I haven't seen any drives that do compression natively, but there are some (expensive controllers out there... RAID/compression with 32-512MB RAM on board == mucho $$$)
That's a pretty poorly written service, if it can't handle a port scan. Error handling - use it!
I haven't heard of any service damaged by a portscan before... Sounds like it was expecting only perfect communication from one trusted source. Not a good model on a network.
Alpha and POWER/PowerPC should be more than sufficient to get everyone off of x86. Both run better in the FPU department than the x86, and the PowerPC line is great in the power consumption areas. Alpha and POWER offer 640bit solutions, for those that actually need it. The better that we can get at making common code (Linux, portable C/C++/Java) the more choices we have, and the less dependant we are on sticking to x86.
"New, from Intel. The [something] will be coming out in X months and will be way faster than [competitor's chip]. Not to mention the other versions of [something] that will be [superlative] and really [synonym for kick-ass]. We really will ship it when we say. No, it's not just another turn of the x86 crank, it's really new architecture [sweat]. Please, just leave us alone, we haven't had competition for 15 years, and now this is starting to wear on us. Yes, it's the [oldchip +1], but really, it's all sorts of new and different. No our coppermines don't actually use copper, but we really thought we were going to... don't be mad... Dave? What are you doing, Dave?....... Daisy... Daisy...."
Guess the thought was that people were posting just to get karma, instead of trying to be helpful or useful... I dunno... if somebody gets a laugh or learns something from it, it's probably worth posting... if it doesn't make someone laugh or tell someone something they don't know, then it shouldn't be getting any points, and if it does, there's M2...
I can understand not having karma publicly available, but it is unfortunate that things had to go this far (though I'm not really convinced that they really had to).
1) no... 3 points for an accepted story. Otherwise the queue would be even more unmanageable than I can imagine it already is.
2) Some move quickly, others slow. I used M2 (back in the good ol' days) to get a point a day until ~25. Then, responding with semi-useful info to AskSlashdots and other articles garners a point here, a point there. Heck, if your karma increases by only a point or two a week, you could have 150 karma easily.
Well written bad haiku are also useful to catch a few (1, Funny)s and (-1, Offtopic)s... they ususally balance out to ~+1.5/ haiku in my experience - YMMV.
If you want to whore with the best, include obvious general statements and bash M$ (or Micro$loth, MicroSuck, etc) and praise Linux, Apache, and Open Source. I like to ease off a little tension every now and again, which usually costs me a point or two for noting that someone is a complete idiot (that's the toned down version).
Yeah... being around for a log time, I had slowly built up my karma (the most in one day actually being the day of the cap)... "Whore protection" I think was the catch phrase of the minute when I mailed.
It is only karma, and since it hasn't been world viewable... oh well... I don't feel any less of a man/geek, but it was nice 8^)
>I thought people might like to know, George Washington Carver invented the peanut.
Yup, and Jimmy Carter invented the nuclear submarine and Al Gore invented the Internet...
Maybe that raises the question [OT], what did GWB ever invent? I mean, he can't run against the guy who invented the *Internet*... that's just not fair. Oh yeah... his dad was president for a whole term - that makes him well qualified.
[/sarcasm]
I had asked him too, stuck several points behind where I was... similar response. Then I had a story posted, and my karma dropped to the previously indicated 50.
Slashdot Mirror
nah, just use ebay...
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RAMBUS still pricey
Not meet performance hopes
Intel says "Oh, Shit!"
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bad links...
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Great site... can't even view it. All in flash (damn Scraper on AIX!)
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oh, I thought it was:
[1]... toaster, waffle iron, and space heater.
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so, from !!! to !V (?)... that takes an eraser, too.
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I haven't seen any drives that do compression natively, but there are some (expensive controllers out there... RAID/compression with 32-512MB RAM on board == mucho $$$)
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That's a pretty poorly written service, if it can't handle a port scan. Error handling - use it!
I haven't heard of any service damaged by a portscan before... Sounds like it was expecting only perfect communication from one trusted source. Not a good model on a network.
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2ns disk! Is that per transfer, or setup time? I'd love to see 2ns latency from main memory first.
You could always go with a solid state hard drive, but most of the time you'd be better off just getting more system RAM.
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Alpha and POWER/PowerPC should be more than sufficient to get everyone off of x86. Both run better in the FPU department than the x86, and the PowerPC line is great in the power consumption areas. Alpha and POWER offer 640bit solutions, for those that actually need it. The better that we can get at making common code (Linux, portable C/C++/Java) the more choices we have, and the less dependant we are on sticking to x86.
Damn I wish my Alpha still worked.
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That was my thought when I read it.
"New, from Intel. The [something] will be coming out in X months and will be way faster than [competitor's chip]. Not to mention the other versions of [something] that will be [superlative] and really [synonym for kick-ass]. We really will ship it when we say. No, it's not just another turn of the x86 crank, it's really new architecture [sweat]. Please, just leave us alone, we haven't had competition for 15 years, and now this is starting to wear on us. Yes, it's the [oldchip +1], but really, it's all sorts of new and different. No our coppermines don't actually use copper, but we really thought we were going to... don't be mad... Dave? What are you doing, Dave?....... Daisy... Daisy...."
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Guess the thought was that people were posting just to get karma, instead of trying to be helpful or useful... I dunno... if somebody gets a laugh or learns something from it, it's probably worth posting... if it doesn't make someone laugh or tell someone something they don't know, then it shouldn't be getting any points, and if it does, there's M2...
I can understand not having karma publicly available, but it is unfortunate that things had to go this far (though I'm not really convinced that they really had to).
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Self-set goals.... feeling that you are somewhat appreciated by somebody... somewhere.
Oh, that and geeks like to hoard things. Points, especially.
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10 A$="Hello World."
20 ? A$
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They have higher education in Canada?! [/flameait]
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Hey, a random Katz generator... not quite as begging as the original, but so far, just as unintelligible...
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>log time
oops... s/log/long/
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1) no... 3 points for an accepted story. Otherwise the queue would be even more unmanageable than I can imagine it already is.
2) Some move quickly, others slow. I used M2 (back in the good ol' days) to get a point a day until ~25. Then, responding with semi-useful info to AskSlashdots and other articles garners a point here, a point there. Heck, if your karma increases by only a point or two a week, you could have 150 karma easily.
Well written bad haiku are also useful to catch a few (1, Funny)s and (-1, Offtopic)s... they ususally balance out to ~+1.5/ haiku in my experience - YMMV.
If you want to whore with the best, include obvious general statements and bash M$ (or Micro$loth, MicroSuck, etc) and praise Linux, Apache, and Open Source. I like to ease off a little tension every now and again, which usually costs me a point or two for noting that someone is a complete idiot (that's the toned down version).
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Yeah... being around for a log time, I had slowly built up my karma (the most in one day actually being the day of the cap)... "Whore protection" I think was the catch phrase of the minute when I mailed.
It is only karma, and since it hasn't been world viewable... oh well... I don't feel any less of a man/geek, but it was nice 8^)
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>Incidentally, UVA hosts one of the two crash test research centers that use actual human cadavers in the car
Oooh, I always wanted to be a test dummy - where do I sign up.
(that's kind of gross, actually... if they aren't too frozen you'd probably get some good data, though)
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>I thought people might like to know, George Washington Carver invented the peanut.
Yup, and Jimmy Carter invented the nuclear submarine and Al Gore invented the Internet...
Maybe that raises the question [OT], what did GWB ever invent? I mean, he can't run against the guy who invented the *Internet*... that's just not fair. Oh yeah... his dad was president for a whole term - that makes him well qualified.
[/sarcasm]
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If journalists were outside the marketplace, Katz wouldn't be posting these things trying to get more banner-ad hits...
Politicians... are the marketplace, or are at least the goods on sale...
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I start to wonder whether that is a hard limit, or just a: if(karma > 50) displayed_karma = 50; sort of thing...
So the karma isn't gone, just less viewable than it was before... just an idea, of course...
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I had asked him too, stuck several points behind where I was... similar response. Then I had a story posted, and my karma dropped to the previously indicated 50.
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dhs.org is another good solution... My brother uses cjb for website redirection, I use dhs for box DNS. Good stuff.
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