Eh. Big Iron advocates usually define "real workloads" as whatever they happen to be doing that you're not. If they were running NYSE, it would be a "real workload". Since they're not, it isn't.
And that is before you get into the whole voter list mess, which undoubtedly rejected thousands of legitimate Democratic voters, but was not a recount issue.
Right, like when a St. Louis judge ruled to hold polling places in Democratic strongholds open for a couple of hours after the mostly-Republican areas had already closed for the day. It didn't affect the outcome, but if it had, I think there would have been torches and pitchforks.
It also lets you move media to and from your your player by simple drag-and-drop operations
Kinda. I was thinking about installing it on my Sansa e280, but as of last week when I looked at the Sansa project page, that port didn't support USB synching. The SOP was to reboot it into the original firmware, sync, then reboot back into Rockbox. I like the idea, but it still seems pretty rough.
<aol>me too</aol> I'm typing this on a FreeBSD 7 / KDE 4.1.1 desktop, and I've been extremely happy with it. It runs more smoothly than when I had Linux on the same machine, and sound worked perfectly from the first boot. I've loved FreeBSD on the server for years, but it makes a great workstation too.
However, though Linux is a popular operating system with universities, web sites, startups and small server solutions, Linux on x86 scales horribly (and I do mean horribly) on our application and other high-performance database solutions with thousands of users compared with the big UNIX operating systems.
That's the dumbest thing I've read today. Google, Yahoo!, and most of the Top 500 would dispute your contention that Linux is slow and unsuitable for high-performance work. I'm a FreeBSD guy, personally, but that's still just goofy.
Apparently the article submitter isn't competent enough to do this on his/her own: Why else would he/she submit something so obviously mission critical to Slashdot?
In fairness, I've asked questions on Slashdot that I'm technically competent to research on my own, but I want some real-world information about the alternatives. For example maybe one CPU specs faster than another but has huge heat problems that aren't apparent in the datasheet. Or suppose I were looking to start using either MySQL or PostgreSQL but wasn't sure of the differences because the feature lists look similar. That's when asking for advice makes a lot of sense, because you're looking for information that just isn't readily available any other way.
In this particular case, it sounds like the submitter did his homework but wants to hear about experiences other people have had in the same field. That sounds like a decent question to me.
Bad teachers need to be weeded out, in the same way that anybody who's bad at their jobs in any profession should be, but once they pass muster they should be paid well.
Good luck getting anything like merit-based pay through the teachers' union that's killing our country from the ground up.
You try and remember even a single IP6 address or even type one in accurately and you'll see what I mean.
Oh, drop it already. I deal with exactly one IPv6 address directly, and it's hardcoded in resolv.conf. Honestly, there's always at least one person whining about how hard IPv6 addresses are to memorize, as though they're currently getting by without using DNS for IPv4.
They will - in about 831 days. It's like the idea behind Peak Oil, where instead of an instant failure one day, there will be a shift toward exponentially increasing prices. I don't know if Peak Oil will happen, but in about two years Peak IPs certainly will.
IPv6 is the working technology that we have available. There aren't any viable alternatives in the pipeline that I'm aware of, and certainly none far enough along that they'll be well-tested and ready for use in that short of a time period.
There would be a lot more available addresses if companies that were given entire/8 blocks in the 80s and 90s (Ford, IBM, AT&T, Halliburton, etc.) were to give back those blocks.
Adding a few extra percent of resources doesn't go very far toward satisfying exponential growth.
Based on my behaviour in high school, I would have most definitely gotten 100% on the first two assignments, and then skipped the rest of the term, walking out with my 60%.
I did that in civics, which is a course that I actually loved to attend but had no interest in actually doing well in. The teacher gave out scoring sheets at the beginning of the semester listing each assignment and its value, and when I got to 60%, I stopped. I still participated in class and enjoyed the lessons, but I didn't turn in a single assignment after that (except for the one mandatory book report, where I wrote "I thought this was a pretty good book."). I don't remember my teacher's name, but I felt kind of bad for him. He was a good teacher and I learned a lot in his class - I just wanted to be done with it.
One teacher is worth more than 5 software developers. You would have never become a software developer if it hadn't been for teachers.
The law of supply and demand says you're wrong. Besides, you know that for every enthusiastic genius teacher you had three clock-watchers.
I am not for a second saying that teaching isn't critically important, but it's treated as an afterthought. At my university, "education" was the major for husband-seeking women who couldn't handle a psychology degree. While I'm certain that there were plenty of intelligent, eager majors, you couldn't swing a cat without hitting 5 others who barely got into college.
True story: at one point while working my way through college, I was the night auditor for a motel and worked with an education major. For one of her classes, she was learning to make quiz sheets, and they were using basic arithmetic for the subject matter. She asked me to double-check her homework, and it took me about 15 seconds to scan over it and make sure it was OK. She was surprised that I could check 3+9=12 that quickly without a calculator. I wish I was exaggerating, but I'm not. She was really that dumb, but now she's off teaching someone's kids. Think she should get $50K?
I was an average sized kid and lettered in soccer, but still got picked on by this thug named Tommy Newsome. It wasn't anything special to me; he hated anyone who breathed through their nose. One day, I waited until he was in the shower, stole his towel, threw it in his locker, and filled the combination lock with superglue. And then retreated to a safe distance. He wasn't very happy to be naked and dripping wet and find his hand glued to his own lock.
Tommy, if you've learned to read and they have computers in prison: my bad. I hope the showers are kinder to you these days.
If you don't believe me, run the numbers yourself. The Green Party wants a minimum wage for a single adult of $42,250 in year 2000 dollars (or $53,753.68 in 2008 when adjusted for inflation). This is for a 30-hour workweek. If I am factually incorrect, please show me how.
A quick search turns up that a single recordable 50GB blank blu-ray disk (blank) costs somewhere around $47, and a spindle of 50 25GB disks costs something like $996 - about $20 a disk.
I don't collect movies, but if I did, I would be most concerned that chip based storage technology is going to overtake the clunky optical-mechanical drives and leave me with a (yet again) obsolete media library.
If I collected movies, I'd be more interested in the fact that your same $996 could buy you 10TB of hard drive space instead of a measly 1.25TB of slow, inconvenient optical media. Furthermore, considering that few movies are likely to fill 100% of the original BluRay disk, you can pack more movies per unit of storage on the hard drives than on optical media (where you'll end up with one movie per disk regardless).
If BluRay disks come down to about $1.50 a disk, they might start to become competitive on price per storage capacity. Of course, hard drives will also be much cheaper by then, and will always have the convenience of not requiring you to swap media.
Just as the current push system has a message from the receiver: "Try again in X minutes - I'm busy", I imagine the sender in the pull system will have the same message.
Customers are notoriously impatient. Do you like waiting for a web page to load, or sitting on hold to talk to an operator? Imagine how much people would dislike seeing the current system replaced with one where they have to queue up. Imagine how unwilling companies will be to do this to their customers.
I would argue that such a newsletter doesn't belong on the e-mail medium in the first place. The newsletter should be hosted on the web somewhere where people can download it.
That makes sense to you and me, but he has quite a few tens of thousands of customers who want their newsletter. The business in question is a successful brick-and-mortar and the mailer is filled with reviews and articles, more like a magazine than a page (or set of pages). The point is that he has a demand to fill and this system works for him.
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Eh. Big Iron advocates usually define "real workloads" as whatever they happen to be doing that you're not. If they were running NYSE, it would be a "real workload". Since they're not, it isn't.
And that is before you get into the whole voter list mess, which undoubtedly rejected thousands of legitimate Democratic voters, but was not a recount issue.
Right, like when a St. Louis judge ruled to hold polling places in Democratic strongholds open for a couple of hours after the mostly-Republican areas had already closed for the day. It didn't affect the outcome, but if it had, I think there would have been torches and pitchforks.
It also lets you move media to and from your your player by simple drag-and-drop operations
Kinda. I was thinking about installing it on my Sansa e280, but as of last week when I looked at the Sansa project page, that port didn't support USB synching. The SOP was to reboot it into the original firmware, sync, then reboot back into Rockbox. I like the idea, but it still seems pretty rough.
<aol>me too</aol> I'm typing this on a FreeBSD 7 / KDE 4.1.1 desktop, and I've been extremely happy with it. It runs more smoothly than when I had Linux on the same machine, and sound worked perfectly from the first boot. I've loved FreeBSD on the server for years, but it makes a great workstation too.
However, though Linux is a popular operating system with universities, web sites, startups and small server solutions, Linux on x86 scales horribly (and I do mean horribly) on our application and other high-performance database solutions with thousands of users compared with the big UNIX operating systems.
That's the dumbest thing I've read today. Google, Yahoo!, and most of the Top 500 would dispute your contention that Linux is slow and unsuitable for high-performance work. I'm a FreeBSD guy, personally, but that's still just goofy.
Plus, whoever comes up with case-sensitive IP addresses deserves a switch throatpunch.
Please give him a cup of hot coffee to calm him down?
If Jack "Ass" Thompson were having hot coffee, he wouldn't have started all this in the first place.
I always assumed his first name was Jack and his middle name was Ass. At least, that's how the voice in my head always said it.
Apparently the article submitter isn't competent enough to do this on his/her own: Why else would he/she submit something so obviously mission critical to Slashdot?
In fairness, I've asked questions on Slashdot that I'm technically competent to research on my own, but I want some real-world information about the alternatives. For example maybe one CPU specs faster than another but has huge heat problems that aren't apparent in the datasheet. Or suppose I were looking to start using either MySQL or PostgreSQL but wasn't sure of the differences because the feature lists look similar. That's when asking for advice makes a lot of sense, because you're looking for information that just isn't readily available any other way.
In this particular case, it sounds like the submitter did his homework but wants to hear about experiences other people have had in the same field. That sounds like a decent question to me.
And I'm not talking about your toy LAN in your three-room office.
Bad teachers need to be weeded out, in the same way that anybody who's bad at their jobs in any profession should be, but once they pass muster they should be paid well.
Good luck getting anything like merit-based pay through the teachers' union that's killing our country from the ground up.
You try and remember even a single IP6 address or even type one in accurately and you'll see what I mean.
Oh, drop it already. I deal with exactly one IPv6 address directly, and it's hardcoded in resolv.conf. Honestly, there's always at least one person whining about how hard IPv6 addresses are to memorize, as though they're currently getting by without using DNS for IPv4.
Seems to me like nobody wants IPv6.
They will - in about 831 days. It's like the idea behind Peak Oil, where instead of an instant failure one day, there will be a shift toward exponentially increasing prices. I don't know if Peak Oil will happen, but in about two years Peak IPs certainly will.
IPv6 is the working technology that we have available. There aren't any viable alternatives in the pipeline that I'm aware of, and certainly none far enough along that they'll be well-tested and ready for use in that short of a time period.
NAT just makes sense, I have no problems with it. You know, it has that "this is how it should be" feel to it.
You're into bondage porn, aren't you.
That wasn't a question.
There would be a lot more available addresses if companies that were given entire /8 blocks in the 80s and 90s (Ford, IBM, AT&T, Halliburton, etc.) were to give back those blocks.
Adding a few extra percent of resources doesn't go very far toward satisfying exponential growth.
I did that in civics, which is a course that I actually loved to attend but had no interest in actually doing well in. The teacher gave out scoring sheets at the beginning of the semester listing each assignment and its value, and when I got to 60%, I stopped. I still participated in class and enjoyed the lessons, but I didn't turn in a single assignment after that (except for the one mandatory book report, where I wrote "I thought this was a pretty good book."). I don't remember my teacher's name, but I felt kind of bad for him. He was a good teacher and I learned a lot in his class - I just wanted to be done with it.
The law of supply and demand says you're wrong. Besides, you know that for every enthusiastic genius teacher you had three clock-watchers.
I am not for a second saying that teaching isn't critically important, but it's treated as an afterthought. At my university, "education" was the major for husband-seeking women who couldn't handle a psychology degree. While I'm certain that there were plenty of intelligent, eager majors, you couldn't swing a cat without hitting 5 others who barely got into college.
True story: at one point while working my way through college, I was the night auditor for a motel and worked with an education major. For one of her classes, she was learning to make quiz sheets, and they were using basic arithmetic for the subject matter. She asked me to double-check her homework, and it took me about 15 seconds to scan over it and make sure it was OK. She was surprised that I could check 3+9=12 that quickly without a calculator. I wish I was exaggerating, but I'm not. She was really that dumb, but now she's off teaching someone's kids. Think she should get $50K?
I was an average sized kid and lettered in soccer, but still got picked on by this thug named Tommy Newsome. It wasn't anything special to me; he hated anyone who breathed through their nose. One day, I waited until he was in the shower, stole his towel, threw it in his locker, and filled the combination lock with superglue. And then retreated to a safe distance. He wasn't very happy to be naked and dripping wet and find his hand glued to his own lock.
Tommy, if you've learned to read and they have computers in prison: my bad. I hope the showers are kinder to you these days.
If you don't believe me, run the numbers yourself. The Green Party wants a minimum wage for a single adult of $42,250 in year 2000 dollars (or $53,753.68 in 2008 when adjusted for inflation). This is for a 30-hour workweek. If I am factually incorrect, please show me how.
That's the Green Party. No, I'm not joking.
Can we vote on this?
No one expects their TV to not work with their PS3 as a Blue-ray player, but at the same time works as a gaming machine over HDMI.
Make this your mantra:
"Umm, it's a Sony. Why did you expect it to work?"
A quick search turns up that a single recordable 50GB blank blu-ray disk (blank) costs somewhere around $47, and a spindle of 50 25GB disks costs something like $996 - about $20 a disk.
I don't collect movies, but if I did, I would be most concerned that chip based storage technology is going to overtake the clunky optical-mechanical drives and leave me with a (yet again) obsolete media library.
If I collected movies, I'd be more interested in the fact that your same $996 could buy you 10TB of hard drive space instead of a measly 1.25TB of slow, inconvenient optical media. Furthermore, considering that few movies are likely to fill 100% of the original BluRay disk, you can pack more movies per unit of storage on the hard drives than on optical media (where you'll end up with one movie per disk regardless).
If BluRay disks come down to about $1.50 a disk, they might start to become competitive on price per storage capacity. Of course, hard drives will also be much cheaper by then, and will always have the convenience of not requiring you to swap media.
Just as the current push system has a message from the receiver: "Try again in X minutes - I'm busy", I imagine the sender in the pull system will have the same message.
Customers are notoriously impatient. Do you like waiting for a web page to load, or sitting on hold to talk to an operator? Imagine how much people would dislike seeing the current system replaced with one where they have to queue up. Imagine how unwilling companies will be to do this to their customers.
I would argue that such a newsletter doesn't belong on the e-mail medium in the first place. The newsletter should be hosted on the web somewhere where people can download it.
That makes sense to you and me, but he has quite a few tens of thousands of customers who want their newsletter. The business in question is a successful brick-and-mortar and the mailer is filled with reviews and articles, more like a magazine than a page (or set of pages). The point is that he has a demand to fill and this system works for him.