"but they weren't revolutionary and didn't make me run through the streets naked, Archimedes-style."
It's one of those epiphany moments when you start using it and developing for it. After Apache, Perl, PHP, ASP and all the other point tools. The thought is "Fuck me, *this* is how it *should* be done".
Zope on it's own rocks. Plone on top is the icing. It's all free anyway, runs on every platform including Windows so you might as well try it for yourself.
Cos the very very large corporation which I very recently used to work for has just rolled out Cisco based wireless across *all* of it's sites worldwide.
They simply have to be cheaper and more available. I like the term "promiscuous" to describe it.
Open Office is a good example. It's *so* easy to just point people to OO. Every single person I have mentioned Open Office to has gone "Oooh", then downloaded it and installed it. Sure, they're still running it on Windows... For now...
Each one of those people will now, never buy a copy of MS Office. It's *Microsoft* who have to produce something groundbreaking to take market share back from what is free software, not the other way around.
When faced with an overwhelmingly superior opponent, you don't face them head on. You destroy their supply trains, you attack their soft targets and when they try to strike back, you are never, ever where they think you are.
This pretty much describes how free software in general works in the market, it's very much guerilla business. Nothing else survives against MS, not Netscape, not Real and not any company who think they can stand up in front of them and try to make a profit.
When it comes to law suits, Microsoft have by giving Sun 2 billion dollars, opened the gates to more such law suits. A billion here, a billion there and suddenly 50 billion dollars doesn't look like so much.
The sharks are circling and the way Microsoft will die is by a thousand bites.
"Linux needs to do something *groundbreaking* that Windows doesn't"
It already does something groundbreaking, compared to Windows. It's free and open source. The more promiscuous products in a market win out over the less promiscuous, and Linux is a slut compared to Windows.
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It existed long before the web and is a true distributed peer to peer system lacking centralised control.
It's that simple. All governments govern their populace through the threat of force. Your constitution and law books are just expedient pieces of paper which can be used to justify the use of force.
He's talking about the payback for his solar thermal system ( ~ 2,500) not a photovoltaic installation ( ~ 20,000).
Most of the electricity consumed by a UK house goes to heat the hot water tank and provide central heating so the biggest bang for buck is to do that using a solar/thermal system. The thermal vacuum tube systems are far more efficient at extracting energy from the sun than photovoltaics, up to 80% efficient and they are far far cheaper, nearly 1/10th the price.
A real motorbike, not a 1950s throwback like a Harley.
0->60 in less than 3 seconds. When you open up even a 600cc bike from a standing start, everything round about you goes into a weird streaky blur like a Star Trek warp drive. Only what's *directly* ahead of you is clear.
Hold the throttle at 6,000, lights change, drop the brake and start feeding the clutch, front wheel lifts, try to keep it below 2 feet, everything blurs, clutch fully out, 70, blip the throttle & kick it up to second still trying to keep the front wheel on the ground as you reach 100.
Motorbikes are real mind altering devices. I don't think human perception is entirely designed to handle speed differentials of more than 25-30mph, when I slow down from 160mph, even 130 feels like I'm crawling along.
Oh, and if my speeding up to a light causes it to switch to red and inconvenience all the car drivers on the road, well, fuck em.
You should try it with different count values to see how your filesystem buffer affects the speed. Every file you read has to be written somewhere (unless streaming video for instance) and when you have very large files (e.g. 4Gb) your filesystem buffer will be flushed through unless you have configured a 4Gb buffer of course. To take any sort of advantage of gigabit, you need large enough buffers to make sure you aren't being limited by the write speed of the receiving drive.
I predict that you won't get anything like the 32Mb/s quoted, never mind 58Mb/s once you're running at the disk speed rather than the buffer speed. Even with the ideal condition of dd'ing from/dev/zero.
They can read at that speed. They can't write at that speed. You will need large memory buffers (similar to the size of the files) on either end of the network to handle the slowdown when waiting for the disk, or a stripe across several disk spindles.
Then of course for smaller files there's the seek times, you don't get anything like the maximum theoretical throughput from the drive. As to waiting for 1/4 of the time, it depends whether it's 0.01s or 60s.
Because you'll find that you can't write to a filesystem on a single disk much faster than 100mbit anyway. Gigabit is significantly faster than the I/O that a single drive can provide.
"We'll still be able to get all of the same information as the manned voyage"
A human being is infintely more flexible than a robot. The amount of exploration which takes days or weeks with the mars explorers could be performed in minutes or hours by a human being.
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And isn't this monopolistic behavior?
0.11 came out in Dec 1991. *Lots* of people were still using DOS 4 or 5 entirely without Windows.
Of course the original poster is being facetious and you are an idiot for being trolled so easily.
"but they weren't revolutionary and didn't make me run through the streets naked, Archimedes-style."
It's one of those epiphany moments when you start using it and developing for it. After Apache, Perl, PHP, ASP and all the other point tools. The thought is "Fuck me, *this* is how it *should* be done".
Zope on it's own rocks. Plone on top is the icing. It's all free anyway, runs on every platform including Windows so you might as well try it for yourself.
You continue to kill the weeds with a herbicide (roundup), but the grass is resistant to that particular herbicide and so does not die.
It means that you can go off on a spraying spree and not have to worry about killing the grass. i.e. You buy and spray *more* weedkiller.
Bin it now! Not because it's insecure, bin it cos it's crap.
BTW, if you're running standard WEP it's pretty easy to get into your network anyway.
Cos the very very large corporation which I very recently used to work for has just rolled out Cisco based wireless across *all* of it's sites worldwide.
They simply have to be cheaper and more available. I like the term "promiscuous" to describe it.
Open Office is a good example. It's *so* easy to just point people to OO. Every single person I have mentioned Open Office to has gone "Oooh", then downloaded it and installed it. Sure, they're still running it on Windows... For now...
Each one of those people will now, never buy a copy of MS Office. It's *Microsoft* who have to produce something groundbreaking to take market share back from what is free software, not the other way around.
When faced with an overwhelmingly superior opponent, you don't face them head on. You destroy their supply trains, you attack their soft targets and when they try to strike back, you are never, ever where they think you are.
This pretty much describes how free software in general works in the market, it's very much guerilla business. Nothing else survives against MS, not Netscape, not Real and not any company who think they can stand up in front of them and try to make a profit.
When it comes to law suits, Microsoft have by giving Sun 2 billion dollars, opened the gates to more such law suits. A billion here, a billion there and suddenly 50 billion dollars doesn't look like so much.
The sharks are circling and the way Microsoft will die is by a thousand bites.
"Linux needs to do something *groundbreaking* that Windows doesn't"
It already does something groundbreaking, compared to Windows. It's free and open source. The more promiscuous products in a market win out over the less promiscuous, and Linux is a slut compared to Windows.
It existed long before the web and is a true distributed peer to peer system lacking centralised control.
Which part of "writing" are you having difficulty with?
There's a reason motorcyclists are involved in half as many accidents as other road users. Observation...
It's that simple. All governments govern their populace through the threat of force. Your constitution and law books are just expedient pieces of paper which can be used to justify the use of force.
He's talking about the payback for his solar thermal system ( ~ 2,500) not a photovoltaic installation ( ~ 20,000).
Most of the electricity consumed by a UK house goes to heat the hot water tank and provide central heating so the biggest bang for buck is to do that using a solar/thermal system. The thermal vacuum tube systems are far more efficient at extracting energy from the sun than photovoltaics, up to 80% efficient and they are far far cheaper, nearly 1/10th the price.
A real motorbike, not a 1950s throwback like a Harley.
0->60 in less than 3 seconds. When you open up even a 600cc bike from a standing start, everything round about you goes into a weird streaky blur like a Star Trek warp drive. Only what's *directly* ahead of you is clear.
Hold the throttle at 6,000, lights change, drop the brake and start feeding the clutch, front wheel lifts, try to keep it below 2 feet, everything blurs, clutch fully out, 70, blip the throttle & kick it up to second still trying to keep the front wheel on the ground as you reach 100.
Motorbikes are real mind altering devices. I don't think human perception is entirely designed to handle speed differentials of more than 25-30mph, when I slow down from 160mph, even 130 feels like I'm crawling along.
Oh, and if my speeding up to a light causes it to switch to red and inconvenience all the car drivers on the road, well, fuck em.
Get more chance to practise my stoppies up to the line *and* to piss off the car drivers round about me it catches out as well. :)
Hint, that's the maximum theoretical read performance. Hard disks read significantly faster than they write.
/dev/zero.
Test it on your system:
Reading:
dd of=/dev/null if=/tmp/file bs=64k count=131072
Writing:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/file bs=64k count=131072
You should try it with different count values to see how your filesystem buffer affects the speed. Every file you read has to be written somewhere (unless streaming video for instance) and when you have very large files (e.g. 4Gb) your filesystem buffer will be flushed through unless you have configured a 4Gb buffer of course. To take any sort of advantage of gigabit, you need large enough buffers to make sure you aren't being limited by the write speed of the receiving drive.
I predict that you won't get anything like the 32Mb/s quoted, never mind 58Mb/s once you're running at the disk speed rather than the buffer speed. Even with the ideal condition of dd'ing from
Betcha. Unless of course you've got 4Gb of filesystem buffer in each of your machines that is...
Think about it. 100mbps is 10 megabytes per second, and yes 100mbps lans really really do transfer data at that speed. Your problem isn't the LAN.
When it costs $10 for a switch and $5 for a NIC.
Till then, the only time my 100mbit LAN gets remotely taxed is when I run Bacula backups of all of my machines.
They can read at that speed. They can't write at that speed. You will need large memory buffers (similar to the size of the files) on either end of the network to handle the slowdown when waiting for the disk, or a stripe across several disk spindles.
Then of course for smaller files there's the seek times, you don't get anything like the maximum theoretical throughput from the drive. As to waiting for 1/4 of the time, it depends whether it's 0.01s or 60s.
Because you'll find that you can't write to a filesystem on a single disk much faster than 100mbit anyway. Gigabit is significantly faster than the I/O that a single drive can provide.
5% for essentials, food, housing.
10% for less essential categories.
20% for luxuries.
Or instead of taxing labour with an income tax or consumption with a sales tax. How about taxing non renewable energy use.
"The main cost is boosting mass out of Earth's gravity well which you have to do in both cases."
They happen to do the boosting, but others can do it for a fraction of the cost.
"We'll still be able to get all of the same information as the manned voyage"
A human being is infintely more flexible than a robot. The amount of exploration which takes days or weeks with the mars explorers could be performed in minutes or hours by a human being.