Its not an oxymoron, its the truth. If Microsoft is going to ship an operating system they developed to their European customers without WMP, they'd be shipping a substandard product.
See, if we choose to consider Microsoft the "standard" as they tend to be on the desktop, I consider that to be shipping a _better_ than standard OS...superstandard?
No, I'm not claiming to be a scientist or above anyone else in terms of scientific knowledge, but it really pisses me off when people's first reaction is to DOUBT THE SCIENTISTS.
I'm not doubting the scientists - this drives me nuts too. I'm in fact quite sure that the scientists who did this work had nothing to do with that choice of wording - some journalist did. The journalist in question obviously saw the speeds and said "hey, super/subsonic sounds better "! Assuming that we are talking about the speed of shock transmission through the solar wind, then the use of the term supersonic doesn't really make any sense - The medium itself cannot be traveling faster than a shockwave can be transmitted through it.
I think Neil was referring to the first widely distributed anime film in the U.S. "Akira" certainly was released many years earlier, but it was never widely shown.
From where I'm sitting in Grand Forks, ND, Mononoke wasn't that widely released either.:)
But they aren't. They're run by people who think it is a good idea to blacklist entire datacentre netblocks because one guy was running a vulnerable formmail, and once blacklisted getting off the blacklist is often nearly impossible because they seem to want everything up to, and including, stone tablets carved by the hand of God as proof that the problem has been delt with.
Not all block lists are the same. The only one I can think of off hand that displays the above behavior is SPEWS. And they don't blacklist a block entire datacenter netblocks just because one guy was running a vulnerable form mail. For that they would block one IP. They expand to netblocks when emails to abuse@ about the problem go unheeded and the problem doesn't get fixed. So in short, if you want to stay off SPEWS get yourself an ISP/Hosting Provider that actually responds to abuse complaints.
DNSBLs who just list specific IP's are ineffective. Why? Because pink contract providers just move their spammers around. SPEWS works on a form of social pressure - forcing the ISP's to actually deal with their spammers. Personally, I feel this is an acceptable tactic, and use SPEWS. If you don't like it, don't use it. If someone doesn't want to accept your email because it comes from a "spammy" netblock, thats their choice, not yours.
In this day and age, try to exercise that right and say it:
1. In a school 2. In an airport 3. In any local or federal government-controlled building 4. At one of the president's political rallies/speeches.
I don't think saying "I have a right to have a gun" is going to to get me in trouble in any of these situations. Saying I _have_ a gun is probably a problem. I've done quite a lot of saying I have a right to have a gun in at least 3 out of 4 of the above in the last few years.
The ACLU probably doesn't wish to defend what it considers imaginary rights.
If this were a gun control case. Which it isn't. It's a free speech case. I may not have a right to carry guns but I think everone can agree I have a right to say I have a right to carry guns. Which is essentially being infringed if government mandated software blocks every site expousing this POV.
This whole thing reminds me of the war on drugs. If the cops wanted to really stop the drugs from existing on the streets, they could. But they don't have any incentive for that because it works against their budgets to pull all the drugs off the streets.
Interesting assertion. Care to back it up, by disclosing this great plan for the removal of all drugs from our streets (working within the boundaries of the US Constitution and Legal system, as cops must) or do you prefer to just sit back and slander people?
See how this connects to the anti-spam and anti-virus corporations profit from buggy Microsoft software and OS gaping holes.
Ugh. This doesn't even fit your analogy above. Yes, anti-spam and anti-virus companies profit from spam and viruses. This doesn't mean they aren't doing their best to stop them. Microsoft could certainly do a hell of a lot to stop them from the virus angle, but they're just purveyors of lousy software, not an anti-spam or anti-virus company.
The computer should be powered by solar energy, which could be from any source, not only the sun, so that even the illumination of the screen could keep it going.
Err, yeah. It's bad news when the best idea out of your panel of 11 geniuses comes from Cris Collinsworth. Imagine if Terry Bradshaw or John Madden had been included!
Hmmm....."Geniuses" who haven't yet mastered the laws of Thermodynamics....
correct me if im wrong, but wouldnt this put sco's linux distro into the public domain, and thus, invalidate all of their stolen-ip claims? sco did release their distro under the gpl, correct?
Argh, who moded this Insighttful? No, it wouldn't. Assuming there intellectual property is in the Linux kernel, if they had knowningly released it as GPL, it would GPL'd and the whole damn thing would be moot anyway.
SCO's claims are that IBM and SGI put System V code, along with other code they developed, but that according to SCO still belongs to SCO by the terms of the Unix license agreement, were put in the Linux Kernel and the SCO Relased it under the GPL _without know it was there_. And that therefore it was IBM and SGI who released SCO's proprietry IP under the GPL. So it wouldn't be any more legitimately Public Domain that it is GPL'd now. At least if you buy what SCO is saying.
Yeah, I hate still having to deal with horrible projects like Bob.
You misspelled 'Clippy.'
Not to mention that stupid @#$% dog in the WinXP search program. More annoying yet, when you tell it to go away, you have to wait for it to amble off the screen and jump off some unseen (hopefully high) cliff. Congratulations, Microsoft, you've managed to reimplement find , in such a way as to consume a double digit percentage of the processor and only 64 meg of Ram!
Now to be fair, neither grep nor find are exactly what one would call user friendly, but they're also quite a bit more useful, and there _are_ graphical front ends for both of them if you happen to swing that way.
Then again, despite how ideal Universities try to be, research ends up having its fair share of backstabbing and intellectual thievery.
Hehehe. This is the understatement of the year. University Politics are, in my experience, _worse_ than the corporate version - Corporate politics are least tempered to some degree by the fact that the corporation needs to make a profit, while Universities generally have no such restrictions. Add the demands of various funding agencies into research projects and you get no end to the poltical fun.
Produce at least a 32-way POWER system that can be partitioned. G4s can be obtained from Motorola if IBM is at all hesitant.
Maybe you didn't notice, but Apple switch to IBM as a chip producer because Motorola's Power architecture chips suck by comparison? Motorola really isn't all that terribly interested in producing PC chips.
Revive Solaris for the POWER architecture (I remember it as an option on a 43P).
What conceivable advantage does this have over Solaris on Sparc?
License Mac OS X Server, and make changes to the kernel to allow it to fully scale.
Why would you want to do this? MacOS on a 32 way server? What does MacOS offer that would make it worth using on big iron.
Mach Microkernel - No, don't see a big advantage here. Mach is nice, but not exactly my first choice in this arena. Particularly when I have access to the Solaris Kernel.
Free BSD Userland. They can have this for free, why license it?
Aqua Interface. On servers? If you have a need for 16 and 32 way systems, you probably have (or really, really should have) hired a sysamdmin whos not afraid of a command line.
As others have mentioned, it will ruin their good relationship with TI.
It should be mentioned that the Sparcs produced by Fujitsu tend to benchmark significantly better than the ones Sun is getting from TI...Doesn't seem like such a loss to me.
"the wrong person might actually get elected President of the United States of America"...wouldn't be the first time.
True. Without significant Democratic voter fraud, Richard Nixon probably would have beaten John Kennedy.
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Even today many schoolrooms have recently-published science books that show a model of the atom that looks like a little solar system, electrons in orbits and all. No mention of quantum/wave dynamics, or the fact that they don't behave anything like orbiting bodies in a solar system.
True, but assuming that they're fifth graders, this provides a handy model for the way things actually work when the point you want to get across is that everything is made of atoms and they share electrons to form molecules. We also teach them Newtons three laws of motion, not mentioning until later "Well this gets all screwed up when you add in gravity and motion". It's an approximation, it's good enough when it's a means to an end. Not everything has to be learned at once.
If you sit around and think "gee, my processor could be more efficient" then you're truly a geeky dweeb who deserved the beatings he probably took in school (and I mean College).
Oh gee, what an intelligent statement. Somebody actually thinks about how thinks about the world around him works, and how it could be improved, so he must be a geeky dweeb who deserves to be beaten. I'm certainly glad we have geeky dweebs who sit around and think about how these things work, since I rather enjoy modern science and technology...
Rational people say "Hmm, I get XX frames per second" or "I can complete this render in X seconds", or "this simulation takes 20% less time". That's what matters. Performance. Why people whine and whine about this architecture or that is beyond me.
Congradulations on completely, totally missing the point. Yeah, a new Itanium is faster than a new Alpha. It has also had about a 100 times the R&D money poured into it. The point, is that most of us believe that if Compaq had invested a faction of that amount in Alpha, we would be able to play games at 2(XX) frames per second or complete that render in X/2 seconds. Instead, we get Itanium, sucking down 100+W per processor and further heating already under-airconned Server rooms and offices.
Well, actually it's not beyond me - I understand it perfectly. People love an underdog and hate the person on top, be it Intel, Microsoft, or any other victim of nerddom's ire.
Damn straigt we do! Now if I can just get my NeXT box to boot and talk to my copy of Open Server... Get real. We like Alpha because it was an elegant potentially faster-than-intel Architecture, and think it's a shame it got screwed. Thats all. Notice how we're all cheering for IBM and not SCO, despite SCO being the little guy in every respect.
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See, if we choose to consider Microsoft the "standard" as they tend to be on the desktop, I consider that to be shipping a _better_ than standard OS...superstandard?
Try looking up Joe Job.
Oh, wait, thats not what they meant by the manual method?
Funny, last time I checked the enemy was the US...At least thats what seems to have been the inspiration for the EU and the Euro.
I'm not doubting the scientists - this drives me nuts too. I'm in fact quite sure that the scientists who did this work had nothing to do with that choice of wording - some journalist did. The journalist in question obviously saw the speeds and said "hey, super/subsonic sounds better "! Assuming that we are talking about the speed of shock transmission through the solar wind, then the use of the term supersonic doesn't really make any sense - The medium itself cannot be traveling faster than a shockwave can be transmitted through it.
Last time I checked the speed of sound in space was essentially zero...
Thats what you get for letting the guy from reading rainbow cut your springs and put neon lights on the nacelles of your ride...
Probably wouldn't have been, had I not already seen it on a big-ish screen. (Borrowed one of the Universities projectors...)
From where I'm sitting in Grand Forks, ND, Mononoke wasn't that widely released either. :)
Not all block lists are the same. The only one I can think of off hand that displays the above behavior is SPEWS. And they don't blacklist a block entire datacenter netblocks just because one guy was running a vulnerable form mail. For that they would block one IP. They expand to netblocks when emails to abuse@ about the problem go unheeded and the problem doesn't get fixed. So in short, if you want to stay off SPEWS get yourself an ISP/Hosting Provider that actually responds to abuse complaints.
DNSBLs who just list specific IP's are ineffective. Why? Because pink contract providers just move their spammers around. SPEWS works on a form of social pressure - forcing the ISP's to actually deal with their spammers. Personally, I feel this is an acceptable tactic, and use SPEWS. If you don't like it, don't use it. If someone doesn't want to accept your email because it comes from a "spammy" netblock, thats their choice, not yours.
1. In a school
2. In an airport
3. In any local or federal government-controlled building
4. At one of the president's political rallies/speeches.
I don't think saying "I have a right to have a gun" is going to to get me in trouble in any of these situations. Saying I _have_ a gun is probably a problem. I've done quite a lot of saying I have a right to have a gun in at least 3 out of 4 of the above in the last few years.
If this were a gun control case. Which it isn't. It's a free speech case. I may not have a right to carry guns but I think everone can agree I have a right to say I have a right to carry guns. Which is essentially being infringed if government mandated software blocks every site expousing this POV.
Interesting assertion. Care to back it up, by disclosing this great plan for the removal of all drugs from our streets (working within the boundaries of the US Constitution and Legal system, as cops must) or do you prefer to just sit back and slander people?
See how this connects to the anti-spam and anti-virus corporations profit from buggy Microsoft software and OS gaping holes.
Ugh. This doesn't even fit your analogy above. Yes, anti-spam and anti-virus companies profit from spam and viruses. This doesn't mean they aren't doing their best to stop them. Microsoft could certainly do a hell of a lot to stop them from the virus angle, but they're just purveyors of lousy software, not an anti-spam or anti-virus company.
Isaac Newton managed to kick off modern Phsyics and invent calculus (albiet more-or-less simultanously with Leibniz) and he never even got _laid_.
Hmmm....."Geniuses" who haven't yet mastered the laws of Thermodynamics....
Argh, who moded this Insighttful? No, it wouldn't. Assuming there intellectual property is in the Linux kernel, if they had knowningly released it as GPL, it would GPL'd and the whole damn thing would be moot anyway.
SCO's claims are that IBM and SGI put System V code, along with other code they developed, but that according to SCO still belongs to SCO by the terms of the Unix license agreement, were put in the Linux Kernel and the SCO Relased it under the GPL _without know it was there_. And that therefore it was IBM and SGI who released SCO's proprietry IP under the GPL. So it wouldn't be any more legitimately Public Domain that it is GPL'd now. At least if you buy what SCO is saying.
You mean it could be worse than now?
You misspelled 'Clippy.'
Not to mention that stupid @#$% dog in the WinXP search program. More annoying yet, when you tell it to go away, you have to wait for it to amble off the screen and jump off some unseen (hopefully high) cliff. Congratulations, Microsoft, you've managed to reimplement find
, in such a way as to consume a double digit percentage of the processor and only 64 meg of Ram!
Now to be fair, neither grep nor find are exactly what one would call user friendly, but they're also quite a bit more useful, and there _are_ graphical front ends for both of them if you happen to swing that way.
Hehehe. This is the understatement of the year. University Politics are, in my experience, _worse_ than the corporate version - Corporate politics are least tempered to some degree by the fact that the corporation needs to make a profit, while Universities generally have no such restrictions. Add the demands of various funding agencies into research projects and you get no end to the poltical fun.
Maybe you didn't notice, but Apple switch to IBM as a chip producer because Motorola's Power architecture chips suck by comparison? Motorola really isn't all that terribly interested in producing PC chips.
Revive Solaris for the POWER architecture (I remember it as an option on a 43P).
What conceivable advantage does this have over Solaris on Sparc?
License Mac OS X Server, and make changes to the kernel to allow it to fully scale.
Why would you want to do this? MacOS on a 32 way server? What does MacOS offer that would make it worth using on big iron.
It should be mentioned that the Sparcs produced by Fujitsu tend to benchmark significantly better than the ones Sun is getting from TI...Doesn't seem like such a loss to me.
True. Without significant Democratic voter fraud, Richard Nixon probably would have beaten John Kennedy.
True, but assuming that they're fifth graders, this provides a handy model for the way things actually work when the point you want to get across is that everything is made of atoms and they share electrons to form molecules. We also teach them Newtons three laws of motion, not mentioning until later "Well this gets all screwed up when you add in gravity and motion". It's an approximation, it's good enough when it's a means to an end. Not everything has to be learned at once.
PHP on Solaris 2.6.1. It's a Sun 670MP, its the newest version you can run. I still have nightmares.
On the plus side, once it did work, it's worked perfectly ever since - no crashes, no downtime.
Oh gee, what an intelligent statement. Somebody actually thinks about how thinks about the world around him works, and how it could be improved, so he must be a geeky dweeb who deserves to be beaten. I'm certainly glad we have geeky dweebs who sit around and think about how these things work, since I rather enjoy modern science and technology...
Rational people say "Hmm, I get XX frames per second" or "I can complete this render in X seconds", or "this simulation takes 20% less time". That's what matters. Performance. Why people whine and whine about this architecture or that is beyond me.
Congradulations on completely, totally missing the point. Yeah, a new Itanium is faster than a new Alpha. It has also had about a 100 times the R&D money poured into it. The point, is that most of us believe that if Compaq had invested a faction of that amount in Alpha, we would be able to play games at 2(XX) frames per second or complete that render in X/2 seconds.
Instead, we get Itanium, sucking down 100+W per processor and further heating already under-airconned Server rooms and offices.
Well, actually it's not beyond me - I understand it perfectly. People love an underdog and hate the person on top, be it Intel, Microsoft, or any other victim of nerddom's ire.
Damn straigt we do! Now if I can just get my NeXT box to boot and talk to my copy of Open Server... Get real. We like Alpha because it was an elegant potentially faster-than-intel Architecture, and think it's a shame it got screwed. Thats all. Notice how we're all cheering for IBM and not SCO, despite SCO being the little guy in every respect.