And who is reading f$%king slashdot on Christmas Day too??
I keep waiting for them to put a story about it being Xmas day on the front page so I can watch everyone say it's a dupe ('they posted this last year...'); I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Who the hell is coding and releasing new versions on Christmas Day? Take a break!!
If you look at the current poll, it appears that 10% of Slashdotters will be coding...
Knowing, with great certainty, your wife won't cheat on you (even if it requires the threat of detection) if far better than continuaally wondering if you're going to find out, through your monitoring, that she is, in fact, cheating.
have nothing to hide, and couldn't care less if anybody new where I was located
Considering many telcos' lack of interest in preserving customer privacy (re: RIAA requests to ISPs, many of which are telco operated, which was struck down by the courts) and the tendency of many major corporations to give out your personal information (ie: most companies have an an opt-out policy before selling customer data), assuming that you're not doing anything wrong is NOT enough of a reason to be concerned about what a major telco corporation knows about you...
If people "*expect* to be able to reach you at anytime " you've already lost the war on privacy. If not answering your cell 24/7 impacts your social life significantly, 'privacy' is not much of an issue, since you've made perpetual availability a major goal. People being able to interupt you continually is _far_ more of a sacrifice than allowing the government ot track you, for most people.
note : poster is drunk & miffed 'cuz he didn't get laid & has had no 2AM bootie calls on his phone.
Have you looked at the price on some of those "season pass" style sports packages? You know... the ones that give you every game the league plays... We're talking HUNDREDS of dollars.
Umm... at least for GTA3, the game takes up 450MB on my HDD, and has a play CD that's around 600MB. If anything, the GC version would be smaller, since textures & movies don't need the same resolution they do on the PC.
Saying stupid things like this really ruins credibility; P4s are not SMPable, Xeons are. This is the 3rd time in as many days I've seen somebody talk about dual P4 systems.
With prices of CPUs nowadays overclocking is for the fanboys that don't have any more of a life than bragging about how fast their system is. Once upon a time (back in the Celeron 300A days) you could get substantial speed boosts by overclocking. Now it's in the single digit percentile range -- if that.
Umm... I think you're out of touch. P4 2.4GHz chips are routinely getting 3GHz (often with the stock retail HSF), and Athlon XP 2500+s are doing the same sorts of numbers. The best part is that the RAM and mobo have enough headroom that these chips do this with FSB overclocking (instead of multiplier) so those numbers translate into real performance boosts.
Webchat interfaces suck. If you use a web-based IRC client to connect to a private IRC server, people who want a non-braindead interface can connect with a real, stand-alone, client.
OK, they've got NetBSD up on the JavaStation. This is no real suprise, "Of course it runs NetBSD".
A friend of mine just recently came into a bunch of Sunrays... Has anyone figured out if they're good for anything unless you've got a Sparc to hang them off of?
The more I try to explain them how a decent SCSI transport interface should look, the more I fail. I never did check a 2.6 Linux kernel and as SuSE did stop giving away free SuSE distributions to developers more than half a year ago, it is very unlikely that I will install a newer Linux kernel.
???
So he, as the developer of a major application, os not going to upgrade his kernel because he's no longer getting free copies of commercial Linux distros? Sounds to me like it's time for a replacement to cdrecord.
I wouldn't put too much hope in 2.6 starting out well; remember how 2.4 was supposed to be the kernel that gave Linux a legititmate media image & flawless from the getgo? Remember how it was probably the most problem-ridden kernel release since pre-2.0 days?
Something you mentioned that seems off to me is that you're looking at this from the "School of Communications" point of view. First off, why is the Communications school even teaching a database class? Isn't this usally a CompSci department thing?
Considering that you're teaching non-major students about databases, learning Access instead of proper SQL gets put in a slightly different context. We're dealing with non-programmers, so Access is probably a better solution for their skillset and scope of interest in the problem.
How much harder is it to ship a bioinformatics job overseas than a financial software job? Face it, this outsourcing of engineering/computing jobs can't be stopped by finding a new thing to engineer/compute; they'll send a dozen students to a USian university and, within 5yr, the technology will be back in their hands.
It's nice to think that we can come up with new & innovative ideas better than these guys but new & innovative ideas aren't products; most production computing technology is YEARS behind the level of what researchers are working with.
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I keep waiting for them to put a story about it being Xmas day on the front page so I can watch everyone say it's a dupe ('they posted this last year...'); I'm sure I'm not the only one.
If you look at the current poll, it appears that 10% of Slashdotters will be coding...
Personally, I think the DMCA should stand. What we need to do is get the STFU passed into law so we can have headlines like:
SCO, "DMCA"; FSF, "STFU"
Knowing, with great certainty, your wife won't cheat on you (even if it requires the threat of detection) if far better than continuaally wondering if you're going to find out, through your monitoring, that she is, in fact, cheating.
What if I am screwing *your* wife; do you -really- want to see that?
Considering many telcos' lack of interest in preserving customer privacy (re: RIAA requests to ISPs, many of which are telco operated, which was struck down by the courts) and the tendency of many major corporations to give out your personal information (ie: most companies have an an opt-out policy before selling customer data), assuming that you're not doing anything wrong is NOT enough of a reason to be concerned about what a major telco corporation knows about you...
If people "*expect* to be able to reach you at anytime " you've already lost the war on privacy. If not answering your cell 24/7 impacts your social life significantly, 'privacy' is not much of an issue, since you've made perpetual availability a major goal. People being able to interupt you continually is _far_ more of a sacrifice than allowing the government ot track you, for most people.
note : poster is drunk & miffed 'cuz he didn't get laid & has had no 2AM bootie calls on his phone.
The original K&R C didn't have a void type.
Have you looked at the price on some of those "season pass" style sports packages? You know... the ones that give you every game the league plays... We're talking HUNDREDS of dollars.
At the rate things are going, $640K won't even be enough to get my children through college.
Umm... at least for GTA3, the game takes up 450MB on my HDD, and has a play CD that's around 600MB. If anything, the GC version would be smaller, since textures & movies don't need the same resolution they do on the PC.
Umm... GTA is a THIRD PERSON game; nowhere in the article was a FPS even mentioned.
You can find 128MB 5900s for under $200. For the silent option, eVGA makes a 5600XT (slightly slower than stock 5600) with passive cooling.
Saying stupid things like this really ruins credibility; P4s are not SMPable, Xeons are. This is the 3rd time in as many days I've seen somebody talk about dual P4 systems.
Umm... I think you're out of touch. P4 2.4GHz chips are routinely getting 3GHz (often with the stock retail HSF), and Athlon XP 2500+s are doing the same sorts of numbers. The best part is that the RAM and mobo have enough headroom that these chips do this with FSB overclocking (instead of multiplier) so those numbers translate into real performance boosts.
If you put a .0 kernel on your cluster at work, expect to lose your grants and your job.
Webchat interfaces suck. If you use a web-based IRC client to connect to a private IRC server, people who want a non-braindead interface can connect with a real, stand-alone, client.
The FDA won't let me. I have to settle for selling plasma to get extra money,
You're probably thinking of PeoplePC.
WTF are you doing with a TI-89/92 in Algebra class?
You're obviously new around here and no more than 15 years old. Really, when an AC starts talking shit like , it's not personal, you can drop it.
Asshat.
YHBT, HAND, STFU.
OK, they've got NetBSD up on the JavaStation. This is no real suprise, "Of course it runs NetBSD".
A friend of mine just recently came into a bunch of Sunrays... Has anyone figured out if they're good for anything unless you've got a Sparc to hang them off of?
???
So he, as the developer of a major application, os not going to upgrade his kernel because he's no longer getting free copies of commercial Linux distros? Sounds to me like it's time for a replacement to cdrecord.
I wouldn't put too much hope in 2.6 starting out well; remember how 2.4 was supposed to be the kernel that gave Linux a legititmate media image & flawless from the getgo? Remember how it was probably the most problem-ridden kernel release since pre-2.0 days?
Something you mentioned that seems off to me is that you're looking at this from the "School of Communications" point of view. First off, why is the Communications school even teaching a database class? Isn't this usally a CompSci department thing?
Considering that you're teaching non-major students about databases, learning Access instead of proper SQL gets put in a slightly different context. We're dealing with non-programmers, so Access is probably a better solution for their skillset and scope of interest in the problem.
It's nice to think that we can come up with new & innovative ideas better than these guys but new & innovative ideas aren't products; most production computing technology is YEARS behind the level of what researchers are working with.