Users never learn. Operating systems/environments and apps (this goes for Linux too) need to take some responsibility for making sure this never happens.
I haven't traced extensively, but it looks to me like most of the bids in the $600-$1200 range are from different people, some with pretty high feedback.
I agree that the statement comes off as claiming more than is true, and very likely as stronger than Gore intended it to be taken. However, it's *really* unfair to take it that way, as Gore, when he was in the Congress, did initiate bills which were very very important in making the internet viable.
People hear this quip misquoted and out of context (like the original I replied to: "Gore thinks he invented [the internet]") and think that he doesn't get the 'net. The fact is, he does get it -- and has gotten it since long before most people here (including me) ever even heard of it.
Hmm. I'm trying to remember the last time I dropped something I was carrying by its handle, and really, I can't. So I gotta say, it sounds like a fine idea to me.
Of course, it was all a sham, because ICANN cut off registration after the first few people got in, saying that "this isn't really something people should care about, so we're not going to let them vote" (plus some obvious crap about not being technically prepared).
Luckily, looks like despite that, we *did* get a good selection.
That's one way to look at it. The other is that the two parties continue to present virtually identical candidates, and there's only a small fraction of people who get a kick out of voting for a no-chance third party candidate just to make some sort of statement.
Nope. Formatting doesn't overwrite anything -- it just marks it as erased. But even overwritting the data doesn't necessarily help -- it's still possible to retrieve it. You have to overwrite it multiple times with random patterns to make sure it's really gone.
Actually, if the people in Farhenheit 451 would have had electronic books, the would have been a lot better off. Much easier to hide, and much easier to duplicate.
The point of the story isn't that books-as-paper were banned -- it's about books-as-ideas.
This isn't true. At least as of the 2.2.16 kernel, the 2GB limit still exists. (I know for sure, since I just tried it.)
However, I believe that this limit only exists on 32-bit architectures -- perhaps there was a bug which prevented 64-bit architectures from using big files too, and that's what was fixed in 2.2.14 (or.15)?
Sure, but it's worth keeping to the context. If I'm in Canada and I say "dollars", I try to mean "Canadian Dollars". Similarly, if one posts to a story which was talking about US dollars, one should continue to talk about US dollars.
I assume that that's Canadian $. At the very least, it's the price in US dollars in Canada. So not a lie, but a bit misleading if it's the first, since I assume the $1000 from the report is in US dollars.
It depends upon the task being performed of course. Some tasks can never be parallelized at all, regardless of how many CPUs you have and what operating system you are running.
Sure, but assume a task that is 100% parallelized for the purpose of the question. What is the OS overhead as you increase processors?
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I agree that the statement comes off as claiming more than is true, and very likely as stronger than Gore intended it to be taken. However, it's *really* unfair to take it that way, as Gore, when he was in the Congress, did initiate bills which were very very important in making the internet viable.
People hear this quip misquoted and out of context (like the original I replied to: "Gore thinks he invented [the internet]") and think that he doesn't get the 'net. The fact is, he does get it -- and has gotten it since long before most people here (including me) ever even heard of it.
FWIW, I'm personally for Nader....
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Luckily, looks like despite that, we *did* get a good selection.
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So while an analog format may be excempt from the regulations, it also isn't very useful on the net.
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The point of the story isn't that books-as-paper were banned -- it's about books-as-ideas.
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However, I believe that this limit only exists on 32-bit architectures -- perhaps there was a bug which prevented 64-bit architectures from using big files too, and that's what was fixed in 2.2.14 (or
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It depends upon the task being performed of course. Some tasks can never be parallelized at all, regardless of how many CPUs you have and what operating system you are running.
Sure, but assume a task that is 100% parallelized for the purpose of the question. What is the OS overhead as you increase processors?
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