I've worked in cluster computing for quite some time (though I don't admin them anymore, still work in an HPC shopt). Know when you get lots of nodes on a cluster failing? When you power it down. Some percentage won't come back up. Same with disk arrays.
We dread electrical work in the building.
Seriously, power cycling computers is bad for them.
The last one was pretty cool (that's the main reason I'm posting here...) I caught it just as it was passing through a cloud layer. I'd like to pretend that was good photography, but honestly it was just luck.
You mean like the difference between manslaughter and murder?
Nope. That's the difference between committing a crime on purpose, and committing a crime accidentally.
In the case of "hate crimes", it's not in question as to if the crime was committed with criminal intent, it is a question of the motivation of the crime.
Intent is crucial in many crimes, and "because he's not an equal human being" has been singled out as a very bad intent
If someone kicks the crap out of me, it's irrelevant to me WHY they did it. The end result is still the same.
And even if I accepted your premise that intent somehow changes the impact of the crime, I for one do not care to have the government determining my intent. Leave trials to provable facts, not nebulous interferences about people's motivations.
Huh, interesting. Never realized that, learned something new. I always just mentally substituted "and others" in there, didn't think of the fact that it only applied to a list of names. Thanks.
Oh, and assuming someone uses a word to sound smart as opposed to just using a word makes you seem like an ass. Thought I'd give you some flack about it.:)
PCI appeared, and with that the 3c905 and 3c900. Their primary distinguishing feature was that the actual chip used on the card changed every few months requiring a new driver without a change in product number.
Don Becker came one time to do a demo at work. He brought a stack of CDs to clusterify a bunch of PCs (I don't remember exactly what he was trying to accomplish, to be honest. It's long enough ago that it's fuzzy)
Anyhow, when his CDs booted, they didn't recognize the revision of the 905's in the machines. I always got a kick out of seeing Becker himself get bitten by that. Made me feel a little better about running into problems myself.
"(c) A person may not, if any other vehicle might be affected by the movement, turn a vehicle until he gives an appropriate signal in the manner required by this subtitle. "
My dad used to (well, probably still does) swear by these things. Except he did something odd with coat hangers bent at right angles or something.
When we had a new well dug, he walked around the property with them in his hands, stopped somewhere with a self-satisfied look, and declared: "Drill here." So they did. And it worked.
The senate is no longer representative of the states, it is representative of the people now.
The federal government was supposed to be a meta-government, formed up by the individual state governments. The only real effect the "people" had on the federal government was the House of Representatives.
I guess you could say the presidency, too, but that election is actually the Electoral College, and the states actually choose how the electoral college picks its votes (in all cases these days, a popular vote.)
The state governments were marginalized by the 17th amendment, which removed the election of the Senate from the state legislatures and gave that power to the people, who already had representation. Essentially, since 1911, state governments no longer have federal representation, and it sure does show. (That's a nice highway budget you have there, wouldn't want to see anything happen to it. You mind raising your drinking age? Real ID? War On Drugs?)
For that matter we should have some kind of Constitutional Council, to be made-up of the 50 state legislatures (and 2-3 delegates of their chusing), whose task is to nullify any Congressional acts they consider unconstitutional
It was called the Senate. Right up to the 17th amendment. *sigh*
really low UIDs are a clear sign of herd mentality
I seem to recall that I resisted for a while, then I saw someone with slashboxes, so I signed up to be able to customize them.
I'm pretty sure I waited a while myself, but still ended up with a 4-digit UID.
Heck I stopped using IMDB back in like 1998 (or was it '99?) when they required an account to rate movies. That annoyed me (at the time). Never did create one.
Oh, man, am I rambling like an old man again? What were we talking about?
Maybe they could use this technology on auto flushing toilets so that they don't flush suddenly without warning when I'm sitting on it but happen to lean forward. That's such an incredibly nasty occurrence... ugh.
Microsoft's brand is "incompatible" with open source. They can no more credibly change it now than Volkswagen can become an American automaker. They made their bed on that through carefully and assiduously lying and suing the shit out of people for many, many years.
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I've worked in cluster computing for quite some time (though I don't admin them anymore, still work in an HPC shopt). Know when you get lots of nodes on a cluster failing? When you power it down. Some percentage won't come back up. Same with disk arrays.
We dread electrical work in the building.
Seriously, power cycling computers is bad for them.
Heh. I'm flattered, but surely you'll take away geek points for posting a Facebook link... :)
My pics of the ascent:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2003087&id=183100363&l=f3b4259571
The last one was pretty cool (that's the main reason I'm posting here...) I caught it just as it was passing through a cloud layer. I'd like to pretend that was good photography, but honestly it was just luck.
Come again? 200W power difference.
0.2 kW * (24 * 365)h * $0.1/kWh ~= $175.
You mean like the difference between manslaughter and murder?
Nope. That's the difference between committing a crime on purpose, and committing a crime accidentally.
In the case of "hate crimes", it's not in question as to if the crime was committed with criminal intent, it is a question of the motivation of the crime.
Intent is crucial in many crimes, and "because he's not an equal human being" has been singled out as a very bad intent
If someone kicks the crap out of me, it's irrelevant to me WHY they did it. The end result is still the same.
And even if I accepted your premise that intent somehow changes the impact of the crime, I for one do not care to have the government determining my intent. Leave trials to provable facts, not nebulous interferences about people's motivations.
They wouldn't want a reliable test for drugs, anyhow. Dogs are less reliable and more difficult to quantify.
Want to search a car? The dog "hit" on the car. Doesn't matter what the dog actually did, only matters what the K9 officer claims.
What, you're going to put the dog up on the witness stand?
The dog thing is yet another assault on the 4th amendment.
Huh, interesting. Never realized that, learned something new. I always just mentally substituted "and others" in there, didn't think of the fact that it only applied to a list of names. Thanks.
Oh, and assuming someone uses a word to sound smart as opposed to just using a word makes you seem like an ass. Thought I'd give you some flack about it. :)
A good part of the reason that people use FLAC et al is NOT to listen to, but to avoid re-ripping CDs or transcoding when switching lossy formats.
I want to know why the TSA agents and the police are not fired.
Listen to the audio. They're idiots. "I don't have to let you go through MY checkpoint."
What a bunch of jerks.
I wouldn't want to be the consulting company that provided Microsoft with this code. They're in some deep doo-doo now.
Hah! Who's going to go to Bangalore and find them? I saw Slumdog Millionare, I know how those conniving kids can run...
PCI appeared, and with that the 3c905 and 3c900. Their primary distinguishing feature was that the actual chip used on the card changed every few months requiring a new driver without a change in product number.
Don Becker came one time to do a demo at work. He brought a stack of CDs to clusterify a bunch of PCs (I don't remember exactly what he was trying to accomplish, to be honest. It's long enough ago that it's fuzzy)
Anyhow, when his CDs booted, they didn't recognize the revision of the 905's in the machines. I always got a kick out of seeing Becker himself get bitten by that. Made me feel a little better about running into problems myself.
My favorite button on the remote control is 'mute'.
I'm a big fan of "OFF", myself...
Huh?
TA 21-604:
http://law.justia.com/maryland/codes/gtr/21-604.html
"(c) A person may not, if any other vehicle might be affected by the movement, turn a vehicle until he gives an appropriate signal in the manner required by this subtitle. "
I didn't intend to imply that *I* thought it worked. I more found the whole thing amusing.
My dad used to (well, probably still does) swear by these things. Except he did something odd with coat hangers bent at right angles or something.
When we had a new well dug, he walked around the property with them in his hands, stopped somewhere with a self-satisfied look, and declared: "Drill here." So they did. And it worked.
What part of this do people not understand?
The part where Apple's broken business assumptions are their customer's problems?
Could be that the submitter uses British English. They generally treat collective nouns as plural.
The senate is no longer representative of the states, it is representative of the people now.
The federal government was supposed to be a meta-government, formed up by the individual state governments. The only real effect the "people" had on the federal government was the House of Representatives.
I guess you could say the presidency, too, but that election is actually the Electoral College, and the states actually choose how the electoral college picks its votes (in all cases these days, a popular vote.)
The state governments were marginalized by the 17th amendment, which removed the election of the Senate from the state legislatures and gave that power to the people, who already had representation. Essentially, since 1911, state governments no longer have federal representation, and it sure does show. (That's a nice highway budget you have there, wouldn't want to see anything happen to it. You mind raising your drinking age? Real ID? War On Drugs?)
For that matter we should have some kind of Constitutional Council, to be made-up of the 50 state legislatures (and 2-3 delegates of their chusing), whose task is to nullify any Congressional acts they consider unconstitutional
It was called the Senate. Right up to the 17th amendment. *sigh*
really low UIDs are a clear sign of herd mentality
I seem to recall that I resisted for a while, then I saw someone with slashboxes, so I signed up to be able to customize them.
I'm pretty sure I waited a while myself, but still ended up with a 4-digit UID.
Heck I stopped using IMDB back in like 1998 (or was it '99?) when they required an account to rate movies. That annoyed me (at the time). Never did create one.
Oh, man, am I rambling like an old man again? What were we talking about?
It makes Slashdot look like it's run by a bunch of idiots with an agenda
Yep, that about sums it up.
Slashdot: Idiots with an agenda, since 1997. :)
Maybe they could use this technology on auto flushing toilets so that they don't flush suddenly without warning when I'm sitting on it but happen to lean forward. That's such an incredibly nasty occurrence... ugh.
Microsoft's brand is "incompatible" with open source. They can no more credibly change it now than Volkswagen can become an American automaker. They made their bed on that through carefully and assiduously lying and suing the shit out of people for many, many years.
Say that about IBM 25 years ago.
I say "Good" to the Olympics not coming to the US, we don't deserve them.
To be honest, the olympics are a losing proposition, financially, and a major pain to the locality. I don't know who would want the olympics.
VOTE OUT THE INCUMBENTS! Red, Blue or pink
Pink? Leave Barney Frank out of this! :)