Case in point: Cables. There are people (like the one mentioned) that spend $20,000 on cables. Some are silver, but a lot are copper. In double-blind tests, even the audiophiles can't tell the difference in sound between the $15,000 cables and some 0-gauge welding wire.... but they still swear up and down that they *can*.
"Here, sir. I've got a dollar and a half worth of copper, but because it sounds so darn nice, it's going to cost you $10,000."
I suppose that quite a few other 71-year olds are paying $6,000 for a hearing aid, he's just a little more ambitious.
The problem is that the P4 was made to have a huge memory bandwidth. SDRAM and DDR SDRAM both have a lower bandwidth than Rambus. SDR DDRAM will probably have a 20% (or greater) performance hit. So... the question isn't about price/performance of only the RAM, but of the entire system. Save $70, lose 20%!
>>Back pain is associated with weak abdominal
>>muscles. If you strengthen your abdominal
>>muscles, the most common kind of back pain will go away.
Even though that's taught by about a million gym teachers, it's not entirely true. While your abdominals can provide a little additional support for your back in some circumstances, they don't get rid of lower back pain.
Why not? Well, think about it. Your abdominals make you bend forwards. Your lower back muscles make you bend backwards. They pull in opposite directions. When you're trying to pull yourself backwards (like when you're picking things up), your abs simply cannot pull in the right direction to help your lower back muscles.
Now contracting them does "stiffen" your absominal cavity, and provides a little extra support, having strong back muscles in the first place is a necessity.
Unless you've got something like a deformed spine, there is one, and only one permanant solution for back pain: Get out and get some exercise.
Yeah, I know. Most people don't want to. But the truth behind "lower back pain" is that people today might actually exercise their back once or twice a year, and only inadvertently at that. Then, when they do ask anything moderate of the muscles, they hurt. No wonder.
Strengthening your lower back muscles by exercise (carefully, of course), is a wonderful thing. When the muscles are strong and healthy, you have a much lower chance of straining or pulling them.
So how do you do it? There are a lot of ways, but the best is to do straight-legged deadlifts. To do them, put your feet about shoulder width, keep your legs straight, bend over to touch the floor, and straighten back up. When you first start, do it without any weight, and don't do it more than about 10 times. Yes, your back might be a little more sore after doing it, you're asking more of your muscles than you did before. If the pain is more than the kind that says "Hey, I worked those muscles out", then you just might want to see a doctor, something just might be seriously screwed up.
As your muscles feel stronger, start doing it with a little weight. As you feel comfortable, increase the weight. Very soon, you'll be feeling dandy.
You must live a pretty dismal life, always having to write movie reviews, and always finding the movies so abysmal. Kind of like being a food critic for small-town diners, I suppose. I'm sure that you don't complain just to be cool, and show that you're more artsy and sophisticated than the rest of us, though.
I haven't lost hope, despite your lack of success in finding good movies. I'm still confident that some day you'll find a movie you like that doesn't have a "geek" in it.
Here in UT, you can get up to 1 mbit upload and 7 mbits download, as long as your line qualifies. Their qualification system is a little horky, they always "qualify" you lower than you can really handle, maybe that's to cover their butts. First, they told me that my line only qualified for 768, then only for 512k. I told them to put me at a full, symmetric megabit, and it works just hunky-dorey.
You may actually get an ethernet line to your house, or even fiber to your house. But if you think you're going to get 100 mbits/second, you're off of your rocker. It doesn't take very many 100 mbit connections with the napster-clone of your choice to completely saturate a very large and expensive router. You might get near the full 100 mbits at first, provided you sign up in the first week that it's offered. After that, expect saturated routers to limit your throughput awfully quickly, or the price to be very exhorbitant. Bandwidth providors are still charging $500 to $1000 per megabit for a reliable, guaranteed connection. So, assuming that an ISP oversells their bandwidth 10:1, that 100-mbit link would only cost you... $5000 to $10000 per month.
This is going to be a great move for Russia. This is going to open up the way for tourism to bring in the dollars, and more importantly, for easy, quick contact with the Western world, so that they can catch up to us in economy and technology.
Shoot, my passport's still good. I'd love to take a week off and take the train to Russia... there's just something more appealing about it than flying.
The first Itaniums WILL only be able to address 16-64 gigabytes, because of chipset limitations. A later release of the motherboard chipset will expand beyond that.
If it had been from anyone but M. Night Shyamalan
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I would have enjoyed it, had it not been from M. Night. It seemed too much like the Sixth Sense, like he was simply trying to "be cool" again, making the same sort of movie. A lot of the same suspense-building techniques were used, Willis acted pretty much exactly the same, and a fair bit of the cinematography was exactly the same as the Sixth Sense. C'mon, Night, do something different. We know you can.
>>I dont have to see anyone from sales and marketing!
I used to think that way. Then we hired a gorgeous chick for sales. And since she's new, she always has to ask me how to do things. Hmmm.... life isn't so bad any more. ; )
I know, all of us want company perks like telecommuting and the like. But I've never known a tech that wouldn't forsake things like that for an extra $40,000 or $50,000 in his pocket.
The place I work at now is terrific - great people, good policies, and we get to have a lot more fun than most companies allow. But imagine if someone said "You're going back to the 9-5, shirt-and-tie, cubicle-dwelling lifestyle. And we're going to double your pay." Would I take it? You betcha.
Anybody familiar with routers has seen this coming for quite some time. It's not uncommon for routers today to need 128-256 megs (or more) to hold the routing table, and people are buying larger and larger routers to handle it.
just imagine what will happen when IPV6 gets used in a widespread manner. (I still advocate IPV6)
At my last job, the support staff were expected to perform well when on-call. That meant that they were required to respond within 15 minutes, which basically tied them to their homes.
However, the compensation was good. They received a nominal hourly rate just for carrying the pager, and if paged, they received overtime pay for it. There was also a "minimum charge time" of an hour - so if they got a five-minute call, they were still payed an hour's worth for the trouble of getting up at 3 AM.
20k-100k hits/day for Apache? Our machine, with a SLOW disk system, handles 100K hits/day with ease, and that includes the fact that over half of the processing time is taken up by the database server running on the same machine, which is about to be moved to it's own machine.
On a custom system using 10 StrongARM chips, Apache was able to serve out almost one million web pages **per second**.
If you're a geek, you've probably got geek friends. Ask around, see if any of them are looking for a new place. If you have more than a small handful of friends, some of them will be looking.
Look around, find a house. Wire the whole thing up with category 5, and get a fat DSL/cable connection. You're set. If you're lucky (like me), the upstairs will be rented out by six girls, and there will be a set of stairs from your living room to theirs.
It's been a long time since I've done calculus, and I don't have the time to do the integration anyway, so here's a general estimation, probably accurate within a few orders of magnitude... : )
Let's say that we have a range from 100 Mhz to 20 GHz. Divide that into theoretical bands of 0.1 Mhz. That gives you about 200,000 bands.
Assume that it's all digital, that you get one bit per Hz. That means that the 20 GHz band can pump around 20 gigabits/second. That means that on *average*, each band would have about 10 gigabits of bandwidth, giving you an overall bandwidth of (200,000 * 10 gigabits) of around 200 terabits/second. Quite a bit.
To counter your other point, suppose someone downloads a picture. It depicts an event which has already taken place. The child depicted has already been abused. Nothing further happens to the child as a result of the replication of the picture.
That works out fine and dandy while we sit and type at the keyboards, but in the real world, it doesn't quite cut it. The reason that children were exploited in the first place was.... so that it could be downloaded. If people weren't interested in downloading it, then the exploitation would be almost nothing compared to it's current level.
This is worse to you than the killing of an unborn child?
I have absolutely no idea where you came up with that idea.
Correct, but how do you know that someone really tried to download child porn? You don't know how they got there.
That's true. you don't know how they got there. While surfing, I occasionally run across pages that have pornographic links, or even content. However, when I see something like "click here for young school girls", I can tell right away that it probably doesn't have the information I'm looking for.
Some people will, of course, stumble onto them innocently. A few of those may inadvertently download them. They may go through a small bit of embarassment because of it. However....
There are Good Things in the world. There are also Bad Things in the world. If we want to get rid of Bad Things, then Good People who do Good Things will have to put up with some inconvenience. If you want to have policemen arrest inebriated drivers, then be prepared to get pulled over if you *look* inebriated. It's for the good of society. If we want to stop child pornography, then we need to investigate those who *appear* to be using/producing it. There's just no other way. We can't stick our head in the sand and wish that the Bad Things in the world would go away on their own.
Even if you believe that abortion is NEVER justified, this has nothing to do with it anyway.
I don't know where you got that from. If anything, I said the opposite, but that whole topic is, of course, irrelevant.
Whats worst...this banning of the porn itself is silly. I can see banning the production of child porn. Banning the mere free downloading or posessuion of it, is ludicris. Banning sex with children, or creation of "kiddie porn" is an attempt to ban the exploitation of children. Banning the simple (esp free) download or possession does NOTHING to stop actual explotation....it serves to PUNISH people for their sexual orientation.
I'll have to completely disagree. If consumption drops, then production will also drop. It's a plain, simple theory of economics. You don't see Ford building lots of Edsels, do you? : )
Besides, banning production will never work so long as there are countries that won't enforce it.
Banning mere posession or download is attacking individuals, not for their actions, but for their desires.
No, if you ban someone from downloading, you ban them from an action. To ban someone from a desire, you have to take away their ability to think about it, which of course, is impossible.
This reminds me of those right-to-lifers who stand in front of Clinics that perform abortions and take down the licence plate numbers of EVERY person who enters the clinic....
Here's where that analogy breaks down:
There are sometimes valid reasons for abortions. There are never valid reasons for the exploitation of children. -
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"Who are these people? Fabio, the hunky romance novel cover boy, is an audiophile. So is Slash, the former Guns N' Roses guitarist"
What? The same Slash that used to whine and cry about his tinitus?
steve
Case in point: Cables. There are people (like the one mentioned) that spend $20,000 on cables. Some are silver, but a lot are copper. In double-blind tests, even the audiophiles can't tell the difference in sound between the $15,000 cables and some 0-gauge welding wire.... but they still swear up and down that they *can*.
"Here, sir. I've got a dollar and a half worth of copper, but because it sounds so darn nice, it's going to cost you $10,000."
I suppose that quite a few other 71-year olds are paying $6,000 for a hearing aid, he's just a little more ambitious.
steve
The problem is that the P4 was made to have a huge memory bandwidth. SDRAM and DDR SDRAM both have a lower bandwidth than Rambus. SDR DDRAM will probably have a 20% (or greater) performance hit. So... the question isn't about price/performance of only the RAM, but of the entire system. Save $70, lose 20%!
steve
>>Back pain is associated with weak abdominal
>>muscles. If you strengthen your abdominal
>>muscles, the most common kind of back pain will go away.
Even though that's taught by about a million gym teachers, it's not entirely true. While your abdominals can provide a little additional support for your back in some circumstances, they don't get rid of lower back pain.
Why not? Well, think about it. Your abdominals make you bend forwards. Your lower back muscles make you bend backwards. They pull in opposite directions. When you're trying to pull yourself backwards (like when you're picking things up), your abs simply cannot pull in the right direction to help your lower back muscles.
Now contracting them does "stiffen" your absominal cavity, and provides a little extra support, having strong back muscles in the first place is a necessity.
steve
Unless you've got something like a deformed spine, there is one, and only one permanant solution for back pain: Get out and get some exercise.
Yeah, I know. Most people don't want to. But the truth behind "lower back pain" is that people today might actually exercise their back once or twice a year, and only inadvertently at that. Then, when they do ask anything moderate of the muscles, they hurt. No wonder.
Strengthening your lower back muscles by exercise (carefully, of course), is a wonderful thing. When the muscles are strong and healthy, you have a much lower chance of straining or pulling them.
So how do you do it? There are a lot of ways, but the best is to do straight-legged deadlifts. To do them, put your feet about shoulder width, keep your legs straight, bend over to touch the floor, and straighten back up. When you first start, do it without any weight, and don't do it more than about 10 times. Yes, your back might be a little more sore after doing it, you're asking more of your muscles than you did before. If the pain is more than the kind that says "Hey, I worked those muscles out", then you just might want to see a doctor, something just might be seriously screwed up.
As your muscles feel stronger, start doing it with a little weight. As you feel comfortable, increase the weight. Very soon, you'll be feeling dandy.
steve
You must live a pretty dismal life, always having to write movie reviews, and always finding the movies so abysmal. Kind of like being a food critic for small-town diners, I suppose. I'm sure that you don't complain just to be cool, and show that you're more artsy and sophisticated than the rest of us, though.
I haven't lost hope, despite your lack of success in finding good movies. I'm still confident that some day you'll find a movie you like that doesn't have a "geek" in it.
steve
The quarter in 9.8 at 160 is the acceleration of a top-fuel dragster? Twice the time and half the speed is quite a bit off.
steve
Here in UT, you can get up to 1 mbit upload and 7 mbits download, as long as your line qualifies. Their qualification system is a little horky, they always "qualify" you lower than you can really handle, maybe that's to cover their butts. First, they told me that my line only qualified for 768, then only for 512k. I told them to put me at a full, symmetric megabit, and it works just hunky-dorey.
steve
You may actually get an ethernet line to your house, or even fiber to your house. But if you think you're going to get 100 mbits/second, you're off of your rocker. It doesn't take very many 100 mbit connections with the napster-clone of your choice to completely saturate a very large and expensive router. You might get near the full 100 mbits at first, provided you sign up in the first week that it's offered. After that, expect saturated routers to limit your throughput awfully quickly, or the price to be very exhorbitant. Bandwidth providors are still charging $500 to $1000 per megabit for a reliable, guaranteed connection. So, assuming that an ISP oversells their bandwidth 10:1, that 100-mbit link would only cost you... $5000 to $10000 per month.
steve
All of our servers, from Duallies to a Quad Xeon support power management.
steve
This is going to be a great move for Russia. This is going to open up the way for tourism to bring in the dollars, and more importantly, for easy, quick contact with the Western world, so that they can catch up to us in economy and technology.
Shoot, my passport's still good. I'd love to take a week off and take the train to Russia... there's just something more appealing about it than flying.
Your servers can only hold 8 DIMM's? Sounds like weak servers to me. My SuperMicro 8050 has 16 slots, and it's not exactly top of the heap.....
steve
The first Itaniums WILL only be able to address 16-64 gigabytes, because of chipset limitations. A later release of the motherboard chipset will expand beyond that.
I would have enjoyed it, had it not been from M. Night. It seemed too much like the Sixth Sense, like he was simply trying to "be cool" again, making the same sort of movie. A lot of the same suspense-building techniques were used, Willis acted pretty much exactly the same, and a fair bit of the cinematography was exactly the same as the Sixth Sense. C'mon, Night, do something different. We know you can.
>>I dont have to see anyone from sales and marketing!
I used to think that way. Then we hired a gorgeous chick for sales. And since she's new, she always has to ask me how to do things. Hmmm.... life isn't so bad any more. ; )
steve
I know, all of us want company perks like telecommuting and the like. But I've never known a tech that wouldn't forsake things like that for an extra $40,000 or $50,000 in his pocket.
The place I work at now is terrific - great people, good policies, and we get to have a lot more fun than most companies allow. But imagine if someone said "You're going back to the 9-5, shirt-and-tie, cubicle-dwelling lifestyle. And we're going to double your pay." Would I take it? You betcha.
steve
Anybody familiar with routers has seen this coming for quite some time. It's not uncommon for routers today to need 128-256 megs (or more) to hold the routing table, and people are buying larger and larger routers to handle it.
just imagine what will happen when IPV6 gets used in a widespread manner. (I still advocate IPV6)
At my last job, the support staff were expected to perform well when on-call. That meant that they were required to respond within 15 minutes, which basically tied them to their homes.
However, the compensation was good. They received a nominal hourly rate just for carrying the pager, and if paged, they received overtime pay for it. There was also a "minimum charge time" of an hour - so if they got a five-minute call, they were still payed an hour's worth for the trouble of getting up at 3 AM.
steve
20k-100k hits/day for Apache? Our machine, with a SLOW disk system, handles 100K hits/day with ease, and that includes the fact that over half of the processing time is taken up by the database server running on the same machine, which is about to be moved to it's own machine.
On a custom system using 10 StrongARM chips, Apache was able to serve out almost one million web pages **per second**.
steve
If you're a geek, you've probably got geek friends. Ask around, see if any of them are looking for a new place. If you have more than a small handful of friends, some of them will be looking.
Look around, find a house. Wire the whole thing up with category 5, and get a fat DSL/cable connection. You're set. If you're lucky (like me), the upstairs will be rented out by six girls, and there will be a set of stairs from your living room to theirs.
steve
It's been a long time since I've done calculus, and I don't have the time to do the integration anyway, so here's a general estimation, probably accurate within a few orders of magnitude... : )
Let's say that we have a range from 100 Mhz to 20 GHz. Divide that into theoretical bands of 0.1 Mhz. That gives you about 200,000 bands.
Assume that it's all digital, that you get one bit per Hz. That means that the 20 GHz band can pump around 20 gigabits/second. That means that on *average*, each band would have about 10 gigabits of bandwidth, giving you an overall bandwidth of (200,000 * 10 gigabits) of around 200 terabits/second. Quite a bit.
Again, those are just estimates.
steve
To counter your other point, suppose someone downloads a picture. It depicts an event which has already taken place. The child depicted has already been abused. Nothing further happens to the child as a result of the replication of the picture.
That works out fine and dandy while we sit and type at the keyboards, but in the real world, it doesn't quite cut it. The reason that children were exploited in the first place was.... so that it could be downloaded. If people weren't interested in downloading it, then the exploitation would be almost nothing compared to it's current level.
This is worse to you than the killing of an unborn child?
I have absolutely no idea where you came up with that idea.
Correct, but how do you know that someone really tried to download child porn? You don't know how they got there.
That's true. you don't know how they got there. While surfing, I occasionally run across pages that have pornographic links, or even content. However, when I see something like "click here for young school girls", I can tell right away that it probably doesn't have the information I'm looking for.
Some people will, of course, stumble onto them innocently. A few of those may inadvertently download them. They may go through a small bit of embarassment because of it. However....
There are Good Things in the world. There are also Bad Things in the world. If we want to get rid of Bad Things, then Good People who do Good Things will have to put up with some inconvenience. If you want to have policemen arrest inebriated drivers, then be prepared to get pulled over if you *look* inebriated. It's for the good of society. If we want to stop child pornography, then we need to investigate those who *appear* to be using/producing it. There's just no other way. We can't stick our head in the sand and wish that the Bad Things in the world would go away on their own.
Even if you believe that abortion is NEVER justified, this has nothing to do with it anyway.
I don't know where you got that from. If anything, I said the opposite, but that whole topic is, of course, irrelevant.
Whats worst...this banning of the porn itself is silly. I can see banning the production of child porn. Banning the mere free downloading or posessuion of it, is ludicris. Banning sex with children, or creation of "kiddie porn" is an attempt to ban the exploitation of children. Banning the simple (esp free) download or possession does NOTHING to stop actual explotation....it serves to PUNISH people for their sexual orientation.
I'll have to completely disagree. If consumption drops, then production will also drop. It's a plain, simple theory of economics. You don't see Ford building lots of Edsels, do you? : )
Besides, banning production will never work so long as there are countries that won't enforce it.
Banning mere posession or download is attacking individuals, not for their actions, but for their desires.
No, if you ban someone from downloading, you ban them from an action. To ban someone from a desire, you have to take away their ability to think about it, which of course, is impossible.
This reminds me of those right-to-lifers who stand in front of Clinics that perform abortions and take down the licence plate numbers of EVERY person who enters the clinic....
Here's where that analogy breaks down:
There are sometimes valid reasons for abortions.
There are never valid reasons for the exploitation of children. -