Ok, its not *actual* fork, its 'interpreter threads', but it does the same job. And it means you can share data in the process space. If you're mental..
Hmm.. I just stuck 'Beowolf cluster' into google.. and a Slashdot 'Imagine a Beowolf cluster of these..' comment came up as the fourth hit. There has to be something seriously wrong there.. Onion
Well stealing CGIs isn't like stealing C...they're short and easy to read anyway.. Someone whose been fortunate enough never to see my Perl work..
Onion
Here I sit in front of a P2 233. I write stuff in Perl. The most taxing thing I run is Outlook.
At home I have a Duron 600. I play games. The most taxing thing I run is Unreal Tournament.
Fact is, most office applications are fine on a low spec machine, and most home user software (games) is fine midrange. With newer T&L graphics cards the CPU is doing less and less. Unless someone thinks up an entirely new and extremely intensive genre of computing application the average user isn't ever going to need 2GHz chips. Sure, the 3D graphics houses, ISPs, ASPs, and a few bean counters will feel they need that speed, but they can afford a new case.
So why worry? Do you stress because your current case can't take a P3 900 Xeon chip? You're odd if you do.
Interestingly enough.. Both Outlook and Hotmail do just that.
So if I email Mr Kaplan 'Heres the decss source code.. www.decss.com, why not rip a dvd', and he opens it in Outlook.. is anyone breaking the law? He has a file that contains a delibrate attempt to pass on the circumvention device after all..
Simple fact is that my employer has the priviledge of employing me, I don't particularly care if I walk out. If my employer decides that he/she doesn't trust me then there is no reason why I should return any form of loyalty. It is the responsibility of the employee to vote for policies with their feet. If you want a job with personal email and internet access then get one. If an employer wants to monitor your web activity and you don't like it then don't work for them. no point in trying to change a corpoate bg brother policy, it won't happen. Just go somewhere else.
And if you think noone would walk out of a job simply because it isn't enjoyable enough think again.. I'm going to be leaving my current one and going to a different company on exactly the same money entirely for that reason.
..if David Beckham is worried? All they have to do is stick a foppish wig on the bot and the Man Utd boss will be offering 80million quid transfer fees..
To quote the Galaxy Song from Monty Python.. 'And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
'.. Onion
Hmm.. The classic 'HDD light' stress test.. not used that one myself.. doesn't seem very 'scientific'.
On another point, you admit to being a coder. And using the likes of Oracle8i. Most users won't every come close to that level of usage. Hell, most users never even use NT. If you're running Word and a couple of games then 95 is as stable as anything. Windows is a home user OS. Linux is a 'do anything' OS. I'd hope Linux is more stable. As for never developing under windows, think yourself fortunate. Where i work the management are microsoft groupies. Thats means IIS, SQLserver, VB and ASP all the way.
Which is why I write web applications in PERL. Onion
I seriously doubt that the artist who came up with the concept is actually very interested in what is going into the capsule. As with a lot of art projects, the challenge and artistic merit is more in the production and realisation of the idea than the finished product. I wonder if Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa thinking 'Heres a nice picture for people to look at' or 'I am studying the form of a human face'? I'd wager the latter. Some of the best software apps I've written have been to overcome a challenge rather than to make something genuinuely useful.. My bible trigram frequency analyser for example.. Utterly useless, but great fun to write. (Can software be art? I guess thats another topic entirely.)
In essence what I'm saying is, who gives a toss whether anyone really reads it, lets have fun making it..
1: WML is XML. It has a specified format and DTD/schema, but its still XML. The giveaway is the ?XMl.. line.
2: XML reformatting to HTML/WML/WashingMachineML hsa been done many times. I wrote an RDF to HTML/WML conversion prog just the other day.. Slashdot headline on WAP.. yes, I am that geeky.
No. 'An' R2 unit show up in the last three movies. R2 is a robot, not a person. Presumably theres a factory in the Star Wars universe that churns out R2 units a million a day like Dysan vacuum cleaners.. Onion
Actually.. theres one prequel (How the Matrix was created) and one sequel (How the Matrix was destroyed).. if memory serves. Not that I'm being picky at all.. And they're being filmed back-to-back for release summer and christmas next year. Onion
1: Slight misquote of the original, part 40.. Even if the contender attracted several thousand compatible applications, it would still look like a gamble from the consumer's perspective next to Windows, which supports over 70,000 applications.. Note use of the word OVER.. doesn't say how many more.
2: Do 70,000 Computer Programs Depend on Windows or Fewer Than 10,000?.. I'd argue its fewer than 10000 the DEPEND on Windows. I read that as 'applications that couldn't be ported to something else'. Dependancy implies that it'd be impossible to get these applications running on anything else.. Well, there are Windows emulators of Linux, Mac and SGI that I know of.. With a lot of work it'd be possible to get stuff like DirectX emulated.. (Does Wine have DirectX support yet? Don't know, I don't use it) then we'd not really need a Microsoft product to run multimedia apps.. (Just a lot of cash to deal with the court case..)
3: Not sure where msnomer got this from.. disputing the claim that there are 70,000 Microsoft applications.. I can believe there are less than 70000 MS applications.. written by MS.. I think its more of a misunderstanding there.
Fact is, there are more than 70000 Windows applications.. but most of them don't depend on Windows, they simply run on it. Going on and on about there being lots of programs is a waste of time. Read the article, and the court statement that the article refers to, first, rather than leaping high onto the 'lets-bash-MS' bandwagon.. Onion
The only Sony factory multi-region player that I know of won't do signal conversion. That means Region 2 DVDs will play back in PAL, Region 3 in NTSC, and Region 1 in whatever they have in America (PAL/Secam/NTSC or whatever). That way it'll only play Region 2 on your UK telly, but they can advertise it as 'Factory Multi Region, not a 3rd party mod'.. and bump up the price. And it means they don't have to make more models, thus lowering the production costs.
I'm pretty suprised that the likes of Star Trek has never really covered something similar.. nearest thing would have to be 'The Deconstruction of Falling Stars' at the end of Babylon 5 Season 4.
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And this would be different to a well known fried chicken chain how?
Not another group of domains.. please.. Opening up another top level isn't going to suddenly make a load more people register new domains, its just going to get a bunch of people squabbling over who 'owns' the.us one. There be a million and one people registering toysr.us, and most companies with an international presence will rush to add another domain name to their portfolios (ibm.co.us, ibm.org.us, ibm.com.us etc etc). In the end the only winners are the registration companies.
If aliens from Mars would be Martians, then would aliens from Europa would be Europeans?.. "Bonjour, J'appel ZeBlobbityPlinkkelPloffen, j'habit l'Europa" (Apologies for my appalling grasp of French).
Entirely possible.. Toshiba are messing about with Intel chips atm.. So Transmeta are looking into AMD, Toshiba are considering Intel, and everythings a bit up in the air.
Strange that noone mentions IDT or SG Thompson. Actually, no, its not strange.
Its an excitng prospect. Being able to store the sum of human knowledge on a chip. It'd be cool being able to bring up any film, or any radio show in existance at the touch of a button. But it's also pretty scary. It'd change alot about the world.
Already lots of people are relying on technology to do trivial things for them.. (Ask your boss to do a division sum.. watch him reach for the calculator). If people could instantly recall anything at the touch of a button they wouldn't bother remembering anything. Do people want to be able to do interesting tasks quicker, or do they simply want a machine to take over their brain processes..
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Ok, its not *actual* fork, its 'interpreter threads', but it does the same job. And it means you can share data in the process space. If you're mental..
Hmm.. I just stuck 'Beowolf cluster' into google.. and a Slashdot 'Imagine a Beowolf cluster of these..' comment came up as the fourth hit. There has to be something seriously wrong there.. Onion
Well stealing CGIs isn't like stealing C...they're short and easy to read anyway.. Someone whose been fortunate enough never to see my Perl work.. Onion
Never shopped online.. apart from eBay? Hell.. I've never smoked.. Apart from cigarettes.
Here I sit in front of a P2 233. I write stuff in Perl. The most taxing thing I run is Outlook.
At home I have a Duron 600. I play games. The most taxing thing I run is Unreal Tournament.
Fact is, most office applications are fine on a low spec machine, and most home user software (games) is fine midrange. With newer T&L graphics cards the CPU is doing less and less. Unless someone thinks up an entirely new and extremely intensive genre of computing application the average user isn't ever going to need 2GHz chips. Sure, the 3D graphics houses, ISPs, ASPs, and a few bean counters will feel they need that speed, but they can afford a new case.
So why worry? Do you stress because your current case can't take a P3 900 Xeon chip? You're odd if you do.
Interestingly enough.. Both Outlook and Hotmail do just that.
So if I email Mr Kaplan 'Heres the decss source code.. www.decss.com, why not rip a dvd', and he opens it in Outlook.. is anyone breaking the law? He has a file that contains a delibrate attempt to pass on the circumvention device after all..
Simple fact is that my employer has the priviledge of employing me, I don't particularly care if I walk out. If my employer decides that he/she doesn't trust me then there is no reason why I should return any form of loyalty. It is the responsibility of the employee to vote for policies with their feet. If you want a job with personal email and internet access then get one. If an employer wants to monitor your web activity and you don't like it then don't work for them. no point in trying to change a corpoate bg brother policy, it won't happen. Just go somewhere else.
And if you think noone would walk out of a job simply because it isn't enjoyable enough think again.. I'm going to be leaving my current one and going to a different company on exactly the same money entirely for that reason.
..if David Beckham is worried? All they have to do is stick a foppish wig on the bot and the Man Utd boss will be offering 80million quid transfer fees..
To quote the Galaxy Song from Monty Python.. 'And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth! '.. Onion
Hmm.. The classic 'HDD light' stress test.. not used that one myself.. doesn't seem very 'scientific'.
On another point, you admit to being a coder. And using the likes of Oracle8i. Most users won't every come close to that level of usage. Hell, most users never even use NT. If you're running Word and a couple of games then 95 is as stable as anything. Windows is a home user OS. Linux is a 'do anything' OS. I'd hope Linux is more stable. As for never developing under windows, think yourself fortunate. Where i work the management are microsoft groupies. Thats means IIS, SQLserver, VB and ASP all the way.
Which is why I write web applications in PERL. Onion
I seriously doubt that the artist who came up with the concept is actually very interested in what is going into the capsule. As with a lot of art projects, the challenge and artistic merit is more in the production and realisation of the idea than the finished product. I wonder if Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa thinking 'Heres a nice picture for people to look at' or 'I am studying the form of a human face'? I'd wager the latter. Some of the best software apps I've written have been to overcome a challenge rather than to make something genuinuely useful.. My bible trigram frequency analyser for example.. Utterly useless, but great fun to write. (Can software be art? I guess thats another topic entirely.)
In essence what I'm saying is, who gives a toss whether anyone really reads it, lets have fun making it..
Onion
Couple of minor things..
1: WML is XML. It has a specified format and DTD/schema, but its still XML. The giveaway is the ?XMl.. line.
2: XML reformatting to HTML/WML/WashingMachineML hsa been done many times. I wrote an RDF to HTML/WML conversion prog just the other day.. Slashdot headline on WAP.. yes, I am that geeky.
No. 'An' R2 unit show up in the last three movies. R2 is a robot, not a person. Presumably theres a factory in the Star Wars universe that churns out R2 units a million a day like Dysan vacuum cleaners.. Onion
Actually.. theres one prequel (How the Matrix was created) and one sequel (How the Matrix was destroyed).. if memory serves. Not that I'm being picky at all.. And they're being filmed back-to-back for release summer and christmas next year. Onion
A few points here folks..
.. I'd argue its fewer than 10000 the DEPEND on Windows. I read that as 'applications that couldn't be ported to something else'. Dependancy implies that it'd be impossible to get these applications running on anything else.. Well, there are Windows emulators of Linux, Mac and SGI that I know of.. With a lot of work it'd be possible to get stuff like DirectX emulated.. (Does Wine have DirectX support yet? Don't know, I don't use it) then we'd not really need a Microsoft product to run multimedia apps.. (Just a lot of cash to deal with the court case..)
1: Slight misquote of the original, part 40.. Even if the contender attracted several thousand compatible applications, it would still look like a gamble from the consumer's perspective next to Windows, which supports over 70,000 applications.. Note use of the word OVER.. doesn't say how many more.
2: Do 70,000 Computer Programs Depend on Windows or Fewer Than 10,000?
3: Not sure where msnomer got this from.. disputing the claim that there are 70,000 Microsoft applications.. I can believe there are less than 70000 MS applications.. written by MS.. I think its more of a misunderstanding there.
Fact is, there are more than 70000 Windows applications.. but most of them don't depend on Windows, they simply run on it. Going on and on about there being lots of programs is a waste of time. Read the article, and the court statement that the article refers to, first, rather than leaping high onto the 'lets-bash-MS' bandwagon.. Onion
The only Sony factory multi-region player that I know of won't do signal conversion. That means Region 2 DVDs will play back in PAL, Region 3 in NTSC, and Region 1 in whatever they have in America (PAL/Secam/NTSC or whatever). That way it'll only play Region 2 on your UK telly, but they can advertise it as 'Factory Multi Region, not a 3rd party mod'.. and bump up the price. And it means they don't have to make more models, thus lowering the production costs.
I'm pretty suprised that the likes of Star Trek has never really covered something similar.. nearest thing would have to be 'The Deconstruction of Falling Stars' at the end of Babylon 5 Season 4.
And this would be different to a well known fried chicken chain how?
Not another group of domains.. please.. Opening up another top level isn't going to suddenly make a load more people register new domains, its just going to get a bunch of people squabbling over who 'owns' the .us one. There be a million and one people registering toysr.us, and most companies with an international presence will rush to add another domain name to their portfolios (ibm.co.us, ibm.org.us, ibm.com.us etc etc). In the end the only winners are the registration companies.
If aliens from Mars would be Martians, then would aliens from Europa would be Europeans? .. "Bonjour, J'appel ZeBlobbityPlinkkelPloffen, j'habit l'Europa" (Apologies for my appalling grasp of French).
What makes you think any humans would want to fuck with you? Onion
Kentucky Fried Dodo anyone?
Entirely possible.. Toshiba are messing about with Intel chips atm.. So Transmeta are looking into AMD, Toshiba are considering Intel, and everythings a bit up in the air.
Strange that noone mentions IDT or SG Thompson. Actually, no, its not strange.
You ate the blue pill, right? Onion
Its an excitng prospect. Being able to store the sum of human knowledge on a chip. It'd be cool being able to bring up any film, or any radio show in existance at the touch of a button. But it's also pretty scary. It'd change alot about the world.
Already lots of people are relying on technology to do trivial things for them.. (Ask your boss to do a division sum.. watch him reach for the calculator). If people could instantly recall anything at the touch of a button they wouldn't bother remembering anything. Do people want to be able to do interesting tasks quicker, or do they simply want a machine to take over their brain processes..