This was my original experience with the Intel compiler also. However, after figuring out all of the right options to use, I ended up with an executable that was something like 25% faster than the one I got with gcc 3.2. My number crunching app was mostly integer math though. I haven't done any kind of comparison on a program that was heavily FP.
I've worked at more than one place that ticked off their workers enough to start this kind of talk. When the company is taking advantage of you and not giving anything back, it's a really easy idea to mull over. In my experience though, it will never go beyond the talk stage. Most people are not in a financial position where they can afford to just quit their job without another job already lined up. It may be that most of the people you work with may be mad enough to quit, but when it comes right down to it, they will probably decide that they cannot leave themselves in a sitution where they don't know how they are going to support themselves. Therefore, they will look for other jobs, but not quit until they find those jobs. Since it isn't likely that they'll all find alternative employment at the same time, when mass exoduses do occur, it is usually a lot of people quitting over a span of time, and not all at once. While not as dramatic by half, this is far more practical of a decision for the workers involved.
Ok, fine, not everything has to have a happy ending. Take Blake's 7 for example. But at least in that show there WAS an ending. "To Be Continued" is not an ending at all, happy OR sad. I SO want to throw a brick through some Sci-Fi channel exec's living room window right now.
True, AIX's LVM is great, but Veritas makes a good volume manager also. In fact, it's about the only way to get really good volume management under Solaris. I've never tried Veritas Volume Manager for Linux, but I'll bet that it works just as well as their Solaris version. Granted, it would be nice if there were a Free LVM that were that good under Linux, but at least there is a first rate LVM available for Linux if you need one.
This wouldn't have been entrapment even had the police been the ones offering the item for sale on Ebay to begin with. All that happened was that an opportunity was created for him to use one of his counterfeit checks. Nobody even had to suggest to him that he illegally pay for the item with a counterfeit check, and even if somebody were to suggest it to him, including the police, it would not neccessarily be entrapment. (See the above link) He wasn't even approached asking to legally buy the item. He initiated the transaction himself in response to a publicly posted auction, which although admittedly posted as bait, was nothing even remotely resembling entrapment.
Even if you view the WTC as a legitimate military target (Which for the record, I don't personally), was the passenger plane they flew into it a legitimate military target?
I have tried out giFT, and although I did get it to work, it definately doesn't stack up to the proprietary fasttrack clients yet. It doesn't seem to support many of the features that makes fasttrack so much better than napster ever was, like downloading from multiple sources at the same time, and switching to another source if your download is interrupted. I did only test the cgi client, and not the java one though, although I don't think the java client is any further along.
I do have to say that although I don't like that there aren't any good free software clients for it, I like fasttrack better than I ever liked napster now that it's caught on. It's easier to find what you're looking for, and it works much better than any other p2p solution that I've tried.
For those who haven't tried fasttrack yet, I don't recommend that anybody use the kazaa client because I've heard that it has some sort of spyware incorporated into it. Use morpheus or grokster instead (All three of these clients use the fasttrack network).
I cannot believe that you need anything bigger than a P/II 266 to run your linux firewall. I'm running mine on a Pentium 133 that they were going to throw out at work. I slapped an extra NIC in it, and it's been happily firewalling me ever since. I have no problem downloading through it at speeds in excess of 300 K/s when the other side is capable of pushing the data at that speed. Possibly your problem is somewhere else if you can't download at the same speed to your internal network that you can to your firewall. Maybe collisions are your problem. I switched my internal network from a hub to a switch a while back, although I wasn't actually having any throughput problems before that either...
Well, I wasn't even counting the TNG movies, but if you include those, I think the worst ones are Insurrection, Star Trek V, Star Trek I, and then Generations, in that order. If Insurrection hadn't been a Trek movie, I think I would have walked out in the middle. Probably still should have...
If you use the arguement that a bat is not a weapon just because there exists an even more deadly weapon, then a gun is not a deadly weapon, because things like nuclear missiles exist. So, now if you and I have a duel, you are more than welcome to your useless handgun, as long as I get to be on the next continent over, with an arsenal of ICBMs.
Yes, but he says that he can already get by in Italian. Apparently he feels that his Italian skills are already good enough that he would only need a couple of more months to polish them to something resembling fluency...
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Let's say instead then that it's going 'Free Software', which is not the same as 'Open Source', which has unfortunately obfuscated the free software movement.
Sure, you can make a VHS/Beta comparison, but with VHS and Beta the average person had to make a significant monetary investment in equipment and tapes, so unless he had a lot of spare cash laying around, he had to commit to one format or another. In this case, if you can get a player that supports both formats, you can download either Ogg files or mp3 files, and keep both types of files around. If you have a preference for Ogg format files, you can download all of the Ogg files you want without having to give up your mp3 files. So, unlike VHS and Beta, it seems possible in this situation for Ogg to slowly take over more and more of the marketshare based on it's technical merits, unlike the VHS/Beta war where there was a huge fight for customers, and only one could survive. And if eventually Ogg files become popular enough, and if they are indeed superior, then at that point I think that Ogg files could become the dominant format. It doesn't neccessarily have to happen that way, but because it does not actually require end users to pick one and only one format over all others, I think that it could happen that way.
Even though I consider their products to have fallen behind the curve, there are still a huge number of installed SCO systems out there. I've worked for several different companies, and between them all, I've probably seen close to a thousand installed SCO systems. Until recently, if you wanted a low cost Unix system, SCO was the way to go. Lots of vendors use SCO boxes as controllers to their hardware. EIS for example uses SCO boxes to drive their predictive dialers. For a long time, the only Unix drivers for Dialogic were for SCO. (Don't know if even now if Linux drivers are available) If you wanted to do telephony with products like Dialogic, and you wanted to run under Unix, SCO was probably going to be the way you were going to go. You probably won't see too many high end servers running SCO anymore, but where you do see SCO, you'll probably see a lot of boxes. I worked at West Interactive for a couple of years, and they have hundreds of VRU's taking calls that are all running SCO, and although I think that it is a fading technology, there are still so many boxes out there running SCO, that anything that happens to SCO is going to affect a lot of people out there.
Why does wanting to not be flamed equate to not wanting anybody to disagree with him? Those are two completely different things. Seems like he just doesn't feel like dealing with people saying things like, "SCO RULEZ, YOU MORON!" Disagreeing with his opinion in a rational manner, with actual points to back up your counter opinion doesn't exactly count as flaming...
I wouldn't be surprised if he DID try to read the article, but couldn't get to it. I've been trying to get to it for 10 minutes, but it's pretty well slashdotted.
Lighten up, with the I am so much better than you attitude, how 'bout it?
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I wouldn't count on it for at least seven years...
This was my original experience with the Intel compiler also. However, after figuring out all of the right options to use, I ended up with an executable that was something like 25% faster than the one I got with gcc 3.2. My number crunching app was mostly integer math though. I haven't done any kind of comparison on a program that was heavily FP.
I've worked at more than one place that ticked off their workers enough to start this kind of talk. When the company is taking advantage of you and not giving anything back, it's a really easy idea to mull over. In my experience though, it will never go beyond the talk stage. Most people are not in a financial position where they can afford to just quit their job without another job already lined up. It may be that most of the people you work with may be mad enough to quit, but when it comes right down to it, they will probably decide that they cannot leave themselves in a sitution where they don't know how they are going to support themselves. Therefore, they will look for other jobs, but not quit until they find those jobs. Since it isn't likely that they'll all find alternative employment at the same time, when mass exoduses do occur, it is usually a lot of people quitting over a span of time, and not all at once. While not as dramatic by half, this is far more practical of a decision for the workers involved.
Ok, fine, not everything has to have a happy ending. Take Blake's 7 for example. But at least in that show there WAS an ending. "To Be Continued" is not an ending at all, happy OR sad. I SO want to throw a brick through some Sci-Fi channel exec's living room window right now.
True, AIX's LVM is great, but Veritas makes a good volume manager also. In fact, it's about the only way to get really good volume management under Solaris. I've never tried Veritas Volume Manager for Linux, but I'll bet that it works just as well as their Solaris version. Granted, it would be nice if there were a Free LVM that were that good under Linux, but at least there is a first rate LVM available for Linux if you need one.
This wouldn't have been entrapment even had the police been the ones offering the item for sale on Ebay to begin with. All that happened was that an opportunity was created for him to use one of his counterfeit checks. Nobody even had to suggest to him that he illegally pay for the item with a counterfeit check, and even if somebody were to suggest it to him, including the police, it would not neccessarily be entrapment. (See the above link) He wasn't even approached asking to legally buy the item. He initiated the transaction himself in response to a publicly posted auction, which although admittedly posted as bait, was nothing even remotely resembling entrapment.
How much more French could you possibly want to know?
Even if you view the WTC as a legitimate military target (Which for the record, I don't personally), was the passenger plane they flew into it a legitimate military target?
I have tried out giFT, and although I did get it to work, it definately doesn't stack up to the proprietary fasttrack clients yet. It doesn't seem to support many of the features that makes fasttrack so much better than napster ever was, like downloading from multiple sources at the same time, and switching to another source if your download is interrupted. I did only test the cgi client, and not the java one though, although I don't think the java client is any further along.
I do have to say that although I don't like that there aren't any good free software clients for it, I like fasttrack better than I ever liked napster now that it's caught on. It's easier to find what you're looking for, and it works much better than any other p2p solution that I've tried.
For those who haven't tried fasttrack yet, I don't recommend that anybody use the kazaa client because I've heard that it has some sort of spyware incorporated into it. Use morpheus or grokster instead (All three of these clients use the fasttrack network).
I cannot believe that you need anything bigger than a P/II 266 to run your linux firewall. I'm running mine on a Pentium 133 that they were going to throw out at work. I slapped an extra NIC in it, and it's been happily firewalling me ever since. I have no problem downloading through it at speeds in excess of 300 K/s when the other side is capable of pushing the data at that speed. Possibly your problem is somewhere else if you can't download at the same speed to your internal network that you can to your firewall. Maybe collisions are your problem. I switched my internal network from a hub to a switch a while back, although I wasn't actually having any throughput problems before that either...
This has happened to me several times since Slashcode was upgraded. I usually come back later to find that I'm logged in again...
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Well, I wasn't even counting the TNG movies, but if you include those, I think the worst ones are Insurrection, Star Trek V, Star Trek I, and then Generations, in that order. If Insurrection hadn't been a Trek movie, I think I would have walked out in the middle. Probably still should have...
Nah, Star Trek V was even worse than the original. (But you're right, the first one did suck...)
Here. This link should help you answer that question.
If you use the arguement that a bat is not a weapon just because there exists an even more deadly weapon, then a gun is not a deadly weapon, because things like nuclear missiles exist. So, now if you and I have a duel, you are more than welcome to your useless handgun, as long as I get to be on the next continent over, with an arsenal of ICBMs.
Of course, as long as he avoids getting fired, or laid off, being passed over for promotion is exactly what he wants in the first place... :)
Yes, but he says that he can already get by in Italian. Apparently he feels that his Italian skills are already good enough that he would only need a couple of more months to polish them to something resembling fluency...
Let's say instead then that it's going 'Free Software', which is not the same as 'Open Source', which has unfortunately obfuscated the free software movement.
Sure, you can make a VHS/Beta comparison, but with VHS and Beta the average person had to make a significant monetary investment in equipment and tapes, so unless he had a lot of spare cash laying around, he had to commit to one format or another. In this case, if you can get a player that supports both formats, you can download either Ogg files or mp3 files, and keep both types of files around. If you have a preference for Ogg format files, you can download all of the Ogg files you want without having to give up your mp3 files. So, unlike VHS and Beta, it seems possible in this situation for Ogg to slowly take over more and more of the marketshare based on it's technical merits, unlike the VHS/Beta war where there was a huge fight for customers, and only one could survive. And if eventually Ogg files become popular enough, and if they are indeed superior, then at that point I think that Ogg files could become the dominant format. It doesn't neccessarily have to happen that way, but because it does not actually require end users to pick one and only one format over all others, I think that it could happen that way.
Oh, God, how bad off do you have to be before you aspire to be 'as respectable as telemarketing'? :)
Even though I consider their products to have fallen behind the curve, there are still a huge number of installed SCO systems out there. I've worked for several different companies, and between them all, I've probably seen close to a thousand installed SCO systems. Until recently, if you wanted a low cost Unix system, SCO was the way to go. Lots of vendors use SCO boxes as controllers to their hardware. EIS for example uses SCO boxes to drive their predictive dialers. For a long time, the only Unix drivers for Dialogic were for SCO. (Don't know if even now if Linux drivers are available) If you wanted to do telephony with products like Dialogic, and you wanted to run under Unix, SCO was probably going to be the way you were going to go. You probably won't see too many high end servers running SCO anymore, but where you do see SCO, you'll probably see a lot of boxes. I worked at West Interactive for a couple of years, and they have hundreds of VRU's taking calls that are all running SCO, and although I think that it is a fading technology, there are still so many boxes out there running SCO, that anything that happens to SCO is going to affect a lot of people out there.
Why does wanting to not be flamed equate to not wanting anybody to disagree with him? Those are two completely different things. Seems like he just doesn't feel like dealing with people saying things like, "SCO RULEZ, YOU MORON!" Disagreeing with his opinion in a rational manner, with actual points to back up your counter opinion doesn't exactly count as flaming...
I wouldn't be surprised if he DID try to read the article, but couldn't get to it. I've been trying to get to it for 10 minutes, but it's pretty well slashdotted.
Lighten up, with the I am so much better than you attitude, how 'bout it?
Whoops. That's what I get for not paying close enough attention... :)
How about:
1 E2-E4 D7-D6
2 D1-E2 C8-G4
3 E2-E3 B8-C6
4 A2-A3 C6-D4
5 A3-A4 D4-C2++
Any problems with this one? The above spoiler does not work as white fails to move out of check at one point.