NMCI is the biggest crock of shit this side of the known universe.
A developer seat costs the government about $300. Per month. Now figure that most developers will need two seats, one for NIPRNET (teh intarweb) and one for SIPRNET (secured military network) and you are looking at at *least* $500/month *per developer*.
The only plus side is that the desktops are guaranteed to be at around 75% of the current "standard" (cpu). So whenever newer cpus come out they are contractually supposed to upgrade the workstations.
However, if you need something installed expect to pay.
Basically "a couple million people WANT an ocean-front house, but only a handfull have been sold." Compared to "hundreds of thousands of people WANT MS OFFICE, but only a hundred copies were sold, so the other copies MUST be pirated just because the people wanted them".
They don't take into account that they really don't know if those other hundreds of thousands of people actually HAVE a copy of MS OFFICE.
Sumerians are attributed with inventing many of these firsts (writing, wheel etc). They pretty much came from nowehere and disappeared, Babylon arose after the era of Sumer.
This planet has a rather stable weather system and weather patterns. Granted, in the short term, things can be very chaotic and seem somewhat haphazard.
However, if you zoom out to hundreds or thousands or even maybe millions of years you have this fine balance. Were we to go and cause some extra rain here, or less tornadoes there, sure it will help us in the very short term. Farmers might have better yields, lives might be saved from hurricanes and such, floods prevented.
The problem is, nature has this weird way of balancing out, as I mentioned above. So after a couple years of drought, you might get a couple years of heavier rains. Mix this in with us eliminating droughts and then we basically have to micromanage (hello WC3) every single weather system on the planet to keep things in check.
Along with that, we are inevitable going to totally fsck something up and hundreds if not thousands of species of plants and animals will be on the verge of extinction. We will have ruined habitats on a scale much much larger than what we are allready doing with deforestation, pollution, etc.
Now, I am no meteorologist, nor do I even have a college degree. However, I think a lot of this is common sense and is not something we should tinker with until the day comes when we can forecast the weather precisely for hundreds of years in advance (which is unlikely to happen).
I cancelled back on October before the billing cycle for that month. I have been billed for three months now. They finally cancelled ONE of my accounts after I had repeatedly asked they cancel ALL accounts in my name, since the in-game cancel option doesn't seem to work.
Every month I get some incompetent monkey piece of shit emailing me back telling me "your account has been cancelled, you will not be billed again".
I know they have done this to others as well. Maybe a class-action lawsuit would be in order?:>
There are 250 Million blank CDRs and tapes bought and used this year for copying music in comparison to 213 Million prerecorded audio media. This means the owners are only being paid for 46 per cent of the musical content. For a comparison: In 1998 almost 90% of all audio media was paid for.
Wow, I didn't realize it was only possible to burn MUSIC on to CDRs.
With fucking idiots like this in the biz, it almost makes you want to pirate their overpriced shit to get his ass out of a job.
I can tell you this though, their current stance and "fuck you consumer" attitude WILL increase piratism of music, and WILL decrease sales of music. Their ignorance prevents them from seeing that, but it will happen. Never, NEVER slap someone in the face after they give you money.
In the future, the music industry will think they won.. But I can promise you, I will not buy a single music cd again. I will pirate every last little song, and support my favorite bands by purchasing concert tickets and memoribilia at them.
it boggles the mind why MS wants to the swiss army knife of computing, jack of all trades-but master of none.
It seems like they try to get their hand in every single piece of pie.
I mean, you have OS, Office crap, media crap, hardware (they do actually make decent hardware), ISP, web server, database, app/web development, browser, games, etc etc.
They really do have too much money if they can afford to R&D every possible niche out there...
I think.so hell (directly related to RPM-hell) is 1000x more of a problem than DLL hell is.
How many times in the last month have you gone to install an rpm and been informed that it requires (insert page long list of 2-version old.so libraries)? If you don't use an rpm-based distro, then more power to ya.
while it's kind of simple to fix, the fact that you have to fix is points to a flaw in the design.
I love linux, don't get me wrong, but I haven't encountered DLL Hell *at all* in the last several years..
I don't claim to be a guru on memory architecture.. actually, I know next to nothing about it
but from the wording of the blurb I quoted (combined with what you quoted) it makes it sound like the "new" large memory ability allows it to use the entire 4GB address space (per process) instead of using part of that 4gb to simulate virtual memory?
I am probably waaaay off base, anyone have a little more info or can clear it up?
Apart from price, UnitedLinux is introducing new features, such as larger memory support, to differentiate itself from the competition, Hunter said.
Uhh, large memory support is standard in the kernel? Any idea what this/really/ means?
note, that's larger memory support.
According to this whitepaper they are increasing the supported memory size from 1gb to 64gb. Here is a quote from it: Large memory support The Linux kernel is ordinarily limited to 1 GB of physical memory on the x86 32- bit platform, with 4 GB of virtual addressing space. With large memory support, Linux can take advantage of the Intel Physical Address Extension to support up to
64 GB of physical RAM and the full 4 GB of virtual addressing space per process. In addition, with AMD x86-64, Linux can enable highly efficient flat 64-bit memory addressibility for enterprise systems.
in order to use an include file, it has to be recognized by Apache as a PHP file. As such, if you tried to invoke the file from the web directly, Apache would parse it as a php file and return you a nice pretty blank HTML page.
PHP-Nuke has to be about the best example of PHP newbie-ism at work:p A guy has an idea, he learns PHP and codes without half a clue as to how the language really works.
I am one of the founders of Postnuke, and while I admit Postnuke isn't exactly my idea of "beautiful and efficient" PHP code, it is 1000x times more so than PHPNuke is.
I guess I should note, I am no longer a member of the PN project;)
any competent programmer can easily write their functions/classes to return raw data to allow your presentation layer decide HOW to display it.
Granted, it was intended to be used primarily for the web, but it is quite easy to code your business logic in such a way that PHP-GTK and your HTML presentation layer could use the exact same set of functions/classes to do the exact same thing.
The reason everyone makes this claim (about HTML and PHP being inseperable) is because one of two (or both) conditions are true: 1. they have absolutely no clue (meaning, they don't use PHP) 2. they are newbie programmers just learning PHP and HTML
hmm... I think I will patent the act of rolling around in a bed (or floor, kitchen table, rooftop, etc) with a member of the opposite sex which results in the creation of another human life nine months after...
well, we have recently purchased Process Max 3 (will be moving to 4 i think soon), which "guarantees" us a CMM level 3 certification, if we follow the process laid out in PM.:)
we're getting there, but you are right, from everything I have been reading about it, it really IS a bitch;)
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NMCI is the biggest crock of shit this side of the known universe.
A developer seat costs the government about $300. Per month. Now figure that most developers will need two seats, one for NIPRNET (teh intarweb) and one for SIPRNET (secured military network) and you are looking at at *least* $500/month *per developer*.
The only plus side is that the desktops are guaranteed to be at around 75% of the current "standard" (cpu). So whenever newer cpus come out they are contractually supposed to upgrade the workstations.
However, if you need something installed expect to pay.
An absolute waste of taxpayers money...
DING DING DING DING DING DING
Basically "a couple million people WANT an ocean-front house, but only a handfull have been sold." Compared to "hundreds of thousands of people WANT MS OFFICE, but only a hundred copies were sold, so the other copies MUST be pirated just because the people wanted them".
They don't take into account that they really don't know if those other hundreds of thousands of people actually HAVE a copy of MS OFFICE.
got it?
good.
YOU ARE THA WINNA!!!
It would be a crying shame to reach the end of the web. Poor confused newbies, with no more blue underlined links to click on.
which is also incorrect
Sumerians are attributed with inventing many of these firsts (writing, wheel etc). They pretty much came from nowehere and disappeared, Babylon arose after the era of Sumer.
no shit sherlock
Please head directly to the "sarcastically funny" line.. they are administering shots today.
damnit...
:(
now my employer is going to find out I have been using the ATMs phat pipe to host my clan's UT2k3 server
so says a couple news reports
One
and
Two
and
Three (yeah yeah, someone posted this last one above)
IMO
This planet has a rather stable weather system and weather patterns. Granted, in the short term, things can be very chaotic and seem somewhat haphazard.
However, if you zoom out to hundreds or thousands or even maybe millions of years you have this fine balance. Were we to go and cause some extra rain here, or less tornadoes there, sure it will help us in the very short term. Farmers might have better yields, lives might be saved from hurricanes and such, floods prevented.
The problem is, nature has this weird way of balancing out, as I mentioned above. So after a couple years of drought, you might get a couple years of heavier rains. Mix this in with us eliminating droughts and then we basically have to micromanage (hello WC3) every single weather system on the planet to keep things in check.
Along with that, we are inevitable going to totally fsck something up and hundreds if not thousands of species of plants and animals will be on the verge of extinction. We will have ruined habitats on a scale much much larger than what we are allready doing with deforestation, pollution, etc.
Now, I am no meteorologist, nor do I even have a college degree. However, I think a lot of this is common sense and is not something we should tinker with until the day comes when we can forecast the weather precisely for hundreds of years in advance (which is unlikely to happen).
just my 2 cents.
no shit
I have done that five fucking times
but they keep billing me
:>
I cancelled back on October before the billing cycle for that month. I have been billed for three months now. They finally cancelled ONE of my accounts after I had repeatedly asked they cancel ALL accounts in my name, since the in-game cancel option doesn't seem to work.
Every month I get some incompetent monkey piece of shit emailing me back telling me "your account has been cancelled, you will not be billed again".
I know they have done this to others as well. Maybe a class-action lawsuit would be in order?
And really, 16 hours times 2.5 MBps, thats... 144 GB. What's he transferring anyways? No home user can use that much bandwidth.
you don't look at porn, do you?
There are 250 Million blank CDRs and tapes bought and used this year for copying music in comparison to 213 Million prerecorded audio media. This means the owners are only being paid for 46 per cent of the musical content. For a comparison: In 1998 almost 90% of all audio media was paid for.
Wow, I didn't realize it was only possible to burn MUSIC on to CDRs.
With fucking idiots like this in the biz, it almost makes you want to pirate their overpriced shit to get his ass out of a job.
I can tell you this though, their current stance and "fuck you consumer" attitude WILL increase piratism of music, and WILL decrease sales of music. Their ignorance prevents them from seeing that, but it will happen. Never, NEVER slap someone in the face after they give you money.
In the future, the music industry will think they won.. But I can promise you, I will not buy a single music cd again. I will pirate every last little song, and support my favorite bands by purchasing concert tickets and memoribilia at them.
It's the way it should be anyhow.
it boggles the mind why MS wants to the swiss army knife of computing, jack of all trades-but master of none.
It seems like they try to get their hand in every single piece of pie.
I mean, you have OS, Office crap, media crap, hardware (they do actually make decent hardware), ISP, web server, database, app/web development, browser, games, etc etc.
They really do have too much money if they can afford to R&D every possible niche out there...
I think .so hell (directly related to RPM-hell) is 1000x more of a problem than DLL hell is.
.so libraries)? If you don't use an rpm-based distro, then more power to ya.
How many times in the last month have you gone to install an rpm and been informed that it requires (insert page long list of 2-version old
while it's kind of simple to fix, the fact that you have to fix is points to a flaw in the design.
I love linux, don't get me wrong, but I haven't encountered DLL Hell *at all* in the last several years..
I don't claim to be a guru on memory architecture.. actually, I know next to nothing about it
but from the wording of the blurb I quoted (combined with what you quoted) it makes it sound like the "new" large memory ability allows it to use the entire 4GB address space (per process) instead of using part of that 4gb to simulate virtual memory?
I am probably waaaay off base, anyone have a little more info or can clear it up?
Apart from price, UnitedLinux is introducing new features, such as larger memory support, to differentiate itself from the competition, Hunter said.
/really/ means?
Uhh, large memory support is standard in the kernel? Any idea what this
note, that's larger memory support.
According to this whitepaper they are increasing the supported memory size from 1gb to 64gb. Here is a quote from it:
Large memory support
The Linux kernel is ordinarily limited to 1 GB of physical memory on the x86 32-
bit platform, with 4 GB of virtual addressing space. With large memory support,
Linux can take advantage of the Intel Physical Address Extension to support up to
64 GB of physical RAM and the full 4 GB of virtual addressing space per process.
In addition, with AMD x86-64, Linux can enable highly efficient flat 64-bit memory
addressibility for enterprise systems.
something about...
my god can kick your god's ass
err in this case
my language can kick your language's ass.
in order to use an include file, it has to be recognized by Apache as a PHP file. As such, if you tried to invoke the file from the web directly, Apache would parse it as a php file and return you a nice pretty blank HTML page.
;)
nice try though
no, that would have been a nightmare
:p A guy has an idea, he learns PHP and codes without half a clue as to how the language really works.
;)
PHP-Nuke has to be about the best example of PHP newbie-ism at work
I am one of the founders of Postnuke, and while I admit Postnuke isn't exactly my idea of "beautiful and efficient" PHP code, it is 1000x times more so than PHPNuke is.
I guess I should note, I am no longer a member of the PN project
in response to #4
any competent programmer can easily write their functions/classes to return raw data to allow your presentation layer decide HOW to display it.
Granted, it was intended to be used primarily for the web, but it is quite easy to code your business logic in such a way that PHP-GTK and your HTML presentation layer could use the exact same set of functions/classes to do the exact same thing.
The reason everyone makes this claim (about HTML and PHP being inseperable) is because one of two (or both) conditions are true:
1. they have absolutely no clue (meaning, they don't use PHP)
2. they are newbie programmers just learning PHP and HTML
patenting the grocery store
hmm...
I think I will patent the act of rolling around in a bed (or floor, kitchen table, rooftop, etc) with a member of the opposite sex which results in the creation of another human life nine months after...
I'm going to be soooo rich!
=)
Yeah, while I do develop systems for the navy, I will readily admit I am not 100% up on all the lingo.
Hell, just all the acronyms I have to deal with on a daily basis gives me a headache
well, we have recently purchased Process Max 3 (will be moving to 4 i think soon), which "guarantees" us a CMM level 3 certification, if we follow the process laid out in PM. :)
;)
we're getting there, but you are right, from everything I have been reading about it, it really IS a bitch
wow that's odd. Here where I am, just in my office (consitsts of about 7-10 cubicles) we have two laser printers.
:)
Next office over we have one laser and one color laser and one really nice HP color plotter
Outside the offices we have a printer/copy machine
I think we have a couple more scattered around too
while it beats filling out paper forms any day, this program is still a major pain in the ass.
:o
the win3.1 form controls they use is annoying too