, and spent $400 on it. I don't even know HOW many years it's been (10 or 11 years, if I recall), and it still works just fine.
These days, people spent $35 on one, and whine when it breaks in a year. C'est la vie.
There's a lot of talk about people being in the same room... but in my office, 99% of the inter-cubicle communication is done via Instant Messenger. Even when the cubicles are adjacent, and they could just "prairie dog" it.
As for the t1/dsl/cable debate, there are merits to both sides - but this was years ago, when neither cable nor DSL were available to relatively large parts of the city.
Years ago, our company had an office that was fairly low-rent, and didn't have cubicles. We just set up some desks around the edges of the office space, and some in the middle. One of the coders, in particular, had his desk facing the wall, and everyone in the room could see what was on him monitor.
This same coder had his email client set to automatically open new messages. Yes, you can guess what it coming - one day, right after he left for lunch, he received some porn spam. Not just any porn spam, but some pretty far-out stuff, the kind that even most people who like porn wouldn't go for. The next person to walk past his desk was the VP of the company...
Our company moved into a relatively nice office building, paying quite a bit of rent, just because the president of the company thought that it gave us more credibility - even though we rarely have ANYONE from the industry come to our offices.
One day, I took the VP aside and gave him some numbers - I showed him that if we were able to telecommute, we could run a t1 to every employee's home, and still come out a few thousand cheaper each month than rent. Because the VP once new someone who slacked off when telecommuting, he completely rejected the idea. Ah, well.
Even though we're officially a non-telecommuting office, that doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. When I really don't feel like going in to the office, I call and tell them that I can either work from home that day, or just take the day off. I usually get to work from home.
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In much of the USA, you still won't get death for first-degree, but only if it's aggravated. That's even if the state HAS the death penalty, and then the guy has to be convicted without plea-bargaining out of the death penalty. And, even then, it's not given out often - and especially in light of the recent controversy over the "botched" execution.
steve
"They don't have a mother and their father will probably be in prison until he dies."
In prison until he dies? For one measly murder? Yeah, right.... it's possible, but these days, not likely.
Maybe he wants to play PC video games on his HD big-screen. If I had an HD big-screen, I'd certainly play a few games on it. :-)
steve
Most hard disk drives transfer on the order of 25MB/s
Maybe you should upgrade that machine you bought four years ago. :-)
A lot of drives today can write at twice that speed, and read even faster. I've got an external firewire 800 drive (a single drive, not one of the RAIDs-in-a-box setups) that can write at a little over 60 MB/s. Your point is, of course, still valid... few users are even able to make use of a gigabit - or sometimes even half of that.
First would be Laika, who gave her life in space exploration. Second would be Freud's Chow-Chow. Determining the mental state of a patient through pheromones and other bodily odors gets two dew-claws up.
On a somewhat related note of sniffing out people's mental state, one of my neighbors is a K9 cop. He said that several times, the cuplrit of a crime has stayed at the scene and just blended in with the crowd, and as soon as he showed up, without being given a scent or anything, his dog simply went straight into the crowd and picked out the party who turned out to be guilty.
steve
Easy. No more than the electrical service to which it is attached can safely deliver. :-)
steve
While they *can* supply upwards of 2 amps, they're not supposed to - 500 ma is the spec. It's generally the cheap cards that will just push any amount of current through until the resistance (and heat) begin to self-limit, better cards will shut the port off, and report to the OS *why* the port was shut off.
steve
Give them a task. Give them a broken computer, and watch them try to fix it. Whether they fix it or not, *how* they go about the attempt will probably tell you more than any question you could ask them.
I'm typing this on an XP-64 machine. The driver hastles DO NOT outweigh any benefits except for one: Memory management. If you need huge amounts of memory in a machine, and your app is 64-bit as well(*), then it's an easy win. If not, then it's just not worth it.
(*) Sometimes, a 32-bit app will still benefit. Photoshop is one, under Win32, it can only use 2 gigs of memory. Under Win64, it can use up to around 3 gigs, depending on your hardware. Still, with a 64-bit version, it would be able to use anything you could stuff in your DIMM sockets.
64-bit Linux is vastly better, and IBM's contributions to the NUMA code really make it shine on the Opterons. I run it on Opteron-based machines with anywhere from 2 to 8 sockets, and it does terrifically. Wait until you see how fast an RDBMS can run when your 10 gigs of data all fit into your *disk cache*. Turn off fsync if you really, really trust your hardware and software, and watch things fly.
By giving people one entire day to remove their mailer configuration, they didn't leave people much time. Of course, that's sort of moot, I noticed early last week that my mailer wasn't getting responses from them any more, causing timeout delays on the query for every incoming message.
Ah, well. I guess I shouldn't complain, since this one inconsiderate act is vastly overshadowed by the usefulness they've provided over the years.
Of all of the times that's been said of a new drug, I wonder just how rarely it was actually true.
Well, it can be, but doesn't have to. Behind a decently-configured firewall, the machine can download patches without any connections from the outside getting through. YOU might ruin things by initiating connections to non-trusted sources, but that's your fault, not the OS. Of course, the security of other machines on the same network is important, but it's easy enough to maintain a seperate, firewalled network for "fresh" machines, or any sort of machine you're not sure of.
steve
Because the memory image that you speak of is dependent upon every single bit of hardware you have, every single driver you have, every single system file, your BIOS version, and every single CMOS setting.
So, each time you get a Windows Update hotfix, you'd have to re-build the image. Every time you installed something that loaded at startup, you'd have to rebuild the image. Every time you changed a CMOS setting, you'd have to rebuild the image - and so on, and so forth.
While that's entirely doable for some folks, it is either impractical or beyond the reach of over 99% of the computer users in the world, and Microsoft (and the hardware manufacturers, BIOS writers, etc.) simply aren't going to expend the resources necessary - it would be a money-losing endeavor.
In the case of a television or other settop box, it's more practical as the various settings and hardware aren't going to change, you can build an image once, slap it on half of a million units, and ten years later, having those units run from that image will still be just fine.
Many devices with embedded Linux still don't do that, they use the regular boot process, but have the kernel and OS *HIGHLY* stripped down, so that it happens very, very quickly.
Usually, I hate this sort of comment, but I can't help it. Since decent OSs have had this sort of feature for at least a generation (or more, in some cases), shouldn't this be a "Three Generations Old" IP stack?
steve
My first thought was "Bah. Put solar panels on the roofs."
Then my brain kicked into gear, and I realized that data centers need a *minimum* of 100 watts per square foot, and preferably much more, but solar panels only deliver 10-15 watts per square foot. Oh well, so much for saving the environment and Silicon Valley's datacenter industry at the same time.
steve
The nice part, however, is that web-serving is so easily and cheaply scalable that it's almost pathetic. If your alternative is to buy an extra few megabits (at guaranteed bandwidth rates, not shared-connection rates), then for what you'd pay for bandwidth in a single month, you can throw in another Apache machine to help carry the load.
I'm pretty excited for "hardware season" this year (making purchases to accomodate growth in our peak season). These are sexy, cheap, and compact. At 14" deep, I can double them up, mounting them in both the front and back of the rack.
I would guess that speed would be the main factor.
steve
Because video conferencing is ever-so-slightly less convenient than just saying "Bob, let's walk to the conference room", it discourages useless meetings. If the meeting was at all useful, it would still get conducted with the video link. A great way to reduce "conferenceitis".
LaCie makes a nice bus-powered hard drive that is sufficiently low-draw on the USB port that it works on *all* of my computers (even my laptop), and several of the aforementioned computers are incapable of supplying various other bus-powered drives that I've tried.
Do you mean a situation like this??
When I bought my DVD player, I got a *really* good deal, and spent $400 on it. I don't even know HOW many years it's been (10 or 11 years, if I recall), and it still works just fine.
These days, people spent $35 on one, and whine when it breaks in a year. C'est la vie.
A Mexican Millimeter? Is that when it's really a millimeter in Mexico, but only worth a few micrometers in the U.S.?
There's a lot of talk about people being in the same room... but in my office, 99% of the inter-cubicle communication is done via Instant Messenger. Even when the cubicles are adjacent, and they could just "prairie dog" it.
As for the t1/dsl/cable debate, there are merits to both sides - but this was years ago, when neither cable nor DSL were available to relatively large parts of the city.
Years ago, our company had an office that was fairly low-rent, and didn't have cubicles. We just set up some desks around the edges of the office space, and some in the middle. One of the coders, in particular, had his desk facing the wall, and everyone in the room could see what was on him monitor.
This same coder had his email client set to automatically open new messages. Yes, you can guess what it coming - one day, right after he left for lunch, he received some porn spam. Not just any porn spam, but some pretty far-out stuff, the kind that even most people who like porn wouldn't go for. The next person to walk past his desk was the VP of the company...
Our company moved into a relatively nice office building, paying quite a bit of rent, just because the president of the company thought that it gave us more credibility - even though we rarely have ANYONE from the industry come to our offices.
One day, I took the VP aside and gave him some numbers - I showed him that if we were able to telecommute, we could run a t1 to every employee's home, and still come out a few thousand cheaper each month than rent. Because the VP once new someone who slacked off when telecommuting, he completely rejected the idea. Ah, well.
Even though we're officially a non-telecommuting office, that doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. When I really don't feel like going in to the office, I call and tell them that I can either work from home that day, or just take the day off. I usually get to work from home.
steve