I've been watching HDD sizes for a while, and they seem to be narrowly beating Moore's law (15-16 months instead of 18.) So if we say we have 300GB today, with 100GB commonplace then I would say we will hit 1TB in about 27 months, with regular drives taking just over fourty months.
Yes she did. If I make a cup of coffee at home, and spill it on myself then I don't get first degree burns. If I got to McD, order a coffee and spill it on myself then I do. See the difference?
American-made computer, American high-speed broadband, American keyboard You're kidding right? Not one of those things is American. CPUs, and other bits might be designed in the US, but they're made in.tw, same as everything else in your list.
As for American enemities (sic). I guess it depends what you mean, but it has been a long time since anything I have bought has had 'Made in America' stamped on it.
Besides, WTF does this have to do with AC's free speech? Last I looked, America only refused exports to the most extremely anti-free-speech countries (Iran, Libya, Cuba, a few others I forget). There are still plenty of places without DMCA laws and the ability to buy American products.
Now, you are saying, well, it's only limited to the one account
No, I'm saying: "Well, sucks to be you, but at least your neighbour down the road doesn't get blasted by you sending the virus".
Trying to propogate a virus without root is quite a bit harder than with root, so I cannot see a virus spreading so quickly. Also it is significantly harder to hide a virus in a user's account than it is anywhere on the system because a user only has write permission to a few places. That makes writing software to detect the virus significantly easier.
To repeat, it doesn't make much difference for the person who gets infected -- as you say, OS destroyed vs data destroyed is an academic distinction -- but it reduces the virus' spread.
Fist a disclaimer: I write like I code -- for hours on end with no gaps. That means instant availability is unimportant to me, I am only concerned with how cramped my hand feels after a few hours of writing.
Think of a cheap pen as a cheap monitor -- perfectly fine for five mins checking email, but you'll get tired eyes if you try to use it for hours. A good fountain pen has the ink just flowing onto the paper so you don't feel any resistance. This means you don't have to strain your wrist muscles and you don't get cramped. Oh, and good doesn't necessaraly mean expensive -- I've used a cheap Lamy that was perfectly good, and my Elysse (can't remember which e has the accent) is quite scratchy.
The downside of a fountain pen is they tend to dry out if not used for a while and need refilling. This is less of a problem if you write regularly (instead of once a fortnight like me), and I treat it as my pen telling me off for not working hard enough. Ok, so I'm weird:-). Some fountain pens seem better in this regard than others. Oh, and some are _much_ easier to refill than others. You can get ink bottles that are easier to fill pens from too.
For putting things on shopping lists and other non-sustained writing, I use a roller-ball instead of a fountain pen. They dry up less, go longer between refills, and can be used immediately.
Actually, I would be tempted. A secure, reliable backup 'appliance' would be pretty conveniant. Sure, I could save money by putting it together myself but not much, and while the end result would be more flexible, it would take a lot more time, and be less reliable.
If I went second hand I'd have to go to about 500MHz in order for the MB to support 120GB properly. That would cost say $200 for the machine (cheaper if I shopped around, but I'm busy), and $100 for the new drive. So I save $100, and get a louder, clunkier and less reliable server.
If I went new then the mini-itx would be hard to squeeze under $400 with a 120GB drive, and that excludes installation. $75 case, $100 MB+CPU, $50 RAM, $100 drive, $50 CD (RW) for installation and offline backup.
Either way, I'd have to install an OS on it (knx-hdinstall probably). BSD would be better, but I'm lazy:-). Then I'd have to configure IP tables, install coda/NFS/whatever. etc, etc, etc. Lotsa work.
Of course, if your needs go beyond just a backup appliance, then the extra flexability of the ITX or xbox approach has got to make it the best option.
Hey, that's quite a good idea:-) It would save a lot of work in carefully parsing the logs, and help to distinguish between crackers and script kiddies.
Amusing as your comment is, the limit on broadband in New Zealand really is 4Gb (500MB)/month. If you exceed that, you are charged 10c/MB. You can also buy a larger initial cap, for slightly less than 10c/MB. Ah, the wonders of broadband monopolies...
I see a lot of comments saying "they're sponsored links, perhaps it is unbiased". Well maybe, though a search engine with that many sponsored links isn't going to be useful.
But before we let MS off the hook, try looking at the absolute numbers. A search for Linux returns 542 hits, while a search for windows returns 2402. (My god, their search engine must be _tiny_). Compare these to google where linux returns 59M, and windows 63M. So, MSN gives windows outranking linux by a factor of five, while Google puts them almost equal. Hardly convincing evidence given MSN could be barely described as a toy, but it still looks a bit fishy to me.
Actually, yoda's grammar comes from Japanese, with the words transliterated into English.
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That was my point. KDE shoudn't need much X11, but no KDE programmer has written any KDE apps without X11. Have you ever tried to write portable code with only one machine to test it on? It isn't easy.
Good start, but not useful yet
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Now I guess we get to find out how much KDE assumes X11. Because there aren't many QT only apps out there.
Or that the itches they're scratching are quite personal;-)
You're kidding right
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Sars can be seen in just about any supermarket in the country now... See for example http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-05/21/content_879849.htm
A program I developed as part of my research just happens to be able to solve your problem trivially (except for nr of letters, but that is easy to add). Seriously, computer vision is the hardest field in AI now, any solution should use it.
You're right that the sub-results are largely irrelevant, except for a couple points.
1) If they just gave the conclusion, you'd be saying "But they just made that up!" All those pages of boring numbers are there to convince you they went through a fairly scientific process and when they say "It is 0.3% faster", they know what they're talking about. Compare to the RIAA's statistics about a 0.3% drop in piracy.
2) Some people buy thesse cards because their money is burning a hole in their pocket, but most people don't spend $500 on a gfx card for bragging rights, they do it because their it will improve either their work or their gaming experience. These people want to know how much more time/better experience they'll get. Those people need to find the benchmark most relevant to them, rather than the 'overall' benchmark. For example, I have a program that runs faster on a 800MHz Duron than on a 2GHz Pentium 4. Why? Because it has lots of jumps. If I had just looked at the overall benchmark then I'd have 'upgraded' and I'd be feeling pretty stupid right now.
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.0000346 rounds to 0.00035, not 0.00036.
Incidentially, your calculation is slightly wrong.
Cheers
I've been watching HDD sizes for a while, and they seem to be narrowly beating Moore's law (15-16 months instead of 18.) So if we say we have 300GB today, with 100GB commonplace then I would say we will hit 1TB in about 27 months, with regular drives taking just over fourty months.
Hmm, interesting argument
Yes she did. If I make a cup of coffee at home, and spill it on myself then I don't get first degree burns. If I got to McD, order a coffee and spill it on myself then I do. See the difference?
You're kidding right? Not one of those things is American. CPUs, and other bits might be designed in the US, but they're made in
As for American enemities (sic). I guess it depends what you mean, but it has been a long time since anything I have bought has had 'Made in America' stamped on it.
Besides, WTF does this have to do with AC's free speech? Last I looked, America only refused exports to the most extremely anti-free-speech countries (Iran, Libya, Cuba, a few others I forget). There are still plenty of places without DMCA laws and the ability to buy American products.
No, I'm saying: "Well, sucks to be you, but at least your neighbour down the road doesn't get blasted by you sending the virus".
Trying to propogate a virus without root is quite a bit harder than with root, so I cannot see a virus spreading so quickly. Also it is significantly harder to hide a virus in a user's account than it is anywhere on the system because a user only has write permission to a few places. That makes writing software to detect the virus significantly easier.
To repeat, it doesn't make much difference for the person who gets infected -- as you say, OS destroyed vs data destroyed is an academic distinction -- but it reduces the virus' spread.
You missed the point. While wiping /home would be 'unfortunate' for you, it reduces the virus' spread.
Fist a disclaimer: I write like I code -- for hours on end with no gaps. That means instant availability is unimportant to me, I am only concerned with how cramped my hand feels after a few hours of writing.
:-). Some fountain pens seem better in this regard than others. Oh, and some are _much_ easier to refill than others. You can get ink bottles that are easier to fill pens from too.
Think of a cheap pen as a cheap monitor -- perfectly fine for five mins checking email, but you'll get tired eyes if you try to use it for hours. A good fountain pen has the ink just flowing onto the paper so you don't feel any resistance. This means you don't have to strain your wrist muscles and you don't get cramped. Oh, and good doesn't necessaraly mean expensive -- I've used a cheap Lamy that was perfectly good, and my Elysse (can't remember which e has the accent) is quite scratchy.
The downside of a fountain pen is they tend to dry out if not used for a while and need refilling. This is less of a problem if you write regularly (instead of once a fortnight like me), and I treat it as my pen telling me off for not working hard enough. Ok, so I'm weird
For putting things on shopping lists and other non-sustained writing, I use a roller-ball instead of a fountain pen. They dry up less, go longer between refills, and can be used immediately.
Actually, I would be tempted. A secure, reliable backup 'appliance' would be pretty conveniant. Sure, I could save money by putting it together myself but not much, and while the end result would be more flexible, it would take a lot more time, and be less reliable.
:-). Then I'd have to configure IP tables, install coda/NFS/whatever. etc, etc, etc. Lotsa work.
If I went second hand I'd have to go to about 500MHz in order for the MB to support 120GB properly. That would cost say $200 for the machine (cheaper if I shopped around, but I'm busy), and $100 for the new drive. So I save $100, and get a louder, clunkier and less reliable server.
If I went new then the mini-itx would be hard to squeeze under $400 with a 120GB drive, and that excludes installation. $75 case, $100 MB+CPU, $50 RAM, $100 drive, $50 CD (RW) for installation and offline backup.
Either way, I'd have to install an OS on it (knx-hdinstall probably). BSD would be better, but I'm lazy
Of course, if your needs go beyond just a backup appliance, then the extra flexability of the ITX or xbox approach has got to make it the best option.
> [I created a default.ida to reduce log size]
:-) It would save a lot of work in carefully parsing the logs, and help to distinguish between crackers and script kiddies.
Hey, that's quite a good idea
Good. (Well, what else is there to say?)
Have a look at http://guests.evectors.it/zoe/
It is wonderfully easy to use, and does everything you want. Oh, it does take a bit of getting used to.
Amusing as your comment is, the limit on broadband in New Zealand really is 4Gb (500MB)/month. If you exceed that, you are charged 10c/MB. You can also buy a larger initial cap, for slightly less than 10c/MB. Ah, the wonders of broadband monopolies...
Incidentally, bayes is quite a bit cheaper than spamassassin, and crm114 is cheaper still.
I wonder how much money RedHat slipped the Washington post for that one...? *g*
I see a lot of comments saying "they're sponsored links, perhaps it is unbiased". Well maybe, though a search engine with that many sponsored links isn't going to be useful.
But before we let MS off the hook, try looking at the absolute numbers. A search for Linux returns 542 hits, while a search for windows returns 2402. (My god, their search engine must be _tiny_). Compare these to google where linux returns 59M, and windows 63M. So, MSN gives windows outranking linux by a factor of five, while Google puts them almost equal. Hardly convincing evidence given MSN could be barely described as a toy, but it still looks a bit fishy to me.
Actually, yoda's grammar comes from Japanese, with the words transliterated into English.
That was my point. KDE shoudn't need much X11, but no KDE programmer has written any KDE apps without X11. Have you ever tried to write portable code with only one machine to test it on? It isn't easy.
Now I guess we get to find out how much KDE assumes X11. Because there aren't many QT only apps out there.
Or that the itches they're scratching are quite personal ;-)
Sars can be seen in just about any supermarket in the country now... See for example http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet .com/english/2003-05/21/content_879849.htm
Umm, not if the only requirement was 'please say the word ...'. Speech synthesis is easy.
A program I developed as part of my research just happens to be able to solve your problem trivially (except for nr of letters, but that is easy to add). Seriously, computer vision is the hardest field in AI now, any solution should use it.
Interesting. But automatic recognition of spoken letters is pretty easy, which kind of defeats the purpose.
You're right that the sub-results are largely irrelevant, except for a couple points.
1) If they just gave the conclusion, you'd be saying "But they just made that up!" All those pages of boring numbers are there to convince you they went through a fairly scientific process and when they say "It is 0.3% faster", they know what they're talking about. Compare to the RIAA's statistics about a 0.3% drop in piracy.
2) Some people buy thesse cards because their money is burning a hole in their pocket, but most people don't spend $500 on a gfx card for bragging rights, they do it because their it will improve either their work or their gaming experience. These people want to know how much more time/better experience they'll get. Those people need to find the benchmark most relevant to them, rather than the 'overall' benchmark. For example, I have a program that runs faster on a 800MHz Duron than on a 2GHz Pentium 4. Why? Because it has lots of jumps. If I had just looked at the overall benchmark then I'd have 'upgraded' and I'd be feeling pretty stupid right now.