they would simply increase the quota. They don't actually allocate 50 physical megs...they/allow/ it. They can do that all at once easily enough - they only have a few types of accounts. Simply change standard level to having 2Gb quota, and bam - done. Even if it/were/ done per user, that would be a simple perl script to parse whatever database its in and change that entry on everything. I've updated millions of records in relatively short order myself, and I didn't have the sort of hardware MS has when I did it.
being GPL'd, one could just take the "good stuff" from mysql and make a new project that isn't completely a fork, or just put that stuff into a different DB app. So long as they just give credit, blah etc...
ummm...that's a beowulf. Its not a single processor space, single memory space, single platform, environment. Hell, one could make a 10,000 node windows98 beowulf cluster...that's doesn't mean win98 supports 10,000 CPU's...
the only thing they're after from IBM is for IBM to do a partnership, which would be of huge benefit to both companies. I have forever wished IBM would just buy Sun. Would make for some great mixing.
certainly do...not only that, but you can pull a cpu from one virtualized system and put it on another...or use 1 cdrom for 32 virtual systems, just moving it around. Of course, you have to use AIX5.2+, but...yeah.
I realize that; my point was that we have more of a need to work on network filesystems than we do to work on local filesystems. Reiserfs et al. are just fine. MS isn't putting out some new thing there that's going to blow everything away.
...I missed the point? Really? I managed multiple terabytes of raw space when you were still in diapers:P
seriously, I'm not missing the point - you're missing my point. My point is (as I said) our local filesystems (like Reiserfs...wow, where have I heard myself say that before) are pefectly good things to just continue devel on. The real importance is getting something to replace afs/compete with the ACL possibilities in ms filesystems (be they network, or local), and etc. NFS4 seems a good bet for that.
ps - don't be fooled by the "network" in "network filesystem." Its still a filesystem. its not a block device, but that's not the same, now is it? I can hand you a raw block device that is useful for some things, that isn't a filesystem at all. Oracle uses raw block devices quite well, for instance.
nfs4, with solid integrations for auth servers (ldap to active directory, etc).
We live in a network-based universe. Local filesystems are already good - whether its just continued development in Reiser, or whatever else.
Nfs4, though - its like afs, only without the sucky stuff. AIX is now including nfs4 in its AIX5.3 release, even! With the Big Dog on board, we should realize there's wisdom in that direction;)
first, Green Hills said that "Open Source community will have no chance of finding" the bugs...not that the DOD wouldn't. Does the DOD have a review team to go over the code from GreenHills, or any other closed-source OS? No? Gosh, why not? Oh, that's right...because even if they wanted to, they couldn't - unlike their option in Linux/OSS.
What's to stop a developer at GreenHill from slowly, secretly, implanting a bug in the software that does the same thing? in OSS, he'd have peer review from thousands. In closed source...just his PHB and maybe a couple coworkers. A lot harder to police your coworkers, actually...you'd spend all your time checking their stuff, and none doing your own.
As to your "hire the experts to write the code in the first place" comment - well, yeah. I'm all for them using linux as the embedded OS, and the DOD having a couple coders pump out the specific code they need. Make the guys wrrant officers, they get the thrill of being in the military, you get cheap(er) labor than the civs would pay.
I was getting an error looking for *anything*. I also work at Lockheed Martin, so I'm not all that certain why we would have been one of the targeted blocks. They have a pretty strict/global antivirus policy.
I posed a question when I submitted this story yesterday: they claim that the horn only sends one message, and doesn't allow you to thank someone who lets you cut in. How does a smile on the front of your car tell someone behind you thanks? I always found that a simple wave accomplished this quite well, myself.
not only does it not say those things (you're taking GREAT liberties with saying it does), but I fail to see your point. Point is that nothing says in the Bible that we're the only life in the universe. At the time it would have been silly to suggest otherwise anyway...planets? Huh?
Even among Slashdotters there is the occasional creationist (or very sincere troll) who I suspect would be rather put out to know that God neglected to inform them that He created life more than once in the universe. Just yesterday I saw somebody claiming that evolution makes no testable predictions. It does: one is that life should exist elsewhere in the universe. It's not a terribly falsifiable hypothesis, but we could at least put error bars on it.
even on slashdot? You don't say! Later, explain to me how making that statement didn't make you a troll. Anyway, if you could kindly tell me where in the Bible anything is said about god not creating life anywhere else, I'd be thrilled. On the flip though, no "should" will ever prove anything. We well could have all evolved from a bit of random organic material, and there still not be a single other planet on which that occured. On the other hand, the whole universe could have been created (by an implied God/diety/etc) in any particular state, mankind have been placed here sans evolution, and yet life have also been placed on other planets. This wouldn't even be contrary somehow to the Judeo-Christian religion.
So no, whether life exists elsewhere doesn't prove or disprove evolution, or creation. Both could have the same results just as easily.
IBM doesn't seem content to beat SCO, they seem to want to *destroy* their linux case against anyone.
That makes me think that there are things waiting in the wings with IBM. Looking Glass is cool, but I bet there are things much cooler from IBM that they're not disclosing until all this clears up. I bet IBM has some really good linux, and even OSS, products that will be coming out as soon as this goes away.
I still wish IBM would just buy Sun. Sun has a lot of very valuable IP, but they're not mass-producing enough processors to be competitive. If IBM bought Sun they could get a lot of Sun's chip-to-chip stuff, their new smart threading cores, etc - and just put it on their own power chips. Then those could be used in Sun servers and IBM servers alike.
like it freaking matters. Obviously, you don't understand how language works. If everyone started pronouncing cat as L-O-P, then guess what - that's how it would be pronounced. The very purpose of language is communication. Communication in the general populous occurs through general concensus of how to pronounce and spell a word, and what that word means. Once I give some inanimate thing a name, its out of my hands.
it'll take catia, or some other cad program. There's something we use here called a spacemouse that covers 3-d space. Its been around for a long time. We have some here that are several years old.
What's it gona take? The need to traverse 3d space. There exists mice for traversing it already, at this point we're waiting on gui's and apps to justify it (things other than cad's, where they've been in use for many years).
Personal opinion? For the things that a spacemouse-like thing would be useful, we'll just skip it and go to some other UI. I can't imagine someone playing a game using a spacemouse - I say that having actually *used* one, so the uninformed can keep their opinions to themselves:P For a game, we'd only need such a thing for first-person perspective, and I'm sure a 3d environ (sensors on your hands, and on the 3d glasses on your head) would be far more desirable. A spacemouse might be interesting for an overhead-type game, like Everquest or Warcraft/Starcraft, but...perfectly good spacemouse already *exist* that could be used for that. Again, its merely a matter of getting the app/OS to need/use it.
The short: it will take a need for it, and it will take apps and an OS supporting it. The device is already around.
Tribune Publisher and President Scott C. Smith told employees in a memo that the estimated cost of resolving the problem, including credits to subscribers who didn't get a paper and advertisers whose ads didn't appear, will be "under $1 million."
$10,000 is "under $1 million." For that matter, so is $1.
Also note that its all pre-sold advertizing at this point. They run another paper with an extra couple pages of advertizing, which they don't have to sell, and viola.
there's no reason to go through the bother of compressing to HDTV. Under what circumstance would you need higher resolution than that? Then why not just get a camera that as that as its max?
redundant? Do you know what that word means, mod? Can you show where someone else (esp before me) posted this, or any reference to the article on The Onion? What post #? Bah. Whatever:P
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ok, so what do the new hit CD's sell for in your neck of the woods? When MSRP is $17-20, that's what they sell for.
I haven't bought anything mainstream for YEARS because of that nonsense. Hasn't been anything worth it. Stuff I have from a few years ago, coupled with the independent artist stuff I have from recent years, is enough for me. That, and I don't tend to spend much time in places where I'd be just sitting around listening to a CD anyway.
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they would simply increase the quota. They don't actually allocate 50 physical megs...they /allow/ it. They can do that all at once easily enough - they only have a few types of accounts. Simply change standard level to having 2Gb quota, and bam - done. Even if it /were/ done per user, that would be a simple perl script to parse whatever database its in and change that entry on everything. I've updated millions of records in relatively short order myself, and I didn't have the sort of hardware MS has when I did it.
simple - if someone reloads a 4th time within 1 minute (or, whatever), deny and log them.
being GPL'd, one could just take the "good stuff" from mysql and make a new project that isn't completely a fork, or just put that stuff into a different DB app. So long as they just give credit, blah etc...
ummm...that's a beowulf. Its not a single processor space, single memory space, single platform, environment. Hell, one could make a 10,000 node windows98 beowulf cluster...that's doesn't mean win98 supports 10,000 CPU's...
the only thing they're after from IBM is for IBM to do a partnership, which would be of huge benefit to both companies. I have forever wished IBM would just buy Sun. Would make for some great mixing.
certainly do...not only that, but you can pull a cpu from one virtualized system and put it on another...or use 1 cdrom for 32 virtual systems, just moving it around. Of course, you have to use AIX5.2+, but...yeah.
I realize that; my point was that we have more of a need to work on network filesystems than we do to work on local filesystems. Reiserfs et al. are just fine. MS isn't putting out some new thing there that's going to blow everything away.
seriously, I'm not missing the point - you're missing my point. My point is (as I said) our local filesystems (like Reiserfs...wow, where have I heard myself say that before) are pefectly good things to just continue devel on. The real importance is getting something to replace afs/compete with the ACL possibilities in ms filesystems (be they network, or local), and etc. NFS4 seems a good bet for that.
ps - don't be fooled by the "network" in "network filesystem." Its still a filesystem. its not a block device, but that's not the same, now is it? I can hand you a raw block device that is useful for some things, that isn't a filesystem at all. Oracle uses raw block devices quite well, for instance.
We live in a network-based universe. Local filesystems are already good - whether its just continued development in Reiser, or whatever else.
Nfs4, though - its like afs, only without the sucky stuff. AIX is now including nfs4 in its AIX5.3 release, even! With the Big Dog on board, we should realize there's wisdom in that direction ;)
What's to stop a developer at GreenHill from slowly, secretly, implanting a bug in the software that does the same thing? in OSS, he'd have peer review from thousands. In closed source...just his PHB and maybe a couple coworkers. A lot harder to police your coworkers, actually...you'd spend all your time checking their stuff, and none doing your own.
As to your "hire the experts to write the code in the first place" comment - well, yeah. I'm all for them using linux as the embedded OS, and the DOD having a couple coders pump out the specific code they need. Make the guys wrrant officers, they get the thrill of being in the military, you get cheap(er) labor than the civs would pay.
I was getting an error looking for *anything*. I also work at Lockheed Martin, so I'm not all that certain why we would have been one of the targeted blocks. They have a pretty strict/global antivirus policy.
I posed a question when I submitted this story yesterday: they claim that the horn only sends one message, and doesn't allow you to thank someone who lets you cut in. How does a smile on the front of your car tell someone behind you thanks? I always found that a simple wave accomplished this quite well, myself.
i dunno...seems pretty on-topic to me. Come on, editors. What sort of freaking story is this? "Jumped the shark" is damn right.
wonder where, in that news paradigm, "Tiny Tim as Galadriel" fits?
not only does it not say those things (you're taking GREAT liberties with saying it does), but I fail to see your point. Point is that nothing says in the Bible that we're the only life in the universe. At the time it would have been silly to suggest otherwise anyway...planets? Huh?
even on slashdot? You don't say! Later, explain to me how making that statement didn't make you a troll. Anyway, if you could kindly tell me where in the Bible anything is said about god not creating life anywhere else, I'd be thrilled. On the flip though, no "should" will ever prove anything. We well could have all evolved from a bit of random organic material, and there still not be a single other planet on which that occured. On the other hand, the whole universe could have been created (by an implied God/diety/etc) in any particular state, mankind have been placed here sans evolution, and yet life have also been placed on other planets. This wouldn't even be contrary somehow to the Judeo-Christian religion.
So no, whether life exists elsewhere doesn't prove or disprove evolution, or creation. Both could have the same results just as easily.
That makes me think that there are things waiting in the wings with IBM. Looking Glass is cool, but I bet there are things much cooler from IBM that they're not disclosing until all this clears up. I bet IBM has some really good linux, and even OSS, products that will be coming out as soon as this goes away.
I still wish IBM would just buy Sun. Sun has a lot of very valuable IP, but they're not mass-producing enough processors to be competitive. If IBM bought Sun they could get a lot of Sun's chip-to-chip stuff, their new smart threading cores, etc - and just put it on their own power chips. Then those could be used in Sun servers and IBM servers alike.
Read chaucer sometime. Should we still spell things like that? Should we still speak the way they did?
the vast majority pronounce it with a hard g. Those that don't, know what is being said when a hard g is used.
like it freaking matters. Obviously, you don't understand how language works. If everyone started pronouncing cat as L-O-P, then guess what - that's how it would be pronounced. The very purpose of language is communication. Communication in the general populous occurs through general concensus of how to pronounce and spell a word, and what that word means. Once I give some inanimate thing a name, its out of my hands.
What's it gona take? The need to traverse 3d space. There exists mice for traversing it already, at this point we're waiting on gui's and apps to justify it (things other than cad's, where they've been in use for many years).
Personal opinion? For the things that a spacemouse-like thing would be useful, we'll just skip it and go to some other UI. I can't imagine someone playing a game using a spacemouse - I say that having actually *used* one, so the uninformed can keep their opinions to themselves :P For a game, we'd only need such a thing for first-person perspective, and I'm sure a 3d environ (sensors on your hands, and on the 3d glasses on your head) would be far more desirable. A spacemouse might be interesting for an overhead-type game, like Everquest or Warcraft/Starcraft, but...perfectly good spacemouse already *exist* that could be used for that. Again, its merely a matter of getting the app/OS to need/use it.
The short: it will take a need for it, and it will take apps and an OS supporting it. The device is already around.
$10,000 is "under $1 million." For that matter, so is $1.
Also note that its all pre-sold advertizing at this point. They run another paper with an extra couple pages of advertizing, which they don't have to sell, and viola.
Meh.
there's no reason to go through the bother of compressing to HDTV. Under what circumstance would you need higher resolution than that? Then why not just get a camera that as that as its max?
redundant? Do you know what that word means, mod? Can you show where someone else (esp before me) posted this, or any reference to the article on The Onion? What post #? Bah. Whatever :P
I haven't bought anything mainstream for YEARS because of that nonsense. Hasn't been anything worth it. Stuff I have from a few years ago, coupled with the independent artist stuff I have from recent years, is enough for me. That, and I don't tend to spend much time in places where I'd be just sitting around listening to a CD anyway.