The thing is the solution to the stress fatigue issue is well know. Do you remember 'corded' phones? they had a destinct 'spiraling coil' shape. Well, by spirialing metal in a coil you exponentially reduce the amount of stress caused by repeated flexing, as the metal itself is not forced to bend more than a fraction of a degree at a time. Instead of the metal 'bending' the coils of metal move closer or farther apart from each other. BTW you can get all the parts you need from say a radio shack to 'Build your own' pro grade headphone cord using a simple coiled telephone cord*, a broken pair of headphones, and a 1/8 jack
Remember, headphones are made throw away cheap so you'll buy more headphones... If they actually made them to last 25-30 years why would you ever buy a new pair of headphones?
*= these are specifically meant for corded telephones and I can't remember if they have 2, 3, or 4 leads... if they have 2 leads, then you'd need to either look for a non-standard 3 or 4 lead cable elsewhere, or use a two 2-lead cables.
And if our system utilization is 10%, then the complexity of the nural node need only be 10% of processing power of the human brain, with 10x the density of data storage to hold and operate a human conciousness while running at 100% load. So thus my point is still valid.
Thanks for correcting the guy who didn't know WTF he was talking about. I only knew that opera didn't load pages right that load correctly in firefox, from personal experience.
Opera is probably the only modern browser capable of running on a Machine with 4 megs of RAM and a 486 33mhz processor. That being said, it isn't the best browser IMO.. It's the most lightweight, but fails code complience and compatability in many reguards. Firefox requires a lot of processing power/ram in comparison, because in part it was designed around optimal flexibility. Firefox initally started as slimmed down version of mozilla, but even without the 'feedback agent' there is only so much you can do to reduce it's processor and memory footprint when it wasn't designed around slow processor low ram working environments. It was designed around the asumption that Moore's Law would hold true, and noone would want to use a slow POS computer... negligent of the fact that many 'high tech' countries like india still earn the equivalent of about $2,000USD a year total, and they're lucky if they can find a job that pays that much. Opera has it's niche or users, and it doesn't look like anyone is a real threat to it. Microsoft is getting ready to make an OS that runs slow on a 4ghz CPU with 1GB of ram, and Firefox isn't looking back to make it's system run better on slower systems, either.
when nintendo had price control over the market (eg: they were only competing with sega) Games varied in price from $65-$100 on titles, and thosae prices were all the way back to SNES days, Square games like Chrono Trigger come to mind as an example of a $100 game. Remeber back then carts were using something like $20-40 worth of silicon to store all the data. nowadays you can practically use commodity grade flash memory chips instead of custom read only memory chips nintendo has been using. I mean if they can sell a 256MB (2048 Gbit) SD memory card for $20, then they could fit a whole lot of game on one $20 'cart' made out of commodity flash. the 'average' GBA cart is 7MB in size Most of them are using 8MB carts, while older ones used 4MB and some newer ones use 16MB. So one 256MB card could hold 32 GBA games. Two advantages of using flash, 1. if a game is released 'buggy' patches can somehow be made for it... 2. games could intentionally be put on a much larger cart than the game needed Eg: SimCity, and you could save a ton of city files. although technically, nintendo can already use flash chips for game save data, with GBA and DS I'm not sure how 'much' for game save they can put on a cart for really save file intensive games like the Simcity/The Sims style games etc. But people have grown used to being able to find games for $20-30 if they're a bit older or less popular...
Well, nintendo isn't opposing these projects -- yet as seems to be indicated by this poster They generally would rather keep vigil for rom sites etc... they tried to shut down 'emulator' sites, and failed, so they apparently got a little bit of a clue since then (maybe)?
They wanted a 3-d card inside and DVD-RW... Considering laptops are built as 'throw away' technology anyways, The $500 isn't too bad a deal as long as the drives can be swapped out. Unless you have the cash and connections to get Millitary ruggedness certified equipment anyways -- I say connections because we're in a war, and they're all on backorder everywhere I've looked. People wait 8 hours outside a stinking retail store to get a $500 laptop on day after sales, only to find out the employees beat you to the punch.. Time will tell if this $500 laptop is going to do well.
You don't need the complexity of the full human brain... our rational thought processes only use 10% of our brain's processing power. Remember the ai doesn't have to regulate the interaction of several trillion* independant cells in order to sustain biological life processes optimally... and it's arguable that you don't even need as much brain as a human has to begin to exibit signs of sentience. Also, the scenario is that a computer system was built to act as a call center, to deal with tech support calls... Well, computers will eventually take over the call centers, but I doubt they'd need anything as complicated as what the article suggested just to handle tech support calls. I've suggested before that a modern computer could arguablly handle most call center calls... and the 'aol fixit software' pretty much proves that many call center calls are so blatently siple that a simple program written to look for and fix common issues...
*= anywhere from 10 trillion to 100 trillion, scientists can't agree on the number, but they all agree it's in the trillions...
Well the obvious solution to that problem is to simply mount ram as a hd partition, and put all the logging/write intensive files there, and only load/save them at bootup/shutdown time. For a portable device you then need to have a battery forced shut down sequence, when power falls too low, otherwise you'd loose data... If you're playing around with this kinda set up now, Compact flash comes with it's own built in IDE controller, so you simply need a pin converter.
that's 4GB per chip. Currently, we're limited to 512 MB per chip, and most memory technolgies can fit 4 chips inside. Thus allowing 2 GB memory cards with todays memory chips, and with this new technology hopefully allowing 16GB per solid state device. 16 GB is enough to fit an entire dual layer DVD, with room to spare.. The importance of this development is that a few years down the road when the prices come down on the high density chip, a 4 GB flash card will be like $30.
'new' nvidia drivers? *scoffs* try 2 year old nvidia drivers have had image rotate... As far as 'flip' goes, now thats a whole different ball of wax... I'm not sure that they even have that... My only system with an nvidia gpu is my former laptop, so I can only check my ati drivers, which have rotate but not flip... But I'm assuming that if nvidia's drivers had flip, that ATI would feel the need to 'add' flip capablility, so as not to be left behind. Someone suggested adding a mirror, which is quite feasible, simply mount it above the laptop's keyboard, and have the laptop laying normally on it's bottom instead of on it's screen!
There has been some speculation that regions of dna encoding are 'genetic memory' With how little we actually understand about genetics, for all we know they could be deleting some 'common memory' that was stored long ago... i mean hell, it could even be that you're deleteing the mouse's sense of humor, maybe you deleted it's ability to tell a joke from somethign serious... How are you going to tell if you you turned a mouse from a jerry seinfeld of mice, into an al gore?!? it's not going to be very obvious, at least not to a human.
I know why linux is 'less prone' to viruses sir, but what you do not understand is the fact that if peoples grandma's etc are using linux in mass, even if you make it 'extra hard' to execute an e-mail attachment, grandma will still at some point 'learn' how to run e-mail attachments by herself, without having to call up her computer whiz grandson, and when that day comes, linux will have plenty of social engineered viruses. And you think only in terms of doing damage to her computer, what if the point of the virus is not to damage grandma's computer, but rather to empty out her savings account, by keylogging* all her firefox activity to any known online banking sites, and then calling home when her personal information and bank account is acquired. What if the point of the virus to to enable 'identity theft' same approach only grandma just needs to log into some news site that 'requires registration' and all the data she entered into forms is all there for the program to 'steal' and dial home the info so someone can make a 'new' credit card in your grandmas name and 'steal' as much stuff as they can buy.
I didn't say sophisticated linux users need 'anti-virus' software, but when everyone's grandma is using linux, then my friend the need will be very real, no matter how protected you make linux, you cannot make it fool proof.
Yes, windows design invites more viruses to be written for it, but human nature invites the writing of viruses no matter how 'good' your system is. My logic is not flawed, yours is yours is the same as the register's You assume that if the system is designed as secure as it can be, that that will somehow break human nature to cause mischief and trouble. Your line of thinking is the same as that of the man who marketed the bank vault 'your bank will never be robbed again once you install our state of the arc vault!' Bank robberies still happen, they're nowhere near as prevalent, but they happen. the damage that can be done, has been greatly limited. most bank robbers are caught, due to the countermeasures deployed. BANKS are STILL ROBBED. You cannot end the writing of viruses by making everyone use a 'bank vault' of an operating system. You can make Most people who write viruses now stop writing viruse, you can make the people who write viruses have generally unsuccesful viruses. But you Will never make peopl stop writing viruses. It is not in the power of the operating system writes to rewite human nature. Would the world be better off if everyone ran a 'secure' operating system, Yes it would be, would it eliminate the need for anti-virus software? No. That would be like saying bank vaults eliminate the need for security guards. All bank vaults have done for security gaurds is make their jobs easier.
*=even if you try to protect it, at some point her browser needs to get the data, it's just a matter of the virus writer to figure out a way to capture the data because at some point that data will enter a vulnerable phase, where it can be read.
Java is powerful enough to write peer-to-peer file sharing applications in it... (lime wire is the one I think was java, I know there is one written in java) I think maybe you're thinking of javascript, which is not the same as java. Java is a full featured programming language, Corel wrote it's entire office suite in java at one point in time. They moved away from it however, but the point is Java is powerful enough to write a virus in. To write a successful virus you need only 3 basic abilities, the abilitie to read/write files, the ability to create internet connections and the ability to execute new processes... java can do all three.
Because the earth hasn't been hit by an extinction level event in 65 billion years maybe... although I think a small super volcano went off in that time, and come to think of it jupiter protected earth from a massive collision that stirred up a storm 3x the size of earth when it impacted jupiter... I seriously doubt that a super volcano is an 'extinction' level event for a species that has carbon dioxide scrubbers/gas masks/ multi year long canned foods etc. But it would kill billions, and there might be a war over who _Gets_ to survive the super volcano... which could cause it to be extinction level even for a species technologically capable of protecting itself from the ill effects. the math is probablly right, there is probably a cosmological event every 500 years or so that crashes into jupiter, or saturn, or the moon, or mars, or pluto, or uranus, or neptune... Earth its a less likely target, because any projectile has to avoid several large gas giants etc.. The planet that is now the asteroid belt now, wasn't so lucky, despite the odds, a cosmological event shattered it into a billion asteroids... Same thing could happen to earth... and it becomes more probable the longer the earth manages to dodge the bullet.
And really, with an 8-way opteron board capable of supporting something like 64GB of RAM... you can really really have a server do a lot in pure RAM, but in that case you need to use a HD at boot and shutdown time, to store the system... and it's probably a good idea to have a really good UPS because you run outa power, you screwed like pooch. (well any files you saved since last boot == gone forever) MM 64 GB RAM... *drools*
Because AIM(TM) is a Registered trade mark of AOL(TM). Thus Gaim and gaim are ok, But there are big Legal thugs ready to come down on you if you call it G-AIM(tm).
Isn't it interesting how so many linux users consider an 'anti-virus' so unimportant to linux, while other are striving to make 'linux so easy even yoru grandma could use it!' Grandma could surely use a virus scanner on her linux box, because after all she does get e-mail and she's old, she might not realize that just because the e-mail came from so and so that it might still be a virus... And hey if that virus is written in a code portable language like java, it could maybe even be written to infect cross platform, windows to linux, to Free BSD to solaris! Viruses don't have to be exclusive to windows you know... and if linux ever managed to have a large desktop market share, say 25% or so, there would be plenty of virus authors for linux.
i thought maybe you had tested it under WINE and meant that it woked in linux under wine, but you were apparently not referencing it working in wine. so now we need someone to go try to run it in wine.
"but think about the children" Anytime a non geek mutter that to you the rebuttal is. "is (insert politician name here) 'thinking' about the children when he supported allowing the national debt to soar to over 70% of the GDP of the united states of america?" Think about the children my ass. This about power, and control. not 'the children' Unless they're good for a photo op the politians couldn't give a damn about the children. They do everything for their own selfish needs to wild power over the masses. the 'benefit' of the masses and the children is truly the last thing on the minds of any politician. If they try to make the national debt's growth seem insignifigant, then just point to the osama bin laden tape where he 'enourages' terrorists 'to bankrupt the americans' Let me tell you exactly what would happen if america defaulted on it's national debts, for anyone trying to say 'we can always default' first off, ever global stock market in the world will drop to 10% of it's previous day's value*. Every market in the world. a TOTAL GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRASH we're not talking 'the great depression' big here, we're talking 'the great depression'^3. global starvation, global riots, global chaos. a world war. possible nuclear annhilation. Remember as part of a default every government employee gets a 'big fat 0' all federal govt retirement plans get dissolved too, and hey all those federal grants to the states? those all go away... many states would go default as a direct result of the federal goverment going belly up. you think it's tough to get a job now? imagine if uneployment was 75%... in some areas it would be after a Us ferderal default... all those contractors would lay off everybody the day they heard. Of course a lot of this is assuming a federal default were to happen 'by surprize' because say, noone would lend america so much as another dollar. if a defalt were planned, the kind of chaos and catastrophy would not ensue, as the markets would have already had a 'black monday' when the rumours of the default proved to be a real valid plan.. and the unemployment would still happen, and hell people in LA would riot just to riot. But it's the kind of thing that would cause at a minimum a recession, if not a full blown depression--No matter how well planned out it was.
You do not want to go back on your word about 8 trillion dollars. plain and simple. Whole nations get slaughtered over a fraction of that...
*= which is because once the collapse starts, everone who isn't stupid pulls thier money, and that causes a dominoe effect, and unlike the 'bubble' finacial anylists trying to sucker you into keeping your money in the market, won't be doing any holding of thier own, they'll be getting out of the markets themselves! Afterall the markets will recover a bit after the crash, if you pull out soon enough, and buy the right stocks at the right time you could double or triple your money easily with a 10x factor of fortune making not impossible under those scenarios...
Diamond prices did fall when the soviet union collapsed, and when the canadians found diamonds, but the bottom never really fell out of the diamond market... 1 carrot of diamonds below $2,000 would have been unthinkable, in any type of cut, back in the golden days of communist russia and debeer's and yet on froogle I can find a nice 3 stone 1 ct total band for $800. So yeah, there has been some loss in control over diamond pricing, but it's still at a level that DeBerrs can survive with.http://www.google.com/froogle?q=diamond&btnG= Search+Froogle
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Too much anime... I read that as "For example, the problem might have been Lain in the Passport login servers."
The thing is the solution to the stress fatigue issue is well know. Do you remember 'corded' phones? they had a destinct 'spiraling coil' shape. Well, by spirialing metal in a coil you exponentially reduce the amount of stress caused by repeated flexing, as the metal itself is not forced to bend more than a fraction of a degree at a time. Instead of the metal 'bending' the coils of metal move closer or farther apart from each other.
BTW you can get all the parts you need from say a radio shack to 'Build your own' pro grade headphone cord using a simple coiled telephone cord*, a broken pair of headphones, and a
1/8 jack
Remember, headphones are made throw away cheap so you'll buy more headphones... If they actually made them to last 25-30 years why would you ever buy a new pair of headphones?
*= these are specifically meant for corded telephones and I can't remember if they have 2, 3, or 4 leads... if they have 2 leads, then you'd need to either look for a non-standard 3 or 4 lead cable elsewhere, or use a two 2-lead cables.
But at least /. is broken... At least we have some sense of normalcy in the world!
It would take a lot to bring down /. though.
Not really a simple "shutdown -h now" would do it.
And if our system utilization is 10%, then the complexity of the nural node need only be 10% of processing power of the human brain, with 10x the density of data storage to hold and operate a human conciousness while running at 100% load.
So thus my point is still valid.
Thanks for correcting the guy who didn't know WTF he was talking about.
I only knew that opera didn't load pages right that load correctly in firefox, from personal experience.
Opera is probably the only modern browser capable of running on a Machine with 4 megs of RAM and a 486 33mhz processor. That being said, it isn't the best browser IMO.. It's the most lightweight, but fails code complience and compatability in many reguards. Firefox requires a lot of processing power/ram in comparison, because in part it was designed around optimal flexibility. Firefox initally started as slimmed down version of mozilla, but even without the 'feedback agent' there is only so much you can do to reduce it's processor and memory footprint when it wasn't designed around slow processor low ram working environments. It was designed around the asumption that Moore's Law would hold true, and noone would want to use a slow POS computer... negligent of the fact that many 'high tech' countries like india still earn the equivalent of about $2,000USD a year total, and they're lucky if they can find a job that pays that much.
Opera has it's niche or users, and it doesn't look like anyone is a real threat to it. Microsoft is getting ready to make an OS that runs slow on a 4ghz CPU with 1GB of ram, and Firefox isn't looking back to make it's system run better on slower systems, either.
when nintendo had price control over the market (eg: they were only competing with sega) Games varied in price from $65-$100 on titles, and thosae prices were all the way back to SNES days, Square games like Chrono Trigger come to mind as an example of a $100 game. Remeber back then carts were using something like $20-40 worth of silicon to store all the data. nowadays you can practically use commodity grade flash memory chips instead of custom read only memory chips nintendo has been using.
I mean if they can sell a 256MB (2048 Gbit) SD memory card for $20, then they could fit a whole lot of game on one $20 'cart' made out of commodity flash. the 'average' GBA cart is 7MB in size Most of them are using 8MB carts, while older ones used 4MB and some newer ones use 16MB.
So one 256MB card could hold 32 GBA games. Two advantages of using flash, 1. if a game is released 'buggy' patches can somehow be made for it... 2. games could intentionally be put on a much larger cart than the game needed Eg: SimCity, and you could save a ton of city files. although technically, nintendo can already use flash chips for game save data, with GBA and DS I'm not sure how 'much' for game save they can put on a cart for really save file intensive games like the Simcity/The Sims style games etc. But people have grown used to being able to find games for $20-30 if they're a bit older or less popular...
Well, nintendo isn't opposing these projects -- yet
as seems to be indicated by this poster
They generally would rather keep vigil for rom sites etc... they tried to shut down 'emulator' sites, and failed, so they apparently got a little bit of a clue since then (maybe)?
They wanted a 3-d card inside and DVD-RW... Considering laptops are built as 'throw away' technology anyways, The $500 isn't too bad a deal as long as the drives can be swapped out. Unless you have the cash and connections to get Millitary ruggedness certified equipment anyways -- I say connections because we're in a war, and they're all on backorder everywhere I've looked.
People wait 8 hours outside a stinking retail store to get a $500 laptop on day after sales, only to find out the employees beat you to the punch.. Time will tell if this $500 laptop is going to do well.
You don't need the complexity of the full human brain... our rational thought processes only use 10% of our brain's processing power. Remember the ai doesn't have to regulate the interaction of several trillion* independant cells in order to sustain biological life processes optimally... and it's arguable that you don't even need as much brain as a human has to begin to exibit signs of sentience. Also, the scenario is that a computer system was built to act as a call center, to deal with tech support calls... Well, computers will eventually take over the call centers, but I doubt they'd need anything as complicated as what the article suggested just to handle tech support calls. I've suggested before that a modern computer could arguablly handle most call center calls... and the 'aol fixit software' pretty much proves that many call center calls are so blatently siple that a simple program written to look for and fix common issues...
*= anywhere from 10 trillion to 100 trillion, scientists can't agree on the number, but they all agree it's in the trillions...
Well the obvious solution to that problem is to simply mount ram as a hd partition, and put all the logging/write intensive files there, and only load/save them at bootup/shutdown time. For a portable device you then need to have a battery forced shut down sequence, when power falls too low, otherwise you'd loose data... If you're playing around with this kinda set up now, Compact flash comes with it's own built in IDE controller, so you simply need a pin converter.
that's 4GB per chip. Currently, we're limited to 512 MB per chip, and most memory technolgies can fit 4 chips inside. Thus allowing 2 GB memory cards with todays memory chips, and with this new technology hopefully allowing 16GB per solid state device.
16 GB is enough to fit an entire dual layer DVD, with room to spare.. The importance of this development is that a few years down the road when the prices come down on the high density chip, a 4 GB flash card will be like $30.
We think Lets /. em! ;)/ x e
Here are some of the links from the article (and the dl link too) coralized..
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com.nyud.net:8090/
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com.nyud.net:8090/faqs
http://cerulean.cachenetworks.com/trillian-v3.0.e
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com.nyud.net/forums/
'new' nvidia drivers? *scoffs* try 2 year old nvidia drivers have had image rotate... As far as 'flip' goes, now thats a whole different ball of wax... I'm not sure that they even have that...
My only system with an nvidia gpu is my former laptop, so I can only check my ati drivers, which have rotate but not flip... But I'm assuming that if nvidia's drivers had flip, that ATI would feel the need to 'add' flip capablility, so as not to be left behind.
Someone suggested adding a mirror, which is quite feasible, simply mount it above the laptop's keyboard, and have the laptop laying normally on it's bottom instead of on it's screen!
There has been some speculation that regions of dna encoding are 'genetic memory' With how little we actually understand about genetics, for all we know they could be deleting some 'common memory' that was stored long ago... i mean hell, it could even be that you're deleteing the mouse's sense of humor, maybe you deleted it's ability to tell a joke from somethign serious...
How are you going to tell if you you turned a mouse from a jerry seinfeld of mice, into an al gore?!? it's not going to be very obvious, at least not to a human.
I know why linux is 'less prone' to viruses sir, but what you do not understand is the fact that if peoples grandma's etc are using linux in mass, even if you make it 'extra hard' to execute an e-mail attachment, grandma will still at some point 'learn' how to run e-mail attachments by herself, without having to call up her computer whiz grandson, and when that day comes, linux will have plenty of social engineered viruses.
And you think only in terms of doing damage to her computer, what if the point of the virus is not to damage grandma's computer, but rather to empty out her savings account, by keylogging* all her firefox activity to any known online banking sites, and then calling home when her personal information and bank account is acquired.
What if the point of the virus to to enable 'identity theft' same approach only grandma just needs to log into some news site that 'requires registration' and all the data she entered into forms is all there for the program to 'steal' and dial home the info so someone can make a 'new' credit card in your grandmas name and 'steal' as much stuff as they can buy.
I didn't say sophisticated linux users need 'anti-virus' software, but when everyone's grandma is using linux, then my friend the need will be very real, no matter how protected you make linux, you cannot make it fool proof.
Yes, windows design invites more viruses to be written for it, but human nature invites the writing of viruses no matter how 'good' your system is.
My logic is not flawed, yours is yours is the same as the register's You assume that if the system is designed as secure as it can be, that that will somehow break human nature to cause mischief and trouble. Your line of thinking is the same as that of the man who marketed the bank vault 'your bank will never be robbed again once you install our state of the arc vault!' Bank robberies still happen, they're nowhere near as prevalent, but they happen. the damage that can be done, has been greatly limited. most bank robbers are caught, due to the countermeasures deployed. BANKS are STILL ROBBED. You cannot end the writing of viruses by making everyone use a 'bank vault' of an operating system. You can make Most people who write viruses now stop writing viruse, you can make the people who write viruses have generally unsuccesful viruses. But you Will never make peopl stop writing viruses. It is not in the power of the operating system writes to rewite human nature. Would the world be better off if everyone ran a 'secure' operating system, Yes it would be, would it eliminate the need for anti-virus software? No. That would be like saying bank vaults eliminate the need for security guards. All bank vaults have done for security gaurds is make their jobs easier.
*=even if you try to protect it, at some point her browser needs to get the data, it's just a matter of the virus writer to figure out a way to capture the data because at some point that data will enter a vulnerable phase, where it can be read.
Java is powerful enough to write peer-to-peer file sharing applications in it... (lime wire is the one I think was java, I know there is one written in java)
I think maybe you're thinking of javascript, which is not the same as java. Java is a full featured programming language, Corel wrote it's entire office suite in java at one point in time. They moved away from it however, but the point is Java is powerful enough to write a virus in. To write a successful virus you need only 3 basic abilities, the abilitie to read/write files, the ability to create internet connections and the ability to execute new processes... java can do all three.
Because the earth hasn't been hit by an extinction level event in 65 billion years maybe... although I think a small super volcano went off in that time, and come to think of it jupiter protected earth from a massive collision that stirred up a storm 3x the size of earth when it impacted jupiter...
I seriously doubt that a super volcano is an 'extinction' level event for a species that has carbon dioxide scrubbers/gas masks/ multi year long canned foods etc. But it would kill billions, and there might be a war over who _Gets_ to survive the super volcano... which could cause it to be extinction level even for a species technologically capable of protecting itself from the ill effects.
the math is probablly right, there is probably a cosmological event every 500 years or so that crashes into jupiter, or saturn, or the moon, or mars, or pluto, or uranus, or neptune... Earth its a less likely target, because any projectile has to avoid several large gas giants etc.. The planet that is now the asteroid belt now, wasn't so lucky, despite the odds, a cosmological event shattered it into a billion asteroids... Same thing could happen to earth... and it becomes more probable the longer the earth manages to dodge the bullet.
And really, with an 8-way opteron board capable of supporting something like 64GB of RAM... you can really really have a server do a lot in pure RAM, but in that case you need to use a HD at boot and shutdown time, to store the system... and it's probably a good idea to have a really good UPS because you run outa power, you screwed like pooch. (well any files you saved since last boot == gone forever) MM 64 GB RAM... *drools*
Because AIM(TM) is a Registered trade mark of AOL(TM). Thus Gaim and gaim are ok, But there are big Legal thugs ready to come down on you if you call it G-AIM(tm).
Isn't it interesting how so many linux users consider an 'anti-virus' so unimportant to linux, while other are striving to make 'linux so easy even yoru grandma could use it!' Grandma could surely use a virus scanner on her linux box, because after all she does get e-mail and she's old, she might not realize that just because the e-mail came from so and so that it might still be a virus... And hey if that virus is written in a code portable language like java, it could maybe even be written to infect cross platform, windows to linux, to Free BSD to solaris! Viruses don't have to be exclusive to windows you know...
and if linux ever managed to have a large desktop market share, say 25% or so, there would be plenty of virus authors for linux.
i thought maybe you had tested it under WINE and meant that it woked in linux under wine, but you were apparently not referencing it working in wine. so now we need someone to go try to run it in wine.
"but think about the children"
Anytime a non geek mutter that to you the rebuttal is. "is (insert politician name here) 'thinking' about the children when he supported allowing the national debt to soar to over 70% of the GDP of the united states of america?"
Think about the children my ass. This about power, and control. not 'the children' Unless they're good for a photo op the politians couldn't give a damn about the children. They do everything for their own selfish needs to wild power over the masses. the 'benefit' of the masses and the children is truly the last thing on the minds of any politician.
If they try to make the national debt's growth seem insignifigant, then just point to the osama bin laden tape where he 'enourages' terrorists 'to bankrupt the americans'
Let me tell you exactly what would happen if america defaulted on it's national debts, for anyone trying to say 'we can always default' first off, ever global stock market in the world will drop to 10% of it's previous day's value*. Every market in the world. a TOTAL GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRASH
we're not talking 'the great depression' big here, we're talking 'the great depression'^3. global starvation, global riots, global chaos. a world war. possible nuclear annhilation. Remember as part of a default every government employee gets a 'big fat 0' all federal govt retirement plans get dissolved too, and hey all those federal grants to the states? those all go away... many states would go default as a direct result of the federal goverment going belly up. you think it's tough to get a job now? imagine if uneployment was 75%...
in some areas it would be after a Us ferderal default... all those contractors would lay off everybody the day they heard. Of course a lot of this is assuming a federal default were to happen 'by surprize' because say, noone would lend america so much as another dollar. if a defalt were planned, the kind of chaos and catastrophy would not ensue, as the markets would have already had a 'black monday' when the rumours of the default proved to be a real valid plan.. and the unemployment would still happen, and hell people in LA would riot just to riot. But it's the kind of thing that would cause at a minimum a recession, if not a full blown depression--No matter how well planned out it was.
You do not want to go back on your word about 8 trillion dollars. plain and simple. Whole nations get slaughtered over a fraction of that...
*= which is because once the collapse starts, everone who isn't stupid pulls thier money, and that causes a dominoe effect, and unlike the 'bubble' finacial anylists trying to sucker you into keeping your money in the market, won't be doing any holding of thier own, they'll be getting out of the markets themselves! Afterall the markets will recover a bit after the crash, if you pull out soon enough, and buy the right stocks at the right time you could double or triple your money easily with a 10x factor of fortune making not impossible under those scenarios...
Diamond prices did fall when the soviet union collapsed, and when the canadians found diamonds, but the bottom never really fell out of the diamond market... 1 carrot of diamonds below $2,000 would have been unthinkable, in any type of cut, back in the golden days of communist russia and debeer's and yet on froogle I can find a nice 3 stone 1 ct total band for $800. So yeah, there has been some loss in control over diamond pricing, but it's still at a level that DeBerrs can survive with.http://www.google.com/froogle?q=diamond&btnG= Search+Froogle