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If you were a submariner, then do you really think a depth charge, let alone dozens of them, could explode right next to a sub, throwing people into bulkheads, without totally obliterating the hull?
I don't see how that could be physically possible. Things don't "bang around" like that underwater. But, hey, what do I know?
Unless we find alternative energy sources, mankind is in really deep shit quite soon, not when fossil fuels run out,
We will be fine as far as the big picture goes, as long as the government doens't fuck it up.
As fossil fuels become more expensive, the profits in alternative energy research will boom like never before. This will lead to innovations in alternative energy, and thus cheaper alternative energy.
Right now, there just isn't much economic motivation for alternative fuel research, when cheap and relatively plentiful petroleum products are your competition.
If it is found to be too slow after it has been proved to be correct, then it can be optimised.
I assume you are using the concept "proved to be correct" very loosely here.
For anything more than a trivial program, any sort of proof of correctness, for all possible inputs, is pretty impossible.
It's like the old-school professor I had in college that said we should deskrun every program before we typed it into the compiler. Yeah, that might have worked when he was young and 1000 lines of fortran filled the whole system RAM, but times have changed.
I've seen the two used almost interchangbly when referring to modern large systems.
What would you call a cluster of Origin 2000s with a single system image? A supercomputer? Then my point still stands, as long as we are talking ethernet as a system interconnect for this type of clustering, it's not in the same ballpark as far as classes of problem.
Clustering is a very good and very cheap and superior alternative in some cases.
In the cases where you really need a mainframe, no cluster is going to help you. Mainframes aren't even really that fast. What they are good at is having tons of I/O bandwidth, even between nodes.
If we quit comparing clusters to mainframes, then people might take clustering more seriously. They are not intended for the same classes of problems.
I have an OpenMosix cluster at home, and I work with an Origin 2000 at work. (If anyone else uses IRIX you know that you work *with* IRIX, not on it, it has a mind of it's own:) They are vastly different concepts, apples and oranges.
Collectively, we control the Internet, we control every company's data. We control their payroll, their accounting, their ordering, their web site, in some cases, their phones.
Geeks have the power to stop the world in it's tracks if we need to. We will prevail, because we can hold the world hostage with the technology that it depends on.
The government really doesn't want to drive us to civil disobediance, because we can be incredibly effective at it if we have to.
AOL provides a valuable service. How would you feel if AOL types were flooding onto certain open source related IRC networks, or other places with generally high quality.
AOL provides idiots a sandbox to play in, and keeps them away from intelligent people. For this, we need to thank them.
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Actually they do need to send out a technician to put a low-pass filter on your line for most cable service downgrades.
Red Hat is prominent now. THere is a big button looking thing in 7.3 in the panel that tells you when updates are available, installed by default. Of course you can turn if off easily if you don't want it.
Assuming that they are a publicly traded company, which may not be the case, one of the items on their balance sheet is "Customer Good Will".
I think you need a class in accounting. I defy you to show me one balance sheet with such an entry. Note that "Goodwill" is something totally different.
Yeah, that's what happened to me too, accidentally installed a filter cap backward. I always remember the polarity of diodes in a bridge rectifier configuration now.:)
Antialiasing just means "blurring". It's utter bullshit. I can get antialiasing by adjusting the focus network on my monitor's flyback.
It's like in the original Star Trek when they showed the "beautiful woman" that kirk was going to pimp on, and they "antialiased" her close up so you couldn't see her wrinkles.
I cost a lot to build, and they couldn't sell it when they put it on the real estate market.
I've been in it several times, it's interesting. It's bigger inside than it looks on the outside. The heating/cooling does seem to always be very consistant, it seems to have less temperature variation than a normal square house.
Someone mentioned leaks, my friend never mentioned problems with leaks, even though it has several skylights.
He reads slashdot, but he never posts, maybe this will be his first story to post in, after all, he is pretty qualified to post on this one!
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If you were a submariner, then do you really think a depth charge, let alone dozens of them, could explode right next to a sub, throwing people into bulkheads, without totally obliterating the hull?
I don't see how that could be physically possible. Things don't "bang around" like that underwater. But, hey, what do I know?
Is that supposed to be a joke?
Unless we find alternative energy sources, mankind is in really deep shit quite soon, not when fossil fuels run out,
We will be fine as far as the big picture goes, as long as the government doens't fuck it up.
As fossil fuels become more expensive, the profits in alternative energy research will boom like never before. This will lead to innovations in alternative energy, and thus cheaper alternative energy.
Right now, there just isn't much economic motivation for alternative fuel research, when cheap and relatively plentiful petroleum products are your competition.
If it is found to be too slow
after it has been proved to be correct, then
it can be optimised.
I assume you are using the concept "proved to be correct" very loosely here.
For anything more than a trivial program, any sort of proof of correctness, for all possible inputs, is pretty impossible.
It's like the old-school professor I had in college that said we should deskrun every program before we typed it into the compiler. Yeah, that might have worked when he was young and 1000 lines of fortran filled the whole system RAM, but times have changed.
Maybe I used the wrong word.
I've seen the two used almost interchangbly when referring to modern large systems.
What would you call a cluster of Origin 2000s with a single system image? A supercomputer? Then my point still stands, as long as we are talking ethernet as a system interconnect for this type of clustering, it's not in the same ballpark as far as classes of problem.
How can you even compare this to a mainframe?
:) They are vastly different concepts, apples and oranges.
Clustering is a very good and very cheap and superior alternative in some cases.
In the cases where you really need a mainframe, no cluster is going to help you. Mainframes aren't even really that fast. What they are good at is having tons of I/O bandwidth, even between nodes.
If we quit comparing clusters to mainframes, then people might take clustering more seriously. They are not intended for the same classes of problems.
I have an OpenMosix cluster at home, and I work with an Origin 2000 at work. (If anyone else uses IRIX you know that you work *with* IRIX, not on it, it has a mind of it's own
If you can't comprehend how the things he is doing might actually be enjoyable, then you really have no claim to any geek/nerdom.
I'm not saying that you did claim that, but you are on Slashdot after all.
cuz we might not win.
We will.
Collectively, we control the Internet, we control every company's data. We control their payroll, their accounting, their ordering, their web site, in some cases, their phones.
Geeks have the power to stop the world in it's tracks if we need to. We will prevail, because we can hold the world hostage with the technology that it depends on.
The government really doesn't want to drive us to civil disobediance, because we can be incredibly effective at it if we have to.
AOL provides a valuable service. How would you feel if AOL types were flooding onto certain open source related IRC networks, or other places with generally high quality.
AOL provides idiots a sandbox to play in, and keeps them away from intelligent people. For this, we need to thank them.
Actually they do need to send out a technician to put a low-pass filter on your line for most cable service downgrades.
No one said it was going to be free.
People wanted it...
But did it really cause any perceptible improvement in experience? I seriously doubt it.
All red hat updates are signed cryptographically. Even kernel updates.
Red Hat is prominent now. THere is a big button looking thing in 7.3 in the panel that tells you when updates are available, installed by default. Of course you can turn if off easily if you don't want it.
Actually, 3DFX refused to have more than 16 megs of ram, arguing that there was no use for more than 16 megs of ram.
If you used Opera, you could magnify the whole pages, flash, graphics, and all.
Oh, I was making a general comment about Apple. Too cheap to include a $20 floppy drive, too stupid to include a manual eject for CDs....
About the only thing they have done right is OSX, other than that they were living on application momentum alone.
Oh of course. All you have to do is dismantle the computer and void your warranty to get the CD out? Man, some people are just whiners!
It's not really the CD maker's fault that Apple is a bunch of idiots.
Do us all a favor and piss into the monitor... while it is powered on.
Assuming that they are a publicly traded company, which may not be the case, one of the items on their balance sheet is "Customer Good Will".
I think you need a class in accounting. I defy you to show me one balance sheet with such an entry. Note that "Goodwill" is something totally different.
I've been fired for having an oganization header define as above
You were fired over a usenet post with an incorrect organization header? Come on! Maybe it was because you can't spell?
Yeah, that's what happened to me too, accidentally installed a filter cap backward. I always remember the polarity of diodes in a bridge rectifier configuration now. :)
I was being facetious man. :)
It's not a bug.
Antialiasing just means "blurring". It's utter bullshit. I can get antialiasing by adjusting the focus network on my monitor's flyback.
It's like in the original Star Trek when they showed the "beautiful woman" that kirk was going to pimp on, and they "antialiased" her close up so you couldn't see her wrinkles.
and coworker's parents has a dome house.
I cost a lot to build, and they couldn't sell it when they put it on the real estate market.
I've been in it several times, it's interesting. It's bigger inside than it looks on the outside. The heating/cooling does seem to always be very consistant, it seems to have less temperature variation than a normal square house.
Someone mentioned leaks, my friend never mentioned problems with leaks, even though it has several skylights.
He reads slashdot, but he never posts, maybe this will be his first story to post in, after all, he is pretty qualified to post on this one!