And how many apps & other processes is your system running at the moment? Mine's running 58 with 518 threads.
Typically 517 of those threads are asleep waiting for IO or a signal, and the one piece of information that you are currently waiting for is being processed in the single remaining active thread.
I don't remember about CGA, but the original IBM EGA cards (precursors to the VGA) had 128K. They used a stupid non-square 640x350 aspect ration to fit it into physical video RAM at 4 bits per pixel, and they used an unbelievably insane logic scheme to map it into bus memory space at 1 bit per pixel.
Maybe if TiVo has patents on their system, they can use those to make enough money to stay afloat for a while?
I seem to recall that TiVo has patents on basic PVR functionality. I'm surprised that I haven't heard more about TiVo wielding them to threaten the cable providers who bundle PVRs.
No, when battleships were in use they had analog mechanical fire control computers the size of washing machines. The "software" was a bunch of gyros, gears and cams.
All that computation is useless if there's nobody to interpret it. We need to get each and every person on this planet 110% dedicated to protien research 24x7 until every last child has been saved.
Yes, geeks participate in sports. Don't be so stereotypical.
Google is planning going to provide equipment for all the popular sports on the campus: nerf basketball, ping-pong tables, video game consoles, model rockets, and super soakers.
and what exactly is going to happen when a non rooted user executes that worm?
Little if any functionality of most worms requires root privileges. They could run just fine as a user process.
about the worst thing that can happen is the home directory to be wiped out
Which is usually the only directory on a workstation that contains any information of value.
Delete all your home directories, rsync or rdiff your backup in and magically things just work.
You could restore the entire filesystem on any computer to achieve the same thing.
There are many factors that make Linux less worm-prone than windows. Taken together, they add up to a huge disparity in malware prevalence between the two OSes. However, no single factor is a magic bullet, and that includes the relative difficulty of running with root privileges. It's just one small piece of the puzzle.
A municipality offering telecoms services can (and often will) bar any competitors from the market,
What market?
Local telecom services are almost invariably a monopoly or small oligopoly. The private companies that currently provide these services are already effectively barring any competitors from the market. If there's going to be no competition, it might as well be done by a party who is not tacking on extra costs of accounting, marketing and profit generation.
since the star is 50,000 light-years away, it didn't happen 400 years ago, but rather 50,000 years ago
It depends on your frame of reference. IIRC, from the viewpoint of the gamma ray photons themselves, there was no delay at all between the time of the starquake and reaching earth.
So they'll say that the in-state sales tax is also a "use tax", or they'll say that the use tax also applies to all items sold within the state, but the sales tax gets deducted from it.
Notwithstanding what the federal constitution says, prohibiting states from taxing items ordered from other states seems more "discriminatory" than taxing all items at the same rate. It would have made more sense if they had worded the clause to allow taxing interstate transactions, but but only at a rate *no higher* than their intrastate transactions. This would have preserved the goal of preventing protectionism between states, but would eliminate the silly semantic juggling currently used to close the loophole.
Being a resident of the state does not make it any less interstate commerce.
Their argument is probably that they're not taxing the transaction itself; they're taxing your use of a newly acquired item once it's safely in your posession inside your state. Kind of like a one-time property tax.
Certain developers are allowed to view the code of any MS project (Windows included) there are just certain guidelines that you have to follow, such as in the case of Windows, no OS related development for five years.
If you find youself pining for the good old days of indentured servitude, this program may be right for you.
The average 1 hour show is at least 700 megabytes. If you can transfer that much data over a home LAN quickly, you must have quite the amazing home LAN.
I've been using MythTV configured to record at about 800MB/hr. I just tried transferring over my home network (which is comprised of $14 Linksys NICs):
Can you site an instance where M$FT ever sued someone on patent grounds?
They've never had a bad quarter yet either. When and if that happens, you can expect to see them trying any means available to scrounge up more revenue and/or shore up the defenses of their market positions.
Why not just decouple overall gasoline usage from the tax revenue? Do it like property taxes are done in many areas: the local government makes a budget and determines how much money they need each year in property taxes. Then they add up the total value of all the real-estate, divide the total taxes by that, and this determines the tax rate for the year.
Just the same way, California could predetermine how much gasoline tax they're collecting each year. Every quarter or so, they divide that into the number of gallons sold, and update the tax cents per gallon to match.
If people start using less gas, the tax per gallon goes up, but the total tax burden remains constant. People would also be able to easily see how much the highway system is costing them every year when the budget requirements are published. I don't see how a system like that would be any harder than making every driver in the state put a gadget in their car, and it would totally insulate the government revenue collection from variations in gasoline consumption.
I don't want tools that could do something, or that can be tweaked to do something, or that can do something if you add other tools. I want tools that do what I want, right now.
If you're going to be a professional software developer, you should invest some time in your tools. As you use a tool like vim, over time you build up a bunch of personalized settings, shortcuts, key mappings, etc. that is perfectly suited to the way you work. These go into one or two text config files.
Once you have that, you can use it on any language on any OS platform. You get your personal development environment "right now", no matter where you are or what you're doing. You don't need to install 600MB worth of bloatware (that probably won't even install correctly 5 years from now) to get your development environment up and running on any machine.
The three were about to merge, but their plans were thwarted when it was discovered that the world's supply of stupid committee-selected synthetic corporate names has finally been exhausted, so there would be no way to refer to the new conglomerate.
Among such feats as learning to add and compare numbers, these digital life forms also once avoided scientists attempts at "killing" them, by playing dead.
Oh yeah, well maybe it's time to get medieval on their asses. Here comes the apocalypse:
Most of those guns were around when Saddam was in power. They didn't help overthrow him, and they're most likely not going to stop the US occupation. At any rate, it's the IEDs much more than guns that are currently "making people listen". I'll say it again: IEDs are not currently legal to keep in the US, so the Constitution is not helping you there.
Why do you think we haven't gone to north Korea?
Because N. Korea has hundreds of underground artillery batteries in place within range of S. Korea's capital, and they could devestate the city within minutes. There would be no way to invade without massive losses to the south.
Not to mention the nukes. No nuclear-armed country has been invaded to date. Attempting such a move would be a nail-biting experience at the very least.
Are you talking about WMP or Apple (who has ~90% marketshare in purchased media files)?
Don't forget that this is the same Apple who has had similar dominance early in the lifetime of other markets and who has eventually dropped the ball every time.
At any rate, Apple built up this current monopoly fair and square. The current situation isn't particularly stable, in contrast to what it would be like with a Windows+IE+WMP+WinCE-player regime.
You might consider the Russian expulsion from Afghanistan.
Doesn't relate to the 2nd ammendment. Last I checked the key to their success, shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, weren't legal in the US.
Governments always maintain more sophisticated weaponry and indeed military skills than their citizens; but nevertheless there have been successful uprisings in the not-too distant past.
Most often with military assistance from foreign governments (who would provide real weapons to fight with). It's probably never happened in a country with a truly modern military force, especially a nuclear-armed one, unless the military itself took the side of the rebels or voluntarily stepped aside. (Which is more a job of convincing the right people than fighting.)
This is blatenlty false because the major US OEMs (Dell & HP) already ship with players & music stores other than WMP as default.
Removing WMP doesn't really help Apple or Real, it only hurts the enduser who can't watch certain web videos.
However, what if Apple or Real makes a deal where they give the OEM a kickback if it installs Windows without WMP? Media competitors may consider it beneficial to make it harder for the end user to get WMP files.
None of these players care if they "hurt" the end user, as long as their own market share is bolstered. They're not supposed to care in our system; user well-being is left up to the "invisible hand" of the free market and all that.
Anti-trust regulations supposedly help to ensure that there is a market. In this case, it may be that some users have to put up with a little inconvenience in return for avoiding having the whole world eternally locked in to a single monopoly digital media format.
And none of those people know or care enough to seek out a version of windows specifically without Media Player.
It's not the end user who would be picking alternative media players; it would be OEMs who sell the system with a different default player installed.
Strangely enough, with various companies using different incompatible DRM schemes to try to build up little media empires, some hardware manufacturers might now actually be interested in doing this. For example, they could choose to ally with Apple's media ecosystem rather than Microsoft's. Without the DRM schemes, there really isn't much reason to use anything other than the default provided by Microsoft.
A relative handful of people in Iraq have been able to inflict substantial casualties on the US military.
They aren't "substantial casualties" in any measure other than sappy CNN reports. The casualty count over the last 2 years has been equivalent just a couple of hours worth of many historical conflicts.
With nothing more than small arms and IEDs.
IEDs (which have inflicted the bulk of their militarily insignificant accomplishments) are already illegal in the US. Many of the "small arms" that the Iraqis have would also be illegal in the US. The second ammendment isn't helping you there.
How are you going to overthrow your government without a peashooter popgun (as you describe it), since you seem to think it is impossible with such consitutionally protected armaments.
You aren't. How the hell do you plan to take over control of the ICBM bunkers and nuclear submarine forces? Like I said, if you didn't understand it, the only hope is to work to avoid the situation where an overthrow is necessary, because it's no longer possible without the support of the military leadership. (And if you have the support of the military leadership, then you didn't need your puny little weapons anyway.)
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Typically 517 of those threads are asleep waiting for IO or a signal, and the one piece of information that you are currently waiting for is being processed in the single remaining active thread.
I don't remember about CGA, but the original IBM EGA cards (precursors to the VGA) had 128K. They used a stupid non-square 640x350 aspect ration to fit it into physical video RAM at 4 bits per pixel, and they used an unbelievably insane logic scheme to map it into bus memory space at 1 bit per pixel.
I seem to recall that TiVo has patents on basic PVR functionality. I'm surprised that I haven't heard more about TiVo wielding them to threaten the cable providers who bundle PVRs.
No, when battleships were in use they had analog mechanical fire control computers the size of washing machines. The "software" was a bunch of gyros, gears and cams.
All that computation is useless if there's nobody to interpret it. We need to get each and every person on this planet 110% dedicated to protien research 24x7 until every last child has been saved.
Stop wasting your time posting on slashdot! Please, everybody, get back to your protien studies. Children are dying even as we type!
Google is planning going to provide equipment for all the popular sports on the campus: nerf basketball, ping-pong tables, video game consoles, model rockets, and super soakers.
Little if any functionality of most worms requires root privileges. They could run just fine as a user process.
about the worst thing that can happen is the home directory to be wiped out
Which is usually the only directory on a workstation that contains any information of value.
Delete all your home directories, rsync or rdiff your backup in and magically things just work.
You could restore the entire filesystem on any computer to achieve the same thing.
There are many factors that make Linux less worm-prone than windows. Taken together, they add up to a huge disparity in malware prevalence between the two OSes. However, no single factor is a magic bullet, and that includes the relative difficulty of running with root privileges. It's just one small piece of the puzzle.
What competition?
A municipality offering telecoms services can (and often will) bar any competitors from the market,
What market?
Local telecom services are almost invariably a monopoly or small oligopoly. The private companies that currently provide these services are already effectively barring any competitors from the market. If there's going to be no competition, it might as well be done by a party who is not tacking on extra costs of accounting, marketing and profit generation.
It depends on your frame of reference. IIRC, from the viewpoint of the gamma ray photons themselves, there was no delay at all between the time of the starquake and reaching earth.
Notwithstanding what the federal constitution says, prohibiting states from taxing items ordered from other states seems more "discriminatory" than taxing all items at the same rate. It would have made more sense if they had worded the clause to allow taxing interstate transactions, but but only at a rate *no higher* than their intrastate transactions. This would have preserved the goal of preventing protectionism between states, but would eliminate the silly semantic juggling currently used to close the loophole.
Their argument is probably that they're not taxing the transaction itself; they're taxing your use of a newly acquired item once it's safely in your posession inside your state. Kind of like a one-time property tax.
If you find youself pining for the good old days of indentured servitude, this program may be right for you.
I've been using MythTV configured to record at about 800MB/hr. I just tried transferring over my home network (which is comprised of $14 Linksys NICs):
Shouldn't take much more than 1 minute per show.
They've never had a bad quarter yet either. When and if that happens, you can expect to see them trying any means available to scrounge up more revenue and/or shore up the defenses of their market positions.
Just the same way, California could predetermine how much gasoline tax they're collecting each year. Every quarter or so, they divide that into the number of gallons sold, and update the tax cents per gallon to match.
If people start using less gas, the tax per gallon goes up, but the total tax burden remains constant. People would also be able to easily see how much the highway system is costing them every year when the budget requirements are published. I don't see how a system like that would be any harder than making every driver in the state put a gadget in their car, and it would totally insulate the government revenue collection from variations in gasoline consumption.
If you're going to be a professional software developer, you should invest some time in your tools. As you use a tool like vim, over time you build up a bunch of personalized settings, shortcuts, key mappings, etc. that is perfectly suited to the way you work. These go into one or two text config files.
Once you have that, you can use it on any language on any OS platform. You get your personal development environment "right now", no matter where you are or what you're doing. You don't need to install 600MB worth of bloatware (that probably won't even install correctly 5 years from now) to get your development environment up and running on any machine.
The three were about to merge, but their plans were thwarted when it was discovered that the world's supply of stupid committee-selected synthetic corporate names has finally been exhausted, so there would be no way to refer to the new conglomerate.
Oh yeah, well maybe it's time to get medieval on their asses. Here comes the apocalypse:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
Why do you think we haven't gone to north Korea?
Because N. Korea has hundreds of underground artillery batteries in place within range of S. Korea's capital, and they could devestate the city within minutes. There would be no way to invade without massive losses to the south.
Not to mention the nukes. No nuclear-armed country has been invaded to date. Attempting such a move would be a nail-biting experience at the very least.
Don't forget that this is the same Apple who has had similar dominance early in the lifetime of other markets and who has eventually dropped the ball every time.
At any rate, Apple built up this current monopoly fair and square. The current situation isn't particularly stable, in contrast to what it would be like with a Windows+IE+WMP+WinCE-player regime.
Doesn't relate to the 2nd ammendment. Last I checked the key to their success, shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, weren't legal in the US.
Governments always maintain more sophisticated weaponry and indeed military skills than their citizens; but nevertheless there have been successful uprisings in the not-too distant past.
Most often with military assistance from foreign governments (who would provide real weapons to fight with). It's probably never happened in a country with a truly modern military force, especially a nuclear-armed one, unless the military itself took the side of the rebels or voluntarily stepped aside. (Which is more a job of convincing the right people than fighting.)
Removing WMP doesn't really help Apple or Real, it only hurts the enduser who can't watch certain web videos.
However, what if Apple or Real makes a deal where they give the OEM a kickback if it installs Windows without WMP? Media competitors may consider it beneficial to make it harder for the end user to get WMP files.
None of these players care if they "hurt" the end user, as long as their own market share is bolstered. They're not supposed to care in our system; user well-being is left up to the "invisible hand" of the free market and all that.
Anti-trust regulations supposedly help to ensure that there is a market. In this case, it may be that some users have to put up with a little inconvenience in return for avoiding having the whole world eternally locked in to a single monopoly digital media format.
It's not the end user who would be picking alternative media players; it would be OEMs who sell the system with a different default player installed.
Strangely enough, with various companies using different incompatible DRM schemes to try to build up little media empires, some hardware manufacturers might now actually be interested in doing this. For example, they could choose to ally with Apple's media ecosystem rather than Microsoft's. Without the DRM schemes, there really isn't much reason to use anything other than the default provided by Microsoft.
They aren't "substantial casualties" in any measure other than sappy CNN reports. The casualty count over the last 2 years has been equivalent just a couple of hours worth of many historical conflicts.
With nothing more than small arms and IEDs.
IEDs (which have inflicted the bulk of their militarily insignificant accomplishments) are already illegal in the US. Many of the "small arms" that the Iraqis have would also be illegal in the US. The second ammendment isn't helping you there.
How are you going to overthrow your government without a peashooter popgun (as you describe it), since you seem to think it is impossible with such consitutionally protected armaments.
You aren't. How the hell do you plan to take over control of the ICBM bunkers and nuclear submarine forces? Like I said, if you didn't understand it, the only hope is to work to avoid the situation where an overthrow is necessary, because it's no longer possible without the support of the military leadership. (And if you have the support of the military leadership, then you didn't need your puny little weapons anyway.)