It is certainly true that there is neither inertia nor sloppy work in IT today. Also, nobody working there would ever read other employee's email or other files; neither would they under any circumstances keep a list of passwords, during or after employment.
I would definitely hire an EE PhD to rewire my house, too, tho physics would be even better. They really know how electrone work.
Well, I don't know about Sony, but it begins to look as if I have picked the right dog. You can go to your bunker now. Won't do any good, of course, but you can go there.
But when will South Korea mandate a cell phone system that works in the rest of the world? I may need only one charger, but I still need one phone for SK and one phone for China (and just about everywhere else)...
Bob Cornthwaite, as Dr. Carrington, from The Thing (the good one from the 50's). He also played a scientist in The War of The Worlds (the good one from the 50's) but I can't remember the character's name, and you only really see him in the camping scene...
We do have fusion. It works really well, and it's the source of all the energy we use. What we haven't figured out is how to put the power plant closer than 93 million miles from the customer (or how to replace the one we have after it blows us to smithereens).
Well, you get a cookie, too. The thing will use around 110W, which means 1 Amp at the wall, not the CPU. There, fewer Volts, more Amps. For those of us building (and paying to run) computer rooms, the Amps at the wall are what counts, so that's the one I use.
At peak performance, one Opteron will draw (conservatively) 1 Amp, and use (more conservatively) 100 Watts. Double it to include the disks, etc, and we're probably still conservative at 200 W * 5000 CPUs = 1 Megawatt, which basically all gets converted to heat, all in a box that size. Surface area of the box?
40 * 40 * 40 feet -> 104 Watts/sqft out...
1. The non-profit did the same mediocre job that every government subsidized project does.
Government subsidized anything sucks the life out of a market and just about guarantees stagnation. They're right to block it in Texas!
Right on! Let's get rid of the police and fire services. And the roads. And make the telcos pay for the rights-of-way they use, and the infrastructure thereupon. Let's turn water and electric services over to private investors, especially foreign ones if we can get them. Hmm... OK, we're doing that already....
Most of the independent ISPs (including the one I worked for) pulled out of Altoona since we couldn't compete (not enough people buy on quality; most buy on price).
What's the force that makes "markets" work efficiently again?
Congratulations; you put up one hell of a fight against that straw man.
It has not occurred to you that people associate Bush et al with bible thumpers because they can only get and maintain themselves in power by ensuring that "conservative" pundits and electric preachers regularly reassure their fan-base that "the liberal media" is concealing from them the WMD's we all know were found in Iraq after all?
It has not occurred to you that people think this team lies because we were told repeatedly (and simultaneously denied that we were told) that this administration knew he had 'em, knew where they were (and had 8x10 color glossies with circles and arrows) and knew he had em pointed at us? Not suspected, knew.
Or because we were told in every imaginable way that Saddam et al were involved in the attacks of September 11, and that that date never failed to appear in the diatribe justifying the invasion?
Because we have been presented with an ever-shifting soup of justification for the thing, none of which has panned out?
I do like your previous post. Your reasons for us to be in Iraq:
"NOT because of WMD" - damn straight "BECAUSE we already had a history with Iraq" - huh? "BECAUSE we have limited resources" - so we couldn't afford to attack somebody better? "BECAUSE something needs to be done about Panislamic radicalism" - of which there was no more in Iraq than WMD, although I'm having to do a little guesswork to figure out what you think you mean by "panislamic radicalism".
and the new Shiite Republic of Iraq will certainly be the bastion of freedom of religion that you seem to want.
OK, probably redundant, in the "they're dumb, Jim" department, but I wonder how many people notice the difference between an article in a magazine, and something on a page marked "SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION"?
On the other hand, I'm not sure there's usually much difference, anyway
I think if you go, for example, to finance.yahoo.com and poke around, you'll find that pretty much any time a publicly traded company restates earnings, class-action suits follow. They usually also fade away without much fanfare.
OK, everyone understand this: if you're using the "if you're not breaking the law, you have nothing to worry about" line, you are wrong.
The government already has the abillity to find out what you've been reading, through a well-established system.
The worry here is that a very small number of people (one, for example) can, on the basis of a very flimsy little bit of evidence, obtain a SECRET warrant to snoop through your records in SECRET, and then use that SECRET evidence to hold you indefinitely in SECRET, without even letting you know what it was that got you there in the first place. You are now screwed, and a setup like this is perfect for some nasty guy with an axe to grind.
You suggest using PGP? That alone could be considered evidence of suspicious activity; just consider your last sentence: "f you are doing something that requires you to hide it from the government, your breaking the law, and deserve to be caught."
Well, I agree, tho I'll believe it when I see it. What I really want to know is: are they going to give me a free upgrade, since they sold me the G5 under false pretenses?
First of all, PATRIOT was passed by a lot of people with their vision clouded by dust from the WTC. Much of that dust has cleared now. Democrats or Republicans? Members of both have problems with it, and it was at least partly designed to phase out to force a rethought. Our options are not so much to replace everybody in sight, but to let them know how we feel.
For my code, it's faster clock-for clock than a Xeon, and (usually) slower clock-for-clock than an opteron. Benchmarks can be made to say just about anything, but I bet the G5 is the fastest thing around for some people running their software.
To date, Apple has not released a 64-bit OS for the G5, and not only has not announced any intention to do so, but simply avoids admitting this to be the case. Think what you like, but even if you think "64-bit" doesn't mean "a single application can access more than 4 GB of RAM", you certainly have to be perplexed by the sense in which Apple claims to have "broken the 4 GB barrier", given that their latest OS provides your app access to the RAM just the way an Intel-based 32-bit system can.
Since there is not 64-bit OS for this machine (although Linux is very close), I cannot prove that my G5 has 64-bit hardware, tho I guess I believe it.
I will now accept my troll-mod, since I have posted this atrocity in an apple.stlashdot.org story.
NTFS is not GPL, but Linux can have it.... the implementation of XFS in Linux is GPL, but there's really nothing stopping someone from implementing it the spec themselves.
Give the guy a break. Even on slashdot, not everyone knows that in clusters, size matters. Also, the Xserves are designed to be maintained in racks. Desktop boxes just take too much time to get out, take apart, reassemle, and replace. I guess they're more heat-conscious, too.
Besides, now they'll have room for a few thousand more.
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It is certainly true that there is neither inertia nor sloppy work in IT today. Also, nobody working there would ever read other employee's email or other files; neither would they under any circumstances keep a list of passwords, during or after employment.
I would definitely hire an EE PhD to rewire my house, too, tho physics would be even better. They really know how electrone work.
Well, I don't know about Sony, but it begins to look as if I have picked the right dog. You can go to your bunker now. Won't do any good, of course, but you can go there.
But when will South Korea mandate a cell phone system that works
in the rest of the world? I may need only one charger, but I still
need one phone for SK and one phone for China (and just about everywhere
else)...
Bob Cornthwaite, as Dr. Carrington, from The Thing (the good one from the 50's). He also played a scientist in The War of The Worlds (the good one from the 50's) but I can't remember the character's name, and you only really see him in the camping scene...
We do have fusion. It works really well, and it's the source of all the energy we use. What we haven't figured out is how to put the power plant closer than 93 million miles from the customer (or how to replace the one we have after it blows us to smithereens).
Well, you get a cookie, too. The thing will use around 110W, which means 1 Amp at the wall, not the CPU. There, fewer Volts, more Amps. For those of us building (and paying to run) computer rooms, the Amps at the wall are what counts, so that's the one I use.
Also, the number '1' is easy to remember.
You're right, of course - but (1) I'm a physicist, (2) I'm lazy (see item 1), and (3) I was shooting for a lowball estimate.
At peak performance, one Opteron will draw (conservatively) 1 Amp, and use (more conservatively) 100 Watts. Double it to include the disks, etc, and we're probably still conservative at 200 W * 5000 CPUs = 1 Megawatt, which basically all gets converted to heat, all in a box that size. Surface area of the box?
40 * 40 * 40 feet -> 104 Watts/sqft out...
exterminate! extermiNATE! EXTERMINATE!
and pass the cheese
1. The non-profit did the same mediocre job that every government subsidized project does.
Government subsidized anything sucks the life out of a market and just about guarantees stagnation. They're right to block it in Texas!
Right on! Let's get rid of the police and fire services. And the roads. And make the telcos pay for the rights-of-way they use, and the infrastructure thereupon. Let's turn water and electric services over to private investors, especially foreign ones if we can get them. Hmm... OK, we're doing that already....
Most of the independent ISPs (including the one I worked for) pulled out of Altoona since we couldn't compete (not enough people buy on quality; most buy on price).
What's the force that makes "markets" work efficiently again?
Congratulations; you put up one hell of a fight against that straw man.
It has not occurred to you that people associate Bush et al with bible thumpers because they can only get and maintain themselves in power by ensuring that "conservative" pundits and electric preachers regularly reassure their fan-base that "the liberal media" is concealing from them the WMD's we all know were found in Iraq after all?
It has not occurred to you that people think this team lies because we were told repeatedly (and simultaneously denied that we were told) that this administration knew he had 'em, knew where they were (and had 8x10 color glossies with circles and arrows) and knew he had em pointed at us? Not suspected, knew.
Or because we were told in every imaginable way that Saddam et al were involved in the attacks of September 11, and that that date never failed to appear in the diatribe justifying the invasion?
Because we have been presented with an ever-shifting soup of justification for the thing, none of which has panned out?
I do like your previous post. Your reasons for us to be in Iraq:
"NOT because of WMD" - damn straight
"BECAUSE we already had a history with Iraq" - huh?
"BECAUSE we have limited resources" - so we couldn't afford to attack somebody better?
"BECAUSE something needs to be done about Panislamic radicalism" - of which there was no more in Iraq than WMD, although I'm having to do a little guesswork to figure out what you think you mean by "panislamic radicalism".
and the new Shiite Republic of Iraq will certainly be the bastion of freedom of religion that you seem to want.
OK, probably redundant, in the "they're dumb, Jim" department, but I wonder how many people notice the difference between an article in a magazine, and something on a page marked "SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION"?
On the other hand, I'm not sure there's usually much difference, anyway
They are very difficult to obtain if you don't have any money...
I think if you go, for example, to finance.yahoo.com and poke around, you'll find that pretty much any time a publicly traded company restates earnings, class-action suits follow. They usually also fade away without much fanfare.
OK, everyone understand this: if you're using the "if you're not breaking the law, you have nothing to worry about" line, you are wrong.
The government already has the abillity to find out what you've been reading, through a well-established system.
The worry here is that a very small number of people (one, for example) can, on the basis of a very flimsy little bit of evidence, obtain a SECRET warrant to snoop through your records in SECRET, and then use that SECRET evidence to hold you indefinitely in SECRET, without even letting you know what it was that got you there in the first place. You are now screwed, and a setup like this is perfect for some nasty guy with an axe to grind.
You suggest using PGP? That alone could be considered evidence of suspicious activity; just consider your last sentence:
"f you are doing something that requires you to hide it from the government, your breaking the law, and deserve to be caught."
Well, I agree, tho I'll believe it when I see it. What I really want to know is: are they going to give me a free upgrade, since they sold me the G5 under false pretenses?
First of all, PATRIOT was passed by a lot of people with their vision clouded by dust from the WTC. Much of that dust has cleared now. Democrats or Republicans? Members of both have problems with it, and it was at least partly designed to phase out to force a rethought. Our options are not so much to replace everybody in sight, but to let them know how we feel.
I have a G5.
For my code, it's faster clock-for clock than a Xeon, and (usually) slower clock-for-clock than an opteron. Benchmarks can be made to say just about anything, but I bet the G5 is the fastest thing around for some people running their software.
To date, Apple has not released a 64-bit OS for the G5, and not only has not announced any intention to do so, but simply avoids admitting this to be the case. Think what you like, but even if you think "64-bit" doesn't mean "a single application can access more than 4 GB of RAM", you certainly have to be perplexed by the sense in which Apple claims to have "broken the 4 GB barrier", given that their latest OS provides your app access to the RAM just the way an Intel-based 32-bit system can.
Since there is not 64-bit OS for this machine (although Linux is very close), I cannot prove that my G5 has 64-bit hardware, tho I guess I believe it.
I will now accept my troll-mod, since I have posted this atrocity in an apple.stlashdot.org story.
NTFS is not GPL, but Linux can have it.... the implementation of XFS in Linux is GPL, but there's really nothing stopping someone from implementing it the spec themselves.
And then I suppose OSX could have it, too...
Give the guy a break. Even on slashdot, not everyone knows that in clusters, size matters. Also, the Xserves are designed to be maintained in racks. Desktop boxes just take too much time to get out, take apart, reassemle, and replace. I guess they're more heat-conscious, too.
Besides, now they'll have room for a few thousand more.
Really? ...
Apple
RedHat
TurboLinux
Yellowdog
SuSE
...But it would be worth it to play with someone
who really looks like one of the monsters...
No one will ever need more than 640k of RAM.
Don't forget; RedHat Enterprise has this feature, too...
Correct me if I'm wrong
Remember "every consumer" is someone who runs Explorer on XP with every imaginable plugin installed.
Those of us who run konqueror with no plugins and java/javascript disabled must just not be consumers.
How I got all these damned computers without being a consumer, I'm not sure.