"What the fuck is Lunix. Quit being a fucking retard"
Dear shit-for-brains, Are you too fucking dozy to work out that I used light-hearted derogatory terms for both operating systems in order to indicate that I was not being some Linux-pushing windows-basher? Ah, yes, it seems you are.
Now go off somewhere quiet and kill yourself, to save us the effort.
How about this - two kids, opposite side of the street throwing their football between themselves. You'd have to duck to avoid it. Instead you catch it and punt it.
They're broadcasting their freakin' RF through your body and your electronics, I say you can punt.
Score 4 for this _non-fact_: "the difference in performance is 17.21 vs. 18.46, i.e. approximately 6%" !?!?
Those weren't the measure of _performance_.
If you'd read the summaries you'd know that the majority of the increased rating was due to a difference in _price_, and only marginally due to an increase in _performance_.
Indeed. However, notice that numbers 5 and 6 on that $/tcp table are the two systems this story is about.
It takes only a small leap of faith to believe that whatver HP did to their old #5 system to push it down into slot 6 could also be applied to their #s 1, 2 and 3 systems.
For example, and _purely hypothetically_, assuming a 7.26% improvement for those systems too on migrating to Lunix would give results of $12.14, $13.09, $13.94
Which would leave the table at Lunix $12.14 Doze $13.02 Lunix $13.09 Lunix $13.94 Doze $14.04 Doze $14.96
The majority of the rating improvement (>6%) was through diminished _cost_, which is pretty much guaranteed by migration to Lunix. Only a small part (1%) was through improved performance.
So the leap of faith really isn't that huge. Maybe HP were hoping to convert their #5 Doze machine into a #4 machine, ousting IBM, but failed.They currently don't actually need to improve their #1 position.
OK, so NCSA never existed. You must be right. I must have been halucinating when I thought I was running a graphical browser before Microsoft had even decided that TCP/IP was a useful protocol.
Yes you're right. NCSA ever existed. Sorry, my mistake. THL.
Funny you should mention bukkake (is that how you spell it?) - because the _Japanese_ have already won this race. 4005MHz, on about 25th of the month. I knew the Finns wuoldn't be far behind, but to be honest, the Japanese have the crown currently.
That you don't feel locked in doesn't mean that you aren't locked in. Do the majority of windows users feel locked in? I'm a _huge_ Linux proponent (user since 1993), and I'll admit that most of the windows lusers that I know don't feel locked in.
I'm not saying that you are locked in, I'm just saying your final testemonial argument is not applicable.
Remind me how many reproducable scientific experiments have been performed upon wormholes to validate the hypotheses that these physicists have about how wormholes behave, please.
This situation, however, is an _adaptive chosen_ plaintext attack, no just a 'known plaintext' attack.
I.e. we can force any files to be encrypted, and chose the next file we want to try depending on what we learnt from previous ones. This is one of the most powerful attacks available to the crypto cracker.
I used to think that I needed to get a life, but heck, this takes the cake.
What kind of anal person wastes time on scheduling/queuing algorithms for TP?!?!
Having said that - I have the chindogu book, and it looks like this guy is _not_ a minority of one. Worrying...
Havng said that the banner you hang from your forehead in order to cover your yawning maw and smultaniously indicate which stop you'd like to get off at when wanting to sleep on the subway train is darned useful.
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1400kg, and 256 processors (Power 2 superduper chip, or some bloody stoopid name like that). That's 5.5kg per processor. How heavy's your PC?
I'd say it was a fairly modern and compact design, personally.
THL.
lynx --source
does the job for me.
If you use bandwidth, after negotiating for it, then you are depriving the network users of bandwidth temporarily.
If you punt the ball, you are depriving the kids from playing 'catch' temporarily. (Instead they get to play the game 'run and find' instead.)
No difference.
The analogy was deliberately chosen to have that feature.
THL.
"What the fuck is Lunix. Quit being a fucking retard"
Dear shit-for-brains,
Are you too fucking dozy to work out that I used light-hearted derogatory terms for both operating systems in order to indicate that I was not being some Linux-pushing windows-basher?
Ah, yes, it seems you are.
Now go off somewhere quiet and kill yourself, to save us the effort.
THL.
How about this - two kids, opposite side of the street throwing their football between themselves. You'd have to duck to avoid it. Instead you catch it and punt it.
;-) IYSWIM
They're broadcasting their freakin' RF through your body and your electronics, I say you can punt.
I no longer speak for Nokia
THL.
TPC suffer from arse-elbow syndrome:
... and three years maintenance cost.
... maintenance costs over 5 years.
http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/faq.asp :
http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/detail.asp :
THL.
Score 4 for this _non-fact_:
"the difference in performance is 17.21 vs. 18.46, i.e. approximately 6%"
!?!?
Those weren't the measure of _performance_.
If you'd read the summaries you'd know that the majority of the increased rating was due to a difference in _price_, and only marginally due to an increase in _performance_.
Yes, I'm a pedant. Sue me.
THL.
Indeed. However, notice that numbers 5 and 6 on that $/tcp table are the two systems this story is about.
It takes only a small leap of faith to believe that whatver HP did to their old #5 system to push it down into slot 6 could also be applied to their #s 1, 2 and 3 systems.
For example, and _purely hypothetically_, assuming a 7.26% improvement for those systems too on migrating to Lunix would give results of
$12.14, $13.09, $13.94
Which would leave the table at
Lunix $12.14
Doze $13.02
Lunix $13.09
Lunix $13.94
Doze $14.04
Doze $14.96
The majority of the rating improvement (>6%) was through diminished _cost_, which is pretty much guaranteed by migration to Lunix. Only a small part (1%) was through improved performance.
So the leap of faith really isn't that huge.
Maybe HP were hoping to convert their #5 Doze machine into a #4 machine, ousting IBM, but failed.They currently don't actually need to improve their #1 position.
Only time will tell.
THL.
Those are 403-ing.
They look quite short (2.9K), maybe you could just copy/paste?
THL.
you heard about it first on slashdot?
The hole's From 30th June.
Wake up and smell the maple-nut-crunch.
THL.
OK, so NCSA never existed. You must be right. I must have been halucinating when I thought I was running a graphical browser before Microsoft had even decided that TCP/IP was a useful protocol.
Yes you're right. NCSA ever existed. Sorry, my mistake.
THL.
Microsoft _Research_ employs CAR Horn, as he used to be known by some students...
They're a financially independent company.
In theory at least.
THL.
Funny you should mention bukkake (is that how you spell it?) - because the _Japanese_ have already won this race. 4005MHz, on about 25th of the month. I knew the Finns wuoldn't be far behind, but to be honest, the Japanese have the crown currently.
THL.
That you don't feel locked in doesn't mean that you aren't locked in. Do the majority of windows users feel locked in? I'm a _huge_ Linux proponent (user since 1993), and I'll admit that most of the windows lusers that I know don't feel locked in.
I'm not saying that you are locked in, I'm just saying your final testemonial argument is not applicable.
THL.
And remember - happiness is mandatory.
THL.
It's a good job the British Pedant steped in and cleared up the confusion!
THL.
Why would I ever want to ignore a British Pedant?
Yup, it looks like a questionable choice of modal. "Could" rather than "can", perhaps? Can is too alethic, missing the aspect of remoteness.
Like the old "can I go to the bathroom?" ambiguity.
Phil
"A theory is scientifically valid if it can be disproven by experiment"
Ouch, that's got to have hurt - your foot's going to be in plaster for quite a while.
Phil
Remind me how many reproducable scientific experiments have been performed upon wormholes to validate the hypotheses that these physicists have about how wormholes behave, please.
Was that a teeny weeny zero, or a big fat zero?
Either way, this is _not_ science, it's dreaming.
THL.
I thought I worked on that project, but then I realised mine was better - we used proxies as well. Ner nerny ner ner.
/., and therefore have no need to mod again.
You can have all my Karma, I will never see a post more deserving of up-modding on
THL.
In the word "news".
Olds ain't news.
THL.
It's certainly is evidence that you've applied a rediculous number minus one patches that were insufficient.
THL.
This situation, however, is an _adaptive chosen_ plaintext attack, no just a 'known plaintext' attack.
I.e. we can force any files to be encrypted, and chose the next file we want to try depending on what we learnt from previous ones. This is one of the most powerful attacks available to the crypto cracker.
Phil
"
TCPA is the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an organization [...] trying to build a trusted computer.
"
Here, now, I trust my computer. What more do I need?
If any company tries to sell me anything fundamentally different from what I have in front of me currently, they'll fail.
I know I'm not alone.
THL.
I used to think that I needed to get a life, but heck, this takes the cake.
What kind of anal person wastes time on scheduling/queuing algorithms for TP?!?!
Having said that - I have the chindogu book, and it looks like this guy is _not_ a minority of one. Worrying...
Havng said that the banner you hang from your forehead in order to cover your yawning maw and smultaniously indicate which stop you'd like to get off at when wanting to sleep on the subway train is darned useful.
THL.