But seriously, after all the pounds that Shatner put on during the series, I'd be worried that the chair has already developed its own ass groove that, while priceless in trek history, just would not work well with my own ass.
Just wiggle in deep and imagine you're Kaptain Quirk.
Well, in truth it's probably quite difficult to tap deeply into the kinetic energy without affecting the maneuverability of the racket. For instance, a pendulum in the handle might throw your game a little bit.
It's like the old gyroscope in the luggage trick. As long as you're walking straigt on everything is fine but as soon as you try to turn a corner you run into problems.
You're right. A really good sysadmin will probably get all the Score:5 posts as SMSs on his cell phone (except in the States, where they still have to use beepers).
*BEEP* *BEEP*
"Damn! Sorry boss, I'm afraid you'll have figure out how to change the color theme by yourself, the file server just went down."
The quality of Unix sysadmins has declined so much over the past decade that what passes for a sysadmin right now is what I used to call "an operator".
That's because times have moved on. Sysadmin is no longer considered a cool job. Cool dudes, though, still have cool jobs. Somewhere else.
"competent management" implies an ability to manage... in other words, to handle problems before they get out of hand.
That's the theory. All I can say is never go into management, unless you REALLY like the money. During an economic downturn it's the shittiest job I can imagine.
But, let me ask you this: Would it be better for half the employees to be out of work than all of them?
Depends on which half you ask. If you mean, which is better for the company, the answer is self-evident.
I want ones that will move the hair off my back and put it back on my head where it belongs!
Well, that's a pretty radical application.:) Here's another cool one: you could have a group of nanomachines that come with a dozen preprogrammed hairstyles and rearrange your hair to a new configuration every thirty seconds.
Hmm. Wouldn't work. At least not if you're pretty well hung.
How about reading the announcement first?
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'Unbreakable Linux'
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RAC, or Real Application Clusters, is what Oracle has been toting as the "Unbreakable" part of its software. The idea is to divide a large task into subtasks and distribute the subtasks among multiple nodes. That way you can complete the task faster than if only one node did the work.
They are talking about fault tolerant database clusters with no single point of failure.
U.S. Navy will spend '$1 billion to retrofit its premier spy submarine, the USS Jimmy Carter' to get access to deep-sea fiber routes.
Every time the trans-Atlantic connections are down they give us this same line about the "sharks who like to chew on cables", and all the while it has been a bunch of Navy SEALs trying to patch an optical wiretap, equipped with a combat knife and a legth of wire?
...with something like 10^120 manipulations of those bits...
Let's see, the universe is about 15 billion years old. 10^120 floating point operations divided by..mumble..mumble..mumble.. That comes out as roughly 2 * 10^101 flops. If the graphics resolution is about... PI multiplied by 15 billion light years by..mumble..mumble..OH WAIT, it's in 3D..mumble..mumble..HEUREKA!
The graphics performance comes out as EXACTLY 42 FPS.
less than 1% of users using the "development" kernel
Assuming the counter is accurate, even 1% of the user base is still quite a lot and probably includes those most capable of actually contributing to the development of the kernel.
Still, at least personally my eagerness to run the latest kernels has been on the decline. I've been running Linux for over 10 years now. There was a time when I used to immediately patch in anything posted on the kernel mailing by Linus, and spent a considerable time testing and writing patches myself.
These days all of my hardware has been supported by Linux for ages. The new kernels just don't seem to bring so many cool new features to my life as they used to, so I tend to go for a bit more sedate update pace now (of course, there is the occasional memory system rewrite, which makes one want to bite the bullet again). I suspect many of the old timers have the same experience. Besides, Linux performs so good I don't even have any reason to upgrade my hardware.
I think it's helpful to make this distinction because the formats can easily be made public domain, whereas the codecs are usually subject to patents and/or require licensing.
It may be useful to make this distinction, and arguably modular file formats can lead to more versatile applications and some reuse of code.
However, the problem remains: a file containing parts encoded in a proprietary format remains largely useless to you unless you have access to the proprietary codec as well.
Reading and writing files is one thing, doing something useful with them is another.
I want technologies that can let my 802.11b network at home work without interfearing with my cordless phone and 2.4gig audio/video transitter and reciever.
Strangely enough, these are all on unlicenced bands. Sounds like we still need the regulatory bodies to keep the spectrum in some semblance of order.
This is not to say that we shouldn't look into the technologies (quite the opposite). We're just simply not there yet. It would be good to set aside some spectrum for this, though, as a playground for developing new transmission techniques and receiver designs.
The negative mods are only useful for getting trolls and spammers off the list.
If you consider someone's comment naive or simplistic, you can certainly post and say so (and risk getting modded down for being a troll). Or you might consider posting something more useful like explaining why you disagree (and risk getting modded down for being a troll).
I think yours was a rather simplistic suggestion. We're both off-topic.:)
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...pound for buck, you could ship two supermodels into the orbit for the price of one.
;-)
That's what I call a good proposition, everybody is happy.
More ways to carry pr0n round in my pocket! Yay for technology!
The words of Alanis Morrisette seem appropriate to the occasion: "I've got one hand in my pocket and the other one is giving a high five."
But seriously, after all the pounds that Shatner put on during the series, I'd be worried that the chair has already developed its own ass groove that, while priceless in trek history, just would not work well with my own ass.
Just wiggle in deep and imagine you're Kaptain Quirk.
Well, in truth it's probably quite difficult to tap deeply into the kinetic energy without affecting the maneuverability of the racket. For instance, a pendulum in the handle might throw your game a little bit.
It's like the old gyroscope in the luggage trick. As long as you're walking straigt on everything is fine but as soon as you try to turn a corner you run into problems.
Eventually you can run a microchip and a voice synth on the kinetic energy. Imagine a racket that gives running commentary about your performance...
*THWACK*
"Lame wrist!"
*THWACK*
"Hit harder!"
*THWACK*
"Is that the best you can do?"
*THWACK*
"Try aiming it"
*THWACK*
"Moron"
*THWACK*
"You'd think you could hit the field, it's big enough for Chris..."
*CRASH* *CRASH* *THUD* *THUD* *THUD*
"Why is the world going dark...?"
"I'm afraid, Mr. McEnroe."
"My mind is going...."
Damnit. You really shouldn't put ideas like that into my head on a Friday.
:)
Humble apologies. I had a peek at your web page, so I'm guessing you weren't joking.
You're right. A really good sysadmin will probably get all the Score:5 posts as SMSs on his cell phone (except in the States, where they still have to use beepers).
*BEEP* *BEEP*
"Damn! Sorry boss, I'm afraid you'll have figure out how to change the color theme by yourself, the file server just went down."
*receding sound of footsteps*
The quality of Unix sysadmins has declined so much over the past decade that what passes for a sysadmin right now is what I used to call "an operator".
That's because times have moved on. Sysadmin is no longer considered a cool job. Cool dudes, though, still have cool jobs. Somewhere else.
"competent management" implies an ability to manage ... in other words, to handle problems before they get out of hand.
That's the theory. All I can say is never go into management, unless you REALLY like the money. During an economic downturn it's the shittiest job I can imagine.
But, let me ask you this: Would it be better for half the employees to be out of work than all of them?
Depends on which half you ask. If you mean, which is better for the company, the answer is self-evident.
it will be from the shite-heads in management making all the lame-ass decisions that got you so fucked in the first place.
Do you mean to say that a competent management would have recognized the decreasing demand and sacked half the work force long before it got this bad?
we're still running the network, even if we have to do it without the assurance of being paid.
Two thumbs up! I would buy you a beer if I could.
You just have to have a really cool operating system like Linux to run a really hot browser like Mozilla.
I want ones that will move the hair off my back and put it back on my head where it belongs!
:) Here's another cool one: you could have a group of nanomachines that come with a dozen preprogrammed hairstyles and rearrange your hair to a new configuration every thirty seconds.
Well, that's a pretty radical application.
Now that would be a great party trick!
contraceptive devices
Hmm. Wouldn't work. At least not if you're pretty well hung.
RAC, or Real Application Clusters, is what Oracle has been toting as the "Unbreakable" part of its software. The idea is to divide a large task into subtasks and distribute the subtasks among multiple nodes. That way you can complete the task faster than if only one node did the work.
They are talking about fault tolerant database clusters with no single point of failure.
They probably imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.
after scratching thier heads for a long time and saying "The files are in the cable?"
$1 billion is a whole lot of money to spend on Internet pr0n. Don't they have cable?
U.S. Navy will spend '$1 billion to retrofit its premier spy submarine, the USS Jimmy Carter' to get access to deep-sea fiber routes.
Every time the trans-Atlantic connections are down they give us this same line about the "sharks who like to chew on cables", and all the while it has been a bunch of Navy SEALs trying to patch an optical wiretap, equipped with a combat knife and a legth of wire?
But how fast is it?
...with something like 10^120 manipulations of those bits...
Let's see, the universe is about 15 billion years old. 10^120 floating point operations divided by..mumble..mumble..mumble.. That comes out as roughly 2 * 10^101 flops. If the graphics resolution is about... PI multiplied by 15 billion light years by..mumble..mumble..OH WAIT, it's in 3D..mumble..mumble..HEUREKA!
The graphics performance comes out as EXACTLY 42 FPS.
Hmm. Not too impressive, really.
less than 1% of users using the "development" kernel
Assuming the counter is accurate, even 1% of the user base is still quite a lot and probably includes those most capable of actually contributing to the development of the kernel.
Still, at least personally my eagerness to run the latest kernels has been on the decline. I've been running Linux for over 10 years now. There was a time when I used to immediately patch in anything posted on the kernel mailing by Linus, and spent a considerable time testing and writing patches myself.
These days all of my hardware has been supported by Linux for ages. The new kernels just don't seem to bring so many cool new features to my life as they used to, so I tend to go for a bit more sedate update pace now (of course, there is the occasional memory system rewrite, which makes one want to bite the bullet again). I suspect many of the old timers have the same experience. Besides, Linux performs so good I don't even have any reason to upgrade my hardware.
This is apparently an open source project by Nokia:
Affix Bluetooth Protocol Stack for Linux
My Linux/Windows Boxes have been virus free because I'm not retarded enought to "Click here for sexy virgins!"
This one is not sexually transmitted.
So this virus thing links against my GNU code, does it?
Where can I download the source?!?
I think it's helpful to make this distinction because the formats can easily be made public domain, whereas the codecs are usually subject to patents and/or require licensing.
It may be useful to make this distinction, and arguably modular file formats can lead to more versatile applications and some reuse of code.
However, the problem remains: a file containing parts encoded in a proprietary format remains largely useless to you unless you have access to the proprietary codec as well.
Reading and writing files is one thing, doing something useful with them is another.
I want technologies that can let my 802.11b network at home work without interfearing with my cordless phone and 2.4gig audio/video transitter and reciever.
Strangely enough, these are all on unlicenced bands. Sounds like we still need the regulatory bodies to keep the spectrum in some semblance of order.
This is not to say that we shouldn't look into the technologies (quite the opposite). We're just simply not there yet. It would be good to set aside some spectrum for this, though, as a playground for developing new transmission techniques and receiver designs.
The negative mods are only useful for getting trolls and spammers off the list.
:)
If you consider someone's comment naive or simplistic, you can certainly post and say so (and risk getting modded down for being a troll). Or you might consider posting something more useful like explaining why you disagree (and risk getting modded down for being a troll).
I think yours was a rather simplistic suggestion. We're both off-topic.