I still play far too much RTCW: Enemy Territory (which is a free game BTW), and it's only gonna get worse now the True Combat Elite mod is out (http://www.truecombat.com/)
You know it's bad when you start to dream about repairing a tank with a pair of pliers, and you hear your mate on TeamSpeak shout a warning about some Axis soldier creeping up on you with a primed nade.
Then there is Doom. Whenever I see a barrel, I want to shoot it and make it blow up.
My first desktop PC was a 386-16 with a 40 megabyte *full height* 5.25in hard drive. When I replaced that drive, I did so with an 80MB IDE drive. I was staggered at the 80MB drive's tiny size (it was today's familiar form factor). It was dual boot - 40MB DOS partition, and 40MB Linux partition. After upgrading the mobo to a 486 with 16MB of RAM, I got Linux, X, OpenLook Virtual Window Manager and gcc plus all the libs I needed to write programs for X on that 40MB partition. This was in spring 1993 - just under 12 years ago.
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The US had already put nukes in Turkey when the CMC happened. Turkey is closer to Soviet territory than Cuba is to US territory.
I haven't seen the AAD/ADD/DDD (the last D is redundant really) markings in CDs since the early 1990s (along with the liner notes that seemed to come with all CDs: "The compact disc digital audio format is a convenient [...] They should be handled like conventional records"
Mc'Ds and BK are titans, but there are plenty of smaller successful and profit making fast food restaurants (from the larger ones like Wendy's to small only-one-location mom 'n' pop burger stores). Hardly financial suicide to start a fast food restaurant.
Coke and Pepsi for cola - there are plenty of other soft drink firms who profitably make own-brand colas.
Nike and Reebok - again, several other profitable makers exist.
Dell and HP - plenty of whitebox makers who are profitable.
Your only real points are ATI and nVidia and Intel and AMD and Microsoft (but even the Microsoft example isn't quite true - after all, there's RedHat who makes a profit, and IBM who makes a profit, and Sun...oh wait). All the other markets have plenty of successful smaller companies.
I think much of the hype was because it was the year 2000. The year 2038, just being a fairly random year number, won't generate 1/10th of the hype because it's some obscure date in January on a random year - not all the digits rolling over from 1999-12-31 to 2000-01-01.
The date itself is far less interesting and sexy to the media, so the problem will probably go totally ignored by the non-technical press. Meanwhile it'll get quietly fixed where it needs to be fixed, and life will carry on.
Even if we sent a team of 5 robots, more advanced than currently possible, they would still require about 30-50 people micromanaging the robots
What, instead of 30-50 people micromanaging the astronauts? Because that's what happens - there's a whole lot of people in mission control for a manned mission, too.
With our current level of life support technology, without a question, robots are the best way to do exploration this distant. They can also pave the way for future human explorations, and make sure when we send the really expensive-to-send humans, we get the most out of it.
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Gah. I hate interviews where you are given contrived, non-real-world puzzles to solve. I'd rather claw my own eyes out. Typically I answer them with a smart alec answer (i.e. ignoring the implicit assumptions and putting the contrived puzzle in the real universe and solving it there). Probably why I never get those kinds of jobs:-)
But a 350lb man is likely to be an obese, sweating sphere of lard who couldn't chase after anyone and would have trouble getting in and out of the car. Let him get wedged in the door frame then call the police whilst his quivering mass fights to escape!
Worse still is that a ship is large enough to conceal a very primitive (gun-type) nuclear weapon. Imagine what a ship steaming into Texas City or the Port of Houston could do in terms of deaths, and then in terms of economic damage by destroying some of the US's refining capacity if used in that manner.
Probably so the crews from both parts of the airline don't get mixed-n-matched - there is strict seniority in airline heirachies, and the system Delta has probably can't handle two seniority lines at once for the same job. Your seniority affects what schedules you get - the more senior you are, the more likely you're going to get the schedule you want to fly. New pilots/cabin crew tend to get all the shitty routes no one else wants to fly.
A friend told me, "if Texas had an enema, Houston is where they'd stick the pipe". I prefer to compare it to a fire ant hill that's been kicked over, except the fire ants have road rage.
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness was new for 2.6 and doesn't exist in 2.4 (and I don't think it's been backported). Turning swap on and off is easy (swapon/dev/hda2 and swapoff/dev/hda2), adding swap is easy (dd if=/dev/zero of=some_file; mkswap some_file; swapon some_file).
Things like "overcommit_memory" will be on or off (echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory as an example, some distros will probably have a kernel tweaks GUI that allows this sort of stuff).
If I put safety first, I'd have just taken the airlines.
Yes, all ADs and SBs were complied with on my Cessna 140 - and would get done if it's a legal requirement or not. I did all the maintenance 'owner assist' so I knew exactly what was being done to the plane and I'd learn in the process. It's risky enough flying in mountainous terrain (do you think I was putting "safety first" flying over the Sierra Nevadas in an 85 horsepower plane with a cruise prop? No. If I was putting safety first I'd have at least rented a light twin with turbocharged engines and pressurization and flown it like an airliner on an instrument flight plan. (After all I have the relevant ratings, and indeed since I hadn't yet bought a house, I even had the money). But the point of my coast-to-coast trip in the 140 wasn't to put safety first - it was to have an adventure. I may as well have been driving a bus had I chosen to put safety first.
But I wasn't operating on a shoestring budget, and therefore didn't defer maintenance except on purely cosmetic items.
Skydive jumpschools are often operating on razor thin margins and budgets and often cut corners (hence the joke about the jumpships). Parachute or not I wouldn't get in most jumpships. The skydive operation in "Fandango" didn't seem too far off the mark from many jumpships I've seen.
Many of my skydiving friends are into BASE and things like CRW which definitely do not put safety first (CRW is inherently dangerous and by definition you're not putting safety first if you choose to do it). My CRWdog friends have lots of stories about broken bones and having to cut away.
HHGTG became wildly successful *because* of the radio series. If the radio series had never taken off, it would be likely that there would have never been the books or the TV series or anything else - it'd have just faded into obscurity.
Many people became DA fans from listening to the radio series - not the other way around. Perhaps you can't follow it because you're not a native British English speaker (many things in the radio series won't make sense to Americans because they are British 'in jokes').
The thing is - to play Doom at an acceptable level with all the eye candy, your *video card alone* must cost on the order of $250, let alone the rest of the PC. There's no way Apple or anyone else can make a top-end gaming machine for $499.
Linux has a pretty poor cache and swap system, combined with zero user level control over cache and swap. As a result, over time, the OS runs slower, and s l o w e r and s... l.... o..... w...... r....... until you restart
Without the actual evidence that I've got servers running Linux (2.4 kernel series) that have 400+ day uptimes and are running just as fast as the day they booted, this is patently untrue with the 2.6 kernel series. The swappiness of the system is easily set (/proc/sys/vm/swappiness) from a range of 0 (never swap) to 100 (agressively try and swap pages out). The default is 60. Even with the 2.4 kernel series and older you've been able to turn swap off, add swap, remove swap space without needing a reboot.
Distros such as Fedora Core (and I assume RH's commercial distros) even have a GUI tool for adjusting these parameters.
But to the vast majority of people out there who spend all day in something like MS Word or a web browser - machines basically waiting for I/O from a human - it's not even an issue. Given adequate amounts of RAM, most of them would be fine with a 500MHz PIII.
I wouldn't sit through a silent film, but don't forget the original Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a radio play (and is often thought to be the best version). I regularly listen to radio drama (you try watching a film when driving - radio dramas are designed to be understood without a video component so are great for when you're in the car, cleaning the house or doing anything that means you can't sit still and passively watch a screen).
Erm, it DOES mention the ARM and gives it the title of probably the most successful CPU architecture ever. It notes the roots of ARM from the Acorn computer company, including the fate of Acorn (bought by Olivetti, and now owned by Broadcom).
We do actually have that offloading - logical block addressing (rather than CHS - the drive works out where the block is, the CPU doesn't) and DMA. Turn DMA off to see the performance difference without it - a consumer drive will sustain 20Mbyte/sec without working up a sweat with DMA on (and without loading the CPU either). Turn the DMA off and CPU will get pegged at 100% and you'll do no better than 2Mbyte/sec sustained.
New laws won't help. The majority of spam is already illegal - it's hawking either illegal goods or has been sent from hacked computers. Doesn't stop the flood though.
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Pity all the references are alarmist sites with no more credibility than the National Enquirer...
I still play far too much RTCW: Enemy Territory (which is a free game BTW), and it's only gonna get worse now the True Combat Elite mod is out (http://www.truecombat.com/)
You know it's bad when you start to dream about repairing a tank with a pair of pliers, and you hear your mate on TeamSpeak shout a warning about some Axis soldier creeping up on you with a primed nade.
Then there is Doom. Whenever I see a barrel, I want to shoot it and make it blow up.
No. Usually GaAs (gallium arsenide).
My first desktop PC was a 386-16 with a 40 megabyte *full height* 5.25in hard drive. When I replaced that drive, I did so with an 80MB IDE drive. I was staggered at the 80MB drive's tiny size (it was today's familiar form factor). It was dual boot - 40MB DOS partition, and 40MB Linux partition. After upgrading the mobo to a 486 with 16MB of RAM, I got Linux, X, OpenLook Virtual Window Manager and gcc plus all the libs I needed to write programs for X on that 40MB partition. This was in spring 1993 - just under 12 years ago.
The US had already put nukes in Turkey when the CMC happened. Turkey is closer to Soviet territory than Cuba is to US territory.
That's what the RCDs are for at the power panel (even my house has RCDs, they aren't expensive) and if it came to the worst, the fire extinguisher.
I haven't seen the AAD/ADD/DDD (the last D is redundant really) markings in CDs since the early 1990s (along with the liner notes that seemed to come with all CDs: "The compact disc digital audio format is a convenient [...] They should be handled like conventional records"
Your examples aren't really particularly valid:
Mc'Ds and BK are titans, but there are plenty of smaller successful and profit making fast food restaurants (from the larger ones like Wendy's to small only-one-location mom 'n' pop burger stores). Hardly financial suicide to start a fast food restaurant.
Coke and Pepsi for cola - there are plenty of other soft drink firms who profitably make own-brand colas.
Nike and Reebok - again, several other profitable makers exist.
Dell and HP - plenty of whitebox makers who are profitable.
Your only real points are ATI and nVidia and Intel and AMD and Microsoft (but even the Microsoft example isn't quite true - after all, there's RedHat who makes a profit, and IBM who makes a profit, and Sun...oh wait). All the other markets have plenty of successful smaller companies.
I think much of the hype was because it was the year 2000. The year 2038, just being a fairly random year number, won't generate 1/10th of the hype because it's some obscure date in January on a random year - not all the digits rolling over from 1999-12-31 to 2000-01-01.
The date itself is far less interesting and sexy to the media, so the problem will probably go totally ignored by the non-technical press. Meanwhile it'll get quietly fixed where it needs to be fixed, and life will carry on.
What, instead of 30-50 people micromanaging the astronauts? Because that's what happens - there's a whole lot of people in mission control for a manned mission, too.
With our current level of life support technology, without a question, robots are the best way to do exploration this distant. They can also pave the way for future human explorations, and make sure when we send the really expensive-to-send humans, we get the most out of it.
Gah. I hate interviews where you are given contrived, non-real-world puzzles to solve. I'd rather claw my own eyes out. Typically I answer them with a smart alec answer (i.e. ignoring the implicit assumptions and putting the contrived puzzle in the real universe and solving it there). Probably why I never get those kinds of jobs :-)
But a 350lb man is likely to be an obese, sweating sphere of lard who couldn't chase after anyone and would have trouble getting in and out of the car. Let him get wedged in the door frame then call the police whilst his quivering mass fights to escape!
Worse still is that a ship is large enough to conceal a very primitive (gun-type) nuclear weapon. Imagine what a ship steaming into Texas City or the Port of Houston could do in terms of deaths, and then in terms of economic damage by destroying some of the US's refining capacity if used in that manner.
Probably so the crews from both parts of the airline don't get mixed-n-matched - there is strict seniority in airline heirachies, and the system Delta has probably can't handle two seniority lines at once for the same job. Your seniority affects what schedules you get - the more senior you are, the more likely you're going to get the schedule you want to fly. New pilots/cabin crew tend to get all the shitty routes no one else wants to fly.
I used to live in Houston.
A friend told me, "if Texas had an enema, Houston is where they'd stick the pipe". I prefer to compare it to a fire ant hill that's been kicked over, except the fire ants have road rage.
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness was new for 2.6 and doesn't exist in 2.4 (and I don't think it's been backported). Turning swap on and off is easy (swapon /dev/hda2 and swapoff /dev/hda2), adding swap is easy (dd if=/dev/zero of=some_file; mkswap some_file; swapon some_file).
Things like "overcommit_memory" will be on or off (echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory as an example, some distros will probably have a kernel tweaks GUI that allows this sort of stuff).
If I put safety first, I'd have just taken the airlines.
Yes, all ADs and SBs were complied with on my Cessna 140 - and would get done if it's a legal requirement or not. I did all the maintenance 'owner assist' so I knew exactly what was being done to the plane and I'd learn in the process. It's risky enough flying in mountainous terrain (do you think I was putting "safety first" flying over the Sierra Nevadas in an 85 horsepower plane with a cruise prop? No. If I was putting safety first I'd have at least rented a light twin with turbocharged engines and pressurization and flown it like an airliner on an instrument flight plan. (After all I have the relevant ratings, and indeed since I hadn't yet bought a house, I even had the money). But the point of my coast-to-coast trip in the 140 wasn't to put safety first - it was to have an adventure. I may as well have been driving a bus had I chosen to put safety first.
But I wasn't operating on a shoestring budget, and therefore didn't defer maintenance except on purely cosmetic items.
Skydive jumpschools are often operating on razor thin margins and budgets and often cut corners (hence the joke about the jumpships). Parachute or not I wouldn't get in most jumpships. The skydive operation in "Fandango" didn't seem too far off the mark from many jumpships I've seen.
Many of my skydiving friends are into BASE and things like CRW which definitely do not put safety first (CRW is inherently dangerous and by definition you're not putting safety first if you choose to do it). My CRWdog friends have lots of stories about broken bones and having to cut away.
HHGTG became wildly successful *because* of the radio series. If the radio series had never taken off, it would be likely that there would have never been the books or the TV series or anything else - it'd have just faded into obscurity.
Many people became DA fans from listening to the radio series - not the other way around. Perhaps you can't follow it because you're not a native British English speaker (many things in the radio series won't make sense to Americans because they are British 'in jokes').
The thing is - to play Doom at an acceptable level with all the eye candy, your *video card alone* must cost on the order of $250, let alone the rest of the PC. There's no way Apple or anyone else can make a top-end gaming machine for $499.
Without the actual evidence that I've got servers running Linux (2.4 kernel series) that have 400+ day uptimes and are running just as fast as the day they booted, this is patently untrue with the 2.6 kernel series. The swappiness of the system is easily set (/proc/sys/vm/swappiness) from a range of 0 (never swap) to 100 (agressively try and swap pages out). The default is 60. Even with the 2.4 kernel series and older you've been able to turn swap off, add swap, remove swap space without needing a reboot.
Distros such as Fedora Core (and I assume RH's commercial distros) even have a GUI tool for adjusting these parameters.
A big issue to who, though?
Maybe to me, since I play games on my PC.
But to the vast majority of people out there who spend all day in something like MS Word or a web browser - machines basically waiting for I/O from a human - it's not even an issue. Given adequate amounts of RAM, most of them would be fine with a 500MHz PIII.
I wouldn't sit through a silent film, but don't forget the original Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a radio play (and is often thought to be the best version). I regularly listen to radio drama (you try watching a film when driving - radio dramas are designed to be understood without a video component so are great for when you're in the car, cleaning the house or doing anything that means you can't sit still and passively watch a screen).
Erm, it DOES mention the ARM and gives it the title of probably the most successful CPU architecture ever. It notes the roots of ARM from the Acorn computer company, including the fate of Acorn (bought by Olivetti, and now owned by Broadcom).
We do actually have that offloading - logical block addressing (rather than CHS - the drive works out where the block is, the CPU doesn't) and DMA. Turn DMA off to see the performance difference without it - a consumer drive will sustain 20Mbyte/sec without working up a sweat with DMA on (and without loading the CPU either). Turn the DMA off and CPU will get pegged at 100% and you'll do no better than 2Mbyte/sec sustained.
New laws won't help. The majority of spam is already illegal - it's hawking either illegal goods or has been sent from hacked computers. Doesn't stop the flood though.