1) Go downtown this afternoon (any small town or city will do), and look at the buildings. I bet you will see plenty of carved writing on walls and cornerstones. Some even depicts history!
Heh, okay, allow me to rephrase by saying "name a single form of digital media", since that's the form much of our new information is taking.
2) Many, many volumes of information are currently being preserved in the Library of Congress and elsewhere utilizing anti-aging techniques. I would expect most of these collections to survive for quite a long time.
Assuming, of course, that the library of congress exists 100 (or 2000) years from now, and has managed to continue practicing these anti-aging techniques, fine, it's possible for these materials to survive. However, there's no way current digital media could survive being abandoned in a cave for 2000 years... my point is that these media are fragile, and require work on our part to maintain them, which could pose a problem. And this completely ignores our possible inability to read said media (even media from as recent as 40 years ago is difficult to read these days (lack of readers, etc)... imagine trying to read a backup tape 100 years from now!)
If you actually read that link, it doesn't actually say anywhere that the portion of people who are dehydrated is not large
Actually, if you read the full text of the article, you would've notice this:
'[S]ome nutritionists insist that half the country is walking around dehydrated. We drink too much coffee, tea and sodas containing caffeine, which prompts the body to lose water, they say; and when we are dehydrated, we don't know enough to drink.
Can it be so? Should healthy adults really be stalking the water cooler to protect themselves from creeping dehydration?
Not at all, doctors say. "The notion that there is widespread dehydration has no basis in medical fact," says Dr. Robert Alpern, dean of the medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.'
So, you would argue that we are worse at reccord keeping than we were 2000 years ago?
Actually... yes. Consider that the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Rosetta Stone have both existed for ~2000 years. Can you name a single form of media we have today that will last as long? Now, granted, today we are more focused on record keeping, so in that regard, we are better. But I guarantee, most of those records will be unaccessible in 100 years.
To provide a counter example, here in Edmonton Alberta, Canada, it's been average for this time of year (-10 to -15C) with lots of snow. Although we had a ridiculously warm fall, up until about a week ago.
Fairly recently as compared to when? I remember using ftp behind NAT years ago, back in the mid-90s...and boy does that sound strange.
Yeah... it took until around 6 years ago before FTP would even work through a NAT. FTP! One of the oldest protocols on the 'net! And this requires stateful management on the server, which is non-trivial. Basically, it requires a protocol-specific hack.
Anyhow, the stuff now works and is stable (and has for years), so there's no reason to whine about stability, etc. If your software doesn't work behind NAT, it's because they hired an inexperienced network guy to write the code.
Sorry, but you're totally wrong, here. There are many applications (IPSec being the most obvious, as well as end-user apps, like VoIP, P2P apps, etc), where the very architecture of said application means NAT fundamentally breaks things. And yes, there are ways to hack around these limitations, but they're just that, hacks. And this is unavoidable... the minute you want machines to be able to directly contact other machines, things break down in the face of NAT.
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eat vegetables (not from cans).
Why not from cans? Assuming they haven't been spiked with sugar, I see absolutely no reason why things like canned peas, beans, etc, should be excluded from the diet. And they have the advantage of long shelf life, easy accessibility, etc.
My parents have an SBC DSL account and now I can't send them email from my server (admittedly hosted on a roadrunner cable modem) because they're blocking everything from 'dialups'.
Then relay your mail through your ISPs SMTP server and move on with life. Suddenly, everything works, and you still have control over your own mail server. This also offloads SMTP re-sends, etc, onto the ISP mail server, rather than your own, which is rather nice.
WTF??? Colin Powell works for the President. Powell went to the UN and attempted to justify attacking Iraq based on the threat posed by Iraq's "possession" of WMD. Thus, the President, obviously, believed this too (otherwise, Powell wouldn't have said it!). How the hell can you not understand this?
Sure, personal firewalls located on every computer can help to avoid the spread of worms. However, *many* viruses spread through simple social engineering. After all, a firewall would have done nothing to prevent the spread of all those email viruses we've heard about. Not to mention other infection vectors like the web browser. So, yes, a firewall is definitely part of the security equation. However, it is NOT a magic silver bullet (as any sysadmin will attest).
But just imagine what you'd be missing out on. IMHO, the companionship of the opposite sex is one of life's greatest pleasures (both mental and physical).
You do realize that the point of this book is to provide *scientific* information about the evolution of sex in various species, right? This isn't at book intended to teach you how to be a player. Maybe you should try reading the review next time. After all, I find it's often helpful, when commenting, to actually understand what you're commenting on.
Well, it's really not necessary to RFC the CARP protocol as it will not prevent it from being patented,
Umm, that isn't the point of standardizing the protocol at all. Creating an RFC defines a standard and reference which other implementors can refer to, and other implementations can claim to support. This is good for everyone, as it should help to improve interoperability. Besides, there needs to be a real description of this protocol written down *somewhere*, so why not make it an RFC, so it can be backed by the IETF as well?
Okay, first, I will guarantee you, the linpack they were running was properly optimized for the architecture. If not, they shouldn't be building a cluster in the first place, because they're morons.
Second, the difference caused by increased optimization in the kernel, for an application like this, is relatively insignificant, simply because most of the work is done in user-space. In fact, any decent super-computing application will do its best to minimize system calls (allocating memory pools, chunking I/O, etc). About the only place the kernel is really involved is in sending/receiving data, and my bet is that optimization here would make relatively little difference, in light of the delays introduced by the network itself, interfacing with the card, etc, etc.
Third, I highly doubt they're running any other software on the cluster nodes that would impact performance. Again, if they were doing that, they'd benefit more from hiring a new system architect.
So, basically, what I'm saying is, comparing your little KDE desktop to a supercomputing application is laughable at best.
Okay, forget this specific issue for a moment. To quote the poster:
"Note that this is not a free speech issue, even though the blog was hosted on a non-company server, because Microsoft is not, yet, the government."
So, what he's saying is that, as long as the government isn't involved in censorship, it's not a free speech issue?? You have GOT to be kidding me! Ignoring the merits of this particular case, if any reasonably powerful entity is involved in punishing another individual for exercising their right to free speech, that entity is involved in censorship. Not only are they censoring the individual, but they also effectively intimidate, and silence, anyone else who might also speak their minds, thus effectively censoring them as well.
As an example, this is no different than journalists being coerced into supporting a particular view (say, not criticising the president because it's "anti-American"), for fear of losing their job. Like it or not, this is censorship, and this is ABSOLUTELY a free speech issue. Just because some company is doing it, doesn't make it any less dangerous. After all, it's these companies are not apolitical entities, as much as you'd like to believe it.
So don't believe for a moment that free speech is only an issue when the government is one of the parties involved. Frankly, I'm amazed that someone could be so blind as to actually believe this.
Actually, it's vitally important, also, that you don't bathe before sunbathing. I know, sounds funny, but vitamin D is produced through sun exposure by reacting with sweat on the skin. So, if you go and take a shower, and then lay out in the sun, you'll have very little vitamin D production.
So, I guess your average geek would do well to just get out in the sun once in a while.:)
Man, this is so typical of people these days. "What about me? Why doesn't someone think about Me? Me! Me! Me!" Reminds me a lot of the seagulls in "Finding Nemo". "Mine?"
Guess what, science benefits all of us (after all, 50 years ago, someone might have asked "Who cares about Quantum Mechanics??"... and yet today, we have transistors). The images NASA produces aren't just pretty pictures for us to appreciate. They're real, scientific data which can be used to understand the Sun and it's relationship with our planet.
Keep in mind, it's because of projects like this (for example, WIMPS), which has allowed us to come tantalizingly close to understanding some of the fundamental processes of the Universe, including how it formed, how it evolved, and how it will eventually die.
Besides, while we're on the topic of priorities, maybe you should ask your government why they spend a quarter of the budget on the military (doing such wonderful things as researching ultra-small tactical nuclear devices) rather than spending it on you. Or do you feel that increasing US military supremacy (and potentially igniting a new arms race) is more important than the pursuit of knowledge?
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1) Go downtown this afternoon (any small town or city will do), and look at the buildings. I bet you will see plenty of carved writing on walls and cornerstones. Some even depicts history!
Heh, okay, allow me to rephrase by saying "name a single form of digital media", since that's the form much of our new information is taking.
2) Many, many volumes of information are currently being preserved in the Library of Congress and elsewhere utilizing anti-aging techniques. I would expect most of these collections to survive for quite a long time.
Assuming, of course, that the library of congress exists 100 (or 2000) years from now, and has managed to continue practicing these anti-aging techniques, fine, it's possible for these materials to survive. However, there's no way current digital media could survive being abandoned in a cave for 2000 years... my point is that these media are fragile, and require work on our part to maintain them, which could pose a problem. And this completely ignores our possible inability to read said media (even media from as recent as 40 years ago is difficult to read these days (lack of readers, etc)... imagine trying to read a backup tape 100 years from now!)
If you actually read that link, it doesn't actually say anywhere that the portion of people who are dehydrated is not large
Actually, if you read the full text of the article, you would've notice this:
'[S]ome nutritionists insist that half the country is walking around dehydrated. We drink too much coffee, tea and sodas containing caffeine, which prompts the body to lose water, they say; and when we are dehydrated, we don't know enough to drink.
Can it be so? Should healthy adults really be stalking the water cooler to protect themselves from creeping dehydration?
Not at all, doctors say. "The notion that there is widespread dehydration has no basis in medical fact," says Dr. Robert Alpern, dean of the medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.'
There are several instances of this happening with America.
Just OOC, what are these instances? Any links to credible news sources?
So, you would argue that we are worse at reccord keeping than we were 2000 years ago?
Actually... yes. Consider that the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Rosetta Stone have both existed for ~2000 years. Can you name a single form of media we have today that will last as long? Now, granted, today we are more focused on record keeping, so in that regard, we are better. But I guarantee, most of those records will be unaccessible in 100 years.
To provide a counter example, here in Edmonton Alberta, Canada, it's been average for this time of year (-10 to -15C) with lots of snow. Although we had a ridiculously warm fall, up until about a week ago.
Fairly recently as compared to when? I remember using ftp behind NAT years ago, back in the mid-90s...and boy does that sound strange.
Yeah... it took until around 6 years ago before FTP would even work through a NAT. FTP! One of the oldest protocols on the 'net! And this requires stateful management on the server, which is non-trivial. Basically, it requires a protocol-specific hack.
Anyhow, the stuff now works and is stable (and has for years), so there's no reason to whine about stability, etc. If your software doesn't work behind NAT, it's because they hired an inexperienced network guy to write the code.
Sorry, but you're totally wrong, here. There are many applications (IPSec being the most obvious, as well as end-user apps, like VoIP, P2P apps, etc), where the very architecture of said application means NAT fundamentally breaks things. And yes, there are ways to hack around these limitations, but they're just that, hacks. And this is unavoidable... the minute you want machines to be able to directly contact other machines, things break down in the face of NAT.
eat vegetables (not from cans).
Why not from cans? Assuming they haven't been spiked with sugar, I see absolutely no reason why things like canned peas, beans, etc, should be excluded from the diet. And they have the advantage of long shelf life, easy accessibility, etc.
Considering that a large portion of people are constantly dehydrated
Sorry, this is incorrect. Snopes link.
My parents have an SBC DSL account and now I can't send them email from my server (admittedly hosted on a roadrunner cable modem) because they're blocking everything from 'dialups'.
Then relay your mail through your ISPs SMTP server and move on with life. Suddenly, everything works, and you still have control over your own mail server. This also offloads SMTP re-sends, etc, onto the ISP mail server, rather than your own, which is rather nice.
Ahh, you are absolutely correct. Allow me to amend my post to say "companionship of your preferred sex".
WTF??? Colin Powell works for the President. Powell went to the UN and attempted to justify attacking Iraq based on the threat posed by Iraq's "possession" of WMD. Thus, the President, obviously, believed this too (otherwise, Powell wouldn't have said it!). How the hell can you not understand this?
Those are common liberal misconceptions? I've never heard any of those claims... then again, I get my news from the CBC.
Plus there's that whole prior art thingy... :)
Sure, personal firewalls located on every computer can help to avoid the spread of worms. However, *many* viruses spread through simple social engineering. After all, a firewall would have done nothing to prevent the spread of all those email viruses we've heard about. Not to mention other infection vectors like the web browser. So, yes, a firewall is definitely part of the security equation. However, it is NOT a magic silver bullet (as any sysadmin will attest).
But just imagine what you'd be missing out on. IMHO, the companionship of the opposite sex is one of life's greatest pleasures (both mental and physical).
You do realize that the point of this book is to provide *scientific* information about the evolution of sex in various species, right? This isn't at book intended to teach you how to be a player. Maybe you should try reading the review next time. After all, I find it's often helpful, when commenting, to actually understand what you're commenting on.
This was modded *insightful*???
Actually, these days, it's more like $1.30, all thanks to the crashing American dollar. :)
Well, it's really not necessary to RFC the CARP protocol as it will not prevent it from being patented,
Umm, that isn't the point of standardizing the protocol at all. Creating an RFC defines a standard and reference which other implementors can refer to, and other implementations can claim to support. This is good for everyone, as it should help to improve interoperability. Besides, there needs to be a real description of this protocol written down *somewhere*, so why not make it an RFC, so it can be backed by the IETF as well?
Well, I still find it unbelievably annoying, whether or not it's supposedly "correct". More importantly, last I checked, I didn't speak old English. ;)
Okay, first, I will guarantee you, the linpack they were running was properly optimized for the architecture. If not, they shouldn't be building a cluster in the first place, because they're morons.
Second, the difference caused by increased optimization in the kernel, for an application like this, is relatively insignificant, simply because most of the work is done in user-space. In fact, any decent super-computing application will do its best to minimize system calls (allocating memory pools, chunking I/O, etc). About the only place the kernel is really involved is in sending/receiving data, and my bet is that optimization here would make relatively little difference, in light of the delays introduced by the network itself, interfacing with the card, etc, etc.
Third, I highly doubt they're running any other software on the cluster nodes that would impact performance. Again, if they were doing that, they'd benefit more from hiring a new system architect.
So, basically, what I'm saying is, comparing your little KDE desktop to a supercomputing application is laughable at best.
Well, at least they didn't use my most hated "word", "boxen".
Okay, forget this specific issue for a moment. To quote the poster:
"Note that this is not a free speech issue, even though the blog was hosted on a non-company server, because Microsoft is not, yet, the government."
So, what he's saying is that, as long as the government isn't involved in censorship, it's not a free speech issue?? You have GOT to be kidding me! Ignoring the merits of this particular case, if any reasonably powerful entity is involved in punishing another individual for exercising their right to free speech, that entity is involved in censorship. Not only are they censoring the individual, but they also effectively intimidate, and silence, anyone else who might also speak their minds, thus effectively censoring them as well.
As an example, this is no different than journalists being coerced into supporting a particular view (say, not criticising the president because it's "anti-American"), for fear of losing their job. Like it or not, this is censorship, and this is ABSOLUTELY a free speech issue. Just because some company is doing it, doesn't make it any less dangerous. After all, it's these companies are not apolitical entities, as much as you'd like to believe it.
So don't believe for a moment that free speech is only an issue when the government is one of the parties involved. Frankly, I'm amazed that someone could be so blind as to actually believe this.
Actually, it's vitally important, also, that you don't bathe before sunbathing. I know, sounds funny, but vitamin D is produced through sun exposure by reacting with sweat on the skin. So, if you go and take a shower, and then lay out in the sun, you'll have very little vitamin D production.
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So, I guess your average geek would do well to just get out in the sun once in a while.
Man, this is so typical of people these days. "What about me? Why doesn't someone think about Me? Me! Me! Me!" Reminds me a lot of the seagulls in "Finding Nemo". "Mine?"
Guess what, science benefits all of us (after all, 50 years ago, someone might have asked "Who cares about Quantum Mechanics??"... and yet today, we have transistors). The images NASA produces aren't just pretty pictures for us to appreciate. They're real, scientific data which can be used to understand the Sun and it's relationship with our planet.
Keep in mind, it's because of projects like this (for example, WIMPS), which has allowed us to come tantalizingly close to understanding some of the fundamental processes of the Universe, including how it formed, how it evolved, and how it will eventually die.
Besides, while we're on the topic of priorities, maybe you should ask your government why they spend a quarter of the budget on the military (doing such wonderful things as researching ultra-small tactical nuclear devices) rather than spending it on you. Or do you feel that increasing US military supremacy (and potentially igniting a new arms race) is more important than the pursuit of knowledge?