I think if you understand how truly horrifying PAE is, you would have no doubt at all that 64 bit platforms were the way to go. There's a lot of memory management cruft in the Linux kernel that x86_64 eliminates.
x86_64 also slipped in a few much needed enhancements to the ia32 architecture, including some extra general purpose registers.
I don't really think the newer seasons developed the characters... I think they tended to continue the Federalization that had started to set in through season 4 of the original run.
IMO, establishing facts about a character, revealing the back-story of a character, or establishing a relationship between characters is not the same as character development... This is something that the later writers need to understand.
Here's an example of strong character development:
In parasites lost, Fry becomes something of an ideal man thanks to the efforts of a worm he picks up from a truck-stop egg salad sandwich. His strength, intelligence, and artistic ability make him attractive to Lela. For one of the first times in the Series, Fry and Leela become close romantically. But ultimately, Fry gives up all of his new-found strength, because Fry wanted the relationship to be based on who he was in and of himself, rather than how he was perceived by Leela. Fry's character is further developed when he starts to practice the Holophoner in order to become the person Leela respected.
This episode was a huge character defining moment for Fry. This episode did not have a significant impact on Futurama continuity. What it did was to truly help us understand fry as a person in a way that Lars never really could. It developed Fry in a way that his season 5 & 6 relationship with Leela didn't.
I think Fry somewhat devolved as a character during the comedy central run of Futurama. His sincerity is still there, but it seems like a part of his core personality. His stupidity becomes a much more predominant characteristic. He started to feel like a young, orange haired Homer Simpson.
For what it's worth, I think The Late Phillip J. Fry and the Prisoner of Benda were gems from the later seasons. There was some good stuff in seasons 5 & 6, and some bad stuff in Seasons 1-4, but on average I was kind of disappointed by seasons 5&6. I haven't been following Futurama nearly as closely as I once did.
"In the year twenty-five twenty-five twenty-five The backwards time machine still won't have arrived In all the world, there's only one technology A rusty sword for practicing proctology"
I am currently a T-mobile customer, and had a chance to look over the plans. Very excited by this new approach, and hope other providers follow suit.
It's important to note however that tethering (Smartphone Mobile HotSpot, or SMH) is not unlimited, even with the unlimited data plans. The unlimited data plan included 500MB of tethered data, and you can buy more (apparently for $10 per 2GB, but not confirmed.) If you're primarily interested in tethered data, it might make sense to buy the 2.5GB plan, which costs $10 less, and includes 2.5GB of tethered data.
Unfortunately, it looks like T-mobile may be eliminating some of it's other low cost plans with this move. My current plan is $30/mo for more 1500 talk/text minutes, and 30MB of data. 30MB is enough to check a map when I need it, and I can use wifi for my typical data use.
If you have concerns about T-Mobile's coverage, you can supplement it by purchasing an inexpensive daily use phone from Verizon. Pay $2/day when you're traveling outside a T-Mobile coverage zone.
That's fine. The purpose of programs at that level shouldn't be to produce a class full of programmers, but instead to help point students with the aptitude to program towards it as a possible career path.
I'm in the IT field because of a 3 hour computer repair class I took as a kid. I never expected to enjoy it or be good at it - it's just something I did. Turned out to be the right decision for me.
Actually, Linux will move inactive pages of memory to disk if there is any memory pressure on the system at all, unless you set swappiness to 0. It does this aggressively to free up infrequently used memory cells for more useful purposes, such as disk cash.
'Any memory pressure at all' means that you have read or written more data to/from disk than you have available memory.
For example:
If you have a simple Tomcat Box, the system will boot, load the appropriate services into memory (including Tomcat.) It will load your app into memory. If the app involves minimal disk usage, you probably won't use swap. However, if the app reads and writes gigabytes of data to/from disk, pressure from the disk cache will cause the swap process to move inactive pages of memory into your disk cache, unless you set swappiness to 0, which disables this behavior.
If you have an active file server, you are pretty much guaranteed to swap inactive pages to disk unless you tune swapiness.
With swappiness set to 0, the swapper process will not swap inactive pages to disk, unless there are no pages of cache/buffers that can be released, *and* the system is under pressure to allocate more pages of memory.
I found a source on the internet quoting the worth of Ayn Rand's estate at ~$500,000 at the time of her death. It's unclear how much of that was tied up in property, how much of it was the value of her writings, and how much of it was liquid. What is clear is that her declining health and battle with cancer could have had a significant impact on her wealth.
So, Ayn Rand spent most of her life smoking, and when she was diagnosed with Cancer, she turned to Medicare to protect her estate.
Do you know what Ayn would have called someone who made devastating life decisions and then turned to the government for salvation?
First, if you haven't already read up on Xwindows networking model, you really should. X natively supports what you're requesting, and has for decades. In most cases, it's as trivial as opening a ssh connection to the remote machine, using the -X flag. E.g. 'ssh -X remotehost'
If you need to support Windows applications, you can use RDP in seamless mode. Newer RDP clients for windows support this natively, with a little configuration work. There is some support in the linux RDP client, but when I tried it about a year ago, it required a special helper application to work. Be aware that RDP is no where near as fast as Citrix.
Finally, if you simply want Windows applications to seamlessly integrate with a linux desktop or visa versa, VMWare player/workstation supports a seamless virtualization mode. It would not surprise me if KVM or Xen have a comparable feature, but I haven't played with them on the desktop long enough to know.
I suspect that the CEO lost his N+2 italian car redundency, and placed his best techs on solving the problem, rather than maintaining the u-verse service.
I'm not sure what tools are on the market for Xen, but if you're interested in open source Virtualization, the direction forward seems to be with KVM. For KVM, there are already very good management tools on the market. RedHat and NetApp have put a lot of weight behind the RHEV/oVirt project. While it isn't as featureful as vSphere, it's very good software, it's open source, and in the case of oVirt, it's free.
Law has always considered the result of an action as well as the action it's self into consideration when determining the appropriate response. Drinking and driving is a way smaller crime than drinking and driving that results in a fatal accident. Cause might be the same, but result is very different.
Another issue is that US forign aid often comes with the stipulation that the aid money can only be spent on US manufactured products. So, in many cases it's as much industrial subsidy as it is aid.
You could put it that way. Or you could say that the government has been taxing half as much as it needs to pay for the wars, military, and pork that the general population keeps asking for.
To be fair, Windows is the dominant platform and the hardware vendors do a lot of work to make sure that everything runs well on that OS. Linux isn't so dominant, so there's no guarentee the hardware will work. Same is true for any alternative OS, even windows... You can't always rely on your old hardware to work with the latest Windows OS, nor can you expect your newest hardware to work on older OS... Try installing Windows 2K on an modern laptop if you don't believe me.
With that said, my last few Linux installs have been absolutely flawless, with no driver or install issues. Insert CD, press a button everything works. Better than windows actually, because most of my important tools come either pre-installed or are just an apt-get or yum away.
The only issue I encounter these days involves installing closed source drivers and applications, and those usually just involve adding an extra repository. Even then, the whole process is usually simpler than downloading and installing a binary blob.
TL;DR version: Use supported hardware and everything will work like a charm.
How much is a "decent wage?" I hear people all the time talk about a "living wage" on here, but nobody puts a dollar figure on it. Give me something concrete. What should the high-school drop-out ditch digger (or whatever) who has learned no marketable skills make? What kinds of things should someone making a "living" wage be able to buy? What things are over the line? For example, how new a car, what kinds of food, cell phones, cable TV, how big of house or apartment? Should this "living wage" increase because people live in a certain area, or should we pay them more because they have a bunch of kids? I want to know what a "living wage" really means.
Won't bother responding to the rest of your comment, but did want to address this. There isn't a fixed dollar amount for a living wage, because a living wage is strongly corrolated to the area in which one lives. A living wage in Cambodia is much lower than a living wage in Tokoyo.
Here's a starting point to understand what a living wage means:
Pointing out that the wealthiest americans are becoming a huge drain on society isn't class warfare, it's a reality. These are the people who will do what they can to cut jobs and reduce expenses. Jobs are created by demand for goods and services. Since the US has become a service oriented economy, employment is driven primarily by consumerism. Consumerism is driven by the middle and lower classes. If you want to strengthen our economy, focus on those classes. The rich will benefit from it as well.
Your business could be built on IBM and RedHat products. Doesn't change the fact that Facebook, Google, and Amazon are now the biggest players in the online services & marketing market.
I for see two classes of tickets... fix-ot tickets for errors caused by mechanical failure, and rules of the road tickets for issues with the instructions given to the automated driver, such as instructing the automated driver to speed.
Under law, fix-it tickets are the responsibility of the vehicle owner, and rule of the road violations are the responsibility of the operator. Seems to map fine to an automated vehicle.
Only real changes I for see to the law are new licensing rules, regulations requiring ways for the police to inspect the driving plan of the vehicle, and possibly rules requiring a way to make bug reports available to the vehicle manufacturers.
It's up to you to determine which CA's you trust. I don't consider that part of the infrastructure to be terribly broken. Certificate revision on the other hand, is an area where we need to improve significantly. I'd like to see compromised root certificates revoked, and infrastructure for for distributing those revocation lists more widely available.
I trust self signed certificates for my own purposes. For internal websites, it makes a lot of sense to maintain my own CA, and sign my own certificates, and distribute my own public keys. This provides additional flexibility internally, and helps keep costs down. It's also handy if I want to proxy SSL encrypted sessions.
When dealing with 3rd parties, I still want a certificate signed by a major CA. It might not be perfect, but if you don't go to the efforts to complete the process, I'm going to assume you haven't bothered with a lot of other security measures as well.
This misses the point that trusting self signed certificates significantly reduces the security of CA signed certificates.
In order to protect against Man in the Middle and other identity based attacks, Google needs a way of certifying that the remote machine is who they say they are. If the service trusts an self-signed certificate, there's nothing preventing a 3rd party from performing a MITM attack by intercepting your traffic and re-signing it with their own key. The only workaround would be to use a known_hosts based system, similar to SSH. This however increases the costs of administration, and still provides avenues of attack.
I generally agree with Google's move. I think it's a bad thing to compromise the security of CA certs in order to support self-signed certs.
How is this different than any other environmental disaster? Are you aware that huge swaths of land have been rendered uninhabitable by mining and other industrial operations? That spills caused by oil drilling have residual environmental impacts decades after cleanup? If an uninhabitable zone is your concern, what about the huge swaths of land consumed by hydro-electric, solar, and wind power?
Seriously guys, are we complaining that wages are back up to.com levels? Am I the only one who remembers that as a few years of obscenely wasteful spending? Hell, I was a 16 year old making $40K a year back then.
Could you imagine a banker complaining that they aren't back up to 2006 level salaries?
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I don't think you actually read what I wrote.
Also, season 5+ seemed to have a lot of everyone sleeping with everyone else. Amy and Bender, for example? Zap and Leela hooking up, Again?
Both of them are my posts. I meant Flanderization. I guess my writing just sucked today. :)
I think if you understand how truly horrifying PAE is, you would have no doubt at all that 64 bit platforms were the way to go. There's a lot of memory management cruft in the Linux kernel that x86_64 eliminates.
x86_64 also slipped in a few much needed enhancements to the ia32 architecture, including some extra general purpose registers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
In Fact, TVTropes has an entire section of Flanderization dedicated to Futurama.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Flanderization/WesternAnimation
(Sorry in advance for your lost productivity.)
I'll never forgive that movie for retconning Seymour.
I don't really think the newer seasons developed the characters... I think they tended to continue the Federalization that had started to set in through season 4 of the original run.
IMO, establishing facts about a character, revealing the back-story of a character, or establishing a relationship between characters is not the same as character development... This is something that the later writers need to understand.
Here's an example of strong character development:
In parasites lost, Fry becomes something of an ideal man thanks to the efforts of a worm he picks up from a truck-stop egg salad sandwich. His strength, intelligence, and artistic ability make him attractive to Lela. For one of the first times in the Series, Fry and Leela become close romantically. But ultimately, Fry gives up all of his new-found strength, because Fry wanted the relationship to be based on who he was in and of himself, rather than how he was perceived by Leela. Fry's character is further developed when he starts to practice the Holophoner in order to become the person Leela respected.
This episode was a huge character defining moment for Fry. This episode did not have a significant impact on Futurama continuity. What it did was to truly help us understand fry as a person in a way that Lars never really could. It developed Fry in a way that his season 5 & 6 relationship with Leela didn't.
I think Fry somewhat devolved as a character during the comedy central run of Futurama. His sincerity is still there, but it seems like a part of his core personality. His stupidity becomes a much more predominant characteristic. He started to feel like a young, orange haired Homer Simpson.
For what it's worth, I think The Late Phillip J. Fry and the Prisoner of Benda were gems from the later seasons. There was some good stuff in seasons 5 & 6, and some bad stuff in Seasons 1-4, but on average I was kind of disappointed by seasons 5&6. I haven't been following Futurama nearly as closely as I once did.
"In the year twenty-five twenty-five twenty-five
The backwards time machine still won't have arrived
In all the world, there's only one technology
A rusty sword for practicing proctology"
I am currently a T-mobile customer, and had a chance to look over the plans. Very excited by this new approach, and hope other providers follow suit.
It's important to note however that tethering (Smartphone Mobile HotSpot, or SMH) is not unlimited, even with the unlimited data plans. The unlimited data plan included 500MB of tethered data, and you can buy more (apparently for $10 per 2GB, but not confirmed.) If you're primarily interested in tethered data, it might make sense to buy the 2.5GB plan, which costs $10 less, and includes 2.5GB of tethered data.
Unfortunately, it looks like T-mobile may be eliminating some of it's other low cost plans with this move. My current plan is $30/mo for more 1500 talk/text minutes, and 30MB of data. 30MB is enough to check a map when I need it, and I can use wifi for my typical data use.
If you have concerns about T-Mobile's coverage, you can supplement it by purchasing an inexpensive daily use phone from Verizon. Pay $2/day when you're traveling outside a T-Mobile coverage zone.
That's fine. The purpose of programs at that level shouldn't be to produce a class full of programmers, but instead to help point students with the aptitude to program towards it as a possible career path.
I'm in the IT field because of a 3 hour computer repair class I took as a kid. I never expected to enjoy it or be good at it - it's just something I did. Turned out to be the right decision for me.
Actually, Linux will move inactive pages of memory to disk if there is any memory pressure on the system at all, unless you set swappiness to 0. It does this aggressively to free up infrequently used memory cells for more useful purposes, such as disk cash.
'Any memory pressure at all' means that you have read or written more data to/from disk than you have available memory.
For example:
If you have a simple Tomcat Box, the system will boot, load the appropriate services into memory (including Tomcat.) It will load your app into memory. If the app involves minimal disk usage, you probably won't use swap. However, if the app reads and writes gigabytes of data to/from disk, pressure from the disk cache will cause the swap process to move inactive pages of memory into your disk cache, unless you set swappiness to 0, which disables this behavior.
If you have an active file server, you are pretty much guaranteed to swap inactive pages to disk unless you tune swapiness.
With swappiness set to 0, the swapper process will not swap inactive pages to disk, unless there are no pages of cache/buffers that can be released, *and* the system is under pressure to allocate more pages of memory.
I found a source on the internet quoting the worth of Ayn Rand's estate at ~$500,000 at the time of her death. It's unclear how much of that was tied up in property, how much of it was the value of her writings, and how much of it was liquid. What is clear is that her declining health and battle with cancer could have had a significant impact on her wealth.
So, Ayn Rand spent most of her life smoking, and when she was diagnosed with Cancer, she turned to Medicare to protect her estate.
Do you know what Ayn would have called someone who made devastating life decisions and then turned to the government for salvation?
First, if you haven't already read up on Xwindows networking model, you really should. X natively supports what you're requesting, and has for decades. In most cases, it's as trivial as opening a ssh connection to the remote machine, using the -X flag. E.g. 'ssh -X remotehost'
If you need to support Windows applications, you can use RDP in seamless mode. Newer RDP clients for windows support this natively, with a little configuration work. There is some support in the linux RDP client, but when I tried it about a year ago, it required a special helper application to work. Be aware that RDP is no where near as fast as Citrix.
Finally, if you simply want Windows applications to seamlessly integrate with a linux desktop or visa versa, VMWare player/workstation supports a seamless virtualization mode. It would not surprise me if KVM or Xen have a comparable feature, but I haven't played with them on the desktop long enough to know.
I suspect that the CEO lost his N+2 italian car redundency, and placed his best techs on solving the problem, rather than maintaining the u-verse service.
I'm not sure what tools are on the market for Xen, but if you're interested in open source Virtualization, the direction forward seems to be with KVM. For KVM, there are already very good management tools on the market. RedHat and NetApp have put a lot of weight behind the RHEV/oVirt project. While it isn't as featureful as vSphere, it's very good software, it's open source, and in the case of oVirt, it's free.
Law has always considered the result of an action as well as the action it's self into consideration when determining the appropriate response. Drinking and driving is a way smaller crime than drinking and driving that results in a fatal accident. Cause might be the same, but result is very different.
The example I was thinking of is Motorcycles.
http://matadornetwork.com/change/7-worst-international-aid-ideas/
In the example linked, dirtbikes were needed to transport medical supplies, but the only motorcycle available that fit the requirement was a Harley.
Another issue is that US forign aid often comes with the stipulation that the aid money can only be spent on US manufactured products. So, in many cases it's as much industrial subsidy as it is aid.
You could put it that way. Or you could say that the government has been taxing half as much as it needs to pay for the wars, military, and pork that the general population keeps asking for.
To be fair, Windows is the dominant platform and the hardware vendors do a lot of work to make sure that everything runs well on that OS. Linux isn't so dominant, so there's no guarentee the hardware will work. Same is true for any alternative OS, even windows... You can't always rely on your old hardware to work with the latest Windows OS, nor can you expect your newest hardware to work on older OS... Try installing Windows 2K on an modern laptop if you don't believe me.
With that said, my last few Linux installs have been absolutely flawless, with no driver or install issues. Insert CD, press a button everything works. Better than windows actually, because most of my important tools come either pre-installed or are just an apt-get or yum away.
The only issue I encounter these days involves installing closed source drivers and applications, and those usually just involve adding an extra repository. Even then, the whole process is usually simpler than downloading and installing a binary blob.
TL;DR version: Use supported hardware and everything will work like a charm.
Won't bother responding to the rest of your comment, but did want to address this. There isn't a fixed dollar amount for a living wage, because a living wage is strongly corrolated to the area in which one lives. A living wage in Cambodia is much lower than a living wage in Tokoyo.
Here's a starting point to understand what a living wage means:
http://finances.msn.com/saving-money-advice/6952105
Pointing out that the wealthiest americans are becoming a huge drain on society isn't class warfare, it's a reality. These are the people who will do what they can to cut jobs and reduce expenses. Jobs are created by demand for goods and services. Since the US has become a service oriented economy, employment is driven primarily by consumerism. Consumerism is driven by the middle and lower classes. If you want to strengthen our economy, focus on those classes. The rich will benefit from it as well.
Your business could be built on IBM and RedHat products. Doesn't change the fact that Facebook, Google, and Amazon are now the biggest players in the online services & marketing market.
I for see two classes of tickets... fix-ot tickets for errors caused by mechanical failure, and rules of the road tickets for issues with the instructions given to the automated driver, such as instructing the automated driver to speed.
Under law, fix-it tickets are the responsibility of the vehicle owner, and rule of the road violations are the responsibility of the operator. Seems to map fine to an automated vehicle.
Only real changes I for see to the law are new licensing rules, regulations requiring ways for the police to inspect the driving plan of the vehicle, and possibly rules requiring a way to make bug reports available to the vehicle manufacturers.
It's up to you to determine which CA's you trust. I don't consider that part of the infrastructure to be terribly broken. Certificate revision on the other hand, is an area where we need to improve significantly. I'd like to see compromised root certificates revoked, and infrastructure for for distributing those revocation lists more widely available.
I trust self signed certificates for my own purposes. For internal websites, it makes a lot of sense to maintain my own CA, and sign my own certificates, and distribute my own public keys. This provides additional flexibility internally, and helps keep costs down. It's also handy if I want to proxy SSL encrypted sessions.
When dealing with 3rd parties, I still want a certificate signed by a major CA. It might not be perfect, but if you don't go to the efforts to complete the process, I'm going to assume you haven't bothered with a lot of other security measures as well.
This misses the point that trusting self signed certificates significantly reduces the security of CA signed certificates.
In order to protect against Man in the Middle and other identity based attacks, Google needs a way of certifying that the remote machine is who they say they are. If the service trusts an self-signed certificate, there's nothing preventing a 3rd party from performing a MITM attack by intercepting your traffic and re-signing it with their own key. The only workaround would be to use a known_hosts based system, similar to SSH. This however increases the costs of administration, and still provides avenues of attack.
I generally agree with Google's move. I think it's a bad thing to compromise the security of CA certs in order to support self-signed certs.
How is this different than any other environmental disaster? Are you aware that huge swaths of land have been rendered uninhabitable by mining and other industrial operations? That spills caused by oil drilling have residual environmental impacts decades after cleanup? If an uninhabitable zone is your concern, what about the huge swaths of land consumed by hydro-electric, solar, and wind power?
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/
http://www.groundtruthtrekking.org/Issues/AlaskaCoal/CoalMineReclamation.html
Seriously guys, are we complaining that wages are back up to .com levels? Am I the only one who remembers that as a few years of obscenely wasteful spending? Hell, I was a 16 year old making $40K a year back then.
Could you imagine a banker complaining that they aren't back up to 2006 level salaries?