Well let's see, they don't know how this particular setup is configured and can't get hold of anyone who does. They aren't sure of what the settings are supposed to be so why not reboot? With a lot of problems it would have gotten them back up and then they would have time to track down somebody. There was a vald reason to do so in this case. A reboot should have restored the configurations and gotten them up unless it was a hardware problem and if that was the case they might actually get an idea of whicch hardware the problem was in. If they were networking people they would know of other ways to do it. Guess what? they're not. In this context it even made sense to reboot the firewall. They had no idea what the configuration was supposed to be, so reboot and let it start up with the services and configurations that it had stored on the hard drive. They could hardly have been in worse shape and it had a reasonable chance of working.
Buy them anyway. If you look at their server sale page you'll see prices that nobody is going to match. What's that? What about a warranty? Who cares, at those prices you should be able to buy some spare parts and take care of it yourself.
Do you have any idea of what it would cost to build such a stick of memory. Their 16 bit stick costs more than a comparable stick of DDR and the price gap for them to go to a 64 bit stick will be astronomical. It doesn't scale well economically.
I hope so too. Intel can survive a bad chip. AMD is the only company out there that has any chance of keeping them from being a monopoly in the commodity server dept. and AMD has to win big on the Hammer to have any chance of doing it. I don't want AMD to be a monopoly either but they have to have compelling speed and cost advantages to even have a chance at the market.
We do buy them and would have probably bought a lot more if they had quit trying to maximize profit per box instead of volume profit. I would have bought a workstation for myself if they had put a reasonable price on one.
I hope you aren't involved in purchasing decisions. Anyone that uninformed about what is currently or will be in the near future available has no business making purchasing decisions.
Neither was Intel until they got the Alpha. There is a lot of hype about their 64 bit processors but they have yet to show that they can produce and sell any kind of volume. They haven't even shown that their chip can perform at a satisfactory level.
Let us take a simple case. A non-sex linked trait where the dominant is neutral and the recessive if reinforced is fatal resulting in spontaneous abortion early enough in the pregnancy that it is never noticed by the parents. Both parents have an one dominant and one recessive A and B respectively. They have four children representing the normal distribution of AA, AB, AB, and BB. One child is aborted, One doesn't pass on the gene and two do pass on the gene. In a closed society a majority of that society will eventually have the recessive. It will never breed out of existance. If it is a sex linked trait that results in death before the child becomes reproductively capable it will breed itself out eventually. Unfortunately most human traits are not so cut and dried.
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It is not the militaries job to start or prevent war. Their job is to go, fight and try not to die when told to fight. It is the politicians that are supposed to make those decisions. Then the politicians should get out of the way and allow the military to do what it is trained for. The only real way to avoid war is to have the capability and willingness to use that capabilty to make any nation decide that attacking you is suicidal.
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And my point is what kind of crack are you smoking? If we reduced our military to one percent of its current levels we wouldn't be able to protect Hawaii let alone the rest of the US. 30,000 troops can't defend crap. From the days of the founding fathers till now the defense of this nation has depended almost entirely on our ability to project our forces onto foreign soil. From Tripoli, to Germany, and to Tokyo, we have protected out interests and sovereignty by our ability to project our forces. You may not like it but in the modern world instability anywhere is a threat to our country. We have made mistakes in the past but it can be argued that in our fear of interfering in some instances we have done more harm to ourselves and others than would have been done by stepping in in the first place. If we had been prepared and willing to step in WWI and WW2 would have been much shorter with less loss of life and property on all sides. In evey major conflict we have been in we have been unprepared when it started. That is the most costly mistake a nation can make.
The last gasp of expert systems? You obviously don't get out much. Expert systems are used in almost every branch of industry. They are the only AI research that has paid off with any meaningful real world uses.
Where do you see that Microsoft funded any part of Cyc? Paul Allen put up some funding but there is no reference to MS putting up any. I am not aware of Paul making any negative comments about Open Source anywhere.
I remember reading some new studies a couple of years ago that supported the idea that higher mammals (on the order of cats, dogs, and on up) do exhibit real self awareness. Sorry don't have any links.
There have been people saying we went off the gold standard in the 70s with Nixon. That is incorrect. We went off the gold standard during Roosevelts first term in office. All Nixon did was sell off some of the last reserves. We went off the gold standard so the money supply could be more closely regulated. There has not been a time since then that the US has had enough gold on hand to back all of the dollars in circulation.
The last time I checked California absorbed a large portion of the federal budget than it contributed. Most other states would be happy to see you go. One question. Where will you get your power when you secede? California needs the rest of the US far more than the rest of the US needs California.
To this nerd it matters. Stuff that matters doesn't all have to be about earthshaking life or death things. Everyday life is just as important as other considerations. If you can't or don't understand that then you are in for a very lonely and frustrating life. Can anybody please tell me why the percentage of anal retentive people in the nerd population seems to be so much higher than in the general population. And can anybody please explain to me why the people who are this way don't realize why their life sucks so bad. The same people who make these kind of complaints are the same people who you hear whining about how bad they have it, nobody likes them, and how mistreated they were as teens. Get a clue people.
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Well let's see, they don't know how this particular setup is configured and can't get hold of anyone who does. They aren't sure of what the settings are supposed to be so why not reboot? With a lot of problems it would have gotten them back up and then they would have time to track down somebody. There was a vald reason to do so in this case. A reboot should have restored the configurations and gotten them up unless it was a hardware problem and if that was the case they might actually get an idea of whicch hardware the problem was in. If they were networking people they would know of other ways to do it. Guess what? they're not. In this context it even made sense to reboot the firewall. They had no idea what the configuration was supposed to be, so reboot and let it start up with the services and configurations that it had stored on the hard drive. They could hardly have been in worse shape and it had a reasonable chance of working.
Buy them anyway. If you look at their server sale page you'll see prices that nobody is going to match. What's that? What about a warranty? Who cares, at those prices you should be able to buy some spare parts and take care of it yourself.
Do you have any idea of what it would cost to build such a stick of memory. Their 16 bit stick costs more than a comparable stick of DDR and the price gap for them to go to a 64 bit stick will be astronomical. It doesn't scale well economically.
I think that it is three kids now and Tove (his wife)is supposed to be a real knockout.
No, Packard Bell made the crappiest hardware to ever come out of a box. Compaq and HP are tied for a very close second.
Ever hear of Hypertransport? AMD's new bus that is much more capable than the EV6.
When was the last time you saw an IBM chip in any server not branded IBM?
I hope so too. Intel can survive a bad chip. AMD is the only company out there that has any chance of keeping them from being a monopoly in the commodity server dept. and AMD has to win big on the Hammer to have any chance of doing it. I don't want AMD to be a monopoly either but they have to have compelling speed and cost advantages to even have a chance at the market.
We do buy them and would have probably bought a lot more if they had quit trying to maximize profit per box instead of volume profit. I would have bought a workstation for myself if they had put a reasonable price on one.
I hope you aren't involved in purchasing decisions. Anyone that uninformed about what is currently or will be in the near future available has no business making purchasing decisions.
Neither was Intel until they got the Alpha. There is a lot of hype about their 64 bit processors but they have yet to show that they can produce and sell any kind of volume. They haven't even shown that their chip can perform at a satisfactory level.
Let us take a simple case. A non-sex linked trait where the dominant is neutral and the recessive if reinforced is fatal resulting in spontaneous abortion early enough in the pregnancy that it is never noticed by the parents. Both parents have an one dominant and one recessive A and B respectively. They have four children representing the normal distribution of AA, AB, AB, and BB. One child is aborted, One doesn't pass on the gene and two do pass on the gene. In a closed society a majority of that society will eventually have the recessive. It will never breed out of existance. If it is a sex linked trait that results in death before the child becomes reproductively capable it will breed itself out eventually. Unfortunately most human traits are not so cut and dried.
It is not the militaries job to start or prevent war. Their job is to go, fight and try not to die when told to fight. It is the politicians that are supposed to make those decisions. Then the politicians should get out of the way and allow the military to do what it is trained for. The only real way to avoid war is to have the capability and willingness to use that capabilty to make any nation decide that attacking you is suicidal.
And my point is what kind of crack are you smoking? If we reduced our military to one percent of its current levels we wouldn't be able to protect Hawaii let alone the rest of the US. 30,000 troops can't defend crap. From the days of the founding fathers till now the defense of this nation has depended almost entirely on our ability to project our forces onto foreign soil. From Tripoli, to Germany, and to Tokyo, we have protected out interests and sovereignty by our ability to project our forces. You may not like it but in the modern world instability anywhere is a threat to our country. We have made mistakes in the past but it can be argued that in our fear of interfering in some instances we have done more harm to ourselves and others than would have been done by stepping in in the first place. If we had been prepared and willing to step in WWI and WW2 would have been much shorter with less loss of life and property on all sides. In evey major conflict we have been in we have been unprepared when it started. That is the most costly mistake a nation can make.
The last gasp of expert systems? You obviously don't get out much. Expert systems are used in almost every branch of industry. They are the only AI research that has paid off with any meaningful real world uses.
Where do you see that Microsoft funded any part of Cyc? Paul Allen put up some funding but there is no reference to MS putting up any. I am not aware of Paul making any negative comments about Open Source anywhere.
I remember reading some new studies a couple of years ago that supported the idea that higher mammals (on the order of cats, dogs, and on up) do exhibit real self awareness. Sorry don't have any links.
Actually I don't remember if it was on /. or not.
But did you read last week where a MS spokesman said that they use no open source software at hotmail?
Did you read the article? It was a FreeBSD developer who reported that MS was still using BSD.
Yeah, and the best part is that they fixed it in XP. Three cheers to MS. The script kiddies friend.
There have been people saying we went off the gold standard in the 70s with Nixon. That is incorrect. We went off the gold standard during Roosevelts first term in office. All Nixon did was sell off some of the last reserves. We went off the gold standard so the money supply could be more closely regulated. There has not been a time since then that the US has had enough gold on hand to back all of the dollars in circulation.
I know it's a joke but I keep hoping.
The last time I checked California absorbed a large portion of the federal budget than it contributed. Most other states would be happy to see you go. One question. Where will you get your power when you secede? California needs the rest of the US far more than the rest of the US needs California.
To this nerd it matters. Stuff that matters doesn't all have to be about earthshaking life or death things. Everyday life is just as important as other considerations. If you can't or don't understand that then you are in for a very lonely and frustrating life. Can anybody please tell me why the percentage of anal retentive people in the nerd population seems to be so much higher than in the general population. And can anybody please explain to me why the people who are this way don't realize why their life sucks so bad. The same people who make these kind of complaints are the same people who you hear whining about how bad they have it, nobody likes them, and how mistreated they were as teens. Get a clue people.