interestingly, a good friend of mine in Canada ran a legitimate hosting service from that very datacenter. so technically speaking, if you're right, this is a huge issue.
this isn't really a reason, but it could have something to do with the contribution to it.
a friend of mine in Canada told me recently that someone at his school was trolling here to try to get him banned from computer access and/or suspended from school.
obviously that other kid is a moron and is most likely contributing to the tripe trolling here.
a little off-topic, but it seems rather topical. anyone else get an email like this one?
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[followed by a 100kb virus. don't recall which one]
my old employer was an early adopter of an advanced networking tech (i was under an NDA, and i think it has finally gone commercial) that daisy-chained computers together on a 800mbps bus. apparently this network was 100% efficient, with no possibility for collisions etc., etc. it could theoretically scale to hundreds of systems with no loss in throughput.
they were going to demonstrate it (after i left) as part of their renderfarm. they were going to run several test renders with lightwave on all the systems to show off its speed.
the way i've seen it put is that the "minimum" requirements are the system configuration where the game is playable. maybe not smoothly playable, but playable. (i.e., about 15-25 FPS.) a worst case, i gathered.
the "recommended" specs (which i see showing up on boxes more and more) are what they have found to be the best for maintaining a "decent" framerate (about 45 FPS or so).
i don't recall where i saw this, but i think it may have been one of the magazines i subscribe to. maybe not. i don't remember.:P
nevertheless, my point was that there is a lot of it up there. and, we can get it down here fairly easily, with resonable cost. the problem is that environmentalists want to "protect the wilderness" and so keep oil companies from drilling.
the primary reason we're not exploiting the Alaskan oil supply is because the environmentalist whackos in the government are trying to "protect the alaskan wilderness". something i honestly don't understand. there's a lot of oil up there that we could make good use of like we used to, but we're not *allowed* to.
a lot of people i see complaining that $50 for a 1mbit line is too expensive. well, news for you: Idaho sucks.
i pay $52/mo for 640/256 DSL, and starting around monday, i'll be paying over $80 for a 640/640 DSL package. (this includes Qwest.net ISP charges)
the beauty of this is that Qwest is the only real Telco in the area, so they're the only ones you can get DSL from - sure, you can have any ISP you want, inclusing an ISP owned by Idaho Power Co. but if you go through anyone else OTHER than Qwest for your DSL, you'll pay twice as much.
Cable isn't much better, running $50/mo for a typical home package (allowing 3 computers), and $100/mo for the "business" package that allows you only 1 computer (which will end up being a router) and only slightly more bandwidth (1mbit/500kbit).
Wireless is usually out of the question, as it's slightly more expensive than the DSL, and you can't host anything on it. this despite the fact that there are now 4 wireless ISPs in town that i know of.
T1/DS-3, etc. are the worst of the lot. if you're lucky enough to get someone to talk to you about it, it's $200/mo for a T1, and it's only site-to-site. for a loop to the internet, you have to pay another $200 or more. the cheapest DS-3 i could find was $12,000/mo.
i'd say what a SONET ring or OC-line would cost, but i can't get anyone to talk to me about it.
in a case like this, this is an excellent use for RFID. protecting your own property by tracking the stuff that's yours using tags that you put in your own stuff is a perfect way to cut down on theft. in a casino, this is especially important. and having an RFID detector when people cash in makes for a good way to make sure the proper amount of money is redeemed.
why doesn't someone extend this test to my favorite interpreted language (REBOL) and my least favorite and most despised compiled language (see sig)? you know. just for giggles.
no offense to Java programmers, but this is exactly why i can't stand Java. it seems to encourage poor programming styles and practises. because of the garbage collection system, most people don't worry about the memory they use and let references go stale - the result is that a program that SHOULD use only about 10MB of RAM ends up eating over 200MB and continue growing. and then all these stale unused references keep getting skipped by the GC, forcing the VM to use the entire CPU scanning all 200MB looking for garbage to collect. speed isn't my only complaint - the GC and bad programming as a result is my other complaint. i like C becuase it forces the programmer to keep track of and clean up all his old pointers.
didn't see anyone else mention it, so i thought i would.
REBOL is a ridiculously simple and easy-to-learn web-oriented language. so easy, in fact, that i wrote a fully-functional IRC dice bot in under 400 lines, overnight. and if that weren't impressive, then might i add that i was running on ZERO caffeine, learning the language for the first time, learning IRC Client protocol for the first time, and came up with a few unusually witty statements and insults to boot?
now the bad part: REBOL is not open source. poo. (i really was a bit disappointed.) but REBOL/Core is free (for any use, i gather), and the license fees for View and Command seem rather reasonable.
the nice part: it has been ported to and runs on about 43 platforms, last i checked, and is light enough that the executable weighs in at around 250kb for the win32 release. (haven't used the other platforms, so no comment.)
it runs on just about every unix i've heard of, on every relatively common configuration, and works beautifully and seamlessly. and, after a quick glance, i see it runs on serveral major embedded systems, including WinCE, QNX, and Linux, and will even run on my friend's dated Amiga.
while i agree with you in principle, this isn't entirely true on a CISC-type architecture. x86 instructions can be anywhere from 1 to 8 bytes (and in some cases more), but in general, anything more than 4 bytes is uncommon. even in 64-bit long mode, AMD's architecture doesn't really increase the memory requirements for code. 64-bit instructions are, for the most part, the same size as the 32-bit instructions. if anything, 32-bit instructions should slow things down in long mode - because each instruction is preceded by a 0x66 byte.
Repeat after me 64-bits does not magically change anything.
no, it doesn't. i agree with you on that. but a 64-bit data bus sure as hell makes a lot of breathing room. and with code recompiled to take advantage of the additional registers (not to mention the fact that they're wider), code can run faster, more efficiently, and process more complex data.
The reasons these chips will most likely run apps faster is due to
don't forget the short(er) pipelines, additional execution units, additional registers, etc. AMD has done a damn fine job in making a good CPU. and they've done a damn fine job in making legacy stuff run fast.
yes, you're right - 32-bit should be faster than 64-bit. but it isn't. at least, not when it comes to the Opteron.
up here in Idaho, farmers and herders generally hate wolves. they'd hunt wolves into extinction if it were up to them.
this is one of the arguments in favor of the 7 main Idaho packs and numerous Yellowstone packs that could protect them.
there are also a lot of hunters here that would rather have untainted game. letting the packs run wild, as they should be, could very well help hunting in this state, rather than hurt it as the farmers would have you believe.
(sadly enough, the farmers' 3 main arguments are that wolves kill all livestock, attck humans, and destroy the game population. everyone knows wolves don't normally attack humans, that they help control the game population rather than diminish it - not to mention weeding out the sick and feeble, and rarely attack livestock - i'd hardly call 6 dead calves the end of the world. bad, yes. end of the world, no.)
brief look at the critique: 12 pages long, a bit long-winded, and i'm too lazy to read it.
brief look at Lomborg's Response: 2 pages, including the editor's response, fairly to-the-point.
brief look at the response to Lomborg's Response: 15 pages long, even MORE long-winded, picking apart every work in Lomborg's brief response.
i don't get it. why was Lomborg only ALLOWED 1 page in the magazine, while the critique to his book and to his response are so damned long?
it doesn't seem like the magazine itself is being fair to me. even if Lomborg is wrong (which i personally doubt), shouldn't he be given a chance in the publication to defend himself, instead of giving him one page in an obscure part of the magazine (which most people would probably skip because it's so short)? even if i disagreed with both sides, i'd give them equal chance to make their cases. in fact, i'd let it go on for months if it has to - hell, more money for the mag!
why did i have to sit through a 1 minute, 40 second FBI warning with a terrible voice actress bitching about how i pirate movies and take money out of the hands of voice actors worldwide.
i BOUGHT that Full Metal Panic DVD and i hadn't ever pirated that show! i was so mad that i now have every episode of the show subtitled on my hard drive.
i went looking around on PalmGear and eventually found copies of Hanabi (a great non-free flash-card kanji/kana learning system for Palms) and Dokusha (a quite comprehensive free(?) dictionary and word processor also for Palms) that turned out to be exactly what i personally needed. only problem with Dokusha is that it takes up over 6MB for the main dictionary and Kanji dictionaries, and IIRC, occupies about 12MB when you include the name dictionaries.
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interestingly, a good friend of mine in Canada ran a legitimate hosting service from that very datacenter. so technically speaking, if you're right, this is a huge issue.
this isn't really a reason, but it could have something to do with the contribution to it.
a friend of mine in Canada told me recently that someone at his school was trolling here to try to get him banned from computer access and/or suspended from school.
obviously that other kid is a moron and is most likely contributing to the tripe trolling here.
isn't this supposed to be under the appropriate topic?
the interesting thing is that my IP address falls in the 65 class A. a far cry from the IP cited in the email.
a little off-topic, but it seems rather topical. anyone else get an email like this one?
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
Downloading of Movies, MP3s and Software is illegal and punishable by law.
We hereby inform you that your computer was scanned under the IP 195.38.50.145 . The
contents of your computer were confiscated as an evidence, and you will be indicated.
You get the charge in writing, in the next days.
In the Reference code: #9983, are all files, that we found on your computer.
The sender address of this mail was masked, to fend off mail bombs.
- You get more detailed information by the Federal Bureau of Investigation -FBI-
- Department for "Illegal Internet Downloads", Room 7350
- 935 Pennsylvania Avenue
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- (202) 324-3000
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[followed by a 100kb virus. don't recall which one]
my old employer was an early adopter of an advanced networking tech (i was under an NDA, and i think it has finally gone commercial) that daisy-chained computers together on a 800mbps bus. apparently this network was 100% efficient, with no possibility for collisions etc., etc. it could theoretically scale to hundreds of systems with no loss in throughput.
they were going to demonstrate it (after i left) as part of their renderfarm. they were going to run several test renders with lightwave on all the systems to show off its speed.
never heard how it went, but it's an idea.
the way i've seen it put is that the "minimum" requirements are the system configuration where the game is playable. maybe not smoothly playable, but playable. (i.e., about 15-25 FPS.) a worst case, i gathered.
:P
the "recommended" specs (which i see showing up on boxes more and more) are what they have found to be the best for maintaining a "decent" framerate (about 45 FPS or so).
i don't recall where i saw this, but i think it may have been one of the magazines i subscribe to. maybe not. i don't remember.
what makes it lower quality?
nevertheless, my point was that there is a lot of it up there. and, we can get it down here fairly easily, with resonable cost. the problem is that environmentalists want to "protect the wilderness" and so keep oil companies from drilling.
the primary reason we're not exploiting the Alaskan oil supply is because the environmentalist whackos in the government are trying to "protect the alaskan wilderness". something i honestly don't understand. there's a lot of oil up there that we could make good use of like we used to, but we're not *allowed* to.
but if you push it beyond the speed of light, its mass becomes imaginary. would that make it lighter? :)
anyone else notice that the article references Nuclear Solutions, Inc.'s stock price at the bottom?
what do they have to do with this?
not even by changing the reference to null?
sorry, but how do republicans come into play in this again? i think i missed something....
a lot of people i see complaining that $50 for a 1mbit line is too expensive. well, news for you: Idaho sucks.
i pay $52/mo for 640/256 DSL, and starting around monday, i'll be paying over $80 for a 640/640 DSL package. (this includes Qwest.net ISP charges)
the beauty of this is that Qwest is the only real Telco in the area, so they're the only ones you can get DSL from - sure, you can have any ISP you want, inclusing an ISP owned by Idaho Power Co. but if you go through anyone else OTHER than Qwest for your DSL, you'll pay twice as much.
Cable isn't much better, running $50/mo for a typical home package (allowing 3 computers), and $100/mo for the "business" package that allows you only 1 computer (which will end up being a router) and only slightly more bandwidth (1mbit/500kbit).
Wireless is usually out of the question, as it's slightly more expensive than the DSL, and you can't host anything on it. this despite the fact that there are now 4 wireless ISPs in town that i know of.
T1/DS-3, etc. are the worst of the lot. if you're lucky enough to get someone to talk to you about it, it's $200/mo for a T1, and it's only site-to-site. for a loop to the internet, you have to pay another $200 or more. the cheapest DS-3 i could find was $12,000/mo.
i'd say what a SONET ring or OC-line would cost, but i can't get anyone to talk to me about it.
in a case like this, this is an excellent use for RFID. protecting your own property by tracking the stuff that's yours using tags that you put in your own stuff is a perfect way to cut down on theft. in a casino, this is especially important. and having an RFID detector when people cash in makes for a good way to make sure the proper amount of money is redeemed.
i still don't want these things in my jeans.why doesn't someone extend this test to my favorite interpreted language (REBOL) and my least favorite and most despised compiled language (see sig)? you know. just for giggles.
no offense to Java programmers, but this is exactly why i can't stand Java. it seems to encourage poor programming styles and practises. because of the garbage collection system, most people don't worry about the memory they use and let references go stale - the result is that a program that SHOULD use only about 10MB of RAM ends up eating over 200MB and continue growing. and then all these stale unused references keep getting skipped by the GC, forcing the VM to use the entire CPU scanning all 200MB looking for garbage to collect. speed isn't my only complaint - the GC and bad programming as a result is my other complaint. i like C becuase it forces the programmer to keep track of and clean up all his old pointers.
didn't see anyone else mention it, so i thought i would.
REBOL is a ridiculously simple and easy-to-learn web-oriented language. so easy, in fact, that i wrote a fully-functional IRC dice bot in under 400 lines, overnight. and if that weren't impressive, then might i add that i was running on ZERO caffeine, learning the language for the first time, learning IRC Client protocol for the first time, and came up with a few unusually witty statements and insults to boot?
now the bad part: REBOL is not open source. poo. (i really was a bit disappointed.) but REBOL/Core is free (for any use, i gather), and the license fees for View and Command seem rather reasonable.
the nice part: it has been ported to and runs on about 43 platforms, last i checked, and is light enough that the executable weighs in at around 250kb for the win32 release. (haven't used the other platforms, so no comment.)
it runs on just about every unix i've heard of, on every relatively common configuration, and works beautifully and seamlessly. and, after a quick glance, i see it runs on serveral major embedded systems, including WinCE, QNX, and Linux, and will even run on my friend's dated Amiga.
enjoy and happy coding.yes, you're right - 32-bit should be faster than 64-bit. but it isn't. at least, not when it comes to the Opteron.
up here in Idaho, farmers and herders generally hate wolves. they'd hunt wolves into extinction if it were up to them.
this is one of the arguments in favor of the 7 main Idaho packs and numerous Yellowstone packs that could protect them.
there are also a lot of hunters here that would rather have untainted game. letting the packs run wild, as they should be, could very well help hunting in this state, rather than hurt it as the farmers would have you believe.
(sadly enough, the farmers' 3 main arguments are that wolves kill all livestock, attck humans, and destroy the game population. everyone knows wolves don't normally attack humans, that they help control the game population rather than diminish it - not to mention weeding out the sick and feeble, and rarely attack livestock - i'd hardly call 6 dead calves the end of the world. bad, yes. end of the world, no.)
brief look at the critique:
12 pages long, a bit long-winded, and i'm too lazy to read it.
brief look at Lomborg's Response:
2 pages, including the editor's response, fairly to-the-point.
brief look at the response to Lomborg's Response:
15 pages long, even MORE long-winded, picking apart every work in Lomborg's brief response.
i don't get it. why was Lomborg only ALLOWED 1 page in the magazine, while the critique to his book and to his response are so damned long?
it doesn't seem like the magazine itself is being fair to me. even if Lomborg is wrong (which i personally doubt), shouldn't he be given a chance in the publication to defend himself, instead of giving him one page in an obscure part of the magazine (which most people would probably skip because it's so short)? even if i disagreed with both sides, i'd give them equal chance to make their cases. in fact, i'd let it go on for months if it has to - hell, more money for the mag!
$ perl 2038.pl
Tue Jan 19 03:14:01 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:02 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:03 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:04 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:05 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901
$ uname -mrs
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) i686
why did i have to sit through a 1 minute, 40 second FBI warning with a terrible voice actress bitching about how i pirate movies and take money out of the hands of voice actors worldwide.
i BOUGHT that Full Metal Panic DVD and i hadn't ever pirated that show! i was so mad that i now have every episode of the show subtitled on my hard drive.
damn FUD.
i went looking around on PalmGear and eventually found copies of Hanabi (a great non-free flash-card kanji/kana learning system for Palms) and Dokusha (a quite comprehensive free(?) dictionary and word processor also for Palms) that turned out to be exactly what i personally needed. only problem with Dokusha is that it takes up over 6MB for the main dictionary and Kanji dictionaries, and IIRC, occupies about 12MB when you include the name dictionaries.
i'm interested in seeing this, but i don't have Windows Media Player 7+ installed, and WMP 6.4 on my machine doesn't like most WMVs...
so... is there another format i can watch?