I remember talking to some engineer from a db company (think it was Progress, not sure) a while back, he had an RS/6000 laptop on which he could create a temporary server while he repaired whatever went wrong on the original server. Don't know how they'd cope with the load (the client this was at had a pretty large RS/6000, don't think the laptop came anywhere near it performancewise). I think they had some plan to keep everybody but a few key employees out of the db in cases like this.
I guess these Sparcs can be used for the same thing. They sound a lot cheaper than those RS/6000 laptops though, i think the machine that guy showed me cost $30000+ at the time.
The weird thing is that the article mentions tanks as a possible platform. How can that ever be practical ? If I am not mistaken tanks rarely have a direct line of sight to their targets. If the laser is not airborne it's range would be very small compared to current weapons. Anyone with an actual understanding of how tanks operate in battle care to enlighten me ?
I like suits, I think they look good. Of course that is a matter of opinion but the disproportionate reaction here amazes me. It's only frigging clothes, its not if they asked you to pierce your ****. I can understand that you would have practical issues, suits get dirty if you drag hardware around all day and that might not be a good idea for a 1000 suit, but if you're behind a desk or in meetings all day, get over it.
What's wrong with wearing clothes that are: a: clean b: nice to look at c: comfortable
For those of you that never heard of c before, if you want/have to wear a suit, nylon and polyester are not the way to go, and there are stores where staff will help you pick the right size clothes.
In smaller rooms it's mostly for cabling, in very large rooms it can be air treatment as well. I've worked in several large datacenters that have three stories for their computer rooms for that reason, computor room in the middle and air treatment below and above. Some of the room would have been for the fire extinguishing systems as well. (As I recall at least one had a Halon system)
There is a difference between nazism and communism.
Nazism killed a lot of people, the wish to eradicate groups of the population being an integral part of the nazi ideas.
Stalin might have done the same, but communism itself is not about killing or suppressing people.
My point is that people have wronged other people in the name of some ideal or other for as long as we know. What makes nazism different from the others you mention is that it tells people to wrong other people. That can never be right in my book and might even be reason to censor.
So a site that is against abortion is ok, a site telling you to kill doctors who perform abortions is not.
Eehm yes, but something different is going on here:
These guys are prevented from attending the trial by the US Government. If you choose to stay away I can imagine you forfeit your right to a defense. If you are kept away, the ability to defend yourself is taken from you. How can there be a fair trail if you don't defend yourself ?
The SCOTUS thing you mention is retarded by the way, it means that everyone around the world would have to stick to US law or fear abduction by the US government ? Combined with the above it would mean they could even try you beforehand so you cannot defend yourself. Sounds like something a South American dictator might do (hello mister Noriega !)
To use it for what beta's are for: testing, not as a demo or a free as in beer solution. No person in his/her right mind would use a beta to do something useful.
Yep that was it, I was thinking FUD but knew it was wrong:-) Now I finally know what the acronym means, because the officer didn't know the words to the acronym, just what was meant.
Did some work on an airforce base a while back and along the runways there were signs saying: Do not leave *** (forgot the acronym). I asked one of the officers to explain what *** was. He told me it defined anything that might be sucked into a jet engine, like cans, nuts, bolts, mechanics:-)
You're partly right. *You* can't get older and cheaper stuff to build say, a cheap linux box or something like that.
But if you were to buy these older parts in bulk it wouldn't only be possible to buy older and less powerful parts but it would be a lot cheaper as well. If a manufacturer can produce on his already written off obsolete production line at the request of a large buyer (this means they will sell *everything*) he can produce at a very low cost with a very small overhead, so the buyer can get very low prices.
We had something like this when I did my comp sci. Our workstations booted off the network, and all of our storage space was there as well. The internal disks on the workstations were used for swapfiles.
An article in c't (www.heise.de) a while back really opened my eyes as to how immature biometric testing still is. They managed to fool every system they tested (fingerprints and irisscan).
The companies selling this stuff are really pushing this as 'secure' and the way the media are raving about this, I imagine a lot of ppl are fooled by this.
Even when the system itself wouldn't be easily fooled I would hate to see what happens if people start bypassing this in hard/software. You would have to have physical protection of the hardware to avoid bypassing the scanner and have very ingenious software to make this secure.
Well if you play music loud enough you might hurt or even desintegrate people. I know of countries where that might be considered bad form or even illegal.
This seems to be something that is considered because of 9-11. Weren't all the flights involved on 9-11 national flights ? Does it make sense to start using this system to check who boards international flights ?
Security on international flights is already better than on national flights, this only seems to widen the gap. (Assuming the method works, which is questionable)
I wonder if this was developed because of labor laws. Europe and my home country Holland have been tightening rules on what labor is safe to do for ppl, and what kind of measures should be taken to insure safety in the workplace.
Because of this ladders aren't allowed anymore for windowwashers going up more than one or two floors. These tightened rules have made it either impossible or ridiculously expensive to clean windows in some hard to reach.
These windows might solve this:-) Of course the developers might just be lazy bums like me, who hate to clean windows;-)
Sailing in competition has always been about technology. Raw speed is closely tied to the shape of the hull, rigging etc.
Of course tactics, knowledge / better prediction of the weather and sheer luck are also factors, but none of them are as important as how fast your ship is. In the long run the fastest ship with a competent shipper wins.
Just the fact that it looks more high tech these days doesn't mean technology wasn't there before
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I remember talking to some engineer from a db company (think it was Progress, not sure) a while back, he had an RS/6000 laptop on which he could create a temporary server while he repaired whatever went wrong on the original server. Don't know how they'd cope with the load (the client this was at had a pretty large RS/6000, don't think the laptop came anywhere near it performancewise). I think they had some plan to keep everybody but a few key employees out of the db in cases like this.
I guess these Sparcs can be used for the same thing. They sound a lot cheaper than those RS/6000 laptops though, i think the machine that guy showed me cost $30000+ at the time.
Not sure if a ballpoint would be the tool of choice for even an amateur-would-be graffiti artist....
The weird thing is that the article mentions tanks as a possible platform. How can that ever be practical ? If I am not mistaken tanks rarely have a direct line of sight to their targets. If the laser is not airborne it's range would be very small compared to current weapons. Anyone with an actual understanding of how tanks operate in battle care to enlighten me ?
I like suits, I think they look good. Of course that is a matter of opinion but the disproportionate reaction here amazes me. It's only frigging clothes, its not if they asked you to pierce your ****. I can understand that you would have practical issues, suits get dirty if you drag hardware around all day and that might not be a good idea for a 1000 suit, but if you're behind a desk or in meetings all day, get over it.
What's wrong with wearing clothes that are:
a: clean
b: nice to look at
c: comfortable
For those of you that never heard of c before, if you want/have to wear a suit, nylon and polyester are not the way to go, and there are stores where staff will help you pick the right size clothes.
In smaller rooms it's mostly for cabling, in very large rooms it can be air treatment as well. I've worked in several large datacenters that have three stories for their computer rooms for that reason, computor room in the middle and air treatment below and above. Some of the room would have been for the fire extinguishing systems as well. (As I recall at least one had a Halon system)
There is a difference between nazism and communism.
Nazism killed a lot of people, the wish to eradicate groups of the population being an integral part of the nazi ideas.
Stalin might have done the same, but communism itself is not about killing or suppressing people.
My point is that people have wronged other people in the name of some ideal or other for as long as we know. What makes nazism different from the others you mention is that it tells people to wrong other people. That can never be right in my book and might even be reason to censor.
So a site that is against abortion is ok, a site telling you to kill doctors who perform abortions is not.
On a sidenote: I have trouble thinking of Palladium as positive ;-)
Had a Mac program long ago that featured the following error msg:
I must remember to put an error message here
And in another:
Whoops !
If you see this error please report the code as I have forgotten put an error message here
Eehm yes, but something different is going on here:
These guys are prevented from attending the trial by the US Government. If you choose to stay away I can imagine you forfeit your right to a defense. If you are kept away, the ability to defend yourself is taken from you. How can there be a fair trail if you don't defend yourself ?
The SCOTUS thing you mention is retarded by the way, it means that everyone around the world would have to stick to US law or fear abduction by the US government ? Combined with the above it would mean they could even try you beforehand so you cannot defend yourself. Sounds like something a South American dictator might do (hello mister Noriega !)
I'm getting tired of all this 'possible' stuff. I wanna see pictures of little green men on CNN !!
I mean these aliens are really losing credibility here.
You're right, that's what I meant
(I guess my English can still use a little work)
To use it for what beta's are for: testing, not as a demo or a free as in beer solution. No person in his/her right mind would use a beta to do something useful.
You are aware you are posting on /. right ?
Lemonade Stand ! I remember that one :-)
:-) (I'm thirty)
I didn't read all the way thru the post, I thought aging gamer might be me
Yep that was it, I was thinking FUD but knew it was wrong :-) Now I finally know what the acronym means, because the officer didn't know the words to the acronym, just what was meant.
Did some work on an airforce base a while back and along the runways there were signs saying: Do not leave *** (forgot the acronym). I asked one of the officers to explain what *** was. He told me it defined anything that might be sucked into a jet engine, like cans, nuts, bolts, mechanics :-)
You're partly right. *You* can't get older and cheaper stuff to build say, a cheap linux box or something like that.
But if you were to buy these older parts in bulk it wouldn't only be possible to buy older and less powerful parts but it would be a lot cheaper as well. If a manufacturer can produce on his already written off obsolete production line at the request of a large buyer (this means they will sell *everything*) he can produce at a very low cost with a very small overhead, so the buyer can get very low prices.
We had something like this when I did my comp sci. Our workstations booted off the network, and all of our storage space was there as well. The internal disks on the workstations were used for swapfiles.
An article in c't (www.heise.de) a while back really opened my eyes as to how immature biometric testing still is. They managed to fool every system they tested (fingerprints and irisscan).
The companies selling this stuff are really pushing this as 'secure' and the way the media are raving about this, I imagine a lot of ppl are fooled by this.
Even when the system itself wouldn't be easily fooled I would hate to see what happens if people start bypassing this in hard/software. You would have to have physical protection of the hardware to avoid bypassing the scanner and have very ingenious software to make this secure.
Probably still in debug / trace mode :-)
Well if you play music loud enough you might hurt or even desintegrate people. I know of countries where that might be considered bad form or even illegal.
This seems to be something that is considered because of 9-11. Weren't all the flights involved on 9-11 national flights ? Does it make sense to start using this system to check who boards international flights ?
Security on international flights is already better than on national flights, this only seems to widen the gap. (Assuming the method works, which is questionable)
UT 2003 will let me cheat on Slasdot ? tsk tsk .... :-)
I wonder if this was developed because of labor laws. Europe and my home country Holland have been tightening rules on what labor is safe to do for ppl, and what kind of measures should be taken to insure safety in the workplace.
:-) Of course the developers might just be lazy bums like me, who hate to clean windows ;-)
Because of this ladders aren't allowed anymore for windowwashers going up more than one or two floors. These tightened rules have made it either impossible or ridiculously expensive to clean windows in some hard to reach.
These windows might solve this
Sailing in competition has always been about technology. Raw speed is closely tied to the shape of the hull, rigging etc.
Of course tactics, knowledge / better prediction of the weather and sheer luck are also factors, but none of them are as important as how fast your ship is. In the long run the fastest ship with a competent shipper wins.
Just the fact that it looks more high tech these days doesn't mean technology wasn't there before