Child pornography is the rape of a child for the sexual entertainment of an adult.
Child pornography is also a 15 year old girl recording herself nude on her mobile phone and then sending the video to her boyfriend in his 18th birthday.
Microsoft has repeatedly chosen to patch Windows instead of rebuilding it from the ground up as a modern operating system, the way Apple did with OS X.
Er, no. They just did it nearly a decade earlier with Windows NT.
If you can not vote labor, vote greens at least then you can have a clear conscience and a warm inner glow.
Indeed. And since if the Greens ever got into power we'd all be broke and starving in the dark in a decade or so, that warm inner glow could come in pretty useful.
Actually, if I'm remembering correctly, Charlie Miller DID say that he knew of more ways to crack into a mac. He also said that Mac was just as insecure as Windows and that Windows gets attacked mainly because of the number of people using it.
If you were married (and you may be) and your wife asked you to stop looking at porn, would you do it even if you thought her request was unreasonable? There are a lot of men out there who would keep looking at porn at the cost of their marriage. That's a textbook example of addiction.
No, it's a textbook example of a marriage that should never have happened. The marriage was already broken, "porn" just happened to be a catalyst.
(Replace "porn" with something you enjoy doing and consider completely harmless - say, reading war novels - if you wish to try and understand why.)
Ten HP BL460s plus the chassis costs about the same as ten PE1950s, saves 6U, uses less power, fewer cables to manage, fewer network ports needed (you can get away with as little as one trunk and one management port).
Wouldn't it make a bit more sense to compare it to a Dell M1000e and M60x blades ?
It amazes me that so many "enterprise" IT companies can sell what are essentially just Linux servers [networkworld.com] with their brand name tacked-on, at a 5000% mark-up.
Wait, isn't that what RMS keeps telling us is awesome ?
Windows is inherently portable? Thus speaks someone who hasn't tried switching the motherboard and CPU between Intel and AMD on a HP box, and watched Windows failing to boot because the OEM only included a HAL library for one of them.
Ah. So you agree that because I forgot to include the software RAID components into my initrd and promptly broken my Linux install, Linux isn't portable, then ?
Yes, there were Alpha and MIPS versions of Windows NT. No, there haven't been any for a long, long time. If it was just a matter of passing a different CPU flag at the top level of the compiler, it would have cost MS next to nothing to continue to provide support for XP, Vista and W7.
Yes, it would. It would cost them _massive_ amounts to QA and support multiple hardware platforms.
Windows has become quite married to x86 over the years, and I doubt that switching would be trivial.
Windows is currently maintained on at least three different platforms - and those are just the ones we know about.
Because many idiots here want to ruin the US by making it a clone of failed European ideas.
Which "failed European ideas" ? The ones that have consistently given numerous European countries the highest living standards in the world ?
If they think your way of life is so superior, why not move to Europe?
I'm not European (although I am spending a couple of years in Switzerland).
Why destroy the one country that was supposed to be free?
See, this is the common mixture of collosal arrogance and ignorance that the rest of the world dislikes you Americans for.
Oh, and collectivist societies may provide the illusion of democracy, but the citizens have very little power to control what happens since everything is "for the greater good". It's kind of like the "elections" in Venezuela. Yea, Chavez is "democratically elected" because people don't have any other choice.
Switzerland practices direct democracy. It's arguably the most democratic country on the planet.
Here's the difference: in Europe (well, in pretty much the whole civilised world outside of the US), "freedom" is considered to be a good quality of life, generally based around things like not having to worry about starving, bankrupted by medical bills, or being thrown in gaol as a terrorist. In America, "freedom" means being able to insult people and own a gun.
Um, if you're paying for X bandwidth, but getting less than that, wouldn't you consider that a "limit"?
You don't pay for "X bandwidth" on home internet connections, you pay for a particular type of connection with a theoretical maximum that the provider makes quite clear a) you may never actually reach (eg: due to unavoidable technical limitations like distance from the exchange) and b) they are under no obligation to deliver at all, let alone constantly.
This is in the fine print of pretty much every ISP contract you'll ever see. It certainly has been in every one that I've ever read. A consumer-grade internet connection is a "best effort", not a contractual SLA, and no remotely intelligent person (and even most stupid ones) seriously believes otherwise when they sign up, no matter how much outrage they might feign on Slashdot afterwards.
Finally, even most of the "unlimited" plans usually only talk about "unlimited downloads", not "unlimited bandwidth", which is my point - it's a measure of volume, not speed.
Europe is well known for it's extensive government involvement in businesses, high taxes, in your health, etc. The more things like that they do, the closer they get to a dictatorship.
I'm sure you love your right-wing talk shows, but Europe isn't anything like a dictatorship. Indeed, the particularly European country being discussed here has vastly more Democracy than the US.
It never ceases to amaze me how people on slashdot want absolute freedom with their software / gadgets, yet so many on here (such as yourself) openly support government systems that rob people of many of their basic freedoms.
It never ceases to amaze me how brainwashed some Americans are that they can't even conceive of a system other than their own. It's even more laughable after in light of their recent efforts at warmongering and economic destruction.
The mac is a xeon based not consumer chip based. Quit comparing Xeon to Core (apples to oranges)
The only difference between the Core i7 920 in an $1,100 Dell XPS and the Xeon in the $2,500 quad-core Mac Pro is that the latter supports ECC RAM.
In fact, nobody but Apple ships a 2 socket Nehalem system. So you can't even compare the 16k Dell to the 16k Apple. Nice try.
If you're lucky enough to have a parallelisable workload, you can get ~14 4-core Dell XPS machines for about the same $16,000 that ~6 quad-core Mac Pros will cost.
It's a sad state of how far Europe has fallen that it's citizens put up with governments that every day come closer and closer to a dictatorship. What's sadder still is that you think that it's actually a good thing for the government to have absolute control over every facet of your life.
Which pales into insignificance compared to how sad it is that you think Europe is anything like that.
It could be the RPM. I have a pair of few year old 30 gig WD HDs that are 10k rpm, I use them in raid 1 and put stuff on it that I want to run the fastest.
You would almost certainly get noticably better performance with a couple of brand new 1TB drives and with a 30G partition on them.
I have had dozens of consecutively serial numbered drives in production in various raid farms over the years and never has two drives fail at the exact same time.
They don't need fail at the exact same time, they just need to fail within your rebuild window. Which, for a sizeable SATA array (say, 8 drives) still in active use during the rebuild, can be a couple of days.
Using RAID10, however, a rebuild is unlikely to take more than a few hours - and your performance is nowhere near as badly impacted while it is happening.
are multi-cpu mother boards likely to leave the server market and enter the consumer market at anypoint (soon?)
Given how much computing power is in a quad-core Nehalem CPU, it's damn near impossible to see any need for multi-socket motherboards in "the consumer market".
Part for part, Apple will be cheaper. That and you can't even get nehalem on a Dell yet.
Dell has been selling Nehalem XPSes for months - and if you're lucky enough to be doing something that can be scaled across a cluster, you'll get a LOT more bang for your buck at Dell (a quad-core Nehalem is about a grand) than Apple (where a quad-core Nehalem is more than twice as much).
Yes it is, you're just looking at the wrong thing. It's not the variables you have to be concerned with, it's all the keywords (void, int, float, etc).
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Child pornography is the rape of a child for the sexual entertainment of an adult.
Child pornography is also a 15 year old girl recording herself nude on her mobile phone and then sending the video to her boyfriend in his 18th birthday.
I think his point is that even the NT architecture is getting a bit long in the tooth.
OSX is basically NeXTSTEP 5.x (or maybe 6.x, depending on how you want to count), and NeXT has been around even longer than NT.
Indeed, NT is probably the _youngest_ of all the contemporary, mainstream OSes.
Microsoft has repeatedly chosen to patch Windows instead of rebuilding it from the ground up as a modern operating system, the way Apple did with OS X.
Er, no. They just did it nearly a decade earlier with Windows NT.
If you can not vote labor, vote greens at least then you can have a clear conscience and a warm inner glow.
Indeed. And since if the Greens ever got into power we'd all be broke and starving in the dark in a decade or so, that warm inner glow could come in pretty useful.
Xenophon to his credit has seen the glaring human rights error in his plan to ban offshore gambling sites, [...]
I don't think he has, I think he's just realised that the filter can't be effective, and therefore there's no point implementing it.
Ie: he's not supporting it because it wouldn't ban enough sites.
Actually, if I'm remembering correctly, Charlie Miller DID say that he knew of more ways to crack into a mac. He also said that Mac was just as insecure as Windows and that Windows gets attacked mainly because of the number of people using it.
BURN HIM ! BURN THE HERETIC !
If you were married (and you may be) and your wife asked you to stop looking at porn, would you do it even if you thought her request was unreasonable? There are a lot of men out there who would keep looking at porn at the cost of their marriage. That's a textbook example of addiction.
No, it's a textbook example of a marriage that should never have happened. The marriage was already broken, "porn" just happened to be a catalyst.
(Replace "porn" with something you enjoy doing and consider completely harmless - say, reading war novels - if you wish to try and understand why.)
Ten HP BL460s plus the chassis costs about the same as ten PE1950s, saves 6U, uses less power, fewer cables to manage, fewer network ports needed (you can get away with as little as one trunk and one management port).
Wouldn't it make a bit more sense to compare it to a Dell M1000e and M60x blades ?
Probably wouldn't sound quite as good though...
It amazes me that so many "enterprise" IT companies can sell what are essentially just Linux servers [networkworld.com] with their brand name tacked-on, at a 5000% mark-up.
Wait, isn't that what RMS keeps telling us is awesome ?
And, if I remember rightly, at least the Alpha version of NT was simply the Intel version of NT, packaged with a VM.
No, it wasn't. It *was* only 32 bit thought.
You are thinking of FX!32, which was the emulator for running x86 applications on Alpha.
Windows is inherently portable? Thus speaks someone who hasn't tried switching the motherboard and CPU between Intel and AMD on a HP box, and watched Windows failing to boot because the OEM only included a HAL library for one of them.
Ah. So you agree that because I forgot to include the software RAID components into my initrd and promptly broken my Linux install, Linux isn't portable, then ?
Yes, there were Alpha and MIPS versions of Windows NT. No, there haven't been any for a long, long time. If it was just a matter of passing a different CPU flag at the top level of the compiler, it would have cost MS next to nothing to continue to provide support for XP, Vista and W7.
Yes, it would. It would cost them _massive_ amounts to QA and support multiple hardware platforms.
Windows has become quite married to x86 over the years, and I doubt that switching would be trivial.
Windows is currently maintained on at least three different platforms - and those are just the ones we know about.
Because many idiots here want to ruin the US by making it a clone of failed European ideas.
Which "failed European ideas" ? The ones that have consistently given numerous European countries the highest living standards in the world ?
If they think your way of life is so superior, why not move to Europe?
I'm not European (although I am spending a couple of years in Switzerland).
Why destroy the one country that was supposed to be free?
See, this is the common mixture of collosal arrogance and ignorance that the rest of the world dislikes you Americans for.
Oh, and collectivist societies may provide the illusion of democracy, but the citizens have very little power to control what happens since everything is "for the greater good". It's kind of like the "elections" in Venezuela. Yea, Chavez is "democratically elected" because people don't have any other choice.
Switzerland practices direct democracy. It's arguably the most democratic country on the planet.
Here's the difference: in Europe (well, in pretty much the whole civilised world outside of the US), "freedom" is considered to be a good quality of life, generally based around things like not having to worry about starving, bankrupted by medical bills, or being thrown in gaol as a terrorist. In America, "freedom" means being able to insult people and own a gun.
Um, if you're paying for X bandwidth, but getting less than that, wouldn't you consider that a "limit"?
You don't pay for "X bandwidth" on home internet connections, you pay for a particular type of connection with a theoretical maximum that the provider makes quite clear a) you may never actually reach (eg: due to unavoidable technical limitations like distance from the exchange) and b) they are under no obligation to deliver at all, let alone constantly.
This is in the fine print of pretty much every ISP contract you'll ever see. It certainly has been in every one that I've ever read. A consumer-grade internet connection is a "best effort", not a contractual SLA, and no remotely intelligent person (and even most stupid ones) seriously believes otherwise when they sign up, no matter how much outrage they might feign on Slashdot afterwards.
Finally, even most of the "unlimited" plans usually only talk about "unlimited downloads", not "unlimited bandwidth", which is my point - it's a measure of volume, not speed.
Europe is well known for it's extensive government involvement in businesses, high taxes, in your health, etc. The more things like that they do, the closer they get to a dictatorship.
I'm sure you love your right-wing talk shows, but Europe isn't anything like a dictatorship. Indeed, the particularly European country being discussed here has vastly more Democracy than the US.
It never ceases to amaze me how people on slashdot want absolute freedom with their software / gadgets, yet so many on here (such as yourself) openly support government systems that rob people of many of their basic freedoms.
It never ceases to amaze me how brainwashed some Americans are that they can't even conceive of a system other than their own. It's even more laughable after in light of their recent efforts at warmongering and economic destruction.
Dell doesn't ship a 2 socket Nehalem Xeon system.
I never said they did.
The mac is a xeon based not consumer chip based. Quit comparing Xeon to Core (apples to oranges)
The only difference between the Core i7 920 in an $1,100 Dell XPS and the Xeon in the $2,500 quad-core Mac Pro is that the latter supports ECC RAM.
In fact, nobody but Apple ships a 2 socket Nehalem system. So you can't even compare the 16k Dell to the 16k Apple. Nice try.
If you're lucky enough to have a parallelisable workload, you can get ~14 4-core Dell XPS machines for about the same $16,000 that ~6 quad-core Mac Pros will cost.
If a contract says "unlimited" then metering would be breaking the contract.
"Unlimited" states a volume, not the speed you can get it at.
It's a sad state of how far Europe has fallen that it's citizens put up with governments that every day come closer and closer to a dictatorship. What's sadder still is that you think that it's actually a good thing for the government to have absolute control over every facet of your life.
Which pales into insignificance compared to how sad it is that you think Europe is anything like that.
You would need to be fairly daft to use RAID5+HS when pretty much any remotely modern RAID controller will support RAID6.
It could be the RPM. I have a pair of few year old 30 gig WD HDs that are 10k rpm, I use them in raid 1 and put stuff on it that I want to run the fastest.
You would almost certainly get noticably better performance with a couple of brand new 1TB drives and with a 30G partition on them.
Brought to you by the RAID is (usually) a Terrible Idea guy
Who should be known from here on in as the "I have no idea what I'm talking about and shouldn't be building computers for anything important guy".
RAID 6 or 0+1 now, even if there is reduction in storage.
I hope you really mean 1+0 here, or you're heading for another nasty Monday...
I have had dozens of consecutively serial numbered drives in production in various raid farms over the years and never has two drives fail at the exact same time.
They don't need fail at the exact same time, they just need to fail within your rebuild window. Which, for a sizeable SATA array (say, 8 drives) still in active use during the rebuild, can be a couple of days.
Using RAID10, however, a rebuild is unlikely to take more than a few hours - and your performance is nowhere near as badly impacted while it is happening.
are multi-cpu mother boards likely to leave the server market and enter the consumer market at anypoint (soon?)
Given how much computing power is in a quad-core Nehalem CPU, it's damn near impossible to see any need for multi-socket motherboards in "the consumer market".
Part for part, Apple will be cheaper. That and you can't even get nehalem on a Dell yet.
Dell has been selling Nehalem XPSes for months - and if you're lucky enough to be doing something that can be scaled across a cluster, you'll get a LOT more bang for your buck at Dell (a quad-core Nehalem is about a grand) than Apple (where a quad-core Nehalem is more than twice as much).
Correct spelling isn't necessary in programming.
Yes it is, you're just looking at the wrong thing. It's not the variables you have to be concerned with, it's all the keywords (void, int, float, etc).