What you say is true, but they way the zealotry expresses itself rubs people different ways. For example, linux zealots express themselves by talking about the technical inferiority of everything else. Windows zealots talk about compatibility, what-you-know, etc., Mac zealots argue that everything apple does different is somehow better.
Now, if you're from a design background I imagine you'd cope better with the apple zealot -- though I'm sure it would still be annoying. Being from a technical background, I can handle linux zealots, though I still find them annoying. If you're not into computers, or from a business or gamer background, I imagine the windows zealots are more tolerable too. (Extend for your other terms as necessary.)
Yeah, it's a funny change. About five years ago I would have said.ps was the standard, and.pdf a format for interoperability. About two years ago I would have said they're both ok. Last year I went and converted all my old.ps articles to.pdf. I doubt I'll ever use ps directly again.
As for HTML... that's fine for things that are only going on the web, but... well, who can't read PDFs nowadays?
I'd also start worrying about hash collisions - 2^32 is really big, but every single part of every single file is likely to caus spurious collisions...
The cost before was that you had to have (access to) a torrent server. The requirement that you had to run a torrent server (or use sharereactor, etc.) was a barrier to entry -- especially if you weren't sharing linux, anime or wares (all of which have easy-to-use torrent servers available to the public).
As for the second point, imagine a scenario where I have a big file (perhaps an iso) and I create and upload a.torrent for it. Then I lend the ISO to a friend who also creates an uploads a.torrent for it.
Now, in the old model there are only a few places you could have uploaded your.torrent to, and so chances are you and your friend wouldn't both have bothered, and even if you both did, your friend would see that you'd already uploaded it.
However, in the new model you won't notice, and the internet will have some people downloading via your torrent and others downloading via your friend's even though the data being shared is identical. At least, that was the grandparen'ts concern, and I suspect they are right.
There are areas in which China will no doubt be much worse than the US, and areas in which it will be much better. Whether it is better or worse overall is irrelevant; China will dominate international politics within our lifetimes, and the question is how well we will adapt to it.
I, personally, would rather be on the Chinese whitelist than the Chinese blacklist when that time comes. Sure, I remember Tianamen square, but I think the US is equally bad, for instance more people starved to death due to the US restrictions on aid to Iraq than were shot in that square. It seems powerful countries are cruel, whether they are western or eastern.
Interesting; I had something similar but on escalating once (& threatening to sue) they agreed to ignore linux and fix the problem. Of course, linux had nothing to do with the problem. This was back when Bruce Parens was making lots of noise about HP's support for linux so I was pretty pissed to find linux = no warranty.
(Incidentially, my fault was a little different to yours: the parallel port had been plugged into the MB back-to-front and wouldn't work in either linux or windows.)
In NZ just playing the radio in a public place requires payment to the RIAA (is it RIANZ? I don't remember). I don't know the rules for CDs, I just assumed there were no additional charges:-/
We back up data onto tapes (or external drives) to ensure that any loss is minor; we have backup hard drives to make our data safer; we even have backup machines so a blown PSU or similar won't seriously affect downtime. Put simply, through redundancy we achieve reliability.
Now you tell me that you are the only person who is looking after seven different servers? And you think the best solution to this is better communication? Umm, no. The best solution to this is to contract somebody else to act as your backup.
Sadly, I think the GP is right. Can you imagine trying to get elected when all the opposition has to do is say "You voted against emergency military funding." It doesn't matter how much you argue that it wasn't really military funding you voted against, too few people will listen and you will lose. Classic politics:(
The solution has to be in stopping these crazy bills being introduced, whether by making them illegal or making it so trying to introduce one will result in a similar loss in the next election. Until then, making a princpled stand against a rider bill just sounds like political suicide.
Are you sure? Because I've read one (very poorly done) benchmark coming to this conclusion, and one (very well done) benchmark coming to the opposite conclusion.
Certainly Venice is cooler than (what was it before winchester? clawhammer??) but I don't yet believe venice runs cooler than winchester.
Sort of; we have a problem with trolls and it is sometimes hard to tell a troll from an informative rebuttal. For instance, if you hadn't been marked as a friend of a friend I would probably have skipped over your post too.
With so few entries, it looks like a single post to the (debian, yoper, sylpheed, whatever) mailing list would significantly skew the results in this test.
Our readers were quick to report a fishy smell, and a trip over to Yoper's homepage today turned up evidence of a well-intended but survey-busting tendency to encourage Yoper users to boost Yoper's standing in online polls.
We complain about Microsoft only surveying their customers and then claiming people think windows is as secure as linux but here we have (potentially) the same problem. Is yoper really the most popular distro, or just the most manipulative?
In the geek community blue screens are assumed to be hardware faults but in the general community I don't think this is the case. I'm wondering if the introduction of the RSOD is designed to blame hardware rather than MS.
Well, there are (a few) girls on/., and I have a hard time imagining them with non-geeky guys. So while it may be a very rare problem, saying it is no problem is an overstatement.
Also, even if the gf doesn't read/., most everyone has email nowadays; I'm sure I could email a number of poster's girlfriends if I were that way inclined.
For instance, say http://slashdot.org/~KFG decided to post about how he'd been having really hot sex with some cute babe at work. Now, most people reading it would just laugh at his lies, others would sigh enviously, but a few would remember that he has a wife and two kids at home (or was it three?) AND decided to drop her an email. I doubt KFG's wife reads/. (if so, hi, and I made up the bit about hot sex) but even if she doesn't the post could get him into trouble.
A large proportion of keyloggers are network-based, you simply email (or HTTP POST) the keys every hour or so. it would mean you have to automate breaking in every restart but if you already have a remote vulnerability then there is little difference between one breakin and ten.
Remainder of the year probably isn't smart in an environment that previously has seen no enforcement. I'd be using a sliding scale with punsihment at each stage in order to get people used to the idea that you are serious.
Something like: first offence, 24hr ban; second offence, 7 day ban; 3rd offence, 1 month; 4th offence, one year and an email to all 500 with the photograph of the person who has been stuffing up their computers.
Once you've got people used to the idea they will be punished you can swap to something like the 3 strikes policy. But at first you're going to get idiots testing you, and so two warnings is too soft while a year-long ban is hellova hard for a first punishment.
There are alternatives of course. Install an 802.11g network in parallel with strict rules. Disobey them once and you get a stern warning, twice and you're banned for life from it. That way you'll naturally see people migrate to the network which 'works' without the fight with idiots.
Oh, I'm assuming this is targetted at teenagers at or near college level. If you're dealing with mature adults then it is much easier.
What you say about upgrading to dual core is true (if the PR is to be believed anyway). However, every time I've tried to do anything like that in the past it hasn't worked out. The cost of a MB is minor compared to the cost of the new chip (especially since the new MB will have goodies like firewire which my current one doesn't). Plus if you upgrade your CPU you have to a) install it, and b) throw away the old one.
Put simply, I'd rather 'waste' $100 buying a new MB and sell my old MB+CPU (for say $100?). The market for 2nd hand CPUs is pretty awful so I'd be surprised if you get more than $20 (with $0 wasted on a MB).
Yeah, I noticed similar results with icc -- great for making my first implementation go faster.
Incidentially, I notice a similar benefit with AMD -- say I've got a 2.8GHz intel and a 2800+ AMD then my 2800+ will outperform the intel machine before hand optimisation (redesigning the code, not tweaking ASM) but after optimisation the difference is much smaller.
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I believe theKompany sells something similar to access for linux, if you go for that sort of thing...
What you say is true, but they way the zealotry expresses itself rubs people different ways. For example, linux zealots express themselves by talking about the technical inferiority of everything else. Windows zealots talk about compatibility, what-you-know, etc., Mac zealots argue that everything apple does different is somehow better.
Now, if you're from a design background I imagine you'd cope better with the apple zealot -- though I'm sure it would still be annoying. Being from a technical background, I can handle linux zealots, though I still find them annoying. If you're not into computers, or from a business or gamer background, I imagine the windows zealots are more tolerable too. (Extend for your other terms as necessary.)
Yeah, it's a funny change. About five years ago I would have said .ps was the standard, and .pdf a format for interoperability. About two years ago I would have said they're both ok. Last year I went and converted all my old .ps articles to .pdf. I doubt I'll ever use ps directly again.
... well, who can't read PDFs nowadays?
As for HTML... that's fine for things that are only going on the web, but
No. There has been lots of anecdotes, but I've never heard of a serious study.
*shrug* he's being honest about working for apple. I'd rather have that than him talking about it as if he was just a knowledgeable third party.
I'd also start worrying about hash collisions - 2^32 is really big, but every single part of every single file is likely to caus spurious collisions...
The cost before was that you had to have (access to) a torrent server. The requirement that you had to run a torrent server (or use sharereactor, etc.) was a barrier to entry -- especially if you weren't sharing linux, anime or wares (all of which have easy-to-use torrent servers available to the public).
.torrent for it. Then I lend the ISO to a friend who also creates an uploads a .torrent for it.
.torrent to, and so chances are you and your friend wouldn't both have bothered, and even if you both did, your friend would see that you'd already uploaded it.
As for the second point, imagine a scenario where I have a big file (perhaps an iso) and I create and upload a
Now, in the old model there are only a few places you could have uploaded your
However, in the new model you won't notice, and the internet will have some people downloading via your torrent and others downloading via your friend's even though the data being shared is identical. At least, that was the grandparen'ts concern, and I suspect they are right.
Well, maybe... but we don't have any real choice in the matter. So the question is how we're going to adapt to the new/future world order.
There are areas in which China will no doubt be much worse than the US, and areas in which it will be much better. Whether it is better or worse overall is irrelevant; China will dominate international politics within our lifetimes, and the question is how well we will adapt to it.
I, personally, would rather be on the Chinese whitelist than the Chinese blacklist when that time comes. Sure, I remember Tianamen square, but I think the US is equally bad, for instance more people starved to death due to the US restrictions on aid to Iraq than were shot in that square. It seems powerful countries are cruel, whether they are western or eastern.
Interesting; I had something similar but on escalating once (& threatening to sue) they agreed to ignore linux and fix the problem. Of course, linux had nothing to do with the problem. This was back when Bruce Parens was making lots of noise about HP's support for linux so I was pretty pissed to find linux = no warranty.
(Incidentially, my fault was a little different to yours: the parallel port had been plugged into the MB back-to-front and wouldn't work in either linux or windows.)
In NZ just playing the radio in a public place requires payment to the RIAA (is it RIANZ? I don't remember). I don't know the rules for CDs, I just assumed there were no additional charges :-/
We back up data onto tapes (or external drives) to ensure that any loss is minor; we have backup hard drives to make our data safer; we even have backup machines so a blown PSU or similar won't seriously affect downtime. Put simply, through redundancy we achieve reliability.
Now you tell me that you are the only person who is looking after seven different servers? And you think the best solution to this is better communication? Umm, no. The best solution to this is to contract somebody else to act as your backup.
Sadly, I think the GP is right. Can you imagine trying to get elected when all the opposition has to do is say "You voted against emergency military funding." It doesn't matter how much you argue that it wasn't really military funding you voted against, too few people will listen and you will lose. Classic politics :(
The solution has to be in stopping these crazy bills being introduced, whether by making them illegal or making it so trying to introduce one will result in a similar loss in the next election. Until then, making a princpled stand against a rider bill just sounds like political suicide.
Also, as an comment above points out, you would be much better off with a CRT projector than an LCD projector.
Are you sure? Because I've read one (very poorly done) benchmark coming to this conclusion, and one (very well done) benchmark coming to the opposite conclusion.
Certainly Venice is cooler than (what was it before winchester? clawhammer??) but I don't yet believe venice runs cooler than winchester.
Sort of; we have a problem with trolls and it is sometimes hard to tell a troll from an informative rebuttal. For instance, if you hadn't been marked as a friend of a friend I would probably have skipped over your post too.
Only if you haven't hit puberty yet
We complain about Microsoft only surveying their customers and then claiming people think windows is as secure as linux but here we have (potentially) the same problem. Is yoper really the most popular distro, or just the most manipulative?
In the geek community blue screens are assumed to be hardware faults but in the general community I don't think this is the case. I'm wondering if the introduction of the RSOD is designed to blame hardware rather than MS.
Well, there are (a few) girls on /., and I have a hard time imagining them with non-geeky guys. So while it may be a very rare problem, saying it is no problem is an overstatement.
/., most everyone has email nowadays; I'm sure I could email a number of poster's girlfriends if I were that way inclined.
/. (if so, hi, and I made up the bit about hot sex) but even if she doesn't the post could get him into trouble.
Also, even if the gf doesn't read
For instance, say http://slashdot.org/~KFG decided to post about how he'd been having really hot sex with some cute babe at work. Now, most people reading it would just laugh at his lies, others would sigh enviously, but a few would remember that he has a wife and two kids at home (or was it three?) AND decided to drop her an email. I doubt KFG's wife reads
A large proportion of keyloggers are network-based, you simply email (or HTTP POST) the keys every hour or so. it would mean you have to automate breaking in every restart but if you already have a remote vulnerability then there is little difference between one breakin and ten.
Remainder of the year probably isn't smart in an environment that previously has seen no enforcement. I'd be using a sliding scale with punsihment at each stage in order to get people used to the idea that you are serious.
Something like: first offence, 24hr ban; second offence, 7 day ban; 3rd offence, 1 month; 4th offence, one year and an email to all 500 with the photograph of the person who has been stuffing up their computers.
Once you've got people used to the idea they will be punished you can swap to something like the 3 strikes policy. But at first you're going to get idiots testing you, and so two warnings is too soft while a year-long ban is hellova hard for a first punishment.
There are alternatives of course. Install an 802.11g network in parallel with strict rules. Disobey them once and you get a stern warning, twice and you're banned for life from it. That way you'll naturally see people migrate to the network which 'works' without the fight with idiots.
Oh, I'm assuming this is targetted at teenagers at or near college level. If you're dealing with mature adults then it is much easier.
What you say about upgrading to dual core is true (if the PR is to be believed anyway). However, every time I've tried to do anything like that in the past it hasn't worked out. The cost of a MB is minor compared to the cost of the new chip (especially since the new MB will have goodies like firewire which my current one doesn't). Plus if you upgrade your CPU you have to a) install it, and b) throw away the old one.
Put simply, I'd rather 'waste' $100 buying a new MB and sell my old MB+CPU (for say $100?). The market for 2nd hand CPUs is pretty awful so I'd be surprised if you get more than $20 (with $0 wasted on a MB).
Yeah, I noticed similar results with icc -- great for making my first implementation go faster.
Incidentially, I notice a similar benefit with AMD -- say I've got a 2.8GHz intel and a 2800+ AMD then my 2800+ will outperform the intel machine before hand optimisation (redesigning the code, not tweaking ASM) but after optimisation the difference is much smaller.
Very little windows software works without admin. Most parents don't even have XP pro.