Yeah its definitely the best place for a datacenter, except for the high cost of deployment, the high cost of maintenance, the high cost of establishing a data link to the ground, and the the high latency.
We have gotten along fine for a long time without the telephone, television, airplanes, automobiles, etc.
So what is your point exactly?
Dude, technology makes makes things convenient, and when technology breaks its an inconvenience.
And how long would it take to organise a "phone tree" to get a message out to a hundred people? Remember it takes maybe 30 seconds to post a message to all of your friends on facebook.
What you're saying is the equivalent of saying automobiles are useless because you could "easliy" set up a system where you could change horses every 50 miles on your route.
I see you've bought into all the government propaganda about Paul Atreides.
FACT: Paul Atreides isn't a true Fremen. Why haven't we seen his birth certificate? I'll tell you why, he wasn't even born on Arrakis.
FACT: Paul Atreides is a secret Harkonnen. He cares more about loss of spice harvesting equipment than the lives of people. That doesn't sound like an Atreides to me.
FACT: Paul Atreides has a huge ego. He thinks he's some kind of messiah.
FACT: Paul Atreides's mother dabbles in witchcraft. She claims that she's no longer a witch, but do we really believe that?
FACT: Paul Atreides regularly cheats on his wife. The only reason he's still married is because it would hurt him politically to end the marriage.
Yeah, he makes big promises about making Arrakis more green, but what how can we trust him?
If its a POW camp then you have to follow the Geneva convention, which the US is not doing. If they are criminals, they have to be granted a trial and convict beyond a reasonable doubt, which the US has not done. If you are holding them there because you consider them dangerous undesirables, then it is a concentration camp.
Actually from the shows I've watched in the last two months, I'd say the spend around 60% of their time poking fun at other media 10% on republicans saying stupid things, %10 on democrats saying stupid things, %10 criticising Obama for not doing anything, and 10% on miscellaneous things like the world cup.
I suppose it seems that they have a left wing slant because they spend most of their time making fun of other media, and a good amount of that time is spent on fox news, because fox news says the most ridiculous things so its an easy target. Of course if you consider fox news to be "fair and balanced" then... well I can't finish that sentence because LOL.
The thing is, their commentary on fox news is usually just throw away gags, and are there just to keep laughing. Their jokes about Obama are more biting, and a lot of time aren't really even jokes, just Stewart looking into the camera and straight out telling Obama he isn't doing good enough, with no punchline.
I don't know about you but I see a comedian doing a Glen Beck impersonation its pretty easy to laugh it off and move to the next comedy bit. But when a comedian makes serious criticism about the president, without there being a joke, that sticks in your head.
this rally is for everyone who is tired of the hyperbole, slippery slopes, name calling, mod slinging, that goes on in politics and the news media. No matter which side is doing it.
Did you see the other night when Colbert had a liberal commentator from MSNBC as a guest and "congratulating" him on "keeping fear alive" by telling viewers to be afraid of conservatives?
If you're tired of liberals using fear as a weapon, then you probably should attend this rally. If you have time. If you can't make it, its cool though.
The point is, there is no us and them. We're all on the same side, just have different opinions on whats in our best interests. But if you can agree that this constant name calling ("You're Hitler", "NO YOU'RE HITLER") isn't in anyone's best interest, then this rally may be for you.
oh I'm well aware of conservative and libertarian values. The problem is thats not what we're seeing.
What we're seeing is despite they fact that the democrats are incompetent idiots, they're still going to hold on to a majority because the GOP is being held hostage by the socialist-nazi fearing koran burners.
This rally is called the "Rally to Restore Sanity" for a reason. The idea is to show that the koran burners aren't the majority, that the news media is giving way too much attention to the dregs of society because the more rational majority is busy having lives. This is not a rally to equate Conservatives with being koran burners. Jon Stewart has invited rational conservatives to be a part of this rally. The point is to restore civility to political debate instead of it staying how it is now, idiots doing the most outrageous things they can to create controversy. There's been too much "we'll show them!" and not enough, hey lets have a calm discussion and "we'll show them" our point of view, and if they still disagree, we'll just agree to disagree.
This isn't about liberal vs. conservative. Its rational vs. irrational.
The problem with the news media is that a comedian gives more comprehensive and accurate information on whats going on than what they do.
All the news media gives us now is entertainment pretending to be news. They're all comedians, just that Jon Stewart is the only one being honest about it.
from your wikipedia link: "So far, however, the protests have not been as prominent as Protests against the Iraq War"
protests against the Afghanistan war numbered in the tens of thousands. Protests against the Iraq War numbered in the millions.
Yes there are some people against the war in Afghanistan, but there are a bout a hundred times as many against the war in Iraq.
Obama is more or less keeping his promises of ending the Iraq War and is trying to find a peaceful way to manage the Iran situation. So many people like me are in "wait and see" mode right now.
If Obama starts bombing Iran for no reason you can expect there to be some big protests.
Lately Stewart has been spending more and more time attacking Obama and democrats for not doing anything.
Colbert satirizes right wing talk shows, but many times he makes better arguments that the real conservative talk shows and gets a laugh while doing it.
Yeah when someone like Glean Beck says something completely stupid they mock him. Their primary goal is to get laughs, not be "fair and balanced" (as is such a thing exists).
If you watch these shows as closely as I do you'll notice that for the most part they're trying to get laughs, but there's a few moments here and there where they try to get a serious message across. Lately that message has been the democrats are incompetent and the republicans are being bullied by batshit insane teabaggers, neither option is very good.
This rally is an appeal to conservatives to start providing a real, sane, conservative opposition to the democrats. Even though these shows are liberal at heart, they know that if the opposition to the democrats is incompetent, then the democrats have no incentive to be anything other than incompetent themselves.
Saying that the democrats are socialist-nazis and obama is a secret muslim isn't going to change anything. Burning Korans isn't going to change anything. Be reasonable. Be sane. People might listen to your ideas and agree with you. When that happens you'll get representation. When you have representation you'll have real opposition to the democrats.
depends on which services you install. Setting up a server with no open ports would be difficult to exploit. But if you install an older version of IIS and MSSQL server because some software that your company uses requires that version... yeah that could be easy to exploit.
And oh yeah this exploit for linux requires me to have a local user account... give me an account on your windows box and see how long it takes to get admin access.
Yes you can set up a windows box to be secure. But can you set up a windows box that actually does stuff and make it secure?
This may come as a shock, but there's a lot of people that disagree with the war and support the troops at the same time.
You want things to be about good and evil, but thats not how the real world works. The people at the top in the US fucked up. Now everyone has to deal with it. Its easier to say the entire US, and all its soldiers are evil, but its intellectually lazy.
When you pay for a CPU how much of the price is for the R&D and how much is the cost of manufacturing?
What is the cost of maintaining a separate line running to produce and older chip which there is a demand for?
Do you really think that a faster processor requires more labour and materials to produce than an slower processor?
Quite likely intel compared the costs of keeping older production lines running vs. producing the same chip for everyone. Then checked the costs of each individual CPU. Since a newer production line is going to introduce more efficiencies to the process, they found the production costs of newer CPU weren't much higher than the production costs of the older CPUs. Given the fixed costs of running a whole other production line to make slower CPUs, it could actually cost the company more per CPU to produce the slower CPU than it is to produce faster CPUs.
Now what do they do? Stop producing slower CPUs? I'm sure AMD would love that. Continue producing slower CPUs even though it costs the company more to do so? Or produce slower CPUs on the new production line somehow.... and how do they do that? Thats right they disable features.
Inspiration mostly. See some weird things and put them in the movie.
What did you think he just made up all of the flora and fauna in the first one? A lot of the plants on Pandora are actually coral that lives underwater here on Earth.
It was pretty cool seeing some plants in the movie and thinking "hey those look like those corals that hide when you touch them" and then see exactly that happen a couple of seconds later.
I wouldn't say that he's a crap director, just that he's not very ambitious. You aren't going to get any surprises from his movies, you see the trailer and you know what to expect.
But he does deliver on what you're expecting. From Avatar I expected pretty CGI, the noble primitive blue people to triumph over the greedy technologically advanced humans, and thats exactly what happened. Its not challenging, but it was well executed for what it was trying to do. Yeah it wasn't trying to do very much. But it didn't fail.
Hating on James Cameron movies is snobbery. No one's telling you its going to be Citizen Kane. Its entertainment, don't read too much into it. Complaining about a James Cameron movie being shallow and predictable is like complaining about poor acting in a porno. Is it really that important that you believe that the wife has an inattentive husband and the man is really a pizza delivery guy? Is it that important that the plot be original when the audience is there to see pretty 3-D animation?
And that is exactly why you don't like it. There has been a lot of thought put into the UI of Ubuntu. But you need to give an honest effort to actually use it.
I have used all three major OS's a fair bit. And my assessment? Ubuntu has the best UI of all of them. Windows is kludgy, and takes a lot more effort to get to your apps. MacOS makes it easier to get to your apps with the dock, but its really difficult to have multiple windows open.
In ubuntu it seems like they're just sticking stuff in places for no good reason. That is until you start using it. If you want to open something new, you're going to be doing stuff in the top bar. If you're managing already open apps, look down to the bottom bar. The trash icon in the lower right corner doesn't seem to make much sense until you actually drag a file to it. Much easier to drag something to the corner than it is to right-click and select delete. I was scratching my head over why that was down there, until I had to clean up some of my old files.
In the lower left corner is show desktop... as old Fitts said the corners of the screen are the easiest part to get your mouse to. Throw your mouse in the corner and click. I never really used the desktop much before, but now that its so much easier to access, I put stuff there all the time.
Top left you got an Applications menu, and its actually organised sensibly, unlike the start menu in windows or the applications folder in MacOS. And if there's an app in there I use often, its really easy to drag that app to the middle of the top bar so its only one click away.
Top right, Log out, Shut down, etc. In the newer versions of windows I always struggle to find those. I think it might be in the apple menu in MacOS? I don't remember.
And ahhh the places menu. This is one I can't live without. Easy access to Folders, Network Shares, USB drives... you know all the places you save stuff. With windows to get to a file, I have to click Start->My Computer if its on an external drive, or maybe Start->My Documents, OR maybe minimize all my apps or click the Show desktop button (which may not be there or is hidden because there's a bunch of other crap in the quick launch bar), Start->My Computer if I've mapped a netwrok share as a drive, but start-My Network Places otherwise. MacOS I have to minimise apps or open the finder and start clicking around. Ubuntu I just click Places and its all there. When I need a file I know where to click.
I think the issue a lot of people have with linux is that they come from windows or macOS with preconceived notions on how things should work. Its kind of an uncanny valley sort of situation. It similar in some ways to the OS you're used to that you start having certain expectations. But then when you see a difference, it seems weird. But there is no solution for this, really. MS, Apple and Ubuntu all do usability studies and they get the same findings. MS tries to keep things the same and stays in the same valley all the time. Apple does things completely different so they're in a totally different valley. Ubuntu tries to create a good user experience so their little valley has some similarities to MS, some similarities to Apple. Even if they have the best valley, visitors from Windows or MacOS get an unsettling feeling of similarity and difference at the same time. But realise that MS and Apple are doing lots of usability studies when they build their UI. So when Ubuntu does a usability study they're going to get similar results. And using those results they're going to have similar UI elements. Similar but not the same.
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Yeah its definitely the best place for a datacenter, except for the high cost of deployment, the high cost of maintenance, the high cost of establishing a data link to the ground, and the the high latency.
It won't work on my iPod
We have gotten along fine for a long time without the telephone, television, airplanes, automobiles, etc.
So what is your point exactly?
Dude, technology makes makes things convenient, and when technology breaks its an inconvenience.
And how long would it take to organise a "phone tree" to get a message out to a hundred people? Remember it takes maybe 30 seconds to post a message to all of your friends on facebook.
What you're saying is the equivalent of saying automobiles are useless because you could "easliy" set up a system where you could change horses every 50 miles on your route.
I see you've bought into all the government propaganda about Paul Atreides.
FACT: Paul Atreides isn't a true Fremen. Why haven't we seen his birth certificate? I'll tell you why, he wasn't even born on Arrakis.
FACT: Paul Atreides is a secret Harkonnen. He cares more about loss of spice harvesting equipment than the lives of people. That doesn't sound like an Atreides to me.
FACT: Paul Atreides has a huge ego. He thinks he's some kind of messiah.
FACT: Paul Atreides's mother dabbles in witchcraft. She claims that she's no longer a witch, but do we really believe that?
FACT: Paul Atreides regularly cheats on his wife. The only reason he's still married is because it would hurt him politically to end the marriage.
Yeah, he makes big promises about making Arrakis more green, but what how can we trust him?
If its a POW camp then you have to follow the Geneva convention, which the US is not doing. If they are criminals, they have to be granted a trial and convict beyond a reasonable doubt, which the US has not done. If you are holding them there because you consider them dangerous undesirables, then it is a concentration camp.
Actually from the shows I've watched in the last two months, I'd say the spend around 60% of their time poking fun at other media 10% on republicans saying stupid things, %10 on democrats saying stupid things, %10 criticising Obama for not doing anything, and 10% on miscellaneous things like the world cup.
I suppose it seems that they have a left wing slant because they spend most of their time making fun of other media, and a good amount of that time is spent on fox news, because fox news says the most ridiculous things so its an easy target. Of course if you consider fox news to be "fair and balanced" then ... well I can't finish that sentence because LOL.
The thing is, their commentary on fox news is usually just throw away gags, and are there just to keep laughing. Their jokes about Obama are more biting, and a lot of time aren't really even jokes, just Stewart looking into the camera and straight out telling Obama he isn't doing good enough, with no punchline.
I don't know about you but I see a comedian doing a Glen Beck impersonation its pretty easy to laugh it off and move to the next comedy bit. But when a comedian makes serious criticism about the president, without there being a joke, that sticks in your head.
Yes this one is partisan. Its for all those that are against the party that uses fear and petty name calling to put down our party.
Its for those of us who are against that party that uses the media to brainwash people. You know the one I'm talking about.
yes, and thats wrong too.
this rally is for everyone who is tired of the hyperbole, slippery slopes, name calling, mod slinging, that goes on in politics and the news media. No matter which side is doing it.
Did you see the other night when Colbert had a liberal commentator from MSNBC as a guest and "congratulating" him on "keeping fear alive" by telling viewers to be afraid of conservatives?
If you're tired of liberals using fear as a weapon, then you probably should attend this rally. If you have time. If you can't make it, its cool though.
The point is, there is no us and them. We're all on the same side, just have different opinions on whats in our best interests. But if you can agree that this constant name calling ("You're Hitler", "NO YOU'RE HITLER") isn't in anyone's best interest, then this rally may be for you.
oh I'm well aware of conservative and libertarian values. The problem is thats not what we're seeing.
What we're seeing is despite they fact that the democrats are incompetent idiots, they're still going to hold on to a majority because the GOP is being held hostage by the socialist-nazi fearing koran burners.
This rally is called the "Rally to Restore Sanity" for a reason. The idea is to show that the koran burners aren't the majority, that the news media is giving way too much attention to the dregs of society because the more rational majority is busy having lives. This is not a rally to equate Conservatives with being koran burners. Jon Stewart has invited rational conservatives to be a part of this rally. The point is to restore civility to political debate instead of it staying how it is now, idiots doing the most outrageous things they can to create controversy. There's been too much "we'll show them!" and not enough, hey lets have a calm discussion and "we'll show them" our point of view, and if they still disagree, we'll just agree to disagree.
This isn't about liberal vs. conservative. Its rational vs. irrational.
The problem with the news media is that a comedian gives more comprehensive and accurate information on whats going on than what they do.
All the news media gives us now is entertainment pretending to be news. They're all comedians, just that Jon Stewart is the only one being honest about it.
from your wikipedia link: "So far, however, the protests have not been as prominent as Protests against the Iraq War"
protests against the Afghanistan war numbered in the tens of thousands. Protests against the Iraq War numbered in the millions.
Yes there are some people against the war in Afghanistan, but there are a bout a hundred times as many against the war in Iraq.
Obama is more or less keeping his promises of ending the Iraq War and is trying to find a peaceful way to manage the Iran situation. So many people like me are in "wait and see" mode right now.
If Obama starts bombing Iran for no reason you can expect there to be some big protests.
Lately Stewart has been spending more and more time attacking Obama and democrats for not doing anything.
Colbert satirizes right wing talk shows, but many times he makes better arguments that the real conservative talk shows and gets a laugh while doing it.
Yeah when someone like Glean Beck says something completely stupid they mock him. Their primary goal is to get laughs, not be "fair and balanced" (as is such a thing exists).
If you watch these shows as closely as I do you'll notice that for the most part they're trying to get laughs, but there's a few moments here and there where they try to get a serious message across. Lately that message has been the democrats are incompetent and the republicans are being bullied by batshit insane teabaggers, neither option is very good.
This rally is an appeal to conservatives to start providing a real, sane, conservative opposition to the democrats. Even though these shows are liberal at heart, they know that if the opposition to the democrats is incompetent, then the democrats have no incentive to be anything other than incompetent themselves.
Saying that the democrats are socialist-nazis and obama is a secret muslim isn't going to change anything. Burning Korans isn't going to change anything. Be reasonable. Be sane. People might listen to your ideas and agree with you. When that happens you'll get representation. When you have representation you'll have real opposition to the democrats.
did anyone check the source code for that diagnose command?
static void put_your_hands_up_hooker(int argc, char *argv[])
WTF?
depends on which services you install. Setting up a server with no open ports would be difficult to exploit. But if you install an older version of IIS and MSSQL server because some software that your company uses requires that version... yeah that could be easy to exploit.
And oh yeah this exploit for linux requires me to have a local user account... give me an account on your windows box and see how long it takes to get admin access.
Yes you can set up a windows box to be secure. But can you set up a windows box that actually does stuff and make it secure?
This may come as a shock, but there's a lot of people that disagree with the war and support the troops at the same time.
You want things to be about good and evil, but thats not how the real world works. The people at the top in the US fucked up. Now everyone has to deal with it. Its easier to say the entire US, and all its soldiers are evil, but its intellectually lazy.
If a reporter embeds themselves in a US combat unit they may find themselves being fired upon.
When you embed yourself with any combat unit there is a good chance the other side is going to fire on you.
If you embed yourself with a combat unit that the US is fighting against, you may be fired upon by US soldiers.
You can find plenty of things the US has done wrong. This isn't one of them.
not 100% pure profit.... the price of the software unlock represents the cost of R&D for the new chip.
No he's still right even in a free market.
If you competitor is offering a similar product for a lower price, then that lowers the price that the customer is willing to pay for your product.
When you pay for a CPU how much of the price is for the R&D and how much is the cost of manufacturing?
What is the cost of maintaining a separate line running to produce and older chip which there is a demand for?
Do you really think that a faster processor requires more labour and materials to produce than an slower processor?
Quite likely intel compared the costs of keeping older production lines running vs. producing the same chip for everyone. Then checked the costs of each individual CPU. Since a newer production line is going to introduce more efficiencies to the process, they found the production costs of newer CPU weren't much higher than the production costs of the older CPUs. Given the fixed costs of running a whole other production line to make slower CPUs, it could actually cost the company more per CPU to produce the slower CPU than it is to produce faster CPUs.
Now what do they do? Stop producing slower CPUs? I'm sure AMD would love that. Continue producing slower CPUs even though it costs the company more to do so? Or produce slower CPUs on the new production line somehow.... and how do they do that? Thats right they disable features.
Not useful to you therefore its not useful to anyone.
Inspiration mostly. See some weird things and put them in the movie.
What did you think he just made up all of the flora and fauna in the first one? A lot of the plants on Pandora are actually coral that lives underwater here on Earth.
It was pretty cool seeing some plants in the movie and thinking "hey those look like those corals that hide when you touch them" and then see exactly that happen a couple of seconds later.
Ang Lee?
Have you seen "Hulk"?
I guess it wasn't completely horrible, but there were a lot of WTF moments.
I wouldn't say that he's a crap director, just that he's not very ambitious. You aren't going to get any surprises from his movies, you see the trailer and you know what to expect.
But he does deliver on what you're expecting. From Avatar I expected pretty CGI, the noble primitive blue people to triumph over the greedy technologically advanced humans, and thats exactly what happened. Its not challenging, but it was well executed for what it was trying to do. Yeah it wasn't trying to do very much. But it didn't fail.
Hating on James Cameron movies is snobbery. No one's telling you its going to be Citizen Kane. Its entertainment, don't read too much into it. Complaining about a James Cameron movie being shallow and predictable is like complaining about poor acting in a porno. Is it really that important that you believe that the wife has an inattentive husband and the man is really a pizza delivery guy? Is it that important that the plot be original when the audience is there to see pretty 3-D animation?
That's crazy-talk!
Next you're going to say that breaking windows doesn't help the economy?
And that is exactly why you don't like it. There has been a lot of thought put into the UI of Ubuntu. But you need to give an honest effort to actually use it.
I have used all three major OS's a fair bit. And my assessment? Ubuntu has the best UI of all of them. Windows is kludgy, and takes a lot more effort to get to your apps. MacOS makes it easier to get to your apps with the dock, but its really difficult to have multiple windows open.
In ubuntu it seems like they're just sticking stuff in places for no good reason. That is until you start using it. If you want to open something new, you're going to be doing stuff in the top bar. If you're managing already open apps, look down to the bottom bar. The trash icon in the lower right corner doesn't seem to make much sense until you actually drag a file to it. Much easier to drag something to the corner than it is to right-click and select delete. I was scratching my head over why that was down there, until I had to clean up some of my old files.
In the lower left corner is show desktop... as old Fitts said the corners of the screen are the easiest part to get your mouse to. Throw your mouse in the corner and click. I never really used the desktop much before, but now that its so much easier to access, I put stuff there all the time.
Top left you got an Applications menu, and its actually organised sensibly, unlike the start menu in windows or the applications folder in MacOS. And if there's an app in there I use often, its really easy to drag that app to the middle of the top bar so its only one click away.
Top right, Log out, Shut down, etc. In the newer versions of windows I always struggle to find those. I think it might be in the apple menu in MacOS? I don't remember.
And ahhh the places menu. This is one I can't live without. Easy access to Folders, Network Shares, USB drives... you know all the places you save stuff. With windows to get to a file, I have to click Start->My Computer if its on an external drive, or maybe Start->My Documents, OR maybe minimize all my apps or click the Show desktop button (which may not be there or is hidden because there's a bunch of other crap in the quick launch bar), Start->My Computer if I've mapped a netwrok share as a drive, but start-My Network Places otherwise. MacOS I have to minimise apps or open the finder and start clicking around. Ubuntu I just click Places and its all there. When I need a file I know where to click.
I think the issue a lot of people have with linux is that they come from windows or macOS with preconceived notions on how things should work. Its kind of an uncanny valley sort of situation. It similar in some ways to the OS you're used to that you start having certain expectations. But then when you see a difference, it seems weird. But there is no solution for this, really. MS, Apple and Ubuntu all do usability studies and they get the same findings. MS tries to keep things the same and stays in the same valley all the time. Apple does things completely different so they're in a totally different valley. Ubuntu tries to create a good user experience so their little valley has some similarities to MS, some similarities to Apple. Even if they have the best valley, visitors from Windows or MacOS get an unsettling feeling of similarity and difference at the same time. But realise that MS and Apple are doing lots of usability studies when they build their UI. So when Ubuntu does a usability study they're going to get similar results. And using those results they're going to have similar UI elements. Similar but not the same.