As you can see, it's not very busy just now, but it's not always idle; for those 248 days it's been handling several GiB of transfers every day (scheduled backups), running a (very low traffic) public web server and was running leafnode for a while too. I wouldn't advise running leafnode with the standard 32 MiB of RAM though - I soldered new chips in to get mine up to 64 MiB.
Doesn't that rather depend on exactly what kind of problem you have with your OS? Recovery tools exist for software RAID sets and a hardware RAID card would do nothing at all stop an OS bug which corrupted your filesystem.
When I hear a suggestion which seems totally ridiculous, I try to reexamine it to see if there may be a more likely interpretation. The idea that Google would start to distribute entire copyright works, on a large scale, for profit and without a license is utterly ridiculous.
I think the point was that it wouldn't take much for Google to start an e-book selling service because they already have most of the data in a suitable format, not that they would consider selling e-books in violation of copyright. I bet just getting the digital copies together has been a significant hurdle for Amazon, one which Google has already crossed.
If you use adequate encryption the delivery method become irrelevant for security purposes because the value of the data to someone without the key is zero, so the cheapest method which is sufficiently fast and reliable is perfectly fine. In that case the preferred method would be HMCR internal post service. I most wouldn't consider a bike any more secure than any other type of courier, they're just faster and more reliable. A bike would be wholly inadequate for this kind of data if you didn't encrypt it. If you wanted to send this kind of data without strong encryption you'd need an armoured truck and an armed police escort.
The difference is that there is real scarcity of tangible objects; I cannot take your car without depriving you of it. The scarcity of copyright works is wholly artificial.
So..another second-fiddle AMD chip? Are they going to try to release something better than the competition at some point or stay the cheaper #2 for another few years? I don't really understand their marketing scheme here.
Do you think AMD could have made a better part than Intel, but decided not to? What a bizarre idea. It's overwhelmingly more likely that this is the best AMD can do.
Communism (or socialism) works for ants, but humans are possessive animals, with urge to own everything and control everything. You can't build socialism with those humans. But at least the basic capitalism can channel those human urges to the greater good of the society; socialism and communism just pretend that those urges do not exist. Capitalism is simply socialism with a working method of enforcing the rules.
Pure, unmitigated bollocks. Capitalism does not channel selfish urges "for the greater good of society" it channels them for the good of the individual. Sometimes that benefits society as a whole, sometimes it doesn't.
Oh, and you might have an urge to own everything and control everything, but don't project your megalomaniacal tendencies onto the rest of us.
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That might be OK for engineering, but you need a damn sight more than "reasonable certainty" for a mathematical proof. You need to, you know, prove it.
I'd argue that any society which denies you the right to live off the land and fend for yourself (by the private ownership of land) has a responsibility to look after its people.
Not on purpose as far as I remember, but when the rope reached a certain size it couldn't just be reeled up by hand anymore and we had to have two people act as a reel, twisting the rope around themselves as they walked down the hall. Eventually they'd be tied right up against each other with something like 70lb of rope around them.
In the light of that, I have three questions:
Are you doing it again?
Do you need volunteers?
Are the rest of the volunteers likely to be hot, naked chicks?
I have to admit that if the answer to the third one is "no" I may not be very interested.
People here seem to be missing the point - it isn't that this stuff isn't trivial compared to todays engineering, it is. But it's more revealing about the fact that non-western civilizations had an advanced grasp of the physics/science behind this stuff.
I'm not sure how building a bridge displays knowledge of the science which is relevant to bridge building. I've seen a 2-year-old build a bridge and I'm pretty sure he wasn't au fait with the physics of beam bridges before he put one block on top of two others. Yeah, suspension bridges are a bit more complex, but you still don't need to understand the physics to build one. Trial and error will suffice to find out how thick the ropes must be, how long they will last and so on.
I don't have a problem with HushMail sharing information about customers engaging in illegal behavior with the authorities. Those people don't deserve their activities to be protected - they're illegal.
They're suspected of doing something illegal, which is a highly significant difference. Any innocent person (including you and me) can be suspected of doing something illegal just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I agreee with the rest of your post, I just felt the need to draw attention to that point.
Sorry, but Spider is not an entry-level system designed to pep up your accelerated desktop experience, it's intended to give you more fps in Crysis. The graphics cards which are part of Spider are ATI's fastest cards; they are gaming cards through and through and cost over $200. So while accelerated desktops are the future, AMD Spider isn't targeted at that future.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but this is noting new at all, is it? I mean, the only "innovation" here is that one company is making the CPU, chipset and graphics card. You know, like Intel have been for years. But AMD make one where the graphics card is targeted at gamers. Whoop-de-fucking-do.
Have you ever actually looked for any? I have. I went war walking with my Nokia 770 this week, in the first-world municipal area where I live (Sheffield, UK). Either reports of open wireless networks all over the place are greatly exaggerated or the people of Sheffield are unusually security conscious. So far, other than intentionally open networks, I've only found one unencrypted network and that wouldn't give me an IP address. I only walked a mile or so through mostly residential streets, but it certainly gives lie to the notion that you can just "use whatever is nearby".
I'm glad news of solid-state drives is getting more common. Disk seek times have been the number one cause of annoying delays on my desktop systems for several years now, and I certainly don't have exotic hardware. Perhaps I can ditch my plan for a Solaris box in the garage and diskless clients and just wait a year or two for >100GB $400 solid-state disks.
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It's not very fast, IIRC it maxes out at about 6 MiB per second. But it is reliable (mine runs Debian, not the original Linksys distro):
As you can see, it's not very busy just now, but it's not always idle; for those 248 days it's been handling several GiB of transfers every day (scheduled backups), running a (very low traffic) public web server and was running leafnode for a while too. I wouldn't advise running leafnode with the standard 32 MiB of RAM though - I soldered new chips in to get mine up to 64 MiB.
Doesn't that rather depend on exactly what kind of problem you have with your OS? Recovery tools exist for software RAID sets and a hardware RAID card would do nothing at all stop an OS bug which corrupted your filesystem.
When I hear a suggestion which seems totally ridiculous, I try to reexamine it to see if there may be a more likely interpretation. The idea that Google would start to distribute entire copyright works, on a large scale, for profit and without a license is utterly ridiculous.
I think the point was that it wouldn't take much for Google to start an e-book selling service because they already have most of the data in a suitable format, not that they would consider selling e-books in violation of copyright. I bet just getting the digital copies together has been a significant hurdle for Amazon, one which Google has already crossed.
Take the hard drive out of the Dell and remove its top cover.
If you use adequate encryption the delivery method become irrelevant for security purposes because the value of the data to someone without the key is zero, so the cheapest method which is sufficiently fast and reliable is perfectly fine. In that case the preferred method would be HMCR internal post service. I most wouldn't consider a bike any more secure than any other type of courier, they're just faster and more reliable. A bike would be wholly inadequate for this kind of data if you didn't encrypt it. If you wanted to send this kind of data without strong encryption you'd need an armoured truck and an armed police escort.
The difference is that there is real scarcity of tangible objects; I cannot take your car without depriving you of it. The scarcity of copyright works is wholly artificial.
Do you think AMD could have made a better part than Intel, but decided not to? What a bizarre idea. It's overwhelmingly more likely that this is the best AMD can do.
If you can find a suitable board, use a CPU intended for laptops; they are more power efficient than desktop CPUs.
Making a hardware random number generator is easy. Making an unbiased hardware random number generator is an awful lot harder.
Pure, unmitigated bollocks. Capitalism does not channel selfish urges "for the greater good of society" it channels them for the good of the individual. Sometimes that benefits society as a whole, sometimes it doesn't.
Oh, and you might have an urge to own everything and control everything, but don't project your megalomaniacal tendencies onto the rest of us.
That might be OK for engineering, but you need a damn sight more than "reasonable certainty" for a mathematical proof. You need to, you know, prove it.
I'd argue that any society which denies you the right to live off the land and fend for yourself (by the private ownership of land) has a responsibility to look after its people.
In the light of that, I have three questions:
Are you doing it again?
Do you need volunteers?
Are the rest of the volunteers likely to be hot, naked chicks?
I have to admit that if the answer to the third one is "no" I may not be very interested.
I'm not sure how building a bridge displays knowledge of the science which is relevant to bridge building. I've seen a 2-year-old build a bridge and I'm pretty sure he wasn't au fait with the physics of beam bridges before he put one block on top of two others. Yeah, suspension bridges are a bit more complex, but you still don't need to understand the physics to build one. Trial and error will suffice to find out how thick the ropes must be, how long they will last and so on.
They're suspected of doing something illegal, which is a highly significant difference. Any innocent person (including you and me) can be suspected of doing something illegal just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I agreee with the rest of your post, I just felt the need to draw attention to that point.
Sorry, but Spider is not an entry-level system designed to pep up your accelerated desktop experience, it's intended to give you more fps in Crysis. The graphics cards which are part of Spider are ATI's fastest cards; they are gaming cards through and through and cost over $200. So while accelerated desktops are the future, AMD Spider isn't targeted at that future.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but this is noting new at all, is it? I mean, the only "innovation" here is that one company is making the CPU, chipset and graphics card. You know, like Intel have been for years. But AMD make one where the graphics card is targeted at gamers. Whoop-de-fucking-do.
Have you ever actually looked for any? I have. I went war walking with my Nokia 770 this week, in the first-world municipal area where I live (Sheffield, UK). Either reports of open wireless networks all over the place are greatly exaggerated or the people of Sheffield are unusually security conscious. So far, other than intentionally open networks, I've only found one unencrypted network and that wouldn't give me an IP address. I only walked a mile or so through mostly residential streets, but it certainly gives lie to the notion that you can just "use whatever is nearby".
No, but you don't often get C/C++ programmers going "well, it'll not be a memory leak, let's look elsewhere".
Commodity CPUs have hardware support for floating point operations but not decimal operations, which means floating point is much faster than decimal.
You might want to read the summary to put the GP's comment in context. And you're wrong about the GUT; ToE = GUT + GR.
I'm glad news of solid-state drives is getting more common. Disk seek times have been the number one cause of annoying delays on my desktop systems for several years now, and I certainly don't have exotic hardware. Perhaps I can ditch my plan for a Solaris box in the garage and diskless clients and just wait a year or two for >100GB $400 solid-state disks.
As far as I know, it was never the policy of the US Government to exterminate every Native American, which is a pretty significant difference.
Wow.
When you say "board" you mean "chipset", yes? Because I've never heard of Intel designing PCBs finished products for other people.