2. Imagine how fast your system would be if you took the memory off the card and installed it on your motherboard, thus eliminating the need for a swap file.
3. Imagine how fast your database server would be with its transaction log installed in a memory file. Hey, throw the tempdb (for SQL Server) on there as well, or since the memory is now just standard memory and won't need a special driver, you can just switch to Linux and use a real database.
I went to traffic court once. Hit a telephone line with my 12ft box truck (lines are by law required to be over 14ft).
Guy before me hit a parked car and failed a breathlyzer test. His lawyer pleaded about how the guy had a decent job and had to support his family. Got him off with court cost.
I, having no lawyer, explained how I was trying to get to my job, and called the phone company from the closest line I could get to. I was charged with hit and run (after the judge looked up the law that stated I wasn't responsible for staying there if I couldn't repair the damage.)
The whole system is deserving of third world status...
You and Metcalf both need to be beat with a cluestick. Some things just aren't useful. Revolutions usually don't happen because fore the most part the architects/designers try to get the right solution the first time, and the things they did wrong get weeded out if possible. If after a few decades, you still the the answer is wrong, it is generally because you're asking a different question.
Metcalf is a washed up hasbeen that had one brilliant instant of insight and has been riding it ever since.
Phishing site duplicates bank site. Forwards everything from you to the bank. Forwards everything from bank to you, EXCEPT when you click the logoff button. In that case, phisher intercepts logoff and you get fake page. While you go downstairs for dinner, phisher cleans out your account.
This seems like a combination of the typical insecure, stupid "personal question" with an actually good idea: the personal image.
The 'personal image' is just as stupid. The phishing site only has to set up a 'man-in-the-middle' attack. Duplicate the BoA site, and forward all the information you enter to them. Forward everything from BoA to you. Let you perform your transaction without interruption. Once your done, rob you blind.
The idea of a different process when logging in if it is not the primary computer is VERY usefull, but only if BoA customers are educated to be very suspicious when they're asked for an extra password from their home computer. I'd like to see the picture come back as an image with the text "You're logging in from a strange computer. Is the URL http://boaurl.html/"
The only way to fix it is to pass new laws. No more outsourcing of jobs. All companies must have a pension package. No lay offs unless the union okay's it. And every company must have a union, or the workers must collectivly agree on pay and terms.
And workers will not be allowed to quit a job or stay home sick, unless given written permission by the union. How can you put restrictions only on one side of the bargaining table? How long do you think it will take for the companies to say 'F-U_U-S-A'?
Colleges don't get any of your property taxes, and their computers are paid for directly by the students, often with a separate IT fee.
Bzzt...wrong. Thanks for playing. The North Carolina University system is HEAVILY subsidized, as our Consitution mandates an affordable education (one of the best things about NC, IMHO). I'd rather have the student workers replacing an occasional fan, vs riding around on their skateboards to pass out parking tickets.
Patton said ``America loves a winner. America will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise a coward. Americans play to win. That's why America has never lost a war, for the very thought of losing is hateful to an American.'' I wonder if now this is no longer true; Americans love losers and cannot tolerate a winner.
America still loves a winner. How is 'Carly' a winner? She looks more like a looter to me, leaving ruined companies and lives in her wake. What people enjoyed in previous eras was great men who built and left great achievements. What we have today is an oligarchy of interconnected con-artist, who dismember great enterprises, take ridiculous windfalls and disappear into the night, all the while proclaiming the benefits of a 'free market'.
I do hope KDE does bring innovation into the desk-top. I hope someone, ANYONE brings it. But I've yet to see any indication anyone will be anytime soon.
What sort of innovation are you looking for?
What about the current desktop implementations limit your use of the computer?
If you had these unspecified innovations, what could you make the computer do that it doesn't do now?
We'll begin working on the solutions just as soon as the problem has been specified. Until then, I beg everyone to remember that the pace of innovation exhibited in the last 20 years cannot continue indefinitely. Form follows function, and at some point the optimum solution will be reached. What will follow is minor tweaking of the optimum design to fit specific cases. Changing the color of the taskbar would be considered such a minor tweak.
Consider the case of the 4-door passenger sedan. Line them up, and every manufacturers example looks basically the same, with minor tweaks of taillight designs. Use shadow prints, and the average person will be hard pressed to tell the difference. For the most part, any 'innovation' will be a deviation from the reality that the design is optimized, and will stay on the sales lot unless it is sold as a social statement (instead of simply a way to transport bodies from point to point).
Oh, contraire. I wasn't saying that the educational system was the enemy. I was *trying* to say that the students recalcitrance (sp?) was the educational system's enemy. There's no way you could have discerned that from what I actually wrote, though.
BTW, enemy is probably a bad choice of words. Has a connotation of animosity. How about 'opponent'?
While analog could still be used we're trying to move technology forward.
Forward? To what end?
The stuff broadcasted will still be mind numbing crap. Why would I care to see the drunken teenagers of the "Real World" puke and throw temper tantrums in high definition?
Did you watch the Disney movie with the animals trying to escape from the zoo? Remember the penguins coming up in front of the zebra? Waving his hands, saying, "you didn't see anything"?
Lenovo is waving their hands. You don't have to swallow the bull. You have a small, low-power device, used to connect to a central server. Whether that central server is a piece of hardware dedicated to you, a hardware 'partition' dedicated to you, or simply a timeshared resource is immaterial. The resources are centralized under the IT departments control, and the user access it remotely with low-power hardware, ie a 'thin client'.
Its even worse than that. He couldn't install handles because he didn't have access to a 'milling machine'.
A milling machine? How the hell can you claim to be a hacker if you can't do anything without fairly expensive machine shop tools? Why didn't he just send an order out to eMachines if he was that limited?
Did he not have access to a router? A decent one will only cost $30. Cheaper if you wait for Harbor Freight to put them on sale. A few scrap 2x4 blocks as guides and he would have a perfect recess for the handles.
Did he not have access to a hammer and chisel? You can do impressive work with a hammer, chisel and PATIENCE. But that would obviously have taken to long to get his front page post on/., so he settle for a bulky, heavy object without handles.
All that contributes to de-humanize studies, and only teach students to "work with the system", not to think.
Your hubris is that you believe a student isn't required to think to work the system. A lesson from jujitsu. Do not oppose your enemy's strength. Turn it.
1) Parents MUST be held to their childrens actions.
No kidding. Both these stories made the news in the same week here.
-Teacher got sued for spanking a child (no discussion of what the child did to deserve such 'attention').
-Teacher got sued for 'restraining' a child, ie. trying to stand in front of the child so that it wouldn't fall while jumping from chair to chair. They were waiting for the police to arrive. The teacher was very careful not to touch the child, and continually asked the child to stop jumping from chair to chair. The police had been called as the child was unruly and disruptive.
Here's my suggestion: Stop putting teachers in an untenable situation. Either let them tap that child's ass on occasion, or park the police on campus and have the unruly kids dragged out and handcuffed on moments notice. For the apologist, some kids are just brats that don't respond to reason (kinda' like some adults).
Congratulations! This is the most inconsistent babble I've read on/. in quite a while. I could go on for a while, but let's concentrate on
"Don't tell the teachers what is on the test or when it is...Pay teachers based on their students progress."
So how would you feel if your manager said, "Write me a program. I'll pay you according to how well it fulfills my needs," then walks away, refusing to give you any more information? Let's see if you think any better than your sister's friends.
One of the great lies in American society is that schools are about education.
Bullshit, I say. Pure bullshit.
Schools have an educational component, but it by no means stops there. It is also about socialization. Bad you say? Well, remember that by definition nearly half of the people are of below average intelligence. Familial socialization is acceptable in farming societies, but how the hell do you train people to operate in an industrial society?
Then there is the retinence to tell kids that they're dumb as snot. We will only have an acceptable school system after we are willing to face the fact that most people will never be corporate leaders and that it is a GOOD thing. Someone must be the janitor, and that person DESERVES just as much respect as the CEO (I didn't say the same salary...I said the same RESPECT!). We try to push Advanced Algebra on the kid that can barely handle addition, and every YUPPY is scrambling to get their borderline retarded kids into 'college prep' classes so they can get into a good college where they can major in 'Business'. The upshot is that advanced programs are recreated every few years with different names. The entrance criteria are then repeatedly raped to let just a few more students in each year. In the end, the 'advanced class' is once again 'college prep' and the process has to be started over.
Tell all the students to get that you have a special relationship with GMail, and that they all need to sign up for their free storage. Teach them how to use their mail reader to store and retrieve files.
I'm still using CorelDraw version 3. Why? Because I learned it years ago and I can doall I care about doing quickly and with a minimum of fuss. Without exception, the easiest program to use is the one that you know how to use.
Geeks get all giddy about whether an icon is on the desktop or hidden within a start menu somewhere. The average users just want the damn thing to stay put.
Do the math. Any change in its orbit is unmeasurable. Comets are still very big - Tempel 1 is in the 10^13 kg range. The impactor was 370 kg. Relative velocity was 10 km/s. That means you're talking about a delta-V in the neighborhood of a tenth of a micron per second.
Futhermore, assuming you did actually create a measurable dV, that was significant compared to all the dVs that it recieves when it passes through the Asteroid belt a couple of times on each pass through the Solar System, the dV that it got would cause a random deviation. There are many more chances that it would be AWAY from Earth than toward it.
If I bought the car to race, I could remove the wipers, the headlight, and most racing organizations will REQUIRE me to replace the seat belts before they let me race in their division. You ever see a liscense plate in a NASCAR race?
I can remove the odometer completely if it so pleases me. I just might have a little trouble if I then chose to sell it some day. I can put in a different engine. I can swap in high ratio gears into the transmission and turn an Escort into an lawn tractor. Hell, man? Have you never watched Monster Garage?
You most certainly CAN wire your garden fence to the electricity supply! Have you never heard of an ELECTRIC FENCE!?! 2000volts of cow shocking terror.
I don't expect to be told what I can and can't do with anything I buy. It is my assumption that I can do anything I damn well please, and it is no concern of the shop's proprieter after I hand him the money.
There has been an attempt to engage people for the last 25 years in a reasonable debate on what to do about the pollution problem it causes (the evidence is overwhelming and the consensus in the scientific community quite plainly asserts this based on countless studies) yet the typical retaliation is to claim that it is too expensive to change anything.
No. The typicla retaliation is to just say, "Bullshit!"
You see, for 25 years before the last 25 years, the 'scientist' were telling us that we were going to fall into an ice age in another 25 years AND run out of oil (so that we all freeze to death). Carl Sagan had some very nice PBS shows explaining how it would all happen.
Before that, we were going to run out of copper, and all our industrialization would come to a screeching halt. Of course, it doesn't matter as we all know now that we are going to be hit by an asteroid that we can't stop, right after the mega-Earthquake drops California and Japan into the ocean.
So, the typical person, who's trying to figure out where he's going to get the money for the mortgage just says, "Ah, shut the hell up!"
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2. Imagine how fast your system would be if you took the memory off the card and installed it on your motherboard, thus eliminating the need for a swap file.
3. Imagine how fast your database server would be with its transaction log installed in a memory file. Hey, throw the tempdb (for SQL Server) on there as well, or since the memory is now just standard memory and won't need a special driver, you can just switch to Linux and use a real database.
I went to traffic court once. Hit a telephone line with my 12ft box truck (lines are by law required to be over 14ft).
Guy before me hit a parked car and failed a breathlyzer test. His lawyer pleaded about how the guy had a decent job and had to support his family. Got him off with court cost.
I, having no lawyer, explained how I was trying to get to my job, and called the phone company from the closest line I could get to. I was charged with hit and run (after the judge looked up the law that stated I wasn't responsible for staying there if I couldn't repair the damage.)
The whole system is deserving of third world status...
And how will these wonderful trolley cars get me around to these various destinations with my cargo.
s sion+loc:+Apex,+NC&num=10&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://www.google.com/maps?li=lmr&hl=en&q=transmi
You and Metcalf both need to be beat with a cluestick. Some things just aren't useful. Revolutions usually don't happen because fore the most part the architects/designers try to get the right solution the first time, and the things they did wrong get weeded out if possible. If after a few decades, you still the the answer is wrong, it is generally because you're asking a different question.
Metcalf is a washed up hasbeen that had one brilliant instant of insight and has been riding it ever since.
Phishing site duplicates bank site. Forwards everything from you to the bank. Forwards everything from bank to you, EXCEPT when you click the logoff button. In that case, phisher intercepts logoff and you get fake page. While you go downstairs for dinner, phisher cleans out your account.
This seems like a combination of the typical insecure, stupid "personal question" with an actually good idea: the personal image.
The 'personal image' is just as stupid. The phishing site only has to set up a 'man-in-the-middle' attack. Duplicate the BoA site, and forward all the information you enter to them. Forward everything from BoA to you. Let you perform your transaction without interruption. Once your done, rob you blind.
The idea of a different process when logging in if it is not the primary computer is VERY usefull, but only if BoA customers are educated to be very suspicious when they're asked for an extra password from their home computer. I'd like to see the picture come back as an image with the text "You're logging in from a strange computer. Is the URL http://boaurl.html/"
The only way to fix it is to pass new laws. No more outsourcing of jobs. All companies must have a pension package. No lay offs unless the union okay's it. And every company must have a union, or the workers must collectivly agree on pay and terms.
And workers will not be allowed to quit a job or stay home sick, unless given written permission by the union. How can you put restrictions only on one side of the bargaining table? How long do you think it will take for the companies to say 'F-U_U-S-A'?
I wonder what has changed from the 1960's-80's and today.
Spreadsheets (PHB has instant access to what said plans do to this quarter's bottom line) and day traders in the stock market.
Colleges don't get any of your property taxes, and their computers are paid for directly by the students, often with a separate IT fee.
Bzzt...wrong. Thanks for playing. The North Carolina University system is HEAVILY subsidized, as our Consitution mandates an affordable education (one of the best things about NC, IMHO). I'd rather have the student workers replacing an occasional fan, vs riding around on their skateboards to pass out parking tickets.
Patton said ``America loves a winner. America will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise a coward. Americans play to win. That's why America has never lost a war, for the very thought of losing is hateful to an American.'' I wonder if now this is no longer true; Americans love losers and cannot tolerate a winner.
America still loves a winner. How is 'Carly' a winner? She looks more like a looter to me, leaving ruined companies and lives in her wake. What people enjoyed in previous eras was great men who built and left great achievements. What we have today is an oligarchy of interconnected con-artist, who dismember great enterprises, take ridiculous windfalls and disappear into the night, all the while proclaiming the benefits of a 'free market'.
I do hope KDE does bring innovation into the desk-top. I hope someone, ANYONE brings it. But I've yet to see any indication anyone will be anytime soon.
What sort of innovation are you looking for?
What about the current desktop implementations limit your use of the computer?
If you had these unspecified innovations, what could you make the computer do that it doesn't do now?
We'll begin working on the solutions just as soon as the problem has been specified. Until then, I beg everyone to remember that the pace of innovation exhibited in the last 20 years cannot continue indefinitely. Form follows function, and at some point the optimum solution will be reached. What will follow is minor tweaking of the optimum design to fit specific cases. Changing the color of the taskbar would be considered such a minor tweak.
Consider the case of the 4-door passenger sedan. Line them up, and every manufacturers example looks basically the same, with minor tweaks of taillight designs. Use shadow prints, and the average person will be hard pressed to tell the difference. For the most part, any 'innovation' will be a deviation from the reality that the design is optimized, and will stay on the sales lot unless it is sold as a social statement (instead of simply a way to transport bodies from point to point).
In the private sector, somebody's head would be on a stick in the lobby for a costly goof like this one.
-In the private sector, a CEO would get a bonus for a costly goof like this one.
-In the private sector, this would be ignored and the shuttle *might* be in space now (It might have blown up trying to get there.)
-In the private sector, Jaun, the night janitor, would be blamed for the problem.
Designing and building an efficient generator
There's your hubris. No one claimed that it was an efficient generator. Perfect is the enemy of good enough.
Oh, contraire. I wasn't saying that the educational system was the enemy. I was *trying* to say that the students recalcitrance (sp?) was the educational system's enemy. There's no way you could have discerned that from what I actually wrote, though.
BTW, enemy is probably a bad choice of words. Has a connotation of animosity. How about 'opponent'?
While analog could still be used we're trying to move technology forward.
Forward? To what end?
The stuff broadcasted will still be mind numbing crap. Why would I care to see the drunken teenagers of the "Real World" puke and throw temper tantrums in high definition?
I read the article. It's a thin client.
Did you watch the Disney movie with the animals trying to escape from the zoo? Remember the penguins coming up in front of the zebra? Waving his hands, saying, "you didn't see anything"?
Lenovo is waving their hands. You don't have to swallow the bull. You have a small, low-power device, used to connect to a central server. Whether that central server is a piece of hardware dedicated to you, a hardware 'partition' dedicated to you, or simply a timeshared resource is immaterial. The resources are centralized under the IT departments control, and the user access it remotely with low-power hardware, ie a 'thin client'.
Its even worse than that. He couldn't install handles because he didn't have access to a 'milling machine'.
/., so he settle for a bulky, heavy object without handles.
A milling machine? How the hell can you claim to be a hacker if you can't do anything without fairly expensive machine shop tools? Why didn't he just send an order out to eMachines if he was that limited?
Did he not have access to a router? A decent one will only cost $30. Cheaper if you wait for Harbor Freight to put them on sale. A few scrap 2x4 blocks as guides and he would have a perfect recess for the handles.
Did he not have access to a hammer and chisel? You can do impressive work with a hammer, chisel and PATIENCE. But that would obviously have taken to long to get his front page post on
All that contributes to de-humanize studies, and only teach students to "work with the system", not to think.
Your hubris is that you believe a student isn't required to think to work the system. A lesson from jujitsu. Do not oppose your enemy's strength. Turn it.
1) Parents MUST be held to their childrens actions.
No kidding. Both these stories made the news in the same week here.
-Teacher got sued for spanking a child (no discussion of what the child did to deserve such 'attention').
-Teacher got sued for 'restraining' a child, ie. trying to stand in front of the child so that it wouldn't fall while jumping from chair to chair. They were waiting for the police to arrive. The teacher was very careful not to touch the child, and continually asked the child to stop jumping from chair to chair. The police had been called as the child was unruly and disruptive.
Here's my suggestion: Stop putting teachers in an untenable situation. Either let them tap that child's ass on occasion, or park the police on campus and have the unruly kids dragged out and handcuffed on moments notice. For the apologist, some kids are just brats that don't respond to reason (kinda' like some adults).
Congratulations! This is the most inconsistent babble I've read on /. in quite a while. I could go on for a while, but let's concentrate on
"Don't tell the teachers what is on the test or when it is...Pay teachers based on their students progress."
So how would you feel if your manager said, "Write me a program. I'll pay you according to how well it fulfills my needs," then walks away, refusing to give you any more information? Let's see if you think any better than your sister's friends.
One of the great lies in American society is that schools are about education.
Bullshit, I say. Pure bullshit.
Schools have an educational component, but it by no means stops there. It is also about socialization. Bad you say? Well, remember that by definition nearly half of the people are of below average intelligence. Familial socialization is acceptable in farming societies, but how the hell do you train people to operate in an industrial society?
Then there is the retinence to tell kids that they're dumb as snot. We will only have an acceptable school system after we are willing to face the fact that most people will never be corporate leaders and that it is a GOOD thing. Someone must be the janitor, and that person DESERVES just as much respect as the CEO (I didn't say the same salary...I said the same RESPECT!). We try to push Advanced Algebra on the kid that can barely handle addition, and every YUPPY is scrambling to get their borderline retarded kids into 'college prep' classes so they can get into a good college where they can major in 'Business'. The upshot is that advanced programs are recreated every few years with different names. The entrance criteria are then repeatedly raped to let just a few more students in each year. In the end, the 'advanced class' is once again 'college prep' and the process has to be started over.
-web accessible storage
-money is tight
Tell all the students to get that you have a special relationship with GMail, and that they all need to sign up for their free storage. Teach them how to use their mail reader to store and retrieve files.
I'm still using CorelDraw version 3. Why? Because I learned it years ago and I can doall I care about doing quickly and with a minimum of fuss. Without exception, the easiest program to use is the one that you know how to use.
Geeks get all giddy about whether an icon is on the desktop or hidden within a start menu somewhere. The average users just want the damn thing to stay put.
Do the math. Any change in its orbit is unmeasurable. Comets are still very big - Tempel 1 is in the 10^13 kg range. The impactor was 370 kg. Relative velocity was 10 km/s. That means you're talking about a delta-V in the neighborhood of a tenth of a micron per second.
Futhermore, assuming you did actually create a measurable dV, that was significant compared to all the dVs that it recieves when it passes through the Asteroid belt a couple of times on each pass through the Solar System, the dV that it got would cause a random deviation. There are many more chances that it would be AWAY from Earth than toward it.
If I bought the car to race, I could remove the wipers, the headlight, and most racing organizations will REQUIRE me to replace the seat belts before they let me race in their division. You ever see a liscense plate in a NASCAR race?
I can remove the odometer completely if it so pleases me. I just might have a little trouble if I then chose to sell it some day. I can put in a different engine. I can swap in high ratio gears into the transmission and turn an Escort into an lawn tractor. Hell, man? Have you never watched Monster Garage?
You most certainly CAN wire your garden fence to the electricity supply! Have you never heard of an ELECTRIC FENCE!?! 2000volts of cow shocking terror.
I don't expect to be told what I can and can't do with anything I buy. It is my assumption that I can do anything I damn well please, and it is no concern of the shop's proprieter after I hand him the money.
There has been an attempt to engage people for the last 25 years in a reasonable debate on what to do about the pollution problem it causes (the evidence is overwhelming and the consensus in the scientific community quite plainly asserts this based on countless studies) yet the typical retaliation is to claim that it is too expensive to change anything.
No. The typicla retaliation is to just say, "Bullshit!"
You see, for 25 years before the last 25 years, the 'scientist' were telling us that we were going to fall into an ice age in another 25 years AND run out of oil (so that we all freeze to death). Carl Sagan had some very nice PBS shows explaining how it would all happen.
Before that, we were going to run out of copper, and all our industrialization would come to a screeching halt. Of course, it doesn't matter as we all know now that we are going to be hit by an asteroid that we can't stop, right after the mega-Earthquake drops California and Japan into the ocean.
So, the typical person, who's trying to figure out where he's going to get the money for the mortgage just says, "Ah, shut the hell up!"