Actually what's shocking 'bout the network transfers on the new win2K servers we have at school is the lag. They'll receive the request for file access and pause for a few seconds before it completes the job. What makes this worse is that it's the only place we can write files to, and Visual Studio writes a lot of files when compiling.
Once they get going, the tranfer rates are acceptable for a 100Mb network, as long as I'm not accessing machines that live across the 3Mb wireless bridge...
I just love slashdot's faithfulness to the cause. Right below a blatantly anti-MSFT article was a big Visual Studio.NET advertisement. I'm saving a screenshot of this.
I remember my dad (completely ignorant of anything computro related) had a machine with win95 OSR2 running on it. It had been up for over 5 years on the original install and was still stable. Even more remarkably, every majoy component of the system (HDD, CPU, RAM, mobo, vid card, modem) had been replaced at one time or another. He'd gotten several viruses & cleaned them up. He kept installing and uninstalling software.
There is a difference between a product and labor. If you develop a skill that's not in demand in your home country and you're relying on an exemption from normal immigration laws to work in another country, it's your problem when the political climate changes and you no longer recieve special privleges.
This is not the same as kicking out naturalized citizens or placing tarrifs on the import of foreign-written software, this is simply reducing the number of temporary, special-case work permits.
Since "Play" was released, Moby gave up any hope of targeting the "tech-savy" consumer base. Heavy-rotation on MTV doing mindlessly repetative, lyrically uninspired, generic rock song sounding duets w/ Gwen Steffani doesn't say 'geek' to me, it says "come here upper-middle-class kiddies, give me your parents money for my records".
There's also a lot more cheap quartz digital watches than there are atomic clocks, what's your point? The more complex something is and the less real demand for it there is the less people that are capable of and willing to designing such a thing.
fortunately, I was the only CS student in my numerical analysis class, which was tought by an EE and full of EE & ME students.
Gah... you don't want digital cable. I've never been impressed w/ the picture quality (I would -much- prefer a bit of light snow/static/ghosting to digital compression artifacts and the way picture quality completely goes down the tubes when some noise does (and it will) get on the line). To make things even better, when they finally get digital cable on your system, the picture & sound quality of existing analog transmissions will degrade, so those that don't upgrade will get a reduced quality of service.
SimEarth is quite possibly the single most complex game I've ever seen, which is probably why it never really did as well in the market as the other Sim* games. I think I was 12 when I first ran into it, and with my limited attention span at the time, it took me longer to figure out how to play the game than I would normally have spent playing most of the games I got my hands on.
SimEarth is probably the last game I saw that actually came with a manual that deserved the name. It was like 2" thick, and actually full of INFORMATION. Considering the success they had with the Sims, I doubt they'll be undertaking something as ambitiously complex as SimEarth in the near future..
Considering that GCC 2.9x is still shipping with most distros, and is the only one that compiles the kernel yet, why not show some comparisons with it, in addition to GCC 3.x and ICC? Why only benchmark fringe compilers, when a vast majority of Linux users will be rocking the older compiler?
What is the purpose of talking to these educators? Are you a prospective student or are you interested in finding the current state of CS education so you can draw up some best practices docs?
As a potential student, I'd look and see what kinda output the students are producing, particularly in 300 tests are generally the closest to 'reality'
I have to wonder, what lessons were learned from Texas City? What measures have been taken to ensure a similar disaster doesn't occur again? In light of recent events, I have to wonder if certain unsavory characters wouldn't be interested in a 'recreation' of these events.
I can see it now... a few men with some guns & a small bomb take a weakly guarded cargo freighter... I mean who could steal enough fertilizer to be worried about, right? The small bomb sets off the fertilizer and, as our friends in Oklahoma City showed us, bad things follow.
Hrm... Oklahoma City and Texas City were both hit by large fertilizer explosions. Remind me to never move to a city named after a Southern state..
I've always had to wonder, IS THERE ANY LEGAL SIGNIFICANCE TO PASSAGES WRITTEN IN ALL UPPERCASE? Or is it just one of those annoying things like ESL business owners uneccessarily placing things between quotation marks?
Not what I'm saying... but it's just a bad investment to do a total hip replacement, an expensive, complicated procedure, on somebody who's got a life expectancy of/maybe/ 2 years. It'll take damned near that long for them to get out of the physical therapy to recover from the procedure. Walkers & wheelchairs should be plenty good enough. Refusing to perform major medical procedures on old people is presently considered discrimination.
If you ask any ecconomist if it'd be a good idea to replace a turbine in a hydro-plant whose building will collapse in 5yr, they'd laugh in your face.
fine.. cut social security... at the rate it's going I'll never see it.
and while their at it, cut, or seriously limit medicare. 85% of medicare spending goes to patients in the last months of their life. 90yr old women DO NOT need total hip replacements.
Web servers are generally regarded as I/O-bound applications. What's the point in running an environment where you already have more than enough CPU power?
Akira has always had the same effect on me as 2001; they've put me to sleep every time I've tried watching them (at least 5 each). I'm sure there's something great about it, but I don't get it.
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I'd hope that the 1.1GHz machines we have as DCs could handle 30 people simultaniously.
Actually what's shocking 'bout the network transfers on the new win2K servers we have at school is the lag. They'll receive the request for file access and pause for a few seconds before it completes the job. What makes this worse is that it's the only place we can write files to, and Visual Studio writes a lot of files when compiling.
Once they get going, the tranfer rates are acceptable for a 100Mb network, as long as I'm not accessing machines that live across the 3Mb wireless bridge...
I just love slashdot's faithfulness to the cause. Right below a blatantly anti-MSFT article was a big Visual Studio.NET advertisement. I'm saving a screenshot of this.
Format the new drive with system files then do a DOS boot and xcopy all files (including hidden ones) from old drive to the new.
Alternately, you could use something like Norton Ghost.
I remember my dad (completely ignorant of anything computro related) had a machine with win95 OSR2 running on it. It had been up for over 5 years on the original install and was still stable. Even more remarkably, every majoy component of the system (HDD, CPU, RAM, mobo, vid card, modem) had been replaced at one time or another. He'd gotten several viruses & cleaned them up. He kept installing and uninstalling software.
...and it just wouldn't die.
There is a difference between a product and labor. If you develop a skill that's not in demand in your home country and you're relying on an exemption from normal immigration laws to work in another country, it's your problem when the political climate changes and you no longer recieve special privleges.
This is not the same as kicking out naturalized citizens or placing tarrifs on the import of foreign-written software, this is simply reducing the number of temporary, special-case work permits.
Whoa... You comb your hair?
Since "Play" was released, Moby gave up any hope of targeting the "tech-savy" consumer base. Heavy-rotation on MTV doing mindlessly repetative, lyrically uninspired, generic rock song sounding duets w/ Gwen Steffani doesn't say 'geek' to me, it says "come here upper-middle-class kiddies, give me your parents money for my records".
Yes... 'Play' is just the one where he started acting like a rock-star.
hint : MOBY IS A TECHNO ARTIST, NOT A ROCK-STAR.
I think there may be a connection.
The number one reason to use dead-tree and not digital?
eye-strain
There's also a lot more cheap quartz digital watches than there are atomic clocks, what's your point? The more complex something is and the less real demand for it there is the less people that are capable of and willing to designing such a thing.
fortunately, I was the only CS student in my numerical analysis class, which was tought by an EE and full of EE & ME students.
Gah... you don't want digital cable. I've never been impressed w/ the picture quality (I would -much- prefer a bit of light snow/static/ghosting to digital compression artifacts and the way picture quality completely goes down the tubes when some noise does (and it will) get on the line). To make things even better, when they finally get digital cable on your system, the picture & sound quality of existing analog transmissions will degrade, so those that don't upgrade will get a reduced quality of service.
SimEarth is quite possibly the single most complex game I've ever seen, which is probably why it never really did as well in the market as the other Sim* games. I think I was 12 when I first ran into it, and with my limited attention span at the time, it took me longer to figure out how to play the game than I would normally have spent playing most of the games I got my hands on.
SimEarth is probably the last game I saw that actually came with a manual that deserved the name. It was like 2" thick, and actually full of INFORMATION. Considering the success they had with the Sims, I doubt they'll be undertaking something as ambitiously complex as SimEarth in the near future..
Considering that GCC 2.9x is still shipping with most distros, and is the only one that compiles the kernel yet, why not show some comparisons with it, in addition to GCC 3.x and ICC? Why only benchmark fringe compilers, when a vast majority of Linux users will be rocking the older compiler?
GAH!!!
Slashdot just ate about 1.5pages of text. No... I'm not going to retype.
What is the purpose of talking to these educators? Are you a prospective student or are you interested in finding the current state of CS education so you can draw up some best practices docs?
As a potential student, I'd look and see what kinda output the students are producing, particularly in 300 tests are generally the closest to 'reality'
Not to mention that, in recent years, the price of movie tickets has been going up faster than the rate of inflation.
Call me old fashioned, but isn't the point of higher education education and not job training?
I have to wonder, what lessons were learned from Texas City? What measures have been taken to ensure a similar disaster doesn't occur again? In light of recent events, I have to wonder if certain unsavory characters wouldn't be interested in a 'recreation' of these events.
I can see it now... a few men with some guns & a small bomb take a weakly guarded cargo freighter... I mean who could steal enough fertilizer to be worried about, right? The small bomb sets off the fertilizer and, as our friends in Oklahoma City showed us, bad things follow.
Hrm... Oklahoma City and Texas City were both hit by large fertilizer explosions. Remind me to never move to a city named after a Southern state..
I've always had to wonder, IS THERE ANY LEGAL SIGNIFICANCE TO PASSAGES WRITTEN IN ALL UPPERCASE? Or is it just one of those annoying things like ESL business owners uneccessarily placing things between quotation marks?
Not what I'm saying... but it's just a bad investment to do a total hip replacement, an expensive, complicated procedure, on somebody who's got a life expectancy of /maybe/ 2 years. It'll take damned near that long for them to get out of the physical therapy to recover from the procedure. Walkers & wheelchairs should be plenty good enough. Refusing to perform major medical procedures on old people is presently considered discrimination.
If you ask any ecconomist if it'd be a good idea to replace a turbine in a hydro-plant whose building will collapse in 5yr, they'd laugh in your face.
fine.. cut social security... at the rate it's going I'll never see it.
and while their at it, cut, or seriously limit medicare. 85% of medicare spending goes to patients in the last months of their life. 90yr old women DO NOT need total hip replacements.
...a 1 cent/pack tax on ramen to pay for higher education...
Web servers are generally regarded as I/O-bound applications. What's the point in running an environment where you already have more than enough CPU power?
Akira has always had the same effect on me as 2001; they've put me to sleep every time I've tried watching them (at least 5 each). I'm sure there's something great about it, but I don't get it.