Given that it's not ever likely that people are going to be nice to each other all the time, isn't it a good thing that they are more nice for even a couple of weeks of the year? What kind of Scrooge are you, anyway?
That's called hypocrisy my friend. You aren't being nice for the sake of being nice. You are being nice because someone else or society tells you to be nice.
That's like brushing your teeth for everyone else's sake. You should be doing it because you want to keep your teeth.
This will come off bitter, but hear me out before you just think 'troll'. The human race is flawed.
It's not about group survival.. it's about good ol' #1
It's not about good will to all man, but just so long as it makes ourselves look good.
It's about feeling guilty because your parents taught you better.
It's not about keeping jobs in the US instead of hiring in India, or having our president elected by a corrupt system, or dumping our electronics in China.
The people I love, and I care about, I make sure htey know it every day.. and if not every day, at least once a week. And if not every week, as soon as fesably possible. X-mas has become a cookie cutter holiday where everyone is supposed to be nice, and then go back to the daily grind.
When people start to change their ways, maybe i'll see x-mas as a real holiday, where we all celebrate as a reminder of the ones we love vs a day to nag our consciouses to "do good".
Well, if you wanna eat your cake, who would you rather holding it?:)
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...between loosing connectivity due to crappy PPOE software, inability to host web services on the line for the same reason,
That is dependent on your DSL provider, no? I have a dsl bridge, so my traffic is raw. Unfortunately, acedsl, in ny, is a shitty provider as well. I see other people's arp requests. They use a software router that will ban arp's that aren't listed in their db at a 5 minute refresh rate. Stupid stupid stupid.
pain in the ass phone filters all over my house
Sounds like your place didn't have dsl installed on a particular extension in your house. It was done like that for me. One jack had it installed, one phone filter.. don't notice anything.
Now add to that the fact that Cable is Faster and works invisibly to my machine (DHCP) gives me an accesable IP and has no additional hardware (phone filters) yada yada yada.... Why WOULD i want DSL...
Depends on where you live. Because your line becomes dedicated in DSL, you can have guaranteed line speeds TO your isp. With cable, correct me if I'm wrong (nicely), hubs/switches are installed regionally. Small regions... like 1 per house or set of houses. They can become saturdated if you are in an apt building and have a lot of downloaders. Some places, 1.5Mb/s is about $40. In nyc, it is a bit pricier.
Why would you want dsl? Some cable providers filter, manipulate and/or track. I can't speak for who-does-what, but I've heard stories. You can't find a mom-and-pop cable provider that has nice restrictions. I don't like AceDSL? I can go to clound9, or speakeasy or nyct.net. There are more than a dozen out in brooklyn. Cable? All i have is cablevision. I don't care for them much, but i have more choices.
Maybe cable is great for you, but dsl does have its merits and advantages depending on who you are:)
Well, that's probably a good reason the manager is asking for resources, nuh? Not to say that the manager won't be right in the end, but at least he/she is willing to become more informed.
>>If i need to split off the process once per day, forking is fine.
Bullshit.
Some context switches are cheaper than others:P Point being, fork has had a long running history of more expensive context switches copying code from a written to memory block and process creation vs threads.:P
This is the only time I'll respond to an AC since "bullshit" is apparently an argument now-a-days.
Ah, but the cost of fork is higher in the process creation.... process:) What's worse, is the copying of memory on the changing of variables in a fork'd process. With threads, you know ahead of time what will be changing and can compensate for it.
Better is always relative. It's relative to what you are doing, how you are doing it, where and how.
Forking has a context switch to deal with. That's a fact. Now if I was doing some heavy mathematical computation that required new processes every second for a long period of time, threads would win out.
If i need to split off the process once per day, forking is fine.
As for protection, it's a mutex lock. Learn to use them properly, no deadlocks or ill use of resources, and you are fine. It's extra work for using threads, but isn't it worth it if you save thousands of context switches on fork()ing per second if you need to do parallel processing to that scale?
For you managers out there, it's good to listen to your developers and let them show you things. Sometimes when they wish to use a technology or method, it's for VERY good reason.
There are a lot of managers out there who distance themselves... so be happy they are learning the technology vs a 2 minute shpeel on why they should use something.
You should take a look at a software engineering course and a few books.
They describe exactly what you are talking about, from writing specs to implementation. From forming teams, to prototyping a product before you start doing the hard parts.
True.. but having say, a raid system, and periodically swapping out one of the mirror drives for blank one is a quick-and-dirty solution. At least then, you aren't using your drives all the time. And if one fails, you still have two:)
No, not an ideal, but it works. Btw, drop a tape, you scratch a corner. Drop a drive, drop a few tears:)
Good! If a company that uses some sorta CGI/program that doesn't have the money to spend on maintaining it due to cost, shut it down! I don't want MY information being shared with some blackhat.
You forgot to bold one other word. should. It depends on whether or not the company sees an advantage of putting up a site. Does it generate revenue or is it a waste?
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That's called hypocrisy my friend. You aren't being nice for the sake of being nice. You are being nice because someone else or society tells you to be nice.
That's like brushing your teeth for everyone else's sake. You should be doing it because you want to keep your teeth.
Define worth. Worth money? Worth joy of having? Worth of rarity?
Nonoono.. you got it wrong. They got awarded ANOTHER 7 million. They should be up to 14 million. ;)
Heh, realists of the world unite! We should just form our own damned holiday. Call it everyday, copyright and patent it. :)
This will come off bitter, but hear me out before you just think 'troll'. The human race is flawed.
It's not about group survival.. it's about good ol' #1
It's not about good will to all man, but just so long as it makes ourselves look good.
It's about feeling guilty because your parents taught you better.
It's not about keeping jobs in the US instead of hiring in India, or having our president elected by a corrupt system, or dumping our electronics in China.
The people I love, and I care about, I make sure htey know it every day.. and if not every day, at least once a week. And if not every week, as soon as fesably possible. X-mas has become a cookie cutter holiday where everyone is supposed to be nice, and then go back to the daily grind.
When people start to change their ways, maybe i'll see x-mas as a real holiday, where we all celebrate as a reminder of the ones we love vs a day to nag our consciouses to "do good".
Well, if you wanna eat your cake, who would you rather holding it? :)
That is dependent on your DSL provider, no? I have a dsl bridge, so my traffic is raw. Unfortunately, acedsl, in ny, is a shitty provider as well. I see other people's arp requests. They use a software router that will ban arp's that aren't listed in their db at a 5 minute refresh rate. Stupid stupid stupid.
Sounds like your place didn't have dsl installed on a particular extension in your house. It was done like that for me. One jack had it installed, one phone filter.. don't notice anything.
Depends on where you live. Because your line becomes dedicated in DSL, you can have guaranteed line speeds TO your isp. With cable, correct me if I'm wrong (nicely), hubs/switches are installed regionally. Small regions... like 1 per house or set of houses. They can become saturdated if you are in an apt building and have a lot of downloaders. Some places, 1.5Mb/s is about $40. In nyc, it is a bit pricier.
Why would you want dsl? Some cable providers filter, manipulate and/or track. I can't speak for who-does-what, but I've heard stories. You can't find a mom-and-pop cable provider that has nice restrictions. I don't like AceDSL? I can go to clound9, or speakeasy or nyct.net. There are more than a dozen out in brooklyn. Cable? All i have is cablevision. I don't care for them much, but i have more choices.
Maybe cable is great for you, but dsl does have its merits and advantages depending on who you are
Is you is, or is you ain't, ma' consituancy? Sorry.. couldn't help it :)
Egress filtering for content. Allow out only what you want out.. or there.. or something :)
Holy marklar, marklar!
3. Profit!
:)
We've finally gotten it! It's like the monkeys.. and shakespear thing.. I knew it wasn't an NP problem
Ah, but it was done via cheque that the UPS took, in good faith, to be a payment. It wasn't cleared until he tried to deposit it.
Well, that's probably a good reason the manager is asking for resources, nuh? Not to say that the manager won't be right in the end, but at least he/she is willing to become more informed.
Some context switches are cheaper than others
This is the only time I'll respond to an AC since "bullshit" is apparently an argument now-a-days.
Ah, but the cost of fork is higher in the process creation.... process :) What's worse, is the copying of memory on the changing of variables in a fork'd process. With threads, you know ahead of time what will be changing and can compensate for it.
Better is always relative. It's relative to what you are doing, how you are doing it, where and how.
Forking has a context switch to deal with. That's a fact. Now if I was doing some heavy mathematical computation that required new processes every second for a long period of time, threads would win out.
If i need to split off the process once per day, forking is fine.
As for protection, it's a mutex lock. Learn to use them properly, no deadlocks or ill use of resources, and you are fine. It's extra work for using threads, but isn't it worth it if you save thousands of context switches on fork()ing per second if you need to do parallel processing to that scale?
For you managers out there, it's good to listen to your developers and let them show you things. Sometimes when they wish to use a technology or method, it's for VERY good reason.
There are a lot of managers out there who distance themselves... so be happy they are learning the technology vs a 2 minute shpeel on why they should use something.
You should take a look at a software engineering course and a few books.
They describe exactly what you are talking about, from writing specs to implementation. From forming teams, to prototyping a product before you start doing the hard parts.
True.. but having say, a raid system, and periodically swapping out one of the mirror drives for blank one is a quick-and-dirty solution. At least then, you aren't using your drives all the time. And if one fails, you still have two :)
:)
No, not an ideal, but it works. Btw, drop a tape, you scratch a corner. Drop a drive, drop a few tears
Good! If a company that uses some sorta CGI/program that doesn't have the money to spend on maintaining it due to cost, shut it down! I don't want MY information being shared with some blackhat.
But they have entire libraries to do the transition with! Using carbon won't be the end of the world, especially for a large shop like Quark.
You forgot to bold one other word. should. It depends on whether or not the company sees an advantage of putting up a site. Does it generate revenue or is it a waste?
Since we all don't speak the native languages of English or Japanesse, here are the translated versiosn from....
English to Japanesse
and...
Japanesse to English
We can't let those scientists have the fun of putting up bilingual pages up. After all, what's science without bad translations, eh?
How about ruby? I don't know what comes first, but ruby, you can do stuipd things like 1.toOctalString( ) or the equiv :)
Same thing is why Apple and macs shine, and IBM and OS/2 floundered.