graffiti artists paint on anything. Peoples' houses and private property included. If someone else owns something you have no right to do anything with it.
99% of graffiti is ugly. Plain, simple, ugly. It's not art. Look at the 'tags' that cover buildings, trains, buses, phone boxes etc. in every city. That's not counter-culture or urban expression or anything else like that. That is just vandalism from some stupid kid.
Whatever you say though, his main point must be true for all religions - they are all, just like Scientology, based on a faith, a blind, unthinking belief in a higher power of some sort. The indoctrination of people into 'normal' religions is just as evil as what scientology does, it's just less obvious and more socially accetable.
The Ozzies always have to do things that bit bigger, don't they? UK intelligence services has laptops with sensitive information stolen (well, left in a pub after a drinking binge and then stolen), so the Ozzies have to get a mainframe stolen.
What difference does it make? Most of the free software work was going to be done anyway. IBM isn't forcing anyone to work for them for free. They have taken work from the community, and have also contributed to the free software community. They're paying for advertising that helps (a least a little) to bring Linux to a wider audience. Partnership with industry can really help open source software. IBM make money selling services and solutions, free software gets support and paid developers for work that was going to be done anyway. Everyone wins.
Living in the UK, I would estimate that there is on average around 3 hours of TV per week that I would actually consider worth recording (maybe two, now Six Feet Under stopped on terrestrial). At that rate this thing would last me three years without having to erase anything!
I knew New Scientist covered cutting edge technology, but now they're reporting technology from the future? The date stamp at the top of that article is:
At uni, we had this highly advanced object oriented system called a notice board. Students with books to sell instantiated a notice object (potentially sub-classed to add funcionality such as tear off phone numbers strips) and a drawing pin object. Combine the two with the singleton class noticeboard object and you have an advert.
As a first step, open source proponents should band together to create a standardized Linux/GUI combination as a single platform...
Why do so many people think that there is some sort of "community" with a single voice that produces open source software? All there is is a bunch of people writing projects. How are they going to enforce development on one standard GUI? Send RMS and ESR round to developers' houses with baseball bats?
Open, free software has no ruling class, no control. Everyone does what they want, and if somebody else finds it useful, or wants to help out, then that's great. But trying to enforce standards? It's impossible to acheive and not even desirable if it were.
But what use is comparing the work done per cycle? It's not a performance comparison in any way. All it tells you is the architectural decision made by the processor's designers.
Basically, the more work each stage in a processor does per cycle, the lower the maximum clock speed the processor can run at (everything else being equal). The P4 architecture has a huge long pipeline and so each stage is simple and doesn't do much per cycle. This allows it to scale to very high frequencies without much difficulty. The G5 does more per cycle, but that means it is more difficult to scale upwards in frequency. Hence the vaguely similar performance.
It's basically a trade off between MHz and instructions per cycle. You could have a processor that does 1 million instructions per cycle, but that's not much use if it can only run at 1Hz maximum.
>However, having said that, you do realize that this is comparing
>a 2Ghz G5 setup to a 3Ghz Intel rig right? So even if they came
>out equal the G5 is faster per Ghz?
Stop it. Stop it now. Enough with the clueless processor MHz arguments. Please. Processor frequency is not a performance measure. It's not really even worth mentioning except in a "a 1500Mhz athlon in faster than a 1100MHz athlon" context. Beyond that, IT HAS NO MEANING.
UK police allow a 10%+ buffer IIRC. In a 30mph zone, I think they generally only pull people over at 35mph+. Not that anyone ever gets up to that speed on British roads anyway, what with all the congestion.
A 15% reduction in memory usage is a fairly major bit of 'polish' to add to an app. Kde 4.0 is a long way off anyway (3.2 is planned for december, so h). From the sound of it, the change 3->4 is not as big as the jump was 2->3.
Isn't that kind of the point? Lots of bad drivers do those dangerous things all the time and get away with them. 43,000 deaths in car accidents in the US in 2001 - the single biggest cause of accidental death.
It's a bloody Sun article. It's not exactly quality journalism - right up there with the Daily Mail for having no idea how to separate opinion from news.
They just hate anything that costs drivers money - speed cameras etc.
"But hundreds of thousands of ordinary drivers will be nabbed for stupid minor offences. "
Well duh, if you break the law you should be fined. Is it OK to speed as long as you don't get caught? No, of course not. Just ignore the crappy tabloid.
The benchmarking software that would give us the opportunity to test the SMP Opteron platform to its fullest extent costs many thousands of dollars (Ed. Note - If any company wishes to sponsor us with this type of software, you are most welcomed!).
Thousands of dollars? Can't they just run Apache or something on it and show transactions per second comparisons serving some complex dynamic page?
Repeat after me: 64 bit processors aren't new. There's no new "computing fad" leaving the station. No new architectural wonder.
They aren't even new in desktop machines. I just threw out an Alphastation4 with a 64 bit 21064 from 1996 or something (nearly put my back out lugging the thing down the stairs. They built computers to last in those days). That was a competitor with the Pentium Pro IIRC. Many of the machines where I work were 64 bit ultrasparc before we started to go 32 bit x86.
That said, the new athlon does look pretty damn fast.
I'm actually not violating the TOS - plus.net (UK ADSL ISP) say that you're allowed to run anything you want on the connection. They'll even deliver mail by SMTP to your IP if you want. Not bad for 19GBP/month.
Lots of people have their own web/mail server on the end of a static IP DSL/cable line - I do.
The bandwidth requirements for a jabber server are only something like 15bits/second per user (from their FAQ). They say you can expect 5% or so registered users to be logged in at any time.
So, even an active jabber server for 1000 users is only going to use less than 1KB/s, which could be served over someone's DSL without them noticing it at all.
Maybe more geeks with static IPs should start providing Jabber servers
The infected systems were 'only' in the higher level of the control hierachy. Control systems in all plants like this (chemical, power etc) are built on multiple levels. You start at level 0, which is pretty much mechanical - safety valves, burst plates, simple thermostats. Those ensure that even if every control layer above that goes haywire and tries to make the plant blow up, you still remain safe.
I discovered the usefulness of this after setting a digital pressure control on a pilot plant wrong - nitrogen vented everywhere (which makes an incredibly loud noise), my supervisor went mad, but nothing broke:)
Shouldn't all the closed-source vs open-source TCO comparisons include fines like this in the TCO for closed software? It's extremely hard for companies to ensure complete licence compliance, which combined with the difficulty of fighting the BSA makes this something that could happen to any company.
Isn't it standard practice to include potential scenarios like this in business plans, weighted with the probability of it occuring?
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Oh yeah, very progressive.
Whatever you say though, his main point must be true for all religions - they are all, just like Scientology, based on a faith, a blind, unthinking belief in a higher power of some sort.
The indoctrination of people into 'normal' religions is just as evil as what scientology does, it's just less obvious and more socially accetable.
``Okay, okay! Why are we dancing around the obvious? I know it, you know it. SCO are wrong, okay? Wrong as a post! Think they're happy about it?''
The Ozzies always have to do things that bit bigger, don't they? UK intelligence services has laptops with sensitive information stolen (well, left in a pub after a drinking binge and then stolen), so the Ozzies have to get a mainframe stolen.
What difference does it make? Most of the free software work was going to be done anyway. IBM isn't forcing anyone to work for them for free. They have taken work from the community, and have also contributed to the free software community. They're paying for advertising that helps (a least a little) to bring Linux to a wider audience.
Partnership with industry can really help open source software. IBM make money selling services and solutions, free software gets support and paid developers for work that was going to be done anyway. Everyone wins.
Living in the UK, I would estimate that there is on average around 3 hours of TV per week that I would actually consider worth recording (maybe two, now Six Feet Under stopped on terrestrial). At that rate this thing would last me three years without having to erase anything!
"if busy, present a callback function (Call back in 30 seconds? Yes/No)"
Don't most phones already do this? My old Ericsson did it automatically, and on a Nokia I think it's under Call settings - Automatic redial
I knew New Scientist covered cutting edge technology, but now they're reporting technology from the future? The date stamp at the top of that article is:
16:12 18 July 04
Eddies in the space time continuum again?
At uni, we had this highly advanced object oriented system called a notice board. Students with books to sell instantiated a notice object (potentially sub-classed to add funcionality such as tear off phone numbers strips) and a drawing pin object. Combine the two with the singleton class noticeboard object and you have an advert.
As a first step, open source proponents should band together to create a standardized Linux/GUI combination as a single platform...
Why do so many people think that there is some sort of "community" with a single voice that produces open source software? All there is is a bunch of people writing projects. How are they going to enforce development on one standard GUI? Send RMS and ESR round to developers' houses with baseball bats?
Open, free software has no ruling class, no control. Everyone does what they want, and if somebody else finds it useful, or wants to help out, then that's great. But trying to enforce standards? It's impossible to acheive and not even desirable if it were.
Nearly ;) From the Simarillion:
Eol: Called the Dark Elf ; the great smith who dwelt in Nan Elmoth and took Aredhel Turgon's sister to wife.
Yes, I did read the Simarillion.
But what use is comparing the work done per cycle? It's not a performance comparison in any way. All it tells you is the architectural decision made by the processor's designers.
Basically, the more work each stage in a processor does per cycle, the lower the maximum clock speed the processor can run at (everything else being equal). The P4 architecture has a huge long pipeline and so each stage is simple and doesn't do much per cycle. This allows it to scale to very high frequencies without much difficulty. The G5 does more per cycle, but that means it is more difficult to scale upwards in frequency. Hence the vaguely similar performance.
It's basically a trade off between MHz and instructions per cycle. You could have a processor that does 1 million instructions per cycle, but that's not much use if it can only run at 1Hz maximum.
>However, having said that, you do realize that this is comparing
>a 2Ghz G5 setup to a 3Ghz Intel rig right? So even if they came
>out equal the G5 is faster per Ghz?
Stop it. Stop it now. Enough with the clueless processor MHz arguments. Please. Processor frequency is not a performance measure. It's not really even worth mentioning except in a "a 1500Mhz athlon in faster than a 1100MHz athlon" context. Beyond that, IT HAS NO MEANING.
UK police allow a 10%+ buffer IIRC. In a 30mph zone, I think they generally only pull people over at 35mph+. Not that anyone ever gets up to that speed on British roads anyway, what with all the congestion.
A 15% reduction in memory usage is a fairly major bit of 'polish' to add to an app. Kde 4.0 is a long way off anyway (3.2 is planned for december, so h). From the sound of it, the change 3->4 is not as big as the jump was 2->3.
Isn't that kind of the point? Lots of bad drivers do those dangerous things all the time and get away with them. 43,000 deaths in car accidents in the US in 2001 - the single biggest cause of accidental death.
The police won't take action unless you are >10% over the speed limit IIRC, mainly because of the lack of accuracy of speedos.
It's a bloody Sun article. It's not exactly quality journalism - right up there with the Daily Mail for having no idea how to separate opinion from news.
They just hate anything that costs drivers money - speed cameras etc.
"But hundreds of thousands of ordinary drivers will be nabbed for stupid minor offences. "
Well duh, if you break the law you should be fined. Is it OK to speed as long as you don't get caught? No, of course not. Just ignore the crappy tabloid.
The benchmarking software that would give us the opportunity to test the SMP Opteron platform to its fullest extent costs many thousands of dollars (Ed. Note - If any company wishes to sponsor us with this type of software, you are most welcomed!).
Thousands of dollars? Can't they just run Apache or something on it and show transactions per second comparisons serving some complex dynamic page?
Repeat after me: 64 bit processors aren't new. There's no new "computing fad" leaving the station. No new architectural wonder.
They aren't even new in desktop machines. I just threw out an Alphastation4 with a 64 bit 21064 from 1996 or something (nearly put my back out lugging the thing down the stairs. They built computers to last in those days). That was a competitor with the Pentium Pro IIRC. Many of the machines where I work were 64 bit ultrasparc before we started to go 32 bit x86.
That said, the new athlon does look pretty damn fast.
I'm actually not violating the TOS - plus.net (UK ADSL ISP) say that you're allowed to run anything you want on the connection. They'll even deliver mail by SMTP to your IP if you want. Not bad for 19GBP/month.
Lots of people have their own web/mail server on the end of a static IP DSL/cable line - I do.
The bandwidth requirements for a jabber server are only something like 15bits/second per user (from their FAQ). They say you can expect 5% or so registered users to be logged in at any time.
So, even an active jabber server for 1000 users is only going to use less than 1KB/s, which could be served over someone's DSL without them noticing it at all.
Maybe more geeks with static IPs should start providing Jabber servers
The infected systems were 'only' in the higher level of the control hierachy. Control systems in all plants like this (chemical, power etc) are built on multiple levels. You start at level 0, which is pretty much mechanical - safety valves, burst plates, simple thermostats. Those ensure that even if every control layer above that goes haywire and tries to make the plant blow up, you still remain safe.
:)
I discovered the usefulness of this after setting a digital pressure control on a pilot plant wrong - nitrogen vented everywhere (which makes an incredibly loud noise), my supervisor went mad, but nothing broke
Of course you should include the impact of SCO lawsuits on a business plan. Right down there underneath "Meteorite Impact" and "Hell freezing over".
Shouldn't all the closed-source vs open-source TCO comparisons include fines like this in the TCO for closed software? It's extremely hard for companies to ensure complete licence compliance, which combined with the difficulty of fighting the BSA makes this something that could happen to any company.
Isn't it standard practice to include potential scenarios like this in business plans, weighted with the probability of it occuring?