the first studio film ever with human leads played by non-actors
What does this mean? Does he mean this is the first movie with animation instead of "real" photographs of "real" people? Um, that's pretty obviously false, so he must mean that the people who did the voices (Baldwin, Southerland, Woods, etc) are "non-actors" - either way, it's beyond moronic.
These things look like they were designed and assembled by an eight-year old. I particularly like the home-depot standard mounting bracket that doesn't quite fit and giant screws they use to hold every thing together. Gives it that "homebrew" look that's sure to impress. And how do you change these things out or add new units? It looks like you have to remove the entire 1U package to replace a failed unit.
Dell, HP, Compaq, and others are all about to roll out similar "blade" servers, and these guys will end up in the gutter... Next, Please!
It's pretty obvious that the moderation system can't support any rational discussion of any technical issue. The posts containing the most WRONG information get modded up the most. There's no way to refute the unending stream of poseurs who think they know what they are talking about. Plus, the system prevents a knowledgeable person from both moderating comments intelligently AND sharing his information with the group - brilliant. Plus, once a thread gets past 100 posts or so, new comments get lost in the mess and rarely get moderated, so the FUD stays moderated up while the posts with the TRUE FACTS stay way down at 1 or 2.
Just because there isn't a practical application doesn't mean it is pointless. There will be new knowledge created - right now, nobody knows what the next mersenne prime will be - in fact, its not even known for sure that there *will* be a next mersenne prime. If/when it is found, it will provide more information than its mere existence; these large primes are used to give evidence for prime distribution theorems (among other things).
RC5-64, on the other hand, will create no real new knowledge upon its completion. It is an excercise in futility.
You think SETI is pointless but cranking on a problem that is known to have a solution is not? If you want something significant that doesn't have a known outcome, try OGR from d.net or look for large prime numbers - at least these projects will create some new knowledge (and OGR actually has some practical applications as well), whereas we already know that given enough time, the RC5-64 key will eventually be found.
Katz points out that MSFT is up 60% this year, but doesn't mention the fact that it is almost exactly where it was one year ago today, and comfortably below its 52-week high of nearly $83/share. See Yahoo's one-year chart of MSFT for the real story.
OK, thats a good point. I think I probably slightly misread Jamie, maybe he needs to work on making his intent clear in writing. I'd bet if he were delivering this as a speech his position would be instantly clear.
This time around they're trying to make a five mile to homes, via a 20.9 mile boost antennae.
For those of you in the audience who just said to your self "what the fuck is he talking about?", a quick translation/clarification from the actual story:
This series of articles tracks our progress in trying to use the 802.11b protocol to create a link from Sebastopol to a hilltop tower 20.9 miles north, and from there on to some homes 5 miles across a valley.
Not that I blame Hemos, I know how hard it must be to "edit" these submissions.
Yeah, which is why I haven't done this. Even if this guy managed to pull this off without contaminating his disk platters, he's ruined the hermetic seal and air (and dust) could get into the drive after he's reassembled it. So I would guess this type of operation would dramatically shorten the life expectancy of your drive, not to mention void your warranty:)
Salon, Wired, and almost every other major web publication offers some option like this, and they are always about 50 times more readable than the "standard" version, and all the text is on a single page, so you don't have to wait for five pages. Most of the time, you don't have any annoying banner ads, either.
I've used a number of different network storage devices that had support available that rivals Sun...
You've just labeled yourself a "tiny grasshopper" - EMC's support organization is light-years ahead of Sun's. In fact, Sun probably has the cruddiest support of any major unix vendor; their "platinum" contracts are about equal to "bronze" contracts from other vendors. I've had 3 EMC Field Engineers on site 24/7 with a cheaper support contract than I had with Sun with wich I only got 1 FE onsite 40 hrs/week.
Would you mind filling the rest of us in? What exactly is bonobo? not everyone subscribes to gnome-announce. Neither of the links provide any good explanation.
Of course, that was 1992. Everyone (even Microsoft!) thought microkernels were the way to go. Flash forward 8 years, now no one will admit to being associated with microkernels (not even Microsoft!) and we now find Linus trashing Mach.
Personally, I don't blame him. His opinions are pretty well grounded. In 1992, the research indicated that microkernels would eventually leave monolithic kernels far behind, performance wise; in practice it turned out differently. In fact, I have a lot more respect for Linus since he has changed his opinion - there's nothing worse than a pompus ass who would rather continue to defend a position that had been proven wrong rather than admit that he made a mistake. I'm just pointing out the (unrealized to CmdrTaco) irony of the "anyone have the Minix logs?" statement.
Katz has gotten better lately; his arguments are almost convincing enough to hoodwink one into believing his point of view (whereas they used to be so out of touch with reality that anyone could see through them)
The problem with this article is that bullying has been around forever, and school shootings are a new phenomenon. If anything, availability of guns has decrecreased to the average high school student. Katz's conjecture doesn't hold up, though it is attractive; it would be great if we could just point all the blame to a single factor, but of course, we can't. It's a combination of many factors, many of which probably haven't ever been considered yet.
In 12 months, there probably WONT be anything taking full advantage of the hardware features in the GF3; sure, there will be plenty of titles using the full raw horsepower for frame and fill rate, but the advanced hardware features that are unique to the GF3 probably won't be used. Look at the unique hardware features of nvidia's last few generations - there's still no software taking full advantage of it. And with the development time required by PC games today, games in development *right now* will be lucky to see stores in 12 months, and its unlikely the developers are going to start re-coding their engines to add more cruft in the current belt-tightening economy.
So, yeah, in 12 months, we'll probably *still* be saying "nothing takes advantage of it".
does anyone harbor any lingering thoughts that AMD is a second-class citizen in the chipmaking world?
I assume you're comparing them to Intel. I would offer that Intel is *also* a second-class citizen in the chipmaking world, given that their current batch of CPUs still boot into real mode.
In any case, I don't think AMD is even close to the level of sophistication of Intel; anyone who does think so has a very narrow view of the industry. Sure, AMD makes a better x86 FPU than Intel, but they still haven't shipped a chipset to run dually athlons, and they don't do nearly as much experimental research - they're really just focused on imitating rather than innovating. Intel is about to (finally) roll out a completely new architechture with IA-64, while AMD is simply coming up with a 64-bit extension to the IA-32 architechture.
I'm no Intel fan, and personally I think the Athlon is a better chip than the Pentium III/IV, but AMD is no Intel.
Governments are already more efficient than this; they take money directly out of your paycheck and don't even send you any kewl products in the mail; I'm sure they'd frown upon corporate intrests trying to move into their "market".
It gets a modest thumbs up from ATA guru Andre Hedrick:
Although the proposal - which has not yet been published outside the open meeting - does not specifically prevent any command sets such as CPRM from applying to fixed hard drives at a later date, Hedrick says the important point is that the owner of the drive could disable the features. And furthermore, it gives users of operating systems that let such features through block them. However, he plans to reserve his final judgement until review of the published document.
Well, some users will never learn. But wouldn't you rather talk to that user on the phone and at least try to make them feel bad about not learning rather than just fix their problem everytime?
BTW, I'm not saying that there is no good reason to use remote admin utilities, I'm just saying they're not a cure-all.
Remote admin can be attractive since you don't actually have to interact with the lusers, but in the end, unless you use it wisely it will create more work for you.
When you actually speak with a user on the phone (or better yet see them face to face), you have a valuble opportunity to *educate* them so they won't repeat their mistake. Sure, you can send them an email after you remotely fixed their problem, but they probably wont read it and they almost certainly wont retain anything from it. In fact, they learn better if you simply tell them what to do and let them actually execute the steps to fix it.
Capitalism does not necessarily imply corporations. You can have the benefits of capitalism without creating legal, ficticious "people" who have all the rights of a person and none of the restrictions.
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What does this mean? Does he mean this is the first movie with animation instead of "real" photographs of "real" people? Um, that's pretty obviously false, so he must mean that the people who did the voices (Baldwin, Southerland, Woods, etc) are "non-actors" - either way, it's beyond moronic.
Dell, HP, Compaq, and others are all about to roll out similar "blade" servers, and these guys will end up in the gutter... Next, Please!
It's pretty obvious that the moderation system can't support any rational discussion of any technical issue. The posts containing the most WRONG information get modded up the most. There's no way to refute the unending stream of poseurs who think they know what they are talking about. Plus, the system prevents a knowledgeable person from both moderating comments intelligently AND sharing his information with the group - brilliant. Plus, once a thread gets past 100 posts or so, new comments get lost in the mess and rarely get moderated, so the FUD stays moderated up while the posts with the TRUE FACTS stay way down at 1 or 2.
http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/list_news.php?c ategory=CPU#N50000287
Oh, BTW, be sure to check Itanium's SPECint2k nubmers, calling them "bad" would be a nice way to put it.
RC5-64, on the other hand, will create no real new knowledge upon its completion. It is an excercise in futility.
You think SETI is pointless but cranking on a problem that is known to have a solution is not? If you want something significant that doesn't have a known outcome, try OGR from d.net or look for large prime numbers - at least these projects will create some new knowledge (and OGR actually has some practical applications as well), whereas we already know that given enough time, the RC5-64 key will eventually be found.
Life begins at 1600x1200.
Katz points out that MSFT is up 60% this year, but doesn't mention the fact that it is almost exactly where it was one year ago today, and comfortably below its 52-week high of nearly $83/share. See Yahoo's one-year chart of MSFT for the real story.
OK, thats a good point. I think I probably slightly misread Jamie, maybe he needs to work on making his intent clear in writing. I'd bet if he were delivering this as a speech his position would be instantly clear.
So, Jamie, to be perfectly clear, are you advocating that we give in and just abandon our right to speak as we see fit?
Yeah, which is why I haven't done this. Even if this guy managed to pull this off without contaminating his disk platters, he's ruined the hermetic seal and air (and dust) could get into the drive after he's reassembled it. So I would guess this type of operation would dramatically shorten the life expectancy of your drive, not to mention void your warranty :)
do it yourself!
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,43203,00.ht ml
Salon, Wired, and almost every other major web publication offers some option like this, and they are always about 50 times more readable than the "standard" version, and all the text is on a single page, so you don't have to wait for five pages. Most of the time, you don't have any annoying banner ads, either.
You've just labeled yourself a "tiny grasshopper" - EMC's support organization is light-years ahead of Sun's. In fact, Sun probably has the cruddiest support of any major unix vendor; their "platinum" contracts are about equal to "bronze" contracts from other vendors. I've had 3 EMC Field Engineers on site 24/7 with a cheaper support contract than I had with Sun with wich I only got 1 FE onsite 40 hrs/week.
Would you mind filling the rest of us in? What exactly is bonobo? not everyone subscribes to gnome-announce. Neither of the links provide any good explanation.
Of course, that was 1992. Everyone (even Microsoft!) thought microkernels were the way to go. Flash forward 8 years, now no one will admit to being associated with microkernels (not even Microsoft!) and we now find Linus trashing Mach.
Personally, I don't blame him. His opinions are pretty well grounded. In 1992, the research indicated that microkernels would eventually leave monolithic kernels far behind, performance wise; in practice it turned out differently. In fact, I have a lot more respect for Linus since he has changed his opinion - there's nothing worse than a pompus ass who would rather continue to defend a position that had been proven wrong rather than admit that he made a mistake. I'm just pointing out the (unrealized to CmdrTaco) irony of the "anyone have the Minix logs?" statement.
The problem with this article is that bullying has been around forever, and school shootings are a new phenomenon. If anything, availability of guns has decrecreased to the average high school student. Katz's conjecture doesn't hold up, though it is attractive; it would be great if we could just point all the blame to a single factor, but of course, we can't. It's a combination of many factors, many of which probably haven't ever been considered yet.
So, yeah, in 12 months, we'll probably *still* be saying "nothing takes advantage of it".
I assume you're comparing them to Intel. I would offer that Intel is *also* a second-class citizen in the chipmaking world, given that their current batch of CPUs still boot into real mode.
In any case, I don't think AMD is even close to the level of sophistication of Intel; anyone who does think so has a very narrow view of the industry. Sure, AMD makes a better x86 FPU than Intel, but they still haven't shipped a chipset to run dually athlons, and they don't do nearly as much experimental research - they're really just focused on imitating rather than innovating. Intel is about to (finally) roll out a completely new architechture with IA-64, while AMD is simply coming up with a 64-bit extension to the IA-32 architechture.
I'm no Intel fan, and personally I think the Athlon is a better chip than the Pentium III/IV, but AMD is no Intel.
Governments are already more efficient than this; they take money directly out of your paycheck and don't even send you any kewl products in the mail; I'm sure they'd frown upon corporate intrests trying to move into their "market".
See the Register article on the same topic.
It gets a modest thumbs up from ATA guru Andre Hedrick:
BTW, I'm not saying that there is no good reason to use remote admin utilities, I'm just saying they're not a cure-all.
When you actually speak with a user on the phone (or better yet see them face to face), you have a valuble opportunity to *educate* them so they won't repeat their mistake. Sure, you can send them an email after you remotely fixed their problem, but they probably wont read it and they almost certainly wont retain anything from it. In fact, they learn better if you simply tell them what to do and let them actually execute the steps to fix it.
Phil Agre has an excellent guide to helping people use computers that anyone working in a support or helpdesk position should read.
Capitalism does not necessarily imply corporations. You can have the benefits of capitalism without creating legal, ficticious "people" who have all the rights of a person and none of the restrictions.