While your version makes a better joke, the reality for any sufficiently complex application is more like "write once, run once". If you want to run on even one other platform (and here platform can mean just a different vendor of java technologies on the same os and hardware, or the same java technologies on a different os/hardware, etc...), look forward to resolving lots of issues that bear a striking resemblance to porting software in any other environment.
It really begs the question, why bother with Java. I honestly think that for complex applications it's easier to write portable C/C++ than trying to port java around. A well written C/C++ app that uses a multiplatform library set like glib/gdk/gtk can recompile and run easier between linux and windows than your typical java app.
The real difference is just that the exact layout of the raid is a pre-set standard by the BIOS vendor, and thus if you run Promise or whoever's softraid drivers in both OSes, you can have multi-platform softraid for a dual-boot setup. Linux boots just fine from a software raid device on it's own without this stuff, I assume windows can do the same.
And offsite imagine tracking is definitely not going to work for recipients like me, who use Mozilla Thunderbird and picked the config option "Block loading of remote images in mail messages".
The Subject line is for human perusal, not for machine categorization. The proper way to implement such a thing has always been an X-header in the email's headers. You could use this to categorize all types of junk spam, allowing mail clients and mail service providers to filter them at will.
Imagine something like:
X-UCE:
Where type is "porn", "commercial", etc... or even use PICS-like content-rating systems in there too.
A 20% performance hit really doesn't matter. Look at the rate of speed increases in hardware. When new systems come out doubling performance at such a regular pace, a one-time 20% slowdown to switch to an otherwise superior architecture with other benefits is an easy pill to swallow.
Of course, I don't think microkernels are a superior archeticture to begin with, and I think that a bland "20%" isn't a reasonable estimate of the real-world application or database's performance loss, so I still disagree with Andy.
I'm of the view that the differences between micro and monolithic kernels are really a question of where you place things in a semantic sense. Just as one can write OO code in C, one can write well-isolated modular code in a monolithic kernel. I'd rather have the burden of that modularization taken care of on the developer's end than at runtime.
While I'd agree that much of what you're saying is at least one valid view of the truth, I have to disagree with your conclusions.
Obi-wan waiting in the cave with sabers is no reason not to piss people off. Your attitude is one of a coward. To say that you will not do what you need or want to do for fear of pissing off dangerous people is to succumb to the will of those dangerous people. I would rather succumb fighting than succumb passively.
The library timings are all ridiculuously low. One "ilbrary" query was listed as 20 seconds. Google and the Phone (the other two compared information search services) are ubiquitous and can be used from anywhere. A library involves a trip to the library, which is at least 10 minutes travel for most people, if not more. And even if the stopwatch started when you walked in the front door of the library, there's now way in hell they answered that first query in 20 seconds time total.
Sounds like someone wanted to make a point that Google was inferior to your local library, and made up the data to prove it.
All programming is in fact math. Your software, be it written in C, LISP, Java, or whatever, can essentially be thought of as one huge mathematical function. Think lamba calculus.
Well yeah, but they use minimum-wage skill-less people for that. Hand them the tools to reprogram the meter and send them out in their little trucks and watch the ensuing mayhem.
Hah this was modded Troll. I was being serious, I was not trolling, but whatever. I really don't think the IT industry in general is a good place for anyone to set their sights on, it's all downhill from here.
You're right of course, I was just on a run there typing quicker than I was thinking. Striping first means you can only tolerate a single disk loss, period. Mirroring first means that after the first disk loss, there's only a 33% chance the 2nd disk lost will cause data loss. So yeah, even in a 4-disk setup, the same rules apply - mirror at the lowest level for better availability:)
FYI, most production cars are incapable of 200. Usually drag is the limiting factor. A late model high-end Camaro or Firebird, for example, with minimal upgrades (chip, intake, exhaust type stuff) will generally drag-limit itself around the 155-170 range dependant on a few factors. A 'Vette in the same boat might make 180-185-ish due to it's better aerodynamics. In any case, even on a wide open empty road, anything over 150 is pretty fucking scary in a production passenger vehicle of any kind - especially taking into account unpredictable things like rocks and small animals that might be in your path.
And generally, you don't get arrested at 100 either. I routinely hit 120 in the major city that I live in when traffic opens up enough to allow it without being overtly rude to other drivers. A little knowledge of where the police usually set up speed traps in your city, combined with a radar detector and a vigilant eye, can usually keep you ticket free even at those speeds.
The difference is semantic, neither of you are making false statements. Microsoft was convicted of abusing their monopoly, but they were not convicted of being a monopoly. Just being a monopoly is not a crime.
I vote for the ones that back gun rights, and vote against the ones that try to enact gun control laws. Being a one issue voter makes life a lot simpler for me, and if any of them decide to vote against my wishes on some other matter, at least I'm well-armed and I can go after them for it:)
You've compared high-end 3d desktop gamer cards which are excessive on heat and power to CPU chips which are designed for lower power low heat situations. The difference isn't nearly as pronounced with a more valid comparison on the CPU side, say a high end P4EE or Athlon64/Opteron. Also as you've stated, the GPUs are almost entirely dedicated to high-power processing, whereas the CPUs spend a lot of their silicon on other things. A high end GPU is generally superior to a high end CPU in terms of raw computing power. Therefore, it needs more power and makes more heat. If you forced intel or amd to build a CPU for you right now that had the raw compute potential of the latest high end cards, they'd have a hard time doing so without being just as hot and power hungry. All these things scale over time, but the demands of the user and his software scale up to meet it as well.
NZ is a very different situation than the US, particularly because of its small size.
Here in the US, there is no stopping the rampant ownership of firearms. Firearm regulations truly only affect the law-abiding citizenry, and have next to zero impact on the criminal element. These facts are obvious to any USian who bothers to objectively look at the issues. It logically follows that most gun control laws can only accomplish the disarmement of law abiding citizens, effectively preventing self-defense against the armed criminals.
My $0 gentoo install plays every windows media file I've ever come across without paying any licensing fees or being illegal. Even streaming web media via browser plugins, etc.
Actually, I would bet that the 0's and 1's are not evenly distributed, considering how much of packet contents are unencrypted text, and that the protocol headers are bound to have bias, as are the assigned IP addresses that are most heavily used, etc...
I think based on the other comments below people still aren't understanding that it is a big deal.
Two are required to keep it from spinning out of control.
It started out with four. One failed a long time ago and hasn't been repaired yet because of the lack of shuttle launches lately. Another failed just now. So they have no redundancy left - if another fails before they get any repairs done, the ISS is doomed.
I prefer to give a good hard hit on the brake pedal to wake them up:) But then again I drive fast and I respect the whole "faster traffic to the right" thing, so I'm never really in anyone's way. If someone's tailgating me, they're just being a moron.
At least here in the US, a lot of highway troubles would be eased if everyone would remember that striated traffic flows smoother for everyone, and that you should always have faster cars on your left and slower cars on your right. Unless you're in the process of passing someone, you should never be in the far left lane of a 3-4+ lane highway (well, unless you're going pretty damn fast and you can't see anyone coming in your rearview in that lane, and you're being vigilant about it, in which case you're probably breaking speed laws anyways, but that's an entirely seperate matter).
The real DoD rules are public knowledge. The data overwrite is seven times over with various patterns designed to make for a fairly secure erase. A defense contractor I once worked at also required that outgoing HDD media (dead media returning to vendors or going in the trash or whatever) had to be degaussed before exiting the datacenter.
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While your version makes a better joke, the reality for any sufficiently complex application is more like "write once, run once". If you want to run on even one other platform (and here platform can mean just a different vendor of java technologies on the same os and hardware, or the same java technologies on a different os/hardware, etc...), look forward to resolving lots of issues that bear a striking resemblance to porting software in any other environment.
It really begs the question, why bother with Java. I honestly think that for complex applications it's easier to write portable C/C++ than trying to port java around. A well written C/C++ app that uses a multiplatform library set like glib/gdk/gtk can recompile and run easier between linux and windows than your typical java app.
The real difference is just that the exact layout of the raid is a pre-set standard by the BIOS vendor, and thus if you run Promise or whoever's softraid drivers in both OSes, you can have multi-platform softraid for a dual-boot setup. Linux boots just fine from a software raid device on it's own without this stuff, I assume windows can do the same.
And offsite imagine tracking is definitely not going to work for recipients like me, who use Mozilla Thunderbird and picked the config option "Block loading of remote images in mail messages".
The Subject line is for human perusal, not for machine categorization. The proper way to implement such a thing has always been an X-header in the email's headers. You could use this to categorize all types of junk spam, allowing mail clients and mail service providers to filter them at will.
Imagine something like:
X-UCE:
Where type is "porn", "commercial", etc... or even use PICS-like content-rating systems in there too.
Why the Subject field???
A 20% performance hit really doesn't matter. Look at the rate of speed increases in hardware. When new systems come out doubling performance at such a regular pace, a one-time 20% slowdown to switch to an otherwise superior architecture with other benefits is an easy pill to swallow.
Of course, I don't think microkernels are a superior archeticture to begin with, and I think that a bland "20%" isn't a reasonable estimate of the real-world application or database's performance loss, so I still disagree with Andy.
I'm of the view that the differences between micro and monolithic kernels are really a question of where you place things in a semantic sense. Just as one can write OO code in C, one can write well-isolated modular code in a monolithic kernel. I'd rather have the burden of that modularization taken care of on the developer's end than at runtime.
And ZZ Top is from Texas, of course.
That's why you're a user and they won't give you root.
While I'd agree that much of what you're saying is at least one valid view of the truth, I have to disagree with your conclusions.
Obi-wan waiting in the cave with sabers is no reason not to piss people off. Your attitude is one of a coward. To say that you will not do what you need or want to do for fear of pissing off dangerous people is to succumb to the will of those dangerous people. I would rather succumb fighting than succumb passively.
The library timings are all ridiculuously low. One "ilbrary" query was listed as 20 seconds. Google and the Phone (the other two compared information search services) are ubiquitous and can be used from anywhere. A library involves a trip to the library, which is at least 10 minutes travel for most people, if not more. And even if the stopwatch started when you walked in the front door of the library, there's now way in hell they answered that first query in 20 seconds time total.
Sounds like someone wanted to make a point that Google was inferior to your local library, and made up the data to prove it.
All programming is in fact math. Your software, be it written in C, LISP, Java, or whatever, can essentially be thought of as one huge mathematical function. Think lamba calculus.
Well yeah, but they use minimum-wage skill-less people for that. Hand them the tools to reprogram the meter and send them out in their little trucks and watch the ensuing mayhem.
Hah this was modded Troll. I was being serious, I was not trolling, but whatever. I really don't think the IT industry in general is a good place for anyone to set their sights on, it's all downhill from here.
You're right of course, I was just on a run there typing quicker than I was thinking. Striping first means you can only tolerate a single disk loss, period. Mirroring first means that after the first disk loss, there's only a 33% chance the 2nd disk lost will cause data loss. So yeah, even in a 4-disk setup, the same rules apply - mirror at the lowest level for better availability
FYI, most production cars are incapable of 200. Usually drag is the limiting factor. A late model high-end Camaro or Firebird, for example, with minimal upgrades (chip, intake, exhaust type stuff) will generally drag-limit itself around the 155-170 range dependant on a few factors. A 'Vette in the same boat might make 180-185-ish due to it's better aerodynamics. In any case, even on a wide open empty road, anything over 150 is pretty fucking scary in a production passenger vehicle of any kind - especially taking into account unpredictable things like rocks and small animals that might be in your path.
And generally, you don't get arrested at 100 either. I routinely hit 120 in the major city that I live in when traffic opens up enough to allow it without being overtly rude to other drivers. A little knowledge of where the police usually set up speed traps in your city, combined with a radar detector and a vigilant eye, can usually keep you ticket free even at those speeds.
The difference is semantic, neither of you are making false statements. Microsoft was convicted of abusing their monopoly, but they were not convicted of being a monopoly. Just being a monopoly is not a crime.
I vote for the ones that back gun rights, and vote against the ones that try to enact gun control laws. Being a one issue voter makes life a lot simpler for me, and if any of them decide to vote against my wishes on some other matter, at least I'm well-armed and I can go after them for it
You've compared high-end 3d desktop gamer cards which are excessive on heat and power to CPU chips which are designed for lower power low heat situations. The difference isn't nearly as pronounced with a more valid comparison on the CPU side, say a high end P4EE or Athlon64/Opteron. Also as you've stated, the GPUs are almost entirely dedicated to high-power processing, whereas the CPUs spend a lot of their silicon on other things. A high end GPU is generally superior to a high end CPU in terms of raw computing power. Therefore, it needs more power and makes more heat. If you forced intel or amd to build a CPU for you right now that had the raw compute potential of the latest high end cards, they'd have a hard time doing so without being just as hot and power hungry. All these things scale over time, but the demands of the user and his software scale up to meet it as well.
Man invented the ultimate ATV a long, long time ago. It's called the Helicopter.
NZ is a very different situation than the US, particularly because of its small size.
Here in the US, there is no stopping the rampant ownership of firearms. Firearm regulations truly only affect the law-abiding citizenry, and have next to zero impact on the criminal element. These facts are obvious to any USian who bothers to objectively look at the issues. It logically follows that most gun control laws can only accomplish the disarmement of law abiding citizens, effectively preventing self-defense against the armed criminals.
My $0 gentoo install plays every windows media file I've ever come across without paying any licensing fees or being illegal. Even streaming web media via browser plugins, etc.
Actually, I would bet that the 0's and 1's are not evenly distributed, considering how much of packet contents are unencrypted text, and that the protocol headers are bound to have bias, as are the assigned IP addresses that are most heavily used, etc...
I think based on the other comments below people still aren't understanding that it is a big deal.
Two are required to keep it from spinning out of control.
It started out with four. One failed a long time ago and hasn't been repaired yet because of the lack of shuttle launches lately. Another failed just now. So they have no redundancy left - if another fails before they get any repairs done, the ISS is doomed.
Err, I meant "faster traffic to the left" in that first sentence, oops :)
I prefer to give a good hard hit on the brake pedal to wake them up
At least here in the US, a lot of highway troubles would be eased if everyone would remember that striated traffic flows smoother for everyone, and that you should always have faster cars on your left and slower cars on your right. Unless you're in the process of passing someone, you should never be in the far left lane of a 3-4+ lane highway (well, unless you're going pretty damn fast and you can't see anyone coming in your rearview in that lane, and you're being vigilant about it, in which case you're probably breaking speed laws anyways, but that's an entirely seperate matter).
The real DoD rules are public knowledge. The data overwrite is seven times over with various patterns designed to make for a fairly secure erase. A defense contractor I once worked at also required that outgoing HDD media (dead media returning to vendors or going in the trash or whatever) had to be degaussed before exiting the datacenter.