With the advent of the 300MHz processor, the 233 I purchased became dirt cheap. Now that there are 1.5 GHz chips out, you can get an 800 MHz chip dirt cheap. When the 750GHz chips are produced, I will be lined up to buy an obsolete 500GHz chip that will be fast enough to start windows from boot in less than three minutes! Yay bleeding edge subsidizing second-stringers!
Doesn't this wildly violate it? Right now we're at 1.5 GHz. Moore's law states that this will double every 18 months. That's about three times it should double in the next five years. La la la, David does some simple math:
12GHz.
Hmm. I know that Moore's law is just a rough estimate, but so far we've stuck to it pretty faithfully, right? If the rate of increase is increasing (aaaahhhhh! semantically difficult sentence!), I'm gonna be really impressed with where our technology goes!
Unless they mis-estimated their release date (and we know that's never happened) by about six years.
Um, not to be insulting or anything, but did you read the question? The tapes are being used for backups, not to store data necessary for running programs. Since they are solely for backups, I'm sure waiting a few minutes in the necessity of a restore would not kill anyone. Access time is not his problem, but tape capacity is.
When I did a co-op stint in IT at a manufacturing plant, we did nightly backups of our servers. It was basically one tape per server. Luckily, we only had about five, so that was five tapes per day. RAID-5 is not an answer, because the tapes were not only in case of disk crash/user error, but also fire, flood or other catastrophe. Our backup tapes were kept at an offsite secure storage location for this reason.
As for users, if they are clumsy enough to delete an important file, they deserve to wait to get it back. Using our system, it could take up to three hours to recover a file from backup tape. It just taught our users to be a little bit more careful.
At the risk of repeating the article, I find it incredibly offensive that Fandom.com would try to pursue this battle, when to anyone with an ounce of common sense they don't have a leg to stand on.
The word "fandom" been around since 1903 (from article) thus, they cannot claim trademark infringement. If they somehow manage to do so, I'm going to register www.chair.com and bang on everyone's doors with cease and desist letters.
As for cybersquatting, that is defined as registering domain names with the express intent of reselling them for profit later. This is something that was *not* done. The site www.fandom.tv is a legitimate fandom site. It reminds me of a story I heard about coca-cola suing some guy somewhere for having www.coke.(ccTLD) Apparently, it was a memorial site for his friend that died from cocaine. Does anyone else remember this?
Get an account. This is essential. People will always pay more attention to you if you are willing to take credit for your comments. I always read AC posts with a grain of salt.
so cleaverly crafted
I see you know this trick. Your master has taught you well. Seemingly innocent misspellings and grammar mistakes will always elicit a few responses.
Read other successful trolls, and apply the same concepts to yours. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but be prepared to apologize if someone takes offense. You can string out the apology thread for a while as well.
Always post your trolls early. The closer they are to the top, the more attention and responses they will get. If you cannot get an early troll, a good alternative is responding to an early post.
The benefits of karma whoring are well documented. A subtle troll posted with a +1 bonus can expect more attention than an AC posting at zero. I shall return to trolling when I again hit karma cap.
The call goes out to all other trolls who have suggestions to this AC. Lend him your trade secrets.
Why do my legitimate questions and (sometimes anti-/.-clique) opinions get called trolls?
If you want to be half the troll I am, slice off your legs so that you are 3'2". Then lose weight until you are 90lbs. Poke out one eye. Have a rudimentary knowledge of most topics on slashdot. Don't always conform to the Yay Linux hype. Apparently, asking questions that you want the answer to, and someone on/. has the answer too is also a good way to troll. Wax on. Wax off. Appreciate Dilbert humour. Spell things the Canadian way. Misinterpret insults (this is more for fun, actually). My one true attempt at trolling was a pitiful failure. I think it was too over the top.
Use it wisely, my son. Always remember the power of the dark side of the force.
Addendum: I am reformed. This is a legit question, and I rarely troll.
I thought XML already had a standard definition. There are a few rules, and you include a DTD to interpret any particular implementation of XML.
The company I'm presently working at has been using a specific implementation of XML for communication between servers, and they owe nothing to MSFT or Sun because of it. What exactly have these two companies done? I find the article vague at best. Have they provided XML interpreters? I doubt it, because there are too many ways that XML can be used for one interpreter to do it all.
If anyone can shed some light on this, I'd appreciate it.
I apologize for this. It does say that the recruitment is being done in five European countries. However, since every specific mention of a place or company was German, I assumed that speaking German would be one of the prerequisites for winning the game show (or even understanding it). You are right. They could hold this show in any number of languages, and english is probably going to be one of them, given the widespread use of it within europe.
Sushi is the safest when the fish is fresh. I mean fresh. The longer a piece of fish sits around, the more likely it is to pick up something from the environment that will contaminate it. As for freezing, eeewwww. Sushi is also best when it is fresh. The freezing would destroy the consistancy of the seafood, which is one of the crucial parts to a good meal.
Hmm... Okay, but I prefer to think of an open port as an open door, and the web browser is just really polite. It shouts into the house "Hey, have you got a page for me", and someone inside replies.
The fact that an open port is a completely unguarded entry point into a computer system makes it analagous(sp?) to an open door to me.
I find the swearing childish and immature. I'm always much more impressed by posts that seem intelligent to moderators (not that hard) at first, yet contain subtle misinformation which is picked up by fanatics later on. These fanatic posts then smack some sense into the moderators, who mod you down. It's much more elegant.
Ah, I think you hit on a point here. I'm too lazy to look up the law, but if I walked into a house that had an open door, I can't be charged with "breaking and entering". I think the most I can get is "illegal entry". IIRC, B&E requires that the criminal either break something or open something, with the intent to gain entry and commit another crime.
An open port is an open door. (H|Cr)acking a firewall is B&E.
We will never get rid of spammers. We will never get rid of telemarketers. We will never get rid of Jehova's Witnesses. We will never get rid of television commercials.
I'm afraid that you may just have to swallow the fact that this isn't a perfect world and we must do what we can to protect ourselves. I could be a bastard here and extend your line of thought to home security (why should I have to buy a door lock?), but I won't. Oops. Sorry.
That's the whole point I'm trying to make. Manage spam by having your real account, as well as a *free* account from hotmail, yahoo, or wherever. Whenever you need to distribute your email on the web, use the free account. When dealing with people you trust, use your real account. Then, when you find you free account getting overloaded, drop it and create a new one.
I agree with you that spam is a Bad Thing(tm), but there are a couple of simple steps you can take to minimize its effect on your life.
Okay. I agree with you here. Spam is harmful in open forums where there is no way to filter it. Imagine if people started advertising pornography here on slashdot, and there was no way to... oh, sorry.
I figure that if other people aren't using free e-mail accounts to filter out their spam, and then complain about it, they rank on the same level as sys admins who don't apply the latest security patches and whine when a skript kiddie roots their box. I appreciate your "once-bitten twice-shy" scenario, though. I had one of those too.
That's the whole point. It is a non-issue with me because I sheild myself behind a hotmail account. I find it much easier to sift through spam when there are almost no useful messages in the box. As such it takes such a small amount of my time that I can't even be bothered getting upset at it. In fact, I find some of the spam so lame it makes me laugh, and we all know the world could use more laughter.
I have three e-mail addresses: one at work (spam free), one at school (almost completely spam free) and one at hotmail (spammed constantly). I only ever give out my hotmail address on the web, and can drop it with no hard feelings at a moments notice.
Add to that the fact that I can block senders, and they have some other spam-detterents in hotmail, and it doesn't really bug me that much. I've never had more than about 10 spams a week, and since there is almost never any useful content in that box, it takes no time to delete them.
When I first started getting spam, I got irate and tried sending them false information, rude replies, etc. Although this was fun for the first couple of times, the heady enjoyment of corrupting spammers' databases quickly wore off. Now I just delete and forget.
So I guess I ask my original question again: Why does everyone get so damn pissed off at spam?
Well, I just happened to get a first post, with a +1 bonus. There goes three right there. Pretty soon I'll have to stop this crap and start whoring again.
Um, check the first post, buddy. I did get it. Not only is it a first post, but it is a logged in first post, using the +1 bonus. The #4 was asking why I don't feel the warm glow of pure benevolent bliss that I have heard so many speak of.
Thanks for helping me lose karma. I must drop away from karma cap to make my whoring games fun again. However, I found the reaction to my pitiful amateur troll attempt quite humourous. Perhaps I should switch to the dark side of the force.
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With the advent of the 300MHz processor, the 233 I purchased became dirt cheap. Now that there are 1.5 GHz chips out, you can get an 800 MHz chip dirt cheap. When the 750GHz chips are produced, I will be lined up to buy an obsolete 500GHz chip that will be fast enough to start windows from boot in less than three minutes! Yay bleeding edge subsidizing second-stringers!
Whoops, an entire day of cafiene and /. reading has impaired my mathematical abilities. Make that a nine year mis-estimate.
Doesn't this wildly violate it? Right now we're at 1.5 GHz. Moore's law states that this will double every 18 months. That's about three times it should double in the next five years. La la la, David does some simple math:
12GHz.
Hmm. I know that Moore's law is just a rough estimate, but so far we've stuck to it pretty faithfully, right? If the rate of increase is increasing (aaaahhhhh! semantically difficult sentence!), I'm gonna be really impressed with where our technology goes!
Unless they mis-estimated their release date (and we know that's never happened) by about six years.
Um, not to be insulting or anything, but did you read the question? The tapes are being used for backups, not to store data necessary for running programs. Since they are solely for backups, I'm sure waiting a few minutes in the necessity of a restore would not kill anyone. Access time is not his problem, but tape capacity is.
When I did a co-op stint in IT at a manufacturing plant, we did nightly backups of our servers. It was basically one tape per server. Luckily, we only had about five, so that was five tapes per day. RAID-5 is not an answer, because the tapes were not only in case of disk crash/user error, but also fire, flood or other catastrophe. Our backup tapes were kept at an offsite secure storage location for this reason.
As for users, if they are clumsy enough to delete an important file, they deserve to wait to get it back. Using our system, it could take up to three hours to recover a file from backup tape. It just taught our users to be a little bit more careful.
At the risk of repeating the article, I find it incredibly offensive that Fandom.com would try to pursue this battle, when to anyone with an ounce of common sense they don't have a leg to stand on.
The word "fandom" been around since 1903 (from article) thus, they cannot claim trademark infringement. If they somehow manage to do so, I'm going to register www.chair.com and bang on everyone's doors with cease and desist letters.
As for cybersquatting, that is defined as registering domain names with the express intent of reselling them for profit later. This is something that was *not* done. The site www.fandom.tv is a legitimate fandom site. It reminds me of a story I heard about coca-cola suing some guy somewhere for having www.coke.(ccTLD) Apparently, it was a memorial site for his friend that died from cocaine. Does anyone else remember this?
Gah! This whole thing makes me sick.
Get an account. This is essential. People will always pay more attention to you if you are willing to take credit for your comments. I always read AC posts with a grain of salt.
so cleaverly crafted
I see you know this trick. Your master has taught you well. Seemingly innocent misspellings and grammar mistakes will always elicit a few responses.
Read other successful trolls, and apply the same concepts to yours. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but be prepared to apologize if someone takes offense. You can string out the apology thread for a while as well.
Always post your trolls early. The closer they are to the top, the more attention and responses they will get. If you cannot get an early troll, a good alternative is responding to an early post.
The benefits of karma whoring are well documented. A subtle troll posted with a +1 bonus can expect more attention than an AC posting at zero. I shall return to trolling when I again hit karma cap.
The call goes out to all other trolls who have suggestions to this AC. Lend him your trade secrets.
Why do my legitimate questions and (sometimes anti-/.-clique) opinions get called trolls?
/. has the answer too is also a good way to troll. Wax on. Wax off. Appreciate Dilbert humour. Spell things the Canadian way. Misinterpret insults (this is more for fun, actually). My one true attempt at trolling was a pitiful failure. I think it was too over the top.
If you want to be half the troll I am, slice off your legs so that you are 3'2". Then lose weight until you are 90lbs. Poke out one eye. Have a rudimentary knowledge of most topics on slashdot. Don't always conform to the Yay Linux hype. Apparently, asking questions that you want the answer to, and someone on
Use it wisely, my son. Always remember the power of the dark side of the force.
Addendum: I am reformed. This is a legit question, and I rarely troll.
I thought XML already had a standard definition. There are a few rules, and you include a DTD to interpret any particular implementation of XML.
The company I'm presently working at has been using a specific implementation of XML for communication between servers, and they owe nothing to MSFT or Sun because of it. What exactly have these two companies done? I find the article vague at best. Have they provided XML interpreters? I doubt it, because there are too many ways that XML can be used for one interpreter to do it all.
If anyone can shed some light on this, I'd appreciate it.
I apologize for this. It does say that the recruitment is being done in five European countries. However, since every specific mention of a place or company was German, I assumed that speaking German would be one of the prerequisites for winning the game show (or even understanding it). You are right. They could hold this show in any number of languages, and english is probably going to be one of them, given the widespread use of it within europe.
What's worse, you can't know what you think you know, no matter how hard you try.
If you haven't read it, try Godel, Escher, Bach, by Hofsteader (sp?). Excellent book.
Sushi is the safest when the fish is fresh. I mean fresh. The longer a piece of fish sits around, the more likely it is to pick up something from the environment that will contaminate it. As for freezing, eeewwww. Sushi is also best when it is fresh. The freezing would destroy the consistancy of the seafood, which is one of the crucial parts to a good meal.
Hmm... Okay, but I prefer to think of an open port as an open door, and the web browser is just really polite. It shouts into the house "Hey, have you got a page for me", and someone inside replies.
The fact that an open port is a completely unguarded entry point into a computer system makes it analagous(sp?) to an open door to me.
I find the swearing childish and immature. I'm always much more impressed by posts that seem intelligent to moderators (not that hard) at first, yet contain subtle misinformation which is picked up by fanatics later on. These fanatic posts then smack some sense into the moderators, who mod you down. It's much more elegant.
Now you got me marked as a troll. I'm honestly expressing my opinions here. Geez.
Ah, I think you hit on a point here. I'm too lazy to look up the law, but if I walked into a house that had an open door, I can't be charged with "breaking and entering". I think the most I can get is "illegal entry". IIRC, B&E requires that the criminal either break something or open something, with the intent to gain entry and commit another crime.
An open port is an open door. (H|Cr)acking a firewall is B&E.
Or is it an utopia?
We will never get rid of spammers. We will never get rid of telemarketers. We will never get rid of Jehova's Witnesses. We will never get rid of television commercials.
I'm afraid that you may just have to swallow the fact that this isn't a perfect world and we must do what we can to protect ourselves. I could be a bastard here and extend your line of thought to home security (why should I have to buy a door lock?), but I won't. Oops. Sorry.
That's the whole point I'm trying to make. Manage spam by having your real account, as well as a *free* account from hotmail, yahoo, or wherever. Whenever you need to distribute your email on the web, use the free account. When dealing with people you trust, use your real account. Then, when you find you free account getting overloaded, drop it and create a new one.
I agree with you that spam is a Bad Thing(tm), but there are a couple of simple steps you can take to minimize its effect on your life.
Okay. I agree with you here. Spam is harmful in open forums where there is no way to filter it. Imagine if people started advertising pornography here on slashdot, and there was no way to... oh, sorry.
I figure that if other people aren't using free e-mail accounts to filter out their spam, and then complain about it, they rank on the same level as sys admins who don't apply the latest security patches and whine when a skript kiddie roots their box. I appreciate your "once-bitten twice-shy" scenario, though. I had one of those too.
That's the whole point. It is a non-issue with me because I sheild myself behind a hotmail account. I find it much easier to sift through spam when there are almost no useful messages in the box. As such it takes such a small amount of my time that I can't even be bothered getting upset at it. In fact, I find some of the spam so lame it makes me laugh, and we all know the world could use more laughter.
I mean, really?
I have three e-mail addresses: one at work (spam free), one at school (almost completely spam free) and one at hotmail (spammed constantly). I only ever give out my hotmail address on the web, and can drop it with no hard feelings at a moments notice.
Add to that the fact that I can block senders, and they have some other spam-detterents in hotmail, and it doesn't really bug me that much. I've never had more than about 10 spams a week, and since there is almost never any useful content in that box, it takes no time to delete them.
When I first started getting spam, I got irate and tried sending them false information, rude replies, etc. Although this was fun for the first couple of times, the heady enjoyment of corrupting spammers' databases quickly wore off. Now I just delete and forget.
So I guess I ask my original question again: Why does everyone get so damn pissed off at spam?
Well, I just happened to get a first post, with a +1 bonus. There goes three right there. Pretty soon I'll have to stop this crap and start whoring again.
Um, check the first post, buddy. I did get it. Not only is it a first post, but it is a logged in first post, using the +1 bonus. The #4 was asking why I don't feel the warm glow of pure benevolent bliss that I have heard so many speak of.
I wonder who has the AdWord "sex"? Or for that matter, "hintz"? I bet those people got a lot of bang for their buck!
No comment.
Thanks for helping me lose karma. I must drop away from karma cap to make my whoring games fun again. However, I found the reaction to my pitiful amateur troll attempt quite humourous. Perhaps I should switch to the dark side of the force.