Forget handwriting recognition. Fitaly, a tap-optimized virtual keyboard, is much faster [...] I've used Fitaly on a Tungsten T3 to take voluminous notes at multi-hour seminars.
I bet the guy next who sat next to you during the first lecture still tells his friends about the crazy guy doing morse code that he fantasized about killing the whole time. I'd further bet that as few people sat next to you for subsequent lectures as the seating arrangements would allow.
If you compare sales per week for the PS1 PS2 and PS3, PS3 is already outselling the PS1 by 2-3x and its just a 100,000 units or so behind the PS2.
Or, you could look at sales per month, and see that the Wii sold 82% as many units in April as in January (360k vs. 436k), while the the PS3 dropped to 34% (82k vs. 244k).
Or, that last month they moved 23% as many PS3s as Wiis (82k vs. 360k).
Or that since the beginning of the year, PS2s have outsold PS3s by 70% (989k vs. 583k).
Or that the Wii outsold the PS3 by 138% (1390k vs. 583k).
Or that the DS has outsold the PSP by 124% (1703k vs. 760k).
Pick your metric. Every single one of them is awful, and if anyone left at Sony still has plans of staying in the game business, they need to stem the hemorrhaging soon.
Documents shouldn't run scripts unless explicitly authorized to do so. That goes for word processors, spreadsheets, PDF readers, email clients and web browsers.
....except, of course, that PDFs are Turing-complete scripts that tend to make pretty pictures.
I do use the catchall service to try to track which companies sell my email address.
An easier alternative: configure your mailserver to allow a "+tag" after your email address, then give those out freely. For example, my email address here is kirk+slashdot@strauser.com. It's trivially easy to filter on the "+slashdot" part, and should I ever want to stop receiving it, I just change the filter to drop those messages. You can do basically the same thing with virtual addresses, but the "+tag" method doesn't require you to manually add a new account each time.
The downside is that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out to strip the "+tag" part, so you'd probably want to make "user@example.com" your catchall address that goes into a generic folder that you check from time to time, and only give out user+tag@example.com addresses from now on. Also, some broken websites won't accept the "+" sign even though the RFCs say they have to.
The upside is that you won't get mail to a@example.com, aa@example.com, aaa@example.com, etc ad nauseum. They have to guess your real username before proceding further.
Why are consumer-end processors still stagnating under 5 GHZ?
Why are consumers so hung up on only one facet of processor design at the expense of ignoring others? Clocks per second is only one part of the throughput equation. Instructions per clock is equally important, and new CPUs are vastly better here than their predecessors. Who cares if your CPU is only running at 100MHz if it can still retire 10 billion instructions per second?
Exactly. You've already said "hey, world, here's my content!" If you wish that some of the world not take you at your word, then it's incumbent upon you to tell them that. That's what robots.txt is for.
My guess is where this kind of thing would make a dollars/cents difference is in the NOC. But this kind of detail isn't very sexy or very high on most NOC operators radar.
Our FreeBSD servers auto-throttle their CPU speeds down when idle. The average runtime on our monitored UPS has gone from 60 to 75 minutes. Even if electricity were free, and even if air conditioners were free, and even if we didn't care about wasting energy for no good reason, that still means we have 15 more minutes to get the generator up and running in the event of a long power outage.
Maybe that's not much to you, but it's pretty darn nice for us.
Hi, I am a great cyber punk science fiction buff, and so, I'll take it upon myself to explain what the metaverse is.
On behalf of the two science fiction non-fans that read Slashdot, I thank you. Note that I'm not such a person, and I haven't knowingly met one, but I'm sure they're here. Maybe.
If I'm looking for a roommate, why shouldn't I be able to filter for gender and sexual orientation? For that matter, maybe I'm a racist jerk and don't want black or asian roommates. Isn't that my right, regardless of how silly it might seem to someone else?
The fact that someone disagreed near the end of the seventies doesn't eliminate the fact that they did believe it would happen in the early seventies.
No! Despite the fact that we all heard about it on TV, the radio, newspapers, and magazines, and even though they taught it in every elementary school's earth science curriculum, it didn't really happen.
That one statement alone - that global cooling was never really widely believed - is enough to make me write off anything else a source has to say. I was there and it happened, and I don't care how much some people wish that it hadn't.
Ironically, I actually believe in human-caused global warming, largely because of the number of experts in the field that seem to think it's true. However, that's in spite of the fact that certain people refuse to admit that some scientists were once wrong in the other direction. Can't they just say that the old models were bad but we've since corrected them, then move on?
I'm 100% sure that this is how Ballmer and the rest of Microsoft view GPL software. They can't accept competition. They don't believe in reverse engineering. They don't believe in innovating, only harvesting decades-old investments via the preposterous U.S. patent system.
If by "they" you mean "Microsoft", that may be the only accurate paragraph in your rant.
a lot of business owners would sooner replace the network filesharing protocol to something better like SSHFS, or something similar.
sshfs is a neat hack, but I wouldn't want to have several hundred users hanging off it. SSH trades performance for security. That's appropriate in many situations, but a lot of fileserving configurations have no need for that level of protection and would rather shuck the security for performance.
I think most of the people COMING to Linux in the Desktop world could care less about these "ethical" issues. Once again, it's just another thing that some of the Linux community puts above having things Just Work(tm).
Under Linux, most things Just Work(tm) because people with those ethical issues took the time to do something about it. You can't possibly claim that GNU or Linux exist in an amoral vacuum.
Hating Perl, I looked for another language and found Ruby which unfortunately I don't use that much as my boss won't let me do it (not widespread enough for him), *sigh* such a beautiful language and having to use shell or Perl instead..
Have you tried Python? It seems to live in the same problem space as Ruby, but has the boss-wowing factor of being a paid project of Google.
Subversion is the ideal solution - because it needs a lot of junk in.svn directories:( And it can mess with some scripts that do recursive grep or something similar.
That's true, but in practice is that such a huge problem? We use SVN already for all project code and have managed to make do with it. If you can grep and operate on a few megs of in-house development source, a comparatively tiny/etc directory shouldn't be too much hassle.
SVK is better, but it is not as widely supported as SVN.
That's a huge consideration, though. SVN is cross-platform, and both servers and clients are available for pretty much any system. It's there and it works, and there's a good chance you're already using it somewhere. Why not take advantage of that shiny repository for other important systems?
To put it another way, they are more into cycle shaving than analyzing the time and space complexity of their algorithms -- just as one might expect from smart hackers with a relatively weak computer science background.
Out of curiosity, how does Solaris compare to the BSDs, which have a strong history of choosing algorithms that are slower in the common case but scale extremely well? Have you tried your test on FreeBSD, for instance?
If the majority of a faith's adherents are people who were born and raised into that faith then it is a religion. If the majority of the faith's adherents are people who have joined as allegedly freely consenting adults then it is a cult.
I think another important distinction is the incentive a group would have for wanting you to join. Any Christian church I've been around would be perfectly happy to have you come, decide that they're correct, then leave and go worship at another church that you feel more comfortable in. Cults don't want you to go to another cult if it fits better - they want you to stay put. For me, a cult is a group that wants you to join so that they can grow in power or income. A religion is a group that wants you to join so that you can be happier.
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I bet the guy next who sat next to you during the first lecture still tells his friends about the crazy guy doing morse code that he fantasized about killing the whole time. I'd further bet that as few people sat next to you for subsequent lectures as the seating arrangements would allow.
Or, you could look at sales per month, and see that the Wii sold 82% as many units in April as in January (360k vs. 436k), while the the PS3 dropped to 34% (82k vs. 244k).
Or, that last month they moved 23% as many PS3s as Wiis (82k vs. 360k).
Or that since the beginning of the year, PS2s have outsold PS3s by 70% (989k vs. 583k).
Or that the Wii outsold the PS3 by 138% (1390k vs. 583k).
Or that the DS has outsold the PSP by 124% (1703k vs. 760k).
Pick your metric. Every single one of them is awful, and if anyone left at Sony still has plans of staying in the game business, they need to stem the hemorrhaging soon.
....except, of course, that PDFs are Turing-complete scripts that tend to make pretty pictures.
An easier alternative: configure your mailserver to allow a "+tag" after your email address, then give those out freely. For example, my email address here is kirk+slashdot@strauser.com. It's trivially easy to filter on the "+slashdot" part, and should I ever want to stop receiving it, I just change the filter to drop those messages. You can do basically the same thing with virtual addresses, but the "+tag" method doesn't require you to manually add a new account each time.
The downside is that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out to strip the "+tag" part, so you'd probably want to make "user@example.com" your catchall address that goes into a generic folder that you check from time to time, and only give out user+tag@example.com addresses from now on. Also, some broken websites won't accept the "+" sign even though the RFCs say they have to.
The upside is that you won't get mail to a@example.com, aa@example.com, aaa@example.com, etc ad nauseum. They have to guess your real username before proceding further.
Why are consumers so hung up on only one facet of processor design at the expense of ignoring others? Clocks per second is only one part of the throughput equation. Instructions per clock is equally important, and new CPUs are vastly better here than their predecessors. Who cares if your CPU is only running at 100MHz if it can still retire 10 billion instructions per second?
...which is a moot point, since radio has nothing to do with the question at hand.
Throw him in the room with Paris Hilton and they'd explode in an instantaneous mass->energy conversion.
Still, I love his books.
Well, I'm sure that they wouldn't start broadcasting until their telescopes notice ours pointed their direction.
Jargon evolves: film at 11.
I hate it when my boss buys cool new toys for me to play with. Stupid quad Opteron. *kicks sand angrily*
Exactly. You've already said "hey, world, here's my content!" If you wish that some of the world not take you at your word, then it's incumbent upon you to tell them that. That's what robots.txt is for.
Our FreeBSD servers auto-throttle their CPU speeds down when idle. The average runtime on our monitored UPS has gone from 60 to 75 minutes. Even if electricity were free, and even if air conditioners were free, and even if we didn't care about wasting energy for no good reason, that still means we have 15 more minutes to get the generator up and running in the event of a long power outage.
Maybe that's not much to you, but it's pretty darn nice for us.
On behalf of the two science fiction non-fans that read Slashdot, I thank you. Note that I'm not such a person, and I haven't knowingly met one, but I'm sure they're here. Maybe.
If I'm looking for a roommate, why shouldn't I be able to filter for gender and sexual orientation? For that matter, maybe I'm a racist jerk and don't want black or asian roommates. Isn't that my right, regardless of how silly it might seem to someone else?
No! Despite the fact that we all heard about it on TV, the radio, newspapers, and magazines, and even though they taught it in every elementary school's earth science curriculum, it didn't really happen.
That one statement alone - that global cooling was never really widely believed - is enough to make me write off anything else a source has to say. I was there and it happened, and I don't care how much some people wish that it hadn't.
Ironically, I actually believe in human-caused global warming, largely because of the number of experts in the field that seem to think it's true. However, that's in spite of the fact that certain people refuse to admit that some scientists were once wrong in the other direction. Can't they just say that the old models were bad but we've since corrected them, then move on?
If by "they" you mean "Microsoft", that may be the only accurate paragraph in your rant.
sshfs is a neat hack, but I wouldn't want to have several hundred users hanging off it. SSH trades performance for security. That's appropriate in many situations, but a lot of fileserving configurations have no need for that level of protection and would rather shuck the security for performance.
Under Linux, most things Just Work(tm) because people with those ethical issues took the time to do something about it. You can't possibly claim that GNU or Linux exist in an amoral vacuum.
I will never see a TIE fighter the same way again, you bastard.
Have you tried Python? It seems to live in the same problem space as Ruby, but has the boss-wowing factor of being a paid project of Google.
That's true, but in practice is that such a huge problem? We use SVN already for all project code and have managed to make do with it. If you can grep and operate on a few megs of in-house development source, a comparatively tiny /etc directory shouldn't be too much hassle.
That's a huge consideration, though. SVN is cross-platform, and both servers and clients are available for pretty much any system. It's there and it works, and there's a good chance you're already using it somewhere. Why not take advantage of that shiny repository for other important systems?
Next question?
Mine is around 1.9 million. I don't know if my knack for getting low UIDs is cool or pathetic.
Out of curiosity, how does Solaris compare to the BSDs, which have a strong history of choosing algorithms that are slower in the common case but scale extremely well? Have you tried your test on FreeBSD, for instance?
I think another important distinction is the incentive a group would have for wanting you to join. Any Christian church I've been around would be perfectly happy to have you come, decide that they're correct, then leave and go worship at another church that you feel more comfortable in. Cults don't want you to go to another cult if it fits better - they want you to stay put. For me, a cult is a group that wants you to join so that they can grow in power or income. A religion is a group that wants you to join so that you can be happier.