twitter is a remarkably simple service compared to linkedin or hulu
I totally disagree with that. LinkedIn and Hulu serve mostly static pages, or at least static enough that a good cache could offload a large portion of their workload. Almost every page from Twitter would require a lot of queries.
But it's nice that you guys on the fringe right have a party to vote for.
Yeah, supporting gay marriage and stem cell research and an end to The War On $Whatever doesn't matter because I also want lower taxes. I think that your dismissal of me as "fringe right" says a lot more about your own politics than it does mine.
Please. The memory test takes all of about half a second on my non-LinuxBIOS system with 6GB of RAM. It spends far longer detecting drives and other such things that won't matter once the OS is loading.
I've got an even better idea. Let's have a CPU that can run 64-bit and 32-bit programs at the same time, so we don't have to waste 64-bit pointers on a text editor.
Great idea! And on it we'll run Everything-Made-Today-But-Windows.
But as soon as you said "GPL Software", I immediately made the connection that it's not ready for prime time, installs out of a.ZIP file, requires registry tweaks, hand-editing of configuration files, etc.
Yeah, because Windows is the homeland of GPL software.
But that's definitely the thought process I just went through as current businessman and former Solaris "the command line is God" midlevel sysadmin.
Interestingly, I have the same thoughts about Solaris. Your "as a businessman" qualifier doesn't mean jack except that you want it to lend credence to your oddly out-of-touch viewpoint.
Can you explain why I, as a consumer, should care about having an open-source BIOS?
Because you think it's spiffy going from cold metal to a login prompt in under two seconds, and because no single vendor is capable of delivering that on more than a small handful of hardware configurations.
Two minutes ago I was thinking the exact same thing. Then I realised if a small business owner tells you that 15 years ago he set up a system at minimal cost and is only now looking at changing because the hardware is noticeably ageing, you'd have a hard time explaining to him that it's going to be *harder* to set up a system with similar longevity nowadays.
"You have a '68 Mustang and it still runs. What would you buy today that will still run 40 years from now?"
Alternatively, go the matryoshka way. Run Win95 in (for Example) VMWare 5 on current Ubuntu now, wrap that in Xen on Ubuntu 12.4 LTS, wrap that in the 2016 Edition of Virtualooz on vanilla Lunix 28.6.19 and that in some deep fried beer batter. Processor speed will keep up.
I suggest that if a person is 2 years beyond average lifespan, no government money be spent on hospitalization or surgery.
My next-door neighbor, in his mid/late eighties, got a pacemaker a couple of years ago. He and his wife just got back from three months in Hawaii. I think he would be unimpressed with your hypothesis that quality life ends at a specific age.
I can't understand why anyone would want to work with more than one program at a time. Modern desktops want to display several programs on the screen at one time. Why on Earth would I want to see more than one window at once? I run high-quality applications and don't want cheesy programs to use my pixels.
Basically, I have a very unusual usage pattern and I don't understand why everyone else does things in a different way.
Last month, I would have sworn I was dying of bronchitis (the bacterial variety). I was coughing so hard that I was almost in tears each time I managed to re-gain my breath. The codeine-based syrup calmed it down enough that I could actually function and my chest muscles could recover. The antibiotics had cleared up the infection so I didn't need any cough syrup at all by the next evening.
The moral? Don't interpret the awful summary literally. We haven't obsoleted medicine just yet.
Academics have been poking away on software AI for decades (also ANN) - I can't help feeling that this is a dead-end in the same way that cold fusion is, even though it's intellectually (hacking) fascinating.
When computing power per unit price grows about about 100x per decade, you cross from "utterly infeasible" to "embedded in every child's toy" pretty darn quickly. Remember, 486es were high-end in 1989. The curve has been consistent since the 1940s, so can you imagine what we'll have in 20 years if it holds? Again, problems that seem computationally intractable now might seem a little easier when you can decode 10,000 video streams simultaneously in software. Even "10 million times faster" is only about 35 years out.
They don't pass laws saying "you can't buy this companies' asphalt" or "you can't upgrade your microscopes to this particular one" either. Their lack of expertise means that they shouldn't be making technical decisions that require expertise.
Are there incompatible variants of asphalt? Will switching from one microscope to another force the lab across the hall to do the same?
My wife regularly surfs the web at work, often news, and consistently finds stories that directly effect the industry she works in, sometimes her actual place of employment. She then brings this information to the people she works for, the people that need to know about it.
All joking aside, I've gotten a lot of that out of Slashdot. I've rolled out quite a few technologies at work that I might not have heard of were it not for people here arguing about which implementation was best.
On the intangible side, there's much to be said for practicing making your points clearly and succinctly, and for learning to anticipate counter-arguments and answer them before anyone else brings them up. Debate team has nothing on a good language war.
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twitter is a remarkably simple service compared to linkedin or hulu
I totally disagree with that. LinkedIn and Hulu serve mostly static pages, or at least static enough that a good cache could offload a large portion of their workload. Almost every page from Twitter would require a lot of queries.
Hognoxious is right on this one. The implication was that I didn't think OJ was framed, so surely the poster was referring to OJ framing someone else.
Thanks, Capt. Obvious.
This is almost certainly like O.J. Simpson, where a guilty man was framed.
OJ might be a murderer, but I don't remember him framing anyone.
Caffeine addiction is the only justification for drinking office coffee.
Who doesn't like lukewarm, brown-tinged water?
But it's nice that you guys on the fringe right have a party to vote for.
Yeah, supporting gay marriage and stem cell research and an end to The War On $Whatever doesn't matter because I also want lower taxes. I think that your dismissal of me as "fringe right" says a lot more about your own politics than it does mine.
Please. The memory test takes all of about half a second on my non-LinuxBIOS system with 6GB of RAM. It spends far longer detecting drives and other such things that won't matter once the OS is loading.
I've got an even better idea. Let's have a CPU that can run 64-bit and 32-bit programs at the same time, so we don't have to waste 64-bit pointers on a text editor.
Great idea! And on it we'll run Everything-Made-Today-But-Windows.
But as soon as you said "GPL Software", I immediately made the connection that it's not ready for prime time, installs out of a .ZIP file, requires registry tweaks, hand-editing of configuration files, etc.
Yeah, because Windows is the homeland of GPL software.
But that's definitely the thought process I just went through as current businessman and former Solaris "the command line is God" midlevel sysadmin.
Interestingly, I have the same thoughts about Solaris. Your "as a businessman" qualifier doesn't mean jack except that you want it to lend credence to your oddly out-of-touch viewpoint.
There is no such thing as a version of linux that is incomplete
So, never played with Xandros on an Eee, huh?
Can you explain why I, as a consumer, should care about having an open-source BIOS?
Because you think it's spiffy going from cold metal to a login prompt in under two seconds, and because no single vendor is capable of delivering that on more than a small handful of hardware configurations.
I pray this system isn't connected to the internet in any way, because if it is it must have hundreds of worms crawling around in it.
He's a vet - they have stuff to treat that.
Two minutes ago I was thinking the exact same thing. Then I realised if a small business owner tells you that 15 years ago he set up a system at minimal cost and is only now looking at changing because the hardware is noticeably ageing, you'd have a hard time explaining to him that it's going to be *harder* to set up a system with similar longevity nowadays.
"You have a '68 Mustang and it still runs. What would you buy today that will still run 40 years from now?"
Car analogy FTW.
Alternatively, go the matryoshka way. Run Win95 in (for Example) VMWare 5 on current Ubuntu now, wrap that in Xen on Ubuntu 12.4 LTS, wrap that in the 2016 Edition of Virtualooz on vanilla Lunix 28.6.19 and that in some deep fried beer batter. Processor speed will keep up.
IBM called that "z/OS".
Remember it could be worse: I have a friend who deals with Vet who has an old Xenix system - they buy parts of ebay in bulk;)
Didja know that FreeBSD can run iBCS2 binaries, possibly with the help of library files copied off the current server?
I suggest that if a person is 2 years beyond average lifespan, no government money be spent on hospitalization or surgery.
My next-door neighbor, in his mid/late eighties, got a pacemaker a couple of years ago. He and his wife just got back from three months in Hawaii. I think he would be unimpressed with your hypothesis that quality life ends at a specific age.
I can't understand why anyone would want to work with more than one program at a time. Modern desktops want to display several programs on the screen at one time. Why on Earth would I want to see more than one window at once? I run high-quality applications and don't want cheesy programs to use my pixels.
Basically, I have a very unusual usage pattern and I don't understand why everyone else does things in a different way.
Last month, I would have sworn I was dying of bronchitis (the bacterial variety). I was coughing so hard that I was almost in tears each time I managed to re-gain my breath. The codeine-based syrup calmed it down enough that I could actually function and my chest muscles could recover. The antibiotics had cleared up the infection so I didn't need any cough syrup at all by the next evening.
The moral? Don't interpret the awful summary literally. We haven't obsoleted medicine just yet.
OSS on Linux and even Alsa have problems with apps wanting to lock the soundcard to themselves.
Not-so-minor correction above. FreeBSD automatically clones /dev/dsp so that any number of applications can use it simultaneously.
It really sucked when most of the users could never have more than one application using audio simultaneously.
FreeBSD moved past that while staying on OSS.
You mean the one that says "Welc0m3 to my Home Page (under construction, counter by GeoCities)"? Nope, still got it.
Academics have been poking away on software AI for decades (also ANN) - I can't help feeling that this is a dead-end in the same way that cold fusion is, even though it's intellectually (hacking) fascinating.
When computing power per unit price grows about about 100x per decade, you cross from "utterly infeasible" to "embedded in every child's toy" pretty darn quickly. Remember, 486es were high-end in 1989. The curve has been consistent since the 1940s, so can you imagine what we'll have in 20 years if it holds? Again, problems that seem computationally intractable now might seem a little easier when you can decode 10,000 video streams simultaneously in software. Even "10 million times faster" is only about 35 years out.
They don't pass laws saying "you can't buy this companies' asphalt" or "you can't upgrade your microscopes to this particular one" either. Their lack of expertise means that they shouldn't be making technical decisions that require expertise.
Are there incompatible variants of asphalt? Will switching from one microscope to another force the lab across the hall to do the same?
My wife regularly surfs the web at work, often news, and consistently finds stories that directly effect the industry she works in, sometimes her actual place of employment. She then brings this information to the people she works for, the people that need to know about it.
All joking aside, I've gotten a lot of that out of Slashdot. I've rolled out quite a few technologies at work that I might not have heard of were it not for people here arguing about which implementation was best.
On the intangible side, there's much to be said for practicing making your points clearly and succinctly, and for learning to anticipate counter-arguments and answer them before anyone else brings them up. Debate team has nothing on a good language war.
I am so asking for a raise.