At a prior company, a lot of us techs carried pagers, cell phones, PDAs, Leathermen multi-tools, etc. One of the sales people threatened to buy cross-the-chest utility belt holsters for all of us. We techs thought that was a brilliant idea and gave him a list of suggested model numbers, which convinced management that we could not be allowed to have them.
On the other hand, St. John's Wort has been proven as effective at treating depression as Paxil.
...which is why you should stay far, far away from it. A proven psychoactive substance with no regulation or standardization? That's a recipe for disaster.
To hate them, I'd have to care about them. I don't.
Seinfeld-the-show was hyped about being "about nothing", but it was exactly as much "about nothing" as any other sitcom centering around a group of friends doing funny things. Seinfeld-the-man seemed to buy into his own press when he made those commercials, which really were "about nothing", or at least had no cohesive message at all.
Again, I didn't hate them. It's just that I didn't "get" them, either, and I'm guessing I'm not alone judging by how quickly they were yanked off the air.
It does drift, slowly and not by very much, but the main reason it doesn't flip over time (well, change its orientation massively with respect to the rest of the solar system) is that we've got a very large satellite to stabilize us.
Well, that and angular momentum and the lack of any particular reason that the Earth should suddenly wish to flip over. The only reason (according to current thinking) our pole isn't parallel to the Sun's is that we got whacked by a large, slightly out-of-plane object early in our formation. Tidal forces should eventually bring us back into alignment, I think.
If you were to tell me that Little Endianness was simply the result of someone putting something on an overhead projector the wrong way, I'd believe you (because it seems like an extremely fucking stupid idea otherwise: "2 ^ 16 equals five-hundred-thirty-six, sixty-five thousand"
Here's the logic, as explained to me:
Assume a 32-bit word starts off zeroed. If you store an 8-bit value at the first byte in the word, then interpret that whole word as a 32-bit value, then you'd get the same answer back. For example:
Starting: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
Store 0x01: 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00
As a little-endian 32-bit value: 0x00000001
As a big-endian 32-bit value: 0x01000000
Taken in the context of an era when people used a lot of 8-bit values, casting them upward to 16 bits as necessary (which was quite often), it almost kinda makes sense.
To write 4KB to the disk you just need to send one write command and the data, rather than eight.
So why can't the command be "write the following 17 bytes at 0x(64-bit address)"? I'm curious about the answer, too. I know how sectors are currently used, but what's the advantage of using them instead of directly addressing the bytes on the drive? The drive could still remap logical sectors analogous to how a virtual memory system maps logical addresses to physical addresses. Other than for that, why is the sector abstraction useful?
That kind of mirrors the Unix philosophy: do one thing and do it well. Are you surprised to hear that sentiment on Slashdot? Like others have mentioned, until recently, multi-function cell phones pretty well sucked at everything. Even if I never get an iPhone, I'm glad that they elevated the public's expectation of how a cell phone should work. Contrast with my old RAZR where the browser was a complete freakin' joke and all the extra half-assed features only served to clutter up the menus so that it was harder to get to the stuff I actually wanted to use.
Even today, a top-of-the-line phone is much worse than a decent netbook for many things. If I already have my music and pictures on the netbook in my bag, why duplicate so much of the functionality (poorly) on my phone?
I'm not a Luddite, and the iPhone and Droid are looking pretty attractive. I can definitely understand the "just a phone" sentiment, though, and it has nothing to do with a fear of technology.
I do not go to the doctor every time my throat hurts. That's just silly.
In reply to my post where I specifically mentioned strep throat? You're a moron. My mom caught it back before antibiotics were common in her part of the world. She belly- (and throat-) ached her way into rheumatic fever, which turned into permanent heart damage.
Yeah, it's stupid to seek antibiotics for a cold or flu. It's equally stupid to avoid them when you have a bacterial infection.
Well lets see... allergies in the western world are on the rise, and people here tend to rely on medicine to solve sicknesses rather than their immune systems.
Yeah. I miss the good old days of fixing strep throat with a double-shot of whiskey and stolid manliness.
I'm not a big fan of djb but he hit this nail right on the head.
Yes, you are. No one but DJB fanboys would claim that IPv6 is fatally broken and can't work, despite the fact that many of us are using it in production today.
How would this work with legal persons though? They have more resources to renew and such than a single natural person.
<brainstorming>First 7 years are free. After that, where n is the number of years you've had the copyright, annual renewal is (n-7)% of your taxable income for the year. If you must hold on to something for 50 years, the so be it. But it's gonna cost you.</brainstorming>
Honestly, I'm completely in your camp. It's good business to treat your customers well, even if that means a short term lost profit. That said, if you sign a contract saying you'll pay a certain amount monthly with an early termination fee, you can't be too surprised when the company holds you to it. It's nice of them to let you out and probably more profitable long term, but that's certainly not something you should count on.
My mother just moved. Her new condo association won't let them put antennas on the roof, and she's got a balcony/patio where the receiver can't see the satellite. They're charging her an early termination fee because of it.
Devil's advocate: how is it DirecTV's fault that she unilaterally did something that made her unable to receive the service she'd paid for?
On the flipside, it has hands-down some of the best documentation on the planet
...except for everything else. If you think PHP.net is nice, then you've never experienced something like pydoc (or any other system that makes it trivially easy - and common - to embed useful comments directly into the source). PHP.net is good for reminding you that foo_bar1($needle, $haystack) has a different calling convention from fooBar2($haystack, $needle) and giving visitors a place to argue about which is better.
Yeah, you might get a great rate on a 4-star hotel, but when you figure in the cost of WiFi and parking it often ends up being nearly a wash.
People pay for hotel WiFi? That's the whole point of MAC spoofing. Run your favorite sniffer until you see a MAC passing a lot of traffic, make sure it's not the WAP itself, then change your MAC to it. OK, so you and the person you're borrowing from will get each other's packets, but your network stacks will drop packets they aren't expecting.
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At a prior company, a lot of us techs carried pagers, cell phones, PDAs, Leathermen multi-tools, etc. One of the sales people threatened to buy cross-the-chest utility belt holsters for all of us. We techs thought that was a brilliant idea and gave him a list of suggested model numbers, which convinced management that we could not be allowed to have them.
On the other hand, St. John's Wort has been proven as effective at treating depression as Paxil.
...which is why you should stay far, far away from it. A proven psychoactive substance with no regulation or standardization? That's a recipe for disaster.
I don't know why everybody hates them.
To hate them, I'd have to care about them. I don't.
Seinfeld-the-show was hyped about being "about nothing", but it was exactly as much "about nothing" as any other sitcom centering around a group of friends doing funny things. Seinfeld-the-man seemed to buy into his own press when he made those commercials, which really were "about nothing", or at least had no cohesive message at all.
Again, I didn't hate them. It's just that I didn't "get" them, either, and I'm guessing I'm not alone judging by how quickly they were yanked off the air.
It does drift, slowly and not by very much, but the main reason it doesn't flip over time (well, change its orientation massively with respect to the rest of the solar system) is that we've got a very large satellite to stabilize us.
Well, that and angular momentum and the lack of any particular reason that the Earth should suddenly wish to flip over. The only reason (according to current thinking) our pole isn't parallel to the Sun's is that we got whacked by a large, slightly out-of-plane object early in our formation. Tidal forces should eventually bring us back into alignment, I think.
If you were to tell me that Little Endianness was simply the result of someone putting something on an overhead projector the wrong way, I'd believe you (because it seems like an extremely fucking stupid idea otherwise: "2 ^ 16 equals five-hundred-thirty-six, sixty-five thousand"
Here's the logic, as explained to me:
Assume a 32-bit word starts off zeroed. If you store an 8-bit value at the first byte in the word, then interpret that whole word as a 32-bit value, then you'd get the same answer back. For example:
Starting: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
Store 0x01: 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00
As a little-endian 32-bit value: 0x00000001
As a big-endian 32-bit value: 0x01000000
Taken in the context of an era when people used a lot of 8-bit values, casting them upward to 16 bits as necessary (which was quite often), it almost kinda makes sense.
OK, but that's still answering in terms of how sectors work and not why we're using them in the first place. :-)
To write 4KB to the disk you just need to send one write command and the data, rather than eight.
So why can't the command be "write the following 17 bytes at 0x(64-bit address)"? I'm curious about the answer, too. I know how sectors are currently used, but what's the advantage of using them instead of directly addressing the bytes on the drive? The drive could still remap logical sectors analogous to how a virtual memory system maps logical addresses to physical addresses. Other than for that, why is the sector abstraction useful?
'All I want is a phone that makes calls.'
That kind of mirrors the Unix philosophy: do one thing and do it well. Are you surprised to hear that sentiment on Slashdot? Like others have mentioned, until recently, multi-function cell phones pretty well sucked at everything. Even if I never get an iPhone, I'm glad that they elevated the public's expectation of how a cell phone should work. Contrast with my old RAZR where the browser was a complete freakin' joke and all the extra half-assed features only served to clutter up the menus so that it was harder to get to the stuff I actually wanted to use.
Even today, a top-of-the-line phone is much worse than a decent netbook for many things. If I already have my music and pictures on the netbook in my bag, why duplicate so much of the functionality (poorly) on my phone?
I'm not a Luddite, and the iPhone and Droid are looking pretty attractive. I can definitely understand the "just a phone" sentiment, though, and it has nothing to do with a fear of technology.
I do not go to the doctor every time my throat hurts. That's just silly.
In reply to my post where I specifically mentioned strep throat? You're a moron. My mom caught it back before antibiotics were common in her part of the world. She belly- (and throat-) ached her way into rheumatic fever, which turned into permanent heart damage.
Yeah, it's stupid to seek antibiotics for a cold or flu. It's equally stupid to avoid them when you have a bacterial infection.
Well lets see... allergies in the western world are on the rise, and people here tend to rely on medicine to solve sicknesses rather than their immune systems.
Yeah. I miss the good old days of fixing strep throat with a double-shot of whiskey and stolid manliness.
I don't believe that NFS exports and iSCSI target mangement are integrated into ZFS on the BSD ports, but I could be wrong.
NFS is. You enable it the usual way, then zfs share tank/foo does the right thing.
As if slashdotters would search for exercise bikes...
Hey, some of us might. :-)
Whether the defamatory statement’s public interest lay in the fact that it was made rather than its truth (“reportage”);
What does that mean, exactly? Could someone give an example?
I'm not a big fan of djb but he hit this nail right on the head.
Yes, you are. No one but DJB fanboys would claim that IPv6 is fatally broken and can't work, despite the fact that many of us are using it in production today.
How would this work with legal persons though? They have more resources to renew and such than a single natural person.
<brainstorming>First 7 years are free. After that, where n is the number of years you've had the copyright, annual renewal is (n-7)% of your taxable income for the year. If you must hold on to something for 50 years, the so be it. But it's gonna cost you.</brainstorming>
So what kind of racing involves towing 7000+ pounds on the track?
Yo momma in a chariot?
Apologies. I just couldn't resist.
No. Max drove "the last of the V8 Interceptors".
Honestly, I'm completely in your camp. It's good business to treat your customers well, even if that means a short term lost profit. That said, if you sign a contract saying you'll pay a certain amount monthly with an early termination fee, you can't be too surprised when the company holds you to it. It's nice of them to let you out and probably more profitable long term, but that's certainly not something you should count on.
My mother just moved. Her new condo association won't let them put antennas on the roof, and she's got a balcony/patio where the receiver can't see the satellite. They're charging her an early termination fee because of it.
Devil's advocate: how is it DirecTV's fault that she unilaterally did something that made her unable to receive the service she'd paid for?
No worries. Happens to the best of us. :-)
$666, devil, selling your soul...
Whoosh.
Huh? I pay $666 a year for a dedicated server, and for that I get 4TB a *month*
Not all of us would trade our souls for cheap bandwidth.
Now, if that also has native IPv6 and low latency, I might reconsider.
On the flipside, it has hands-down some of the best documentation on the planet
...except for everything else. If you think PHP.net is nice, then you've never experienced something like pydoc (or any other system that makes it trivially easy - and common - to embed useful comments directly into the source). PHP.net is good for reminding you that foo_bar1($needle, $haystack) has a different calling convention from fooBar2($haystack, $needle) and giving visitors a place to argue about which is better.
Yeah, you might get a great rate on a 4-star hotel, but when you figure in the cost of WiFi and parking it often ends up being nearly a wash.
People pay for hotel WiFi? That's the whole point of MAC spoofing. Run your favorite sniffer until you see a MAC passing a lot of traffic, make sure it's not the WAP itself, then change your MAC to it. OK, so you and the person you're borrowing from will get each other's packets, but your network stacks will drop packets they aren't expecting.
Or so I've read.
Missed the part where I was talking about Windows?