Can I recommend turning off JavaScript? Without it, the site loaded in a fraction of a second, but unfortunately was completely blank! (apart from a boring background image.)
(/me's a softie at a Northern European telecomms company, and previously spent 6 months analysing base-station logs trying to find significant trends). The comments in the article made me think that the "problems" were made up, as they'd already been solved.
FP.
(ignore the sig, the troller account's at 50 too...)
You wouldn't be confusing a D-Link 9-port 8-port 10/100 1-port giga switch for $150 with a D-Link 8-port giga for $600 would you. If you aren't, then the site that's selling the 8-port giga for that price is going to change its prices (upwards) _very_ soon, when they realise their mistake.
Ah, but is it a hard disk? It might be an old magneto-optical NeXT system. And what if you're on a diskless workstation? The remote server may be using a ram-disk to serve files, or a hard disk, or a magneto-optical system, or a servoed tape drive - or _all 4 of the above simultaniously_, moving files into or out of the different storage media depending on how frequently it expects the files to be accessed.
I agree that you shouldn't remove the representation of "file storage" with a "file storing"-type idiom, because that's what its job is. But you shouldn't necessarily give away the "implementation details".
"I love that little over-engineered thing to bits.
:-)"
Exactly. I've never met an unhappy alpha owner. It's the slowest machine I own now, but I love my 21164 more than any other machine I've ever owned. As a programmer it was a joy to code for. And it is, as you say, bomb-proof.
Oh Christ - I completely misinterpreted your sentence, sorry. Oh - by the way, you have a typo in it, 'is' -> 'it', which flipped my parser into random mode.
Sorry:-|
I'm in complete agreement with you, in fact!
"It's hard to compare Itanium with SPARC, PA-RISC, PowerPC and Alpha - as far as I know there are no benchmarks in which is performs very well against modern 64bit RISC chips, Integer and particulary FP performance is generally considered rather inferiour."
That's simply not been the case for the FP Spec benchmarks. For the latter half of the 90s HP and Dec were repeatedly trading the top spot on the table, and the x86 family realy didn't get a look in at all until recently, when about a year ago they came up with something which was nearly as good as a year-old alpha.
Even now, the x86 family is the 4th out of the major 5 families (power, alpha, sun, x86, pa).
Just look at
http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/
Working with numeric computing - I actually use one of the benchmarking programs _every day_ - I find that the Spec banchmarks are very relevant to my world-view. If you know of other benchmarks that support your completely-disagreeing-with-SPEC view, then please post them here, so I can broaden my mind.
"I don't know enough about the syndrome to know if it is passed on through the genes,..."
A syndrome is a collection of traits.
It's quite possibly for some to be genetic predispositions, and for others to be nothing but nurture. One ought to try to treat the ingredients of the syndrome as being independent. e.g. the intellectual traits ranging from below average to above average implies that one shouldn't try to correlate traits pertaining to attention span with those pertaining to test-answering intelligence.
"... I bet there are hoards of socially-retarded geeks out there who use it as an excuse not to go make friends though."
Yes, and no.
They don't need to use it as an/excuse/, unless some external entity (society, shrinks who want to publish papers) accuses them as if they are in the wrong.
The geeks are developing their own social standards, which non-geeks think is, erm, geeky. However, the geeks, IMHO, should not feel the need to apologise, or excuse themselves, for this, as long as they accept and understand the consequences of their behaviour.
Instances of situations like unwanted teen pregnancies or single parent families and acrimonious divorces, and withdrawal from mainstream society due to drug abuse amongst people I know are almost entirely in the geeks favour (having almost none of the above, unlike the non-geeks).
"Most geeks lack social skills and are poor at picking up social clues."
I'd say I'm brilliant at picking up social clues. I can normally judge people within the first 30 seconds of meeting them, and in the long run my judgements always are right. However, I'm a "no I don't want to go out tonight, I'd rather solve a few equations and write some code"-type geek.
So I think you're generalising somewhat.
"Now, if they have children, where will their children learn this from?"
However, here I believe you're spot on. Accepting your generalisation above, I do know _many_ geeks, and I really really fear for the sanity of their offspring if they were to have any.
"It's like a planned obsolescence in the intelligence of the species."
Good observation, nicely worded too!
You mustn't forget intellectuals' breeding patterns anyway. Intellectuals breed with negative population growth. (i.e. 2 intellectuals have 2.0 children on average). i.e. Intellectuals are destined to become outnumbered anyway. (However, that doesn't mean that they won't be a dominating minority - the majority of South Africans were black, the dominant minority white, for example).
However I'm not convinced, from reading the article, that the thing is hugely genetic anyway. I think that, as always, the socialisation that the children get in the first few years of life governs how schizophrenic (i.e. detached) the child will develop. Maybe the intellectual parents _nurture_ detached children.
(i.e. it is more like self-inflicting obselescence.)
Not necessarily if there's external synchronisation, so that the recipient knows when a photon has been dropped. A dropped photon will then be as useless to a MITM as an intercepted (thus changed) photon. However, I'm curious why you want only one photon - how to you play with quantum entanglement if you've only got one photon?
The article was light on facts to say the least. Unless there's some form of Quantum Encryption which doesn't rely on quantum entanglement that I don't know of???
Slashdot Mirror
"It's not about everything-is-a-file."
and
"Yes.. it makes everything a file"
Nice juxtaposition, I thought.
So which way round was it?
Did anyone else think that
"every resource has a name in a tree-like structure"
sounded a bit like the Windows(TM) registry?
FP.
Following up to a post with the sig:
"Alchohol, cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems" -Homer Simpson
You wrote:
"all we need now is someone pissed enough to take this damn company to court."
Which is just wonderful in English! (i.e. English English)
It's certainly true, it would be very interesting for this to be brought to a black/white crux point.
FP.
Can I recommend turning off JavaScript?
Without it, the site loaded in a fraction of a second, but unfortunately was completely blank!
(apart from a boring background image.)
FP.
Recite after me:
"escape colon, queue exclamation"
That's all you ever need to learn in vi, and you can even press almost arbitrary keys before it to no ill effect. (quit without saving, you see.)
I'm more of a
"Control eggs, control sea"
man myself, evidently.
FP.
(ignore the sig, the troller account's at cap too)
Brilliant! Sod subscriptions to remove adverts, I'd pay money to have this scheme in place. Of course, I'd expect more moderation points in return...
FP.
Say it how it is!
(/me's a softie at a Northern European telecomms company, and previously spent 6 months analysing base-station logs trying to find significant trends). The comments in the article made me think that the "problems" were made up, as they'd already been solved.
FP.
(ignore the sig, the troller account's at 50 too...)
You wouldn't be confusing a D-Link 9-port 8-port 10/100 1-port giga switch for $150 with a D-Link 8-port giga for $600 would you. If you aren't, then the site that's selling the 8-port giga for that price is going to change its prices (upwards) _very_ soon, when they realise their mistake.
FP.
You're far to direct to get any attention, alas. You deserve an upmod for sure.
To reiterate and expand:
The DoS-ers are causing material and practical harm to the equipment of others.
The LiVid guys etc. are doing something useful and practical with something that they own.
The two situations are _diametrically opposed_.
FP.
(I don't mind being redundant if it helps some people get the point!)
Ah, but is it a hard disk? It might be an old magneto-optical NeXT system. And what if you're on a diskless workstation? The remote server may be using a ram-disk to serve files, or a hard disk, or a magneto-optical system, or a servoed tape drive - or _all 4 of the above simultaniously_, moving files into or out of the different storage media depending on how frequently it expects the files to be accessed.
I agree that you shouldn't remove the representation of "file storage" with a "file storing"-type idiom, because that's what its job is. But you shouldn't necessarily give away the "implementation details".
FP.
GRRR! '<' and '>' are /plain text/, I wish slashcode had the brains to work out what to do.
And me to preview, I guess...
You: <explicit and deliberate generalisation>
Me: You're generalising somewhat
Hehe - a summary of the start of the thread
You:
Me: You're generalising somewhat
Consider my rush to demonstrate that counterexamples exist to be a reinforcement that on the whole there's a lot of truth in your generalisation.
Indeed, my boob.
FatPhil
"I love that little over-engineered thing to bits.
:-)"
Exactly. I've never met an unhappy alpha owner. It's the slowest machine I own now, but I love my 21164 more than any other machine I've ever owned. As a programmer it was a joy to code for. And it is, as you say, bomb-proof.
Phil
Oh Christ - I completely misinterpreted your sentence, sorry. Oh - by the way, you have a typo in it, 'is' -> 'it', which flipped my parser into random mode.
:-|
Sorry
I'm in complete agreement with you, in fact!
Erm, happy holiday season!
Ooops,
FP.
"It's hard to compare Itanium with SPARC, PA-RISC, PowerPC and Alpha - as far as I know there are no benchmarks in which is performs very well against modern 64bit RISC chips, Integer and particulary FP performance is generally considered rather inferiour."
That's simply not been the case for the FP Spec benchmarks. For the latter half of the 90s HP and Dec were repeatedly trading the top spot on the table, and the x86 family realy didn't get a look in at all until recently, when about a year ago they came up with something which was nearly as good as a year-old alpha.
Even now, the x86 family is the 4th out of the major 5 families (power, alpha, sun, x86, pa).
Just look at
http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/
Working with numeric computing - I actually use one of the benchmarking programs _every day_ - I find that the Spec banchmarks are very relevant to my world-view. If you know of other benchmarks that support your completely-disagreeing-with-SPEC view, then please post them here, so I can broaden my mind.
FP.
"I don't know enough about the syndrome to know if it is passed on through the genes, ..."
A syndrome is a collection of traits.
It's quite possibly for some to be genetic predispositions, and for others to be nothing but nurture. One ought to try to treat the ingredients of the syndrome as being independent. e.g. the intellectual traits ranging from below average to above average implies that one shouldn't try to correlate traits pertaining to attention span with those pertaining to test-answering intelligence.
FatPhil
"... I bet there are hoards of socially-retarded geeks out there who use it as an excuse not to go make friends though."
/excuse/, unless some external entity (society, shrinks who want to publish papers) accuses them as if they are in the wrong.
Yes, and no.
They don't need to use it as an
The geeks are developing their own social standards, which non-geeks think is, erm, geeky. However, the geeks, IMHO, should not feel the need to apologise, or excuse themselves, for this, as long as they accept and understand the consequences of their behaviour.
Instances of situations like unwanted teen pregnancies or single parent families and acrimonious divorces, and withdrawal from mainstream society due to drug abuse amongst people I know are almost entirely in the geeks favour (having almost none of the above, unlike the non-geeks).
So whose social standards are in question?
FatPhil
"Most geeks lack social skills and are poor at picking up social clues."
I'd say I'm brilliant at picking up social clues. I can normally judge people within the first 30 seconds of meeting them, and in the long run my judgements always are right. However, I'm a "no I don't want to go out tonight, I'd rather solve a few equations and write some code"-type geek.
So I think you're generalising somewhat.
"Now, if they have children, where will their children learn this from?"
However, here I believe you're spot on. Accepting your generalisation above, I do know _many_ geeks, and I really really fear for the sanity of their offspring if they were to have any.
FatPhil
"It's like a planned obsolescence in the intelligence of the species."
Good observation, nicely worded too!
You mustn't forget intellectuals' breeding patterns anyway. Intellectuals breed with negative population growth. (i.e. 2 intellectuals have 2.0 children on average). i.e. Intellectuals are destined to become outnumbered anyway. (However, that doesn't mean that they won't be a dominating minority - the majority of South Africans were black, the dominant minority white, for example).
However I'm not convinced, from reading the article, that the thing is hugely genetic anyway. I think that, as always, the socialisation that the children get in the first few years of life governs how schizophrenic (i.e. detached) the child will develop. Maybe the intellectual parents _nurture_ detached children.
(i.e. it is more like self-inflicting obselescence.)
FatPhil
Not necessarily if there's external synchronisation, so that the recipient knows when a photon has been dropped. A dropped photon will then be as useless to a MITM as an intercepted (thus changed) photon. However, I'm curious why you want only one photon - how to you play with quantum entanglement if you've only got one photon?
The article was light on facts to say the least. Unless there's some form of Quantum Encryption which doesn't rely on quantum entanglement that I don't know of???
FP.
Sorry, brain is addled!
... this year's hasn't even run to completion yet.)
(Of course it it last year's
That google-cached page has a 2000 copyright date on it - is that a cache of last year's result?
FP.
make clean removes my gprof files too, and I don't want that.
Ask a silly question...
FP.
Your argument is a /straw man/.
Linus makes no comment about VALinux or penguin computing, so you are trying to compare something with nothing.
FP.
http://fatphil.org/perl/index.html
It copes with MSWord abominations from most versions, but alas not the most recent couple, as they're beyond repair.
FatPhil
Development directory cluttered?
.o
rm *
or if you're in some countries
rm *>o
(. and > on same key)