"I'm sorry, was that off-topic? Well, since the parent was modded "interesting" I guess it isn't."
The discussion was about the current adminstration.
"what Sandy Burger did makes Watergate AND this Plame nonsense look like a college prank."
Get real. They're bitching about missing versions of a report that they chose to ignore anyway. Officials at the National Archives thought that Berger just had copies, and not the originals, so why should anyone believe that Berger thought any differently?
Right, and they'll claim that her identify is supersensitive, yet they won't prosecute someone who publishes the info (Novak). They will, however, prosecute someone who protects the info(Miller).
For crying out loud people, just because you voted for Bush doesn't mean you owe him your undying support. Oust the bastard. This shit makes Watergate look like a college prank.
"Perhaps I missed something, but if you want nonvolatile/tmp, couldn't you just use a normal disk-based one and let OS's disk cache take care of speeding things up ? "
This disk cache can't speed up sync'ed writes. Another disadvantage to that approach is that by moving big datasets thru the fs cache, you might constantly be blowing out more useful stuff.
"Altought you propably want to use some other place than/tmp to store data between reboots... Your home directory, for example:)."
"Get a 64-bit processor, install the memory to the motherboard as usual and use tmpfs for the/tmp directory."
What distinguishes this from RAM is that it's non-volatile. That's what I didn't like about the parent's idea of using it as swap. For some applications, a NV/tmp can be valuable. Otherwise, I agree with you. Put the fastest storage as close to the processor and DMA channels as possible.
"Imagine if they said, "this next Madonna song was sponsored by EMI."
That would make the music show a defacto advertisement. People would tune out in droves. By hiding the money, they can make an ad seem like a music show.
Listeners don't like being lied to, and given that the airwaves belong to them, they have a right to honesty.
Honest artists and producers don't like it because it's anticompetetive. Implicit in the deal that "you will play *our* music more" is the undeniable fact that "you will play *their* music less".
What amazes me, is that they've been getting away with the "new payola" for so long now. I think it's fair to say that the reason "popular" music sucks so bad is that most of it doesn't become popular on its own merit. Its popularity is engineered in boardrooms.
It's not spyware. You bought the machine, you bought the software, broke the shrinkwrap and clicked ok to the EULAs. You hooked it up, went online with it, spent hours playing the game and watching their copyrighted ads. You think they don't have a right to know about it? What are you trying to hide, anyway?/sarcasm
Welcome to capitalist America, where television watches you.
"Remember that this 500GB drive has much higher data density on the platters. This means that it runs over more data in 1 revolution then a 100 GB drive."
bits/cylinder and rotational speed is what really matters.
Squeezing more tracks onto the platter increases increases the data density but does nothing for transfer speeds.
Squeezing more bits onto a track also increases the data density, but there could be fewer platters.
"It was crazy the way the GOP handled the situation"
It was no surprise though. As the leader of his party, he did them a great disservice. Whether or not the affair makes a difference is irrelevant. He knew what the perception would be if he got caught. He should not have done it, and if he hadn't, there's a good chance that Gore would have beaten Bush in 2000.
"All I'm saying is that it makes sense to blame Clinton for screwing up his marriage, but the blame for our current situation lies squarely with the (slim majority of) voters."
People have different ideas about what's important. I may not agree with them, but they have a right to their beliefs and to their votes.
"Did you just claim that it's Bill Clinton's fault that Republicans voted the devil into office?
Priceless!"
Yes, I did. Are you saying that the Monica Lewinski scandal did not play right into the GOP's hand? Why do you think they were such pit bulls about it? It was definitely a drag on Gore's campaign and he tried to distance himself from the president because of it. I'm hardly the first one or the only one who subscribes to this theory.
"Democrats voted against this extension by a very large margin, yet you seem to be way more angry at them than at the party that actually managed to push this through."
I'm far more angry at the GOP and the Bush administration in particular. I'm probably just jaded enough to expect that the GOP will stand blindly behind its leader. It's a disappointment that the Democrats are not acting as a party when the GOP so clearly is.
Yeah, I'm sure they'll give us quite a show before they plug us in the ass. They're wearing us down. It's about time that we show them who the real Patriots were.
Ben Franklin would have punched Bush right in the kisser.
The Dem's sound bite on this is that they support the extension, but they have some "concerns" about civil liberties. Gee, thanks a shitload for giving us absolutely nowhere to turn to for sanity in this country. I apologize to the few honest politicians left out there for saying that the entire system is fucked.
They're also trying to make hay by criticizing the war in Iraq. But where the fuck were they before we, for the first time in history, started a war where none already existed?
Fuck you, Bill Clinton, for demeaning the office of President in such a way that infinitely corrupt GW could trick a bunch of right wing zealots to vote for him despite the pain he has caused.
"But presumably not with the same experience that was such an advantage."
Don't presume anything. You don't know the people.
"I know a few old people fairly well. What was the point you were trying to make when you said "He probably knew a lot more about life than you do"?"
The point is that he was probably a lot wiser than you and may have understood things about his child's upbringing that you could not comprehend. You shouldn't be second-guessing him.
"I'm sure she'll do a good job, but it can't possibly be as good a job as the two of them would have done together."
No you're not, and yes it can.
"I'm giving my views."
You were preaching.
"This is a discussion website, that's what people do here. I've seen people stridently declare there is no god with no such criticism. Or am I not allowed to have opinions about other peoples' parenting?"
Were you not trying to imply that James Doohan was a bad parent? That's what it sure seemed like, given the context in which you said it. I don't know whether he was or wasn't a good parent, and I doubt that you do either. In any case, I think your remark was way out of line, especially considering that the thread is about the man's death.
"If someone did something wrong, they did something wrong, regardless of whether they just died."
There you go again, implying that he did something wrong, and you don't seem to understand that it's bad form to speak ill of the dead.
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"I'm sorry, was that off-topic? Well, since the parent was modded "interesting" I guess it isn't."
The discussion was about the current adminstration.
"what Sandy Burger did makes Watergate AND this Plame nonsense look like a college prank."
Get real. They're bitching about missing versions of a report that they chose to ignore anyway. Officials at the National Archives thought that Berger just had copies, and not the originals, so why should anyone believe that Berger thought any differently?
"HAHA! oh wait, you're serious?
How cute."
You think it's a joke? How tragic.
Right, and they'll claim that her identify is supersensitive, yet they won't prosecute someone who publishes the info (Novak). They will, however, prosecute someone who protects the info(Miller).
For crying out loud people, just because you voted for Bush doesn't mean you owe him your undying support. Oust the bastard. This shit makes Watergate look like a college prank.
"Perhaps I missed something, but if you want nonvolatile /tmp, couldn't you just use a normal disk-based one and let OS's disk cache take care of speeding things up ? "
/tmp to store data between reboots... Your home directory, for example :)."
This disk cache can't speed up sync'ed writes. Another disadvantage to that approach is that by moving big datasets thru the fs cache, you might constantly be blowing out more useful stuff.
"Altought you propably want to use some other place than
Definitely.
right from the community chest. That's a lot of little green houses and red hotels.
"Get a 64-bit processor, install the memory to the motherboard as usual and use tmpfs for the /tmp directory."
/tmp can be valuable. Otherwise, I agree with you. Put the fastest storage as close to the processor and DMA channels as possible.
What distinguishes this from RAM is that it's non-volatile. That's what I didn't like about the parent's idea of using it as swap. For some applications, a NV
I disagree. If it's virtual memory you want, then you would be better off putting the memory right in a DIMM slot.
/tmp where you want lower latencies than a disk, but don't care that it's not as fast as RAM.
This type of storage makes for a good
Another good use would be to use it as a filesystem cache for the OS on a diskless network client.
"most of them are turd"
Ah yes, the turd network.
"Imagine if they said, "this next Madonna song was sponsored by EMI."
That would make the music show a defacto advertisement. People would tune out in droves. By hiding the money, they can make an ad seem like a music show.
Listeners don't like being lied to, and given that the airwaves belong to them, they have a right to honesty.
Honest artists and producers don't like it because it's anticompetetive. Implicit in the deal that "you will play *our* music more" is the undeniable fact that "you will play *their* music less".
What amazes me, is that they've been getting away with the "new payola" for so long now. I think it's fair to say that the reason "popular" music sucks so bad is that most of it doesn't become popular on its own merit. Its popularity is engineered in boardrooms.
It's not spyware. You bought the machine, you bought the software, broke the shrinkwrap and clicked ok to the EULAs. You hooked it up, went online with it, spent hours playing the game and watching their copyrighted ads. You think they don't have a right to know about it? What are you trying to hide, anyway? /sarcasm
Welcome to capitalist America, where television watches you.
"Remember that this 500GB drive has much higher data density on the platters. This means that it runs over more data in 1 revolution then a 100 GB drive."
bits/cylinder and rotational speed is what really matters.
Squeezing more tracks onto the platter increases increases the data density but does nothing for transfer speeds.
Squeezing more bits onto a track also increases the data density, but there could be fewer platters.
"...where shall we find a Giant Magellan who can operate such a big telescope for us?"
You head east and I'll head west. Be careful near the edge.
"I wasn't implying that."
Liar.
"It was crazy the way the GOP handled the situation"
It was no surprise though. As the leader of his party, he did them a great disservice. Whether or not the affair makes a difference is irrelevant. He knew what the perception would be if he got caught. He should not have done it, and if he hadn't, there's a good chance that Gore would have beaten Bush in 2000.
"All I'm saying is that it makes sense to blame Clinton for screwing up his marriage, but the blame for our current situation lies squarely with the (slim majority of) voters."
People have different ideas about what's important. I may not agree with them, but they have a right to their beliefs and to their votes.
This is not your father's GOP.
"Did you just claim that it's Bill Clinton's fault that Republicans voted the devil into office?
Priceless!"
Yes, I did. Are you saying that the Monica Lewinski scandal did not play right into the GOP's hand? Why do you think they were such pit bulls about it? It was definitely a drag on Gore's campaign and he tried to distance himself from the president because of it. I'm hardly the first one or the only one who subscribes to this theory.
"Democrats voted against this extension by a very large margin, yet you seem to be way more angry at them than at the party that actually managed to push this through."
I'm far more angry at the GOP and the Bush administration in particular. I'm probably just jaded enough to expect that the GOP will stand blindly behind its leader. It's a disappointment that the Democrats are not acting as a party when the GOP so clearly is.
It's not out of context. The entire thread is right there for all to see. You're trying to bolster a bogus argument by equivocating.
The insult may not add anything to my argument, but it's a good concise summary.
I hear Jim Lahey has Julian's trailer up for sale. Maybe I'll go into the shopping cart business with good ole Bubs.
"Bush can come over your house..."
I'll have a bowl of pretzels ready for him to choke on.
Fuck that, I'm managing my anger at this situation just fine, thank you.
"an interesting process"
Yeah, I'm sure they'll give us quite a show before they plug us in the ass. They're wearing us down. It's about time that we show them who the real Patriots were.
Ben Franklin would have punched Bush right in the kisser.
The Dem's sound bite on this is that they support the extension, but they have some "concerns" about civil liberties. Gee, thanks a shitload for giving us absolutely nowhere to turn to for sanity in this country. I apologize to the few honest politicians left out there for saying that the entire system is fucked.
They're also trying to make hay by criticizing the war in Iraq. But where the fuck were they before we, for the first time in history, started a war where none already existed?
Fuck you, Bill Clinton, for demeaning the office of President in such a way that infinitely corrupt GW could trick a bunch of right wing zealots to vote for him despite the pain he has caused.
First this:
"he was wrong"
Then this:
"I'm not implying that he did something wrong"
You're just fucked.
"But presumably not with the same experience that was such an advantage."
Don't presume anything. You don't know the people.
"I know a few old people fairly well. What was the point you were trying to make when you said "He probably knew a lot more about life than you do"?"
The point is that he was probably a lot wiser than you and may have understood things about his child's upbringing that you could not comprehend. You shouldn't be second-guessing him.
"I'm sure she'll do a good job, but it can't possibly be as good a job as the two of them would have done together."
No you're not, and yes it can.
"I'm giving my views."
You were preaching.
"This is a discussion website, that's what people do here. I've seen people stridently declare there is no god with no such criticism. Or am I not allowed to have opinions about other peoples' parenting?"
Were you not trying to imply that James Doohan was a bad parent? That's what it sure seemed like, given the context in which you said it. I don't know whether he was or wasn't a good parent, and I doubt that you do either. In any case, I think your remark was way out of line, especially considering that the thread is about the man's death.
"If someone did something wrong, they did something wrong, regardless of whether they just died."
There you go again, implying that he did something wrong, and you don't seem to understand that it's bad form to speak ill of the dead.
"Probably, but that doesn't do any good now does it?"
Yes it does. The child will be cared for by people who knew him well.
"Yes, and someone needs to do it."
Why don't you send a note to his widow and explain it to her?
"Accepting differences doesn't extend as far as accepting people who don't bring up their children properly"
It's not for you to decide which methods are proper. Not only are you being arrogant, you're being plain rude by criticizing the recently departed.