What are the effects on MY body of someone using a cell phone near me? Sure they have the right to choose to use a (potentially) cancer-causing devices, but at what point does THEIR decision affect MY health?
Jane looked at the integrated router/firewall/hub solutions, but she didn't like that. She already doesn't like that her cable modem has one ugly box next to her computer, and she doesn't want another ugly box there. The last thing she wants is more confusing cables to figure out
translation:
"Jane likes cute little toys and is easily confused. Math IS hard, Jane."
Your Jane could have been the knowledge hacker, but instead you made her the stupid user.
I live in Seattle. You're talking about Maria Cantwell, an ex VP from Real Networks. Yes, she spent $10-12 million on her campaing for Senate. Of course, the 20-some year Republican incumbant Slade Gorton spent the same amount. So who is at fault? Cantwell is a harmless Democrat and I voted for her. Slade "Skeletor" Gorton is evil man set on helping his fellow cronies. For example, he added a rider that allowed some Washington timber companies to log in protected forest (and these companies got paid by the state of Washington for their "stewardship"!) to a Senate bill for providing international relief aid to Kosovo. Who's the bitch now? Slade Gorton is the bitch.
Netcraft says arsdigita.com is running AOLserver 3.0+ad5 on Solaris. If the OpenACS on a dual-processor P400 has no load impact when a Slashdot article linked to it, then how can a site running Solaris be slashdotted off the map all day? I assume that most Solaris servers are at least as capable as a P400.
With so many checks, balances, and dissenting political views, changes in our nation's political "gut" are slow. There can't be discontinuity. If Clinton is a "New Democraft" (left of middle) and his hold was weakened due to scandals/whatever, then Bush's (right of middle) opportunity forced Gore to move closer to the center.
If the Libertarian Party is so great for liberating corporations, then why does "Big Business" donate millions of dollars to the Republicrats and nothing to the Libertarian Party? The Libertarians are the eternal third party candidate, with candidates running for most offices but no publicity or corporate backing. I think the corporations like the stats quo. They like having politicians under their thumb, hiding behind the veil of da gub'mint.
BillG would never send email, let alone strategic email, to "all@microsoft.com". The bottom of the page also says "This article is a piece of satire meant to brighten your day".
Apple moved the BSD kernel into the same kernel space as the Mach microkernel. This means that they don't have the context switching overhead that traditional Mach based systems have.
Do you have a link supporting this assertion? I really doubt Apple moved FreeBSD into the Mach kernel.
For NT 4.0 they basically moved everything but the kitchen sink into Kernel space, which helped increase the speed of the system at a huge cost in stability.
So NT became less stable as it became more monolithic? The problem with microkernel is not stability, per se. It's "performance".
there is no escape from the conclusion that the killer language of the future will be judged by one feature above all else: how much it allows mediocre coders to write reasonable code reasonably fast.
Good point. I think this explains the popularity of Java. It's a typesafe language with support for cool features like exceptions. I like how Java exceptions are part of a function's signature, that is a function must either catch an exception or declare that the exception is thrown. Unhandled exceptions can be detected at compile-time. C++ is stupid about exceptions, even if you specify a throw() clause in your function prototype.:-(
All illegal drugs are bad. They serve no real purpose and cause great harm.
During the Prohibition, alcohol was illegal. Does that mean alcohol used to be bad, have no real purpose, and cause great harm? Possibly. But now alcohol is legal. Does that mean that alcohol is suddenly good? That is suddenly serves a "real" purpose and causes NO harm?
Cigarettes are legal, too. Do cigarettes serve a real purpose and cause no harm?
What will do more to remind Democratic office-holders to attend to progressive issues? A Gore win and a surprising Green turnout in Texas, or a Gore loss due to a strong Green turnout in Michigan?
If Gore loses to Bush by a few percentage points, the Democrats have two options:
1) Move left to capture a small ~5% pool of Green votes
2) Move further right to capture the huge center
I don't know the numbers, but I believe there are more centrists than either Democrats or Repulicans. Democrats would have a more likely chance to capture a few more of these votes. Plus the centrist values would be less likely to upset "New Democrats" than greener values. The Democrats will also realize that many of those ~5% have never and will never vote Democrat, always seeking to push the spectrum further left.
This leads to the conclusion that a Gose loss with push the Democrats further right to the "Repulicrat" party!:-(
IPv6 won't be deployed until it is in Microsoft's best interest. So what if the your Linux box and home LAN (or even the backbones) run IPv6. Microsoft controls 90% of desktop computers and a huge percentage of web servers and corporate networks. If these computers don't support IPv6, who is going to use it? Pay for IPv6 hardware, software, and admins? Microsoft will make or break IPv6 by either supporting it or not.
Look at the brokenness in the spinlocks and semaphores.... One that must make use of the broken spinlocks and semaphores, while avoiding the wrath of bdflush and kupdated, is very hard to stabilize on Linux.
I'm curious what is broken about Linux spinlocks and semaphores? Can they be fixed? Your comments imply that spinlocks and semaphores have bad interactions wtih bdflush and kupdated. Do they deadlock or something?
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I was being sarcastic, fool.
What are the effects on MY body of someone using a cell phone near me? Sure they have the right to choose to use a (potentially) cancer-causing devices, but at what point does THEIR decision affect MY health?
c++ bleh..
true.
Jane looked at the integrated router/firewall/hub solutions, but she didn't like that. She already doesn't like that her cable modem has one ugly box next to her computer, and she doesn't want another ugly box there. The last thing she wants is more confusing cables to figure out
translation:
"Jane likes cute little toys and is easily confused. Math IS hard, Jane."
Your Jane could have been the knowledge hacker, but instead you made her the stupid user.
I live in Seattle. You're talking about Maria Cantwell, an ex VP from Real Networks. Yes, she spent $10-12 million on her campaing for Senate. Of course, the 20-some year Republican incumbant Slade Gorton spent the same amount. So who is at fault? Cantwell is a harmless Democrat and I voted for her. Slade "Skeletor" Gorton is evil man set on helping his fellow cronies. For example, he added a rider that allowed some Washington timber companies to log in protected forest (and these companies got paid by the state of Washington for their "stewardship"!) to a Senate bill for providing international relief aid to Kosovo. Who's the bitch now? Slade Gorton is the bitch.
http://www.arsdigita.com
Netcraft says arsdigita.com is running AOLserver 3.0+ad5 on Solaris. If the OpenACS on a dual-processor P400 has no load impact when a Slashdot article linked to it, then how can a site running Solaris be slashdotted off the map all day? I assume that most Solaris servers are at least as capable as a P400.
truth: Al Gore is a ho.
With so many checks, balances, and dissenting political views, changes in our nation's political "gut" are slow. There can't be discontinuity. If Clinton is a "New Democraft" (left of middle) and his hold was weakened due to scandals/whatever, then Bush's (right of middle) opportunity forced Gore to move closer to the center.
If the Libertarian Party is so great for liberating corporations, then why does "Big Business" donate millions of dollars to the Republicrats and nothing to the Libertarian Party? The Libertarians are the eternal third party candidate, with candidates running for most offices but no publicity or corporate backing. I think the corporations like the stats quo. They like having politicians under their thumb, hiding behind the veil of da gub'mint.
BillG would never send email, let alone strategic email, to "all@microsoft.com". The bottom of the page also says "This article is a piece of satire meant to brighten your day".
Apple moved the BSD kernel into the same kernel space as the Mach microkernel. This means that they don't have the context switching overhead that traditional Mach based systems have.
Do you have a link supporting this assertion? I really doubt Apple moved FreeBSD into the Mach kernel.
For NT 4.0 they basically moved everything but the kitchen sink into Kernel space, which helped increase the speed of the system at a huge cost in stability.
So NT became less stable as it became more monolithic? The problem with microkernel is not stability, per se. It's "performance".
there is no escape from the conclusion that the killer language of the future will be judged by one feature above all else: how much it allows mediocre coders to write reasonable code reasonably fast.
:-(
Good point. I think this explains the popularity of Java. It's a typesafe language with support for cool features like exceptions. I like how Java exceptions are part of a function's signature, that is a function must either catch an exception or declare that the exception is thrown. Unhandled exceptions can be detected at compile-time. C++ is stupid about exceptions, even if you specify a throw() clause in your function prototype.
;-)
All it lacks is a little transactional auditability and data integrity
'nuf said.
All illegal drugs are bad. They serve no real purpose and cause great harm.
During the Prohibition, alcohol was illegal. Does that mean alcohol used to be bad, have no real purpose, and cause great harm? Possibly. But now alcohol is legal. Does that mean that alcohol is suddenly good? That is suddenly serves a "real" purpose and causes NO harm?
Cigarettes are legal, too. Do cigarettes serve a real purpose and cause no harm?
Check out GreensForGore.org for more info about swings states and choosing between Nader versus Gore. Here's the CNN's swing state map.
What will do more to remind Democratic office-holders to attend to progressive issues? A Gore win and a surprising Green turnout in Texas, or a Gore loss due to a strong Green turnout in Michigan?
:-(
If Gore loses to Bush by a few percentage points, the Democrats have two options:
1) Move left to capture a small ~5% pool of Green votes
2) Move further right to capture the huge center
I don't know the numbers, but I believe there are more centrists than either Democrats or Repulicans. Democrats would have a more likely chance to capture a few more of these votes. Plus the centrist values would be less likely to upset "New Democrats" than greener values. The Democrats will also realize that many of those ~5% have never and will never vote Democrat, always seeking to push the spectrum further left.
This leads to the conclusion that a Gose loss with push the Democrats further right to the "Repulicrat" party!
Try some weed, too.
IPv6 won't be deployed until it is in Microsoft's best interest. So what if the your Linux box and home LAN (or even the backbones) run IPv6. Microsoft controls 90% of desktop computers and a huge percentage of web servers and corporate networks. If these computers don't support IPv6, who is going to use it? Pay for IPv6 hardware, software, and admins? Microsoft will make or break IPv6 by either supporting it or not.
Check out Steve Gibson's Shields Up , especially if you run Windows. It will probe your IP address for open ports and NetBIOS crap.
Ballmer
Look at the brokenness in the spinlocks and semaphores. ... One that must make use of the broken spinlocks and semaphores, while avoiding the wrath of bdflush and kupdated, is very hard to stabilize on Linux.
I'm curious what is broken about Linux spinlocks and semaphores? Can they be fixed? Your comments imply that spinlocks and semaphores have bad interactions wtih bdflush and kupdated. Do they deadlock or something?