I wasn't into computers when the switch from 286 to 386 happened (I was 2 when it was released in '85). But I can imagine all sorts of situations where a normal person would bump up against numbers bigger than 64k. If you want to keep track of finances and you do it with integers (better than floating point for money), then you max out at ~65000 pennies. That $650. It's not that hard to wrap around a 16bit number in real life.
Son, what are you talking about? Zillions of 16-bit apps use numbers bigger than 65336 (2^16). "16-bit" does not mean the biggest number you can store is 2^16. By that logic, how could Microsoft accountants ever keep track of their billions when 2^32 is only around 4.2 billion?
As it happens, my 32-bit Linux system's C library understands some numbers into the quintillions (ULLONG_MAX is 18,446,744,073,709,551,615, for example) and the MySQL library can deal with numbers up to 1.79769313486231470e+308. If that wasn't enough, I could code up my own libraries to deal with longer numbers.
Read an intelligent book like "The New Thought Police" or "The War Against Boys", and learn the TRUTH.
You might also want to try one or two on computer science.
Wonderful? Awful. Legato is the sick man of the distributed systems backup world for some good reasons.
The leaders are Veritas's NetBackup and IBM's TSM. Not that I'm endorsing either...however, having used all three, I'd pick either NBU or TSM over Legato every time.
I have generally been very unsatisfied with Google's treatment of the old DejaNews. As you mention, their threading is pretty weak. And they have none of the "MyDeja" (or whatever it was called) features, such as thread tracking/bookmarking, etc. There is no way to say "I want to watch this thread" (other than bookmarking it yourself). It's been so long since Deja's been gone that I don't remember all the features, but I remember the Google change as rather jarring.
Of course, neither Google nor Deja provide the crucial killfile feature. Of the dozen or so newsgroups I regularly read, there is probably a crank in each I'd like to just never see again (in the filtering, not homicidal sense;)
Sigh...anyone know a good USENET provider (without having to get an NNTP feed)? My network link is business DSL so I don't get any NNTP from my provider, nor do I really feel like running innd here.
What I'd really like is something like a web-based tin/trn;)
That's not a real answer. It's laziness on the part of the Slashdot "editors".
could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?
Personally, yes. But why not put it to a poll? In fact, I submitted it as a poll question and...it was rejected.
So the quick answer is: "Sure, caching would be neat." It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented.
God forbid the editors would actually do some work! Let's see, they don't read the site (ever see a comment from an editor?), they don't check for dupes, they can't be bothered to spell-check, they don't do new graphics or site design, and the code doesn't change much. What do they do? Make excuses.
Then the Satellite TV company you worked for had moronic management. Make it a "minimum 30 day subscription" or "only one change per month" or something. Of all the possible abuses, the one you mention seems to be the easiest to thwart.
Slight correction: ETFs are Exchange Traded Funds, which are a basket of stocks put together as a sort of mini-index. You can buy them through nearly any brokerage.
You can market time them. You can market time anything. That doesn't make it a good idea. You need extraordinary gains to overcome brokerage fees and taxes (which are higher since you're not holding them for at least a year).
If you want my advice...read _A Random Walk Down Wall-Street_ and unless you have the equivalent of several full-time jobs to devote on an ongoing basis, buy broad indexes (e.g., Wilshire, with S&P 500 being a second choice) and get on with your life. If you're socking away a thick 401K + Roth IRAs for most of your working life, you'll retire rich and making 12% instead of 10.5% (historical S&P 500 average) isn't going to make that much of a difference...but making 3% once you factor in your losses from amateur play sure will.
All deference to the Warren Buffets of the world aside, very (very!) few pros, usually backed by huge research desks, beat the S&P 500 over the long term. That's just as true for small funds as large ones.
Again, _A Random Walk Down Wall Street_ is the best book on investing I've ever read and I highly recommend it.
On RISC Unix boxen, making the leap from 8 to 12 cpu's is a HUGE one.
That's not entirely accurate. In the Sun line, going from the 8-CPU V880 to the 12-CPU V1280 is pretty linear. The V1280 is a weird orphan box, different than everything else, but the V880->V1280 difference in price is comparable to the V480->V880 price.
However, your point is still valid overall, because going to a 16-CPU box jumps from the "value" line to the "enterprise" line and the 16-CPU E4800 is a giant step up in price...at least double (and perhaps more like 250%) what a V1280 costs. Some of that is that it has better packaging (better internal redundancy, domaining, yadda yadda).
I'm not Sun shill, believe me...the huge gulf between V880/V1280 and the E4800 is what drives a lot of Solaris shops to look at horizontal scaling rather than continued vertical growth.
Content-free? You mean this doesn't explain everything?;)
"We've been clear: Their new license contains more stuff, and we do not accept MORE STUFF in licenses." - Theo
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Finally? For pity's sake, the game has been out for less than a week...
Son, what are you talking about? Zillions of 16-bit apps use numbers bigger than 65336 (2^16). "16-bit" does not mean the biggest number you can store is 2^16. By that logic, how could Microsoft accountants ever keep track of their billions when 2^32 is only around 4.2 billion?
As it happens, my 32-bit Linux system's C library understands some numbers into the quintillions (ULLONG_MAX is 18,446,744,073,709,551,615, for example) and the MySQL library can deal with numbers up to 1.79769313486231470e+308. If that wasn't enough, I could code up my own libraries to deal with longer numbers.
Read an intelligent book like "The New Thought Police" or "The War Against Boys", and learn the TRUTH.
You might also want to try one or two on computer science.
The leaders are Veritas's NetBackup and IBM's TSM. Not that I'm endorsing either...however, having used all three, I'd pick either NBU or TSM over Legato every time.
Beat me to it. Second place: Angband. Third place through twentieth place: a list of Angband and Nethack derivatives.
Of course, neither Google nor Deja provide the crucial killfile feature. Of the dozen or so newsgroups I regularly read, there is probably a crank in each I'd like to just never see again (in the filtering, not homicidal sense ;)
Sigh...anyone know a good USENET provider (without having to get an NNTP feed)? My network link is business DSL so I don't get any NNTP from my provider, nor do I really feel like running innd here.
What I'd really like is something like a web-based tin/trn ;)
Because wasting money is never a good idea, no matter how rich you are.
Why is this modded as a Troll? Where are we supposed to discuss Slashdot on Slashdot?
could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?
Personally, yes. But why not put it to a poll? In fact, I submitted it as a poll question and...it was rejected.
So the quick answer is: "Sure, caching would be neat." It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented.
God forbid the editors would actually do some work! Let's see, they don't read the site (ever see a comment from an editor?), they don't check for dupes, they can't be bothered to spell-check, they don't do new graphics or site design, and the code doesn't change much. What do they do? Make excuses.
Or in its more classic form, "sync;sync;sync[return]
Now that I think about it, maybe it should be "sync && sync && sync[return]" - except that it's faster with semi-colons.
Then the Satellite TV company you worked for had moronic management. Make it a "minimum 30 day subscription" or "only one change per month" or something. Of all the possible abuses, the one you mention seems to be the easiest to thwart.
Sorry, no results were found containing "fishermen"
1 billion entries? Please.
Next random test: learning how to copy and paste.
"At Last"...like we've all been waiting ;)
You can market time them. You can market time anything. That doesn't make it a good idea. You need extraordinary gains to overcome brokerage fees and taxes (which are higher since you're not holding them for at least a year).
If you want my advice...read _A Random Walk Down Wall-Street_ and unless you have the equivalent of several full-time jobs to devote on an ongoing basis, buy broad indexes (e.g., Wilshire, with S&P 500 being a second choice) and get on with your life. If you're socking away a thick 401K + Roth IRAs for most of your working life, you'll retire rich and making 12% instead of 10.5% (historical S&P 500 average) isn't going to make that much of a difference...but making 3% once you factor in your losses from amateur play sure will.
All deference to the Warren Buffets of the world aside, very (very!) few pros, usually backed by huge research desks, beat the S&P 500 over the long term. That's just as true for small funds as large ones.
Again, _A Random Walk Down Wall Street_ is the best book on investing I've ever read and I highly recommend it.
Balok from "The Corbomite Manuever"?
Weld points? LAMs? Must be Deus Ex.
If you were serious about making a text adventure game, you would use either TADS or Inform. cf. rec.arts.int-fiction
That's not entirely accurate. In the Sun line, going from the 8-CPU V880 to the 12-CPU V1280 is pretty linear. The V1280 is a weird orphan box, different than everything else, but the V880->V1280 difference in price is comparable to the V480->V880 price.
However, your point is still valid overall, because going to a 16-CPU box jumps from the "value" line to the "enterprise" line and the 16-CPU E4800 is a giant step up in price...at least double (and perhaps more like 250%) what a V1280 costs. Some of that is that it has better packaging (better internal redundancy, domaining, yadda yadda).
I'm not Sun shill, believe me...the huge gulf between V880/V1280 and the E4800 is what drives a lot of Solaris shops to look at horizontal scaling rather than continued vertical growth.
Too bad the editors don't read Slashdot.
Content-free? You mean this doesn't explain everything? ;)
"We've been clear: Their new license contains more stuff, and we do not accept MORE STUFF in licenses." - Theo
I forgot the years he was Prime Minister of Britain...refresh my memory, please?
Man, that is the best short description of DRM flaws I've ever read...bravo.
Anyone who refers to "the workers" as separate from "the shareholders" is some kind of Marxist idealogue who stopped paying attention in the 1920s.
Damn, I guess I'm going to have to stop using Gentoo...and Debian...and NetBSD...
If you don't have the bandwidth, don't submit it.
Survive? Yes. Prosper? Yes.