Maybe if there were "Unfunny", "Stupid", "Misinformed" mods we wouldn't have to use "Overrated"
I think it's pretty rare that there is a joke posted that deserves to be the top comment, so I'll mod those down. They may be mildly funny, but not the first thing someone should see.
The GP post may be one of those rare exceptions...
Sorry, my response was more to the first part of your post: Why would MS want to do this.
When I worked at Microsoft, I specifically argued *against* getting involved in HPC markets. It isn't really an interesting market. It isn't a big market. And it never will be. If anything it will get smaller rather than bigger. Yes, there are some applications that are not going away but these are not common. After all how many customers does Cray have? How many customers does Microsoft have? Ok, you have the answer to my question.
Indeed I cannot think of *any* reason why one would want Windows on an HPC cluster. Indeed, with Microsoft's reliance on COM and IPC stuff, I would be highly skeptical of using the Windows development environment in these cases. Yes, async I/O might be more mature on Windows, but I think that on the whole, Linux is a better choice.
Why do Ford, Oldsmobile, Honda, you name it, get involved in Indy and Formula One racing:
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For whatever Microsoft spends improving Windows so that it can be used on today's supercomputers, the benefits they will reap for their server and workstation lines could easily repay that investment. I'm not at all sure they can make a go of it, but if they succeed it will help them a lot more than just selling some licenses for big iron.
Trade what with Earth? What is on Moon or Mars that we can't get here? There's been an analysis done that even if you could bring back the shuttle filled with 100% refined gold, it wouldn't pay for the cost of putting it up. (And the shuttle is just going to LEO, not another planet.)
Basically correct. I would not say we "threw out" it's just that Einstein found a deeper theory, which, in the limit of low velocities, is exactly Newton's theory. The same happened with quantum mechanics.
There are people who genuinely believe in it. They treat the Bible literally in many places where they really shouldn't.
I think you just supported the GP's point. People who interpret the Bible literally are young earth creationists (6 days 6,000 years ago, Eve from Adam's Rib, etc.), not ID-believers. ID says that evolution occurs but that at some small, basicly undetectable level, there is an intelligence (God/Vishnu/Aliens/FSM) behind it.
It would be nice, if before moderating, the moderator had the slightest idea of what was going on. This post it completely uninformative. These detectors are not built underground, nor are they "covered" with water.
In fact, the cosmic ray detectors are not "covered" in water either, some of them *use* water as the detector. Some of them are built underground, so the poster go that right.
Let posters do wildly speculation. But if you moderate, don't moderate things you know nothing about.
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They name it, same as ever. If you look at the history (http://www.weatherunderground.com/tropical/ is great) you'll see that named storms in December have happened maybe 1/3 the time in recent years.
This is good news. I have one of these (the DSC-U60) which has been operated in a very high humidity environment (underwater). It's a waterproof (to 10 ft.) camera that's quite handy.
After my last trip, it was fine and then a month later, the CCD was completely out. I'll have to see if they will replace or repair it.
Interesting, but not useful for me, in my experience. Various e-commerce sites have various restrictions. Some you can only use letters and numbers, other's force you to to use symbols in the password. Some ban only certain symbols. You can't come up with a scheme to deal with every case. It's all very annoying.
Me, I keep a wallet of passwords on firefox and my PDA, both of which are encrypted. Fortunately, I only have one password that "times out."
It may be that OO2 is still compiled with a lot of debug symbols and code in it that slows things down and that a real release will not be. I have no knowledge of this, it's just speculation.
I have one of those. (Bluetooth modem was what I wanted.)
Ok, it has a camera too, which I don't really care about. The thing is, its OS is complicated enough that it will sometimes just freeze and I have to remove the battery to regain control.
This may be progress, but it's certainly of the two-steps-forward-one-step-back variety.
I have seen almost no scientists that present science this way, even to the general public. And this uncertainty is something proponents of ID (or deniers of global warming, to address the other reply to this) sieze on and say "Scientists have no idea, they change their minds all the time, so they must be completely wrong." Yes, science never stops moving, but complete reversals are rare and come about when the evidence is there. The more common scenario is that scientific understanding slowly advances, changing course slightly as it does as the evidence warrants.
That was the Mozilla (SeaMonkey) way and you soon got to a preferences dialog that was a mess. Hidden prefs and extensions are a great way to solve this. For those who care, there is a solution they can google for. For the rest of us, we aren't bothered with 100's of prefs when searching for the few important ones.
That's great. Actually I like my doctor. When I get to see him, we talk a bit, etc. But I get the sense this is becoming an exception rather than the rule.
When I was a graduate student, I actually had one of my better "doctor" experiences with a nurse practitioner rather than a doctor. A NP or physicians assistant gets paid less and they seem to see fewer patients so they can spend more time with them. Maybe they aren't bored with "mundane" cases either. Anyway, for run of the mill problems, they can provide better care than an M.D. You just have to be confident that they know when to refer you.
Wall Street Journal quotes a doctor: 'My impression is that people believe more of what they read than what I tell them...
And part of the reason for that is that a doctor will talk to you for 2 minutes (or maybe just have his secretary talk to you on the phone, take notes, and call you back) and diagnose you. You, on the other hand, have spend hours looking into what might be wrong with you.
I've had exactly that happen. I was on anti-biotics for 20 days (two treatments) when the real problem was allergies. Going in and seeing someone led to a proper diagnosis. A lot of people are fed up with doctors, and not always for bad reasons.
Not to mention that Linux filled a real need. There were tons of Unix people who wanted to run something familiar on their PC. Linux was a way they could do that without shelling out a lot of money. In that since, Linux wasn't a "new" OS as much as a new implementation of an "old" OS.
Now linux is in a position for a small number of converts from other OSes, but it needed the installed Unix user base to get to that point.
I don't generally use it because *I* am going to go poking in the code, but I do use it because I know that some company isn't going to go out of business and completely abandon it or be bought up by Microsoft or some other company who will intentionally kill the product. I also don't want to be forced to upgrade the software to keep it running or be prohibited from upgrading the OS to keep some version of a program running.
Regardless of whether the code is "free" and wanting to change it, there are a lot of advantages to having the source code.
The part of his interview summarized by the post is that he essentially argues that since open source software is so popular now, it can be BSD licensed because no one has the resources to outperform the OS community with their own fork. This is demonstrably false, just look at the KHTML/Apple situation. If they could truly go their own ways without Apple showing anything they did but KDE showing everything, I think it's pretty clear Apple could run ahead of KDE.
KHTML isn't the biggest project out there, but it's in the top few % for size and complexity, I'd bet. Imagine what a private company could do to a smaller project.
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Maybe if there were "Unfunny", "Stupid", "Misinformed" mods we wouldn't have to use "Overrated"
I think it's pretty rare that there is a joke posted that deserves to be the top comment, so I'll mod those down. They may be mildly funny, but not the first thing someone should see.
The GP post may be one of those rare exceptions...
I think I'll just skip it.
- Prestige (branding)
- Research
For whatever Microsoft spends improving Windows so that it can be used on today's supercomputers, the benefits they will reap for their server and workstation lines could easily repay that investment. I'm not at all sure they can make a go of it, but if they succeed it will help them a lot more than just selling some licenses for big iron.Trade what with Earth? What is on Moon or Mars that we can't get here? There's been an analysis done that even if you could bring back the shuttle filled with 100% refined gold, it wouldn't pay for the cost of putting it up. (And the shuttle is just going to LEO, not another planet.)
Some creationists (lots) back ID because they see it as a way to at least get some of their beliefs out there.
Take a look at http://www.discovery.org/csc/topQuestions.php#ques tionsAboutIntelligentDesign from the Discovery Institute, the think tank of ID.
Basically correct. I would not say we "threw out" it's just that Einstein found a deeper theory, which, in the limit of low velocities, is exactly Newton's theory. The same happened with quantum mechanics.
I think you just supported the GP's point. People who interpret the Bible literally are young earth creationists (6 days 6,000 years ago, Eve from Adam's Rib, etc.), not ID-believers. ID says that evolution occurs but that at some small, basicly undetectable level, there is an intelligence (God/Vishnu/Aliens/FSM) behind it.
Reference?
I'm 99% sure that's not true.
It would be nice, if before moderating, the moderator had the slightest idea of what was going on. This post it completely uninformative. These detectors are not built underground, nor are they "covered" with water. In fact, the cosmic ray detectors are not "covered" in water either, some of them *use* water as the detector. Some of them are built underground, so the poster go that right. Let posters do wildly speculation. But if you moderate, don't moderate things you know nothing about.
Stifler's mom?
They name it, same as ever. If you look at the history (http://www.weatherunderground.com/tropical/ is great) you'll see that named storms in December have happened maybe 1/3 the time in recent years.
This is good news. I have one of these (the DSC-U60) which has been operated in a very high humidity environment (underwater). It's a waterproof (to 10 ft.) camera that's quite handy.
After my last trip, it was fine and then a month later, the CCD was completely out. I'll have to see if they will replace or repair it.
Shuttle astronauts did. IIS had nothing to do with it.
Me, I keep a wallet of passwords on firefox and my PDA, both of which are encrypted. Fortunately, I only have one password that "times out."
It may be that OO2 is still compiled with a lot of debug symbols and code in it that slows things down and that a real release will not be. I have no knowledge of this, it's just speculation.
I have one of those. (Bluetooth modem was what I wanted.)
Ok, it has a camera too, which I don't really care about. The thing is, its OS is complicated enough that it will sometimes just freeze and I have to remove the battery to regain control.
This may be progress, but it's certainly of the two-steps-forward-one-step-back variety.
I have seen almost no scientists that present science this way, even to the general public. And this uncertainty is something proponents of ID (or deniers of global warming, to address the other reply to this) sieze on and say "Scientists have no idea, they change their minds all the time, so they must be completely wrong." Yes, science never stops moving, but complete reversals are rare and come about when the evidence is there. The more common scenario is that scientific understanding slowly advances, changing course slightly as it does as the evidence warrants.
That was the Mozilla (SeaMonkey) way and you soon got to a preferences dialog that was a mess. Hidden prefs and extensions are a great way to solve this. For those who care, there is a solution they can google for. For the rest of us, we aren't bothered with 100's of prefs when searching for the few important ones.
Can *you* tell us what science the *manned* space program has acheived in the last, say, 25 years?
When I was a graduate student, I actually had one of my better "doctor" experiences with a nurse practitioner rather than a doctor. A NP or physicians assistant gets paid less and they seem to see fewer patients so they can spend more time with them. Maybe they aren't bored with "mundane" cases either. Anyway, for run of the mill problems, they can provide better care than an M.D. You just have to be confident that they know when to refer you.
And part of the reason for that is that a doctor will talk to you for 2 minutes (or maybe just have his secretary talk to you on the phone, take notes, and call you back) and diagnose you. You, on the other hand, have spend hours looking into what might be wrong with you.
I've had exactly that happen. I was on anti-biotics for 20 days (two treatments) when the real problem was allergies. Going in and seeing someone led to a proper diagnosis. A lot of people are fed up with doctors, and not always for bad reasons.
Now linux is in a position for a small number of converts from other OSes, but it needed the installed Unix user base to get to that point.
Regardless of whether the code is "free" and wanting to change it, there are a lot of advantages to having the source code.
KHTML isn't the biggest project out there, but it's in the top few % for size and complexity, I'd bet. Imagine what a private company could do to a smaller project.