actually, i heard of this technology, its going to be crossed with MS's "wizard" technology, so that your system will be protected by "hedge wizards"... unfortunately, it will be found that these hedge wizards will be easily defeated by low-level hackers...
>computer hardware capabilities was outpacing the ability of export
>control policy to keep up. President Clinton announced in July 1999
>that hardware controls would be adjusted more frequently and that the
>Administration would seek a more effective way to control the export of
>computational capabilities important for security and proliferation
>interests. The review, which began in the fall of 1999 and involved all
>relevant security and nonproliferation agencies and private sector
>experts, sought to address the realities of the computer hardware
>market, including the continuing growth in single processor performance
>that can be aggregated relatively easily into multiple processor
>machines, and the advancements in interconnection capabilities that
>allow end-users to network large clusters of computers. The latter
>element has, in particular, become the single most important challenge
>to the ability to effectively control computer hardware.
so... at least to me, it seems that they have recognized the potential computing power of clusters. tagline
seriously... i read the announcement, and instead of controlling pure hardware, and rating based on the overall performance of the hardware, they changed it to be software based.
I.E. it may fsck with the Beowulf cluster sales... because now, since they are all strung together, they may be fast enought to fall under export controls.
so... this could be a blow to upstart beowulf companies that want to expand into shipping overseas.
i dont know... it seems like the govt. is actually becoming MORE restrictive here... whilst saying that they are easing controls...
hey - did you ever see the one where the Professor has a great idea for getting off of the island, and then Gilligan and the Skipper screw it up?
or, sometimes i like to watch three's company instead... Did you ever see the one where there is a misunderstanding between the roomates, and hilarity ensues?
its a commonly known fact, that when you over-user certain chemicals, such as slashdot, that sometimes paranoia results...
I mean the fact that you're hallucinating whilst on slashdot should be a sign that you need to get OFF the slashdot.... Geez you even said it yourself that you are getting paranoid to "stuff your seeing ON SLASHDOT"....
what i suggest you do, is to lay off the slashdot... it can be highly addicting, and cause hallucinations, specifically, naked, petrified Natalie Portman, links to informative articles, visions of hot gritz and bouilliabase...
My advice to you, is to lay off the slashdot for a while and reality will start piecing itself back together...
there is something definitely WRONG with a company that, when they make a new compiler, they break 10% of their existing apps.
and it happens all the time with MS...
a new version of gcc, or pgi's or whomever's compiler comes out, and you expect that your existing code should compile, and run, exactly as it did before they change the version # on the compiler.
can we say "forced upgrades" and "planned obsolecence"? i knew we could.... MS makes a slight, but fundamental change in their compilers, and forces everyone to use these new features or things dont work quite correctly, and of course, you need the latest greated OS from them too, because the previous version just doesnt have those "features" that this one does. Yeh yeh, so what if they do the same thing, these are BETTER... want proof look at the OLE process...
10% of old stuff not compiling is bad... a 10,000 line program, and 1000 lines may need to be looked at...
what portion of.NET do you have on your machine? hmm?
what, the "marshalling" bits?
the programming bits that are supposed to make coordinating objects and programming completely drag and drop?
you know, the thing that automagically generates some special XML so that you can use "SOAP on a ROPE"?
As another developer said at the devcon i was at, i'll trust MS to auto-generate code for me when they can make VizStudio not crash when i move the mouse.
so, tell me, what parts of.NET do you say you have installed? and what the hell is it good for?
no, really, i'm interested in this one... what would MS do? on boot up, when the wonderful WINDOWS screen comes up, check the boot partition, and install itself everytime?
i dont knwo if you could do a real-time processing using the beowulf model, but you could probably chunk up the audio bits into bite sized chunks, and then do the processing, and reassemble later...
its funny how on one hand, zdnet complains about linux a lack of applications, how there are no consumer apps, etc.
then later, they say that the linux distributions are too big... that tehy come with too much stuff, i.e. applications.
message to ZDNet - make up your mind... does linux have too many applications, or not enough?
this is just childish now... "Hey, there are just too many applications on this distribution... we dont want ALL this... you suck!!! give me less choice!!!"
we won't know who the hell won this election, ever... its kindof sad, actually... the nation that is supposedly one of the "strongest democracies" has lost all credibility...
this next administration is basically a despot... and gore's would have been also...
face it, "the people" dont have a voice in this country anymore... the vast majority will believe anything that they see on TV, read in papers, whatever...
its just amazing that we flipped a coin and it landed on its edge... tagline
so what, your saying that it isnt insightful, because someone else has said it?
maybe it was insightful because it tied together the FCC actions and that populist appeal that Ralph Nader stands for.
what the hell was the point of writing to note that you didnt agree with the moderation? maybe you should have said WHY you dont think that the post was particularly insightful, instead of just saying something along the lines of "what crack were the moderators smoking when they modded this up.. it must have been the $3 stuff".
if you dont think that the post was particularly insightful, contribute to the discussion instead of making an inane comment about the moderators.
maybe it was insightful to this particular moderator...
probably because it involved more brains than any of your half-witted posts... you have got to be either dumb ass stupid, or the worst (as in skill) troll around... damn kid.. i looked at your posts, and none of them seem to go past one line... what, cant you string together more than one sentence at a time? tagline
oh come on... have you ever listened to these guys policies? what the hell have they ever said that you CARE about... they ramble about
1 - medicare - old people vote, lets pander to them
2 - Social security - see point 1
3 - "protecting the children" - because the world is evil, we must demonize everything...
and the rest of the time, they give back to their biggest contributors, the CORPORATIONS...
and where the hell are americans supposed to educate themselves? TV networks report whatever slop is being fed to them, and cover up the true inner-workings of whats going on...
actually, some people believe that the common strategy in modern politics is to cause voter apathy, enough so that the majority of voters dont bother to vote, and then a vocal minority can excersize their will by voting in a block. Example, the Christian Coalition.
if and no, "they" did not select GWB, he lost the popular vote, and probably lost florida, too...
and yes, i would have posted this if Al Gore won... he sucks too...
the ONLY thing that this election demonstrated the we, as teh american public didnt want either bozo to lead this country...
you just got to love the way crap gets passed in congress... they have this wonderful habit of attaching really nasty riders to otehrwise innocent or otherwise beneficial legislation...
kindof like how they passed the censorware provision in a funding bill... its absolutely insane, and if your a congresscritter, you cant vote against it because you'lll be seen as voting against funding public libraries...
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guys, move on... you arent making any friends here...
so hes a shister.... get over it...
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sigh...
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groan....
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so... at least to me, it seems that they have recognized the potential computing power of clusters.
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I.E. it may fsck with the Beowulf cluster sales... because now, since they are all strung together, they may be fast enought to fall under export controls.
so ... this could be a blow to upstart beowulf companies that want to expand into shipping overseas.
i dont know... it seems like the govt. is actually becoming MORE restrictive here... whilst saying that they are easing controls...
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"URL ExchangeTM"
apparently... they have a product based on the absolute nexissity that businesses have to SHARE BOOKMARKS...
didnt know there was a market for that...
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or, sometimes i like to watch three's company instead... Did you ever see the one where there is a misunderstanding between the roomates, and hilarity ensues?
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and the schizophrentic morality...
they program to the lowest IQ in america... which is fairly low... its insulting to most people, or at least should be...
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halleleujah
i absolutely, positively love the reaction when i tell people that i dont watch tv... no, none of it... no cable at all... not even an antenna...
but i do like movies...
and the other thing is, its amazing how much extra free time you get when you finally unplug from the tv universe?
hell, i'm actually repulsed by the "survivor" and "millionare" crazes... and dont start me on Britney and the New Kids clowns...
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its a commonly known fact, that when you over-user certain chemicals, such as slashdot, that sometimes paranoia results...
I mean the fact that you're hallucinating whilst on slashdot should be a sign that you need to get OFF the slashdot.... Geez you even said it yourself that you are getting paranoid to "stuff your seeing ON SLASHDOT"....
what i suggest you do, is to lay off the slashdot... it can be highly addicting, and cause hallucinations, specifically, naked, petrified Natalie Portman, links to informative articles, visions of hot gritz and bouilliabase...
My advice to you, is to lay off the slashdot for a while and reality will start piecing itself back together...
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oh no...
oh god no...
i.... could.... make ... a beowulf cluster out... of them....
and mean it....
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and it happens all the time with MS...
a new version of gcc, or pgi's or whomever's compiler comes out, and you expect that your existing code should compile, and run, exactly as it did before they change the version # on the compiler.
can we say "forced upgrades" and "planned obsolecence"? i knew we could.... MS makes a slight, but fundamental change in their compilers, and forces everyone to use these new features or things dont work quite correctly, and of course, you need the latest greated OS from them too, because the previous version just doesnt have those "features" that this one does. Yeh yeh, so what if they do the same thing, these are BETTER ... want proof look at the OLE process...
10% of old stuff not compiling is bad... a 10,000 line program, and 1000 lines may need to be looked at...
bad stuff...
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link 1
link2
how to dual boot with win2k...
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what, the "marshalling" bits?
the programming bits that are supposed to make coordinating objects and programming completely drag and drop?
you know, the thing that automagically generates some special XML so that you can use "SOAP on a ROPE"?
As another developer said at the devcon i was at, i'll trust MS to auto-generate code for me when they can make VizStudio not crash when i move the mouse.
so, tell me, what parts of .NET do you say you have installed? and what the hell is it good for?
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infinitely more vaporous than most of the top 10, including OSX, which has been in beta for a while...
of course, .NET will be out there, RSN
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really? its not that i dont believe you, but do you have a reference?
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no, really, i'm interested in this one... what would MS do? on boot up, when the wonderful WINDOWS screen comes up, check the boot partition, and install itself everytime?
i cant see it happening...
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that kindof thing would paralellize well...
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then later, they say that the linux distributions are too big... that tehy come with too much stuff, i.e. applications.
message to ZDNet - make up your mind... does linux have too many applications, or not enough?
this is just childish now... "Hey, there are just too many applications on this distribution... we dont want ALL this... you suck!!! give me less choice!!!"
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who the hell won the damn election then?
we won't know who the hell won this election, ever... its kindof sad, actually... the nation that is supposedly one of the "strongest democracies" has lost all credibility...
this next administration is basically a despot... and gore's would have been also...
face it, "the people" dont have a voice in this country anymore... the vast majority will believe anything that they see on TV, read in papers, whatever...
its just amazing that we flipped a coin and it landed on its edge...
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maybe it was insightful because it tied together the FCC actions and that populist appeal that Ralph Nader stands for.
what the hell was the point of writing to note that you didnt agree with the moderation? maybe you should have said WHY you dont think that the post was particularly insightful, instead of just saying something along the lines of "what crack were the moderators smoking when they modded this up.. it must have been the $3 stuff".
if you dont think that the post was particularly insightful, contribute to the discussion instead of making an inane comment about the moderators.
maybe it was insightful to this particular moderator...
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probably because it involved more brains than any of your half-witted posts... you have got to be either dumb ass stupid, or the worst (as in skill) troll around... damn kid.. i looked at your posts, and none of them seem to go past one line... what, cant you string together more than one sentence at a time?
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1 - medicare - old people vote, lets pander to them
2 - Social security - see point 1
3 - "protecting the children" - because the world is evil, we must demonize everything...
and the rest of the time, they give back to their biggest contributors, the CORPORATIONS...
and where the hell are americans supposed to educate themselves? TV networks report whatever slop is being fed to them, and cover up the true inner-workings of whats going on...
tagline
if and no, "they" did not select GWB, he lost the popular vote, and probably lost florida, too...
and yes, i would have posted this if Al Gore won... he sucks too...
the ONLY thing that this election demonstrated the we, as teh american public didnt want either bozo to lead this country...
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kindof like how they passed the censorware provision in a funding bill... its absolutely insane, and if your a congresscritter, you cant vote against it because you'lll be seen as voting against funding public libraries...
damnit, i liked the line item veto...
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