I was amazed that the number was so small. Finland with a population of only 5 million people issued 1840 wiretap permits in 2003 (that is pretty scary).
The discrepancy is so large that I'm not sure this is an apples to apples comparison, perhaps there is some fundamental difference between the systems that inflates our numbers
Smaller and faster? Do you think PIV is just a 386 with faster clockspeed afforded by smaller transistors? Superpipelining, Out of order execution, Hyperthreading, Trace cache, Branch prediction, Prefetching... There is a shitload of innovation there, precicely because of Moore's law - these features take a ton of transistors and wires. Moore's law didn't make innovation unnecessary, it made it possible.
If anyone has been slacking off it's the software developers. Relying on ever improving hardware to "fix" their inefficient code. But the free lunch is almost over, the clock hike has pretty much leveled off and coders will have to start caring about speed again.
People say it's faster, though I haven't had any problems with speed since version 1.1. Sure I believe Firefox is faster, but Mozilla is "fast enough". Then there is the separate-apps-stability argument, which I find even less relevant as I can't even remember the last time Mozilla crashed one me (and I'm using nightlies here).
Reasons for NOT switching
Would have to migrate 4 profiles (plus 2 mail profiles)
I have no idea how mature Firebird is (the 2 mail profiles)
Prefs. Firefox prefs are much more newbie friendly, but if you know your way around Mozilla prefs you will miss them
Feature sets are pretty much eqeual => lazyness wins
Defensive weaponry helps reduce the threat of war.
Actually, this system lowers the threshold of going to war. You can bet they will try to make mobile versions of these lasers that can be shipped to other countries to protect deployed troops. That means lower US casualties, which means Jeb Bush may be little less hesitant to invade Iraq.
Also maybe someone should point out that Apache actually gained 0.54% relative market share in the past month, while Microsoft lost 0.21%. In fact, September 2003 looks like it was the Best month ever for Apache so far.
Finland, Sweden and Norway are land masses too, with lots of glaciers and permafrost
Neat! I've been meaning to visit the northern parts of my country for quite a while, you know, go see the polar bears and penguins my American friends are always talking about. Usually when I tell my friends back here in Finland about my plan they just stare at me and shake their heads, but boy, are they gonna be surprised when I show them the pictures of me standing on a glacier, patting the the head of an emperor penguin! That's gonna be sooo cool!
Maybe I'll visit some of the Eskimo villages while I'm at it!
When the compos start everyone is required to turn off their monitors and speakers. There isn't much else to do (maybe go get some food?) so vast majority of people watches the demos. Why should you care if people play CS or Quake between the compos? Alcohol isn't allowed and the place really isn't the most productive environment for coding.
Lets not pretend that manufacturing semiconductors and PCBs doesn't take TONS of chemicals (but like the film industry they are carefull and recycle too). They also use alot of energy and water. And finally, the cheapest disposable film cameras don't need batteries - digital cameras most certainly do.
I'm not saying digital camers are worse than film, but you can't really make the opposite case either, not without backing it with some hard data. It could really be either way. Calculating the ecological footprint for _anything_ is a very complicated task.
Anyone who is trying to avoid all info on Star Wars should disable Star Wars related material from their preferences. Of course spoiler avoidance and/or warnings are still needed, it's basic courtesy.
IMO this is not a bad case of spoiling, but let me tell you I was absolutely furious when slashdot ran this bit about lone gunmen (X-Files). I still have all stories by Chrisd filtered because of that incident.
So that's why anonymous posting is still allowed! CmdrTaco wants to take part in the discussion too!
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I have never been a big fan of micheal, but if I he can bring some fresh air in to this stinkhole then more power to him. I've been reading slashdot for several years and I'm pretty damn sick of the endless stream of stories about DMCA, RIAA, MPAA, anything about MS that immediately has a score 5 comment about how unstable windows95 is, how some company in Canada that I've never heard of is doing a linux feasibilty study, a new 1000TB storage technology that will never hit the stores, etc etc. It's always a variation of some basic story that we've already heard a thousand times - the following discussion usually has NO variation. Everyone agrees Jack Valentini is an asshole, and about 50% of readers think MS can go to hell and the other 50% thinks they are just another big corp that sometimes does stuff we don't like but should be tolerated. Even "weird" is an improvement over the same old tired shit.
I burn at 32X all the time and it's been hundreds of discs since I've burned a coaster.
And can you read those disc with an old 2x or 4x reader? Can you read the data on the discs ten years from now? The cold harsh truth is that more speed = lower quality. It may not come out a coaster but, it is still lower quality than a disc burned at 4x. And of course it's even worse if you have a buffer underrun - BurnProof may save the disc from becomming a coaster but you still end up with errors on the disc. Sure, the errors are correctable now, but in five years when the disc has had some physical wear and sunlight...
If durabilty and compatibilty is at all important to you, use quality media and burn at low speed.
This is just the latest example why slashdot needs a -1 bullshit/misinformation moderation option. The post isn't a troll, it's not really a flame[bait] either and it certainly isn'f off-topic. That leaves -1 overrated. The -1 is fine, but it doesnt change the moderation reason shown with the comment. So if you moderate +5 informative post with -1 overrated the next idiot moderator will just see the +4 informative and think "hey this is a good post, it really should be +5 informative".
actually, that was Ulrich's other test, which tests the serial starting of
100,000 threads.
the test i did started up 100,000 concurrent threads which shot up the
load-average to a couple of thousands. [the default timeslice the parent
has is enough to start more than 50,000 parallel threads a pop or so.]
And another one:
Anton tested 1 million concurrent threads on one of his bigger PowerPC
boxes, which started up in around 30 seconds. I think he saw a load
average of around 200 thousand. [ie. the runqueue was probably a few
hundred thousand entries long at times.]
So what's your number one complaint about hard drives: - Unreliable - Not enough space - Not fast enough - Too expensive - Makes too much noise - Generates too much heat - Is too damn thick!
Dunno, I wouldn't really consider it too annoying if the Mozilla splash screen had an ad "Mozilla development was sponsored by Netscape" instead of the fire breathing dragon.
The summary said "IP protocol 11", which I for one interpeted as IPv11 (and was very confused by that as you probably can imagine). The thing is, ICMP, TCP, UDP and "Protocol 11" are *not* IP-protocols, they are transport protocols that run ontop of IP. IPv4 and IPv6 are the obvious examples of IP-protocols.
I didn't actually do much checking on the prices but they should be reasonably close.
Athlon XP 2000 - 150$
Cheap mobo with etherent 100$
128MB DDR SDRAM - 25$
Case and PSU - 50$
8GB HDD - 75$
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Total 400$
Yep, it's twice as expensive. But in a clusternode it's usually the the CPU that counts and XP2000 is 2-3 times faster than what is in an X-Box. A cluster node doesn't need a DVD drive or a top of the line Gforce4. You may not even need the harddistk. With 200,000$ you can get 500 nodes like this, or a linux distribution that boots on X-Box - but you still need to buy the 1000 X-Boxen to run that distro for another 200,000$. And of course 6 months from now the the Athlon config will be ~50$ cheaper, while the X-Box is steady at 200$.
Funny thing that trophy.. The actual trophy is 18-karat gold, but FIFA keeps it locked in a vault somewhere. All the time. The one the players get to carry and kiss is just a gold-plated replica. I gues it makes sense on some level, the official trophy has been stolen twice (1966 and 1983, recovered the first time but the second time it prosumedly got melted for its gold). Still, it feels silly that the winners of the biggest single sporting event in the world are awarded with a fake trophy.
What killed the movie for was not the impossible jumps/flying, but the way those jumps were made. People ran whilst mid-air! WTF? Why couldn't they just jump/leap like in The Matrix? Trinity's huge leap from one rooftop to another in the beginning of Matrix is infinately more realisic looking than any stunt in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
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10 bits are needed to transmit 1 byte of data, thus 3Gbs wire speed == 300MBs usable bandwidth.
"Who watches the watchers" is +5 Funny? WTF?
The discrepancy is so large that I'm not sure this is an apples to apples comparison, perhaps there is some fundamental difference between the systems that inflates our numbers
If anyone has been slacking off it's the software developers. Relying on ever improving hardware to "fix" their inefficient code. But the free lunch is almost over, the clock hike has pretty much leveled off and coders will have to start caring about speed again.
Oops. Well at least I got the bird-part right :/
Reasons for NOT switching
Isn't that the Bush campaign slogan?
Actually, this system lowers the threshold of going to war. You can bet they will try to make mobile versions of these lasers that can be shipped to other countries to protect deployed troops. That means lower US casualties, which means Jeb Bush may be little less hesitant to invade Iraq.
Also maybe someone should point out that Apache actually gained 0.54% relative market share in the past month, while Microsoft lost 0.21%. In fact, September 2003 looks like it was the Best month ever for Apache so far.
Neat! I've been meaning to visit the northern parts of my country for quite a while, you know, go see the polar bears and penguins my American friends are always talking about. Usually when I tell my friends back here in Finland about my plan they just stare at me and shake their heads, but boy, are they gonna be surprised when I show them the pictures of me standing on a glacier, patting the the head of an emperor penguin! That's gonna be sooo cool!
Maybe I'll visit some of the Eskimo villages while I'm at it!
When the compos start everyone is required to turn off their monitors and speakers. There isn't much else to do (maybe go get some food?) so vast majority of people watches the demos. Why should you care if people play CS or Quake between the compos? Alcohol isn't allowed and the place really isn't the most productive environment for coding.
I'm not saying digital camers are worse than film, but you can't really make the opposite case either, not without backing it with some hard data. It could really be either way. Calculating the ecological footprint for _anything_ is a very complicated task.
Why bother? It's not like viruses haven't been cabable of erasing hard drives or making systems unusable before.
IMO this is not a bad case of spoiling, but let me tell you I was absolutely furious when slashdot ran this bit about lone gunmen (X-Files). I still have all stories by Chrisd filtered because of that incident.
So that's why anonymous posting is still allowed! CmdrTaco wants to take part in the discussion too!
I have never been a big fan of micheal, but if I he can bring some fresh air in to this stinkhole then more power to him. I've been reading slashdot for several years and I'm pretty damn sick of the endless stream of stories about DMCA, RIAA, MPAA, anything about MS that immediately has a score 5 comment about how unstable windows95 is, how some company in Canada that I've never heard of is doing a linux feasibilty study, a new 1000TB storage technology that will never hit the stores, etc etc. It's always a variation of some basic story that we've already heard a thousand times - the following discussion usually has NO variation. Everyone agrees Jack Valentini is an asshole, and about 50% of readers think MS can go to hell and the other 50% thinks they are just another big corp that sometimes does stuff we don't like but should be tolerated. Even "weird" is an improvement over the same old tired shit.
And can you read those disc with an old 2x or 4x reader? Can you read the data on the discs ten years from now? The cold harsh truth is that more speed = lower quality. It may not come out a coaster but, it is still lower quality than a disc burned at 4x. And of course it's even worse if you have a buffer underrun - BurnProof may save the disc from becomming a coaster but you still end up with errors on the disc. Sure, the errors are correctable now, but in five years when the disc has had some physical wear and sunlight...
If durabilty and compatibilty is at all important to you, use quality media and burn at low speed.
This is just the latest example why slashdot needs a -1 bullshit/misinformation moderation option. The post isn't a troll, it's not really a flame[bait] either and it certainly isn'f off-topic. That leaves -1 overrated. The -1 is fine, but it doesnt change the moderation reason shown with the comment. So if you moderate +5 informative post with -1 overrated the next idiot moderator will just see the +4 informative and think "hey this is a good post, it really should be +5 informative".
So what's your number one complaint about hard drives:
- Unreliable
- Not enough space
- Not fast enough
- Too expensive
- Makes too much noise
- Generates too much heat
- Is too damn thick!
Dunno, I wouldn't really consider it too annoying if the Mozilla splash screen had an ad "Mozilla development was sponsored by Netscape" instead of the fire breathing dragon.
The summary said "IP protocol 11", which I for one interpeted as IPv11 (and was very confused by that as you probably can imagine). The thing is, ICMP, TCP, UDP and "Protocol 11" are *not* IP-protocols, they are transport protocols that run ontop of IP. IPv4 and IPv6 are the obvious examples of IP-protocols.
Athlon XP 2000 - 150$
Cheap mobo with etherent 100$
128MB DDR SDRAM - 25$
Case and PSU - 50$
8GB HDD - 75$
----------
Total 400$
Yep, it's twice as expensive. But in a clusternode it's usually the the CPU that counts and XP2000 is 2-3 times faster than what is in an X-Box. A cluster node doesn't need a DVD drive or a top of the line Gforce4. You may not even need the harddistk. With 200,000$ you can get 500 nodes like this, or a linux distribution that boots on X-Box - but you still need to buy the 1000 X-Boxen to run that distro for another 200,000$. And of course 6 months from now the the Athlon config will be ~50$ cheaper, while the X-Box is steady at 200$.
Funny thing that trophy.. The actual trophy is 18-karat gold, but FIFA keeps it locked in a vault somewhere. All the time. The one the players get to carry and kiss is just a gold-plated replica. I gues it makes sense on some level, the official trophy has been stolen twice (1966 and 1983, recovered the first time but the second time it prosumedly got melted for its gold). Still, it feels silly that the winners of the biggest single sporting event in the world are awarded with a fake trophy.
What killed the movie for was not the impossible jumps/flying, but the way those jumps were made. People ran whilst mid-air! WTF? Why couldn't they just jump/leap like in The Matrix? Trinity's huge leap from one rooftop to another in the beginning of Matrix is infinately more realisic looking than any stunt in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.