Do you have any evidence for making this claim? Or are you saying that anti-war protesters are in the habit of calling bin-Laden?
Because if you actually RTFNYTA (Read the fucking New York Times Article) the claim was that the NSA was monitoring calls to and from terrorists overseas.
the law does not require a warrant. In addition, the law apparently permits the AG to authorize wiretaps in some other cases, without a warrant.
As near as I can tell, you only need a warrant if one of the persons in the call is a U.S. citizen or holds a U.S. "green card" (i.e., they have permanent residency).
Which is what the NYT is claiming, but for which they provide no proof whatsoever - they printed anonymous claims that US citizens and residents were tapped without a warrant but they don't say who was tapped, when or anything else - leaving us to guess as to who, why, how and even "did this really happen"?
There have been several great games for the PSP, but nothing for the past several months. When I first got it, I promptly started writing software for it, but it's been sitting on a shelf since summer - there's been nothing new worth playing and the !#@$!@# DRM and half measures like streaming-only RSS feeds really just leave me frustrated.
OSM is an attempt by several right-wing bloggers to band together
While that's certainly how it is portrayed (and the prominent members are generally conservative) It does seem to have a *few* left-of-center blogs and some completely non-political ones as well. Also, some of the ones called "conservative" don't exactly fall into the republican mode. The gay libertarian who runs "Classical Values" comes to mind.
I don't think you understand HPC as much as you think. Remote batch management? Parallel processing? Again, my experience is that the clusters tend to get used for one or two jobs at a time, which is different from a grid. In that case, the MPI process manager and Microsoft's unspecified "management console" are more than sufficient.
As for interconnects - I know for a fact that gigE (trivial) and Infiniband will be supported (I believe the IB support comes from SilverStorm) and I've heard Myrinet will be supported, but who wants tired old Myrinet when you can have shiny new InfiniBand?
who, me? work for an IB company? what makes you say that?;-D
A cluster is more like an embedded system. You set it up once and forget it for a few years (I should know, I've done it a time or two)
My experience is that clusters are in the middle of migrating from being a comp-eng thing (where you expect to work at the "bare metal" level) into a more of a pro-sumer thing where a standard UI is comforting even if it burns cycles.
As for Apple's offerings - I think they illustrate both your attitude and what I describe. My, hrm..., perception is that Apple didn't think there was a point in workgroup clustering either, but more-or-less got dragged into it by their customers.
Yes, this product will include MPI and a suite of cluster management tools.
As someone who actually works in this area, I don't see this as much weirder than Apple's offering. In particular since small scientific computing clusters tend to run one job at a time, Windows' relatively poor multiprocessing capabilities won't be such a loss.
I'm not a big Windows fan (I run Linux and OS X at home and I write Linux drivers for a living) but I can see where a Windows oriented IT department would see this sort of thing as a win - they can set up the kind of cluster that their internal customers want without having to learn one of them there communist operating systems.
Actually the more I think about this the more I see it as a response to Apple's Xgrid and Workgroup clustering solutions than an attempt to break into the Top 500 list.
While she has the honor of finding the first actual bug in a computer (the moth), the term "bug" had been in use for at least 70 years prior. For example, Edison used it in letters to associates in 1878. Wikipedia is your friend.
Einstein never played "Doom", never watched "Sopranos", never surfed online, but we can all agree that 50 years after his death we have yet to find anyone smarter.
Actually, no we can't. There's a long standing debate among physicists on whether Einstein was a genius or whether he merely took the next logical step.
In addition, in the modern era we have many physicists as intelligent as Einstein, they just aren't being used as wartime propaganda.
You know, sooner later some kid is going to post an article on discovering this cool cartoon called "Thundar the Barbarian" and Slashdot is going to go nuts.
I meant/Library; although I've seen plenty of dain-bramaged code that drops stuff in/System/Library, too. Developers seem to think that since it's already got all that stuff in it, they should just put their stuff there, too.
I hadn't heard of SDL before you mentioned it, so I did the google thing.
But even so, frameworks don't have to be installed in/System; I have any number of apps installed in my ~/Applications folder that contain frameworks within their.app folders.
I don't know if you've noticed, but OS X has the *built in* ability to print to a PDF. There is no need for Acrobat to duplicate that ability, nor to silently install Safari plug-ins.
Name one regular app that *has* to have admin access to install correctly. For that matter, name a regular app that *has* to have an installer instead of just using drag-and-drop.
For example:
* why does a screen blanker like Freefall come as a.pkg file? * why does a game like diablo II use a special installer app?
And those are just two examples laying around in my archives directory.
It's true that OS X is more secure than XP normally, but there's one thing that worries me - stupid developers who make users type in their admin password for no good reason.
There are so many application installers out there that make the user type in the admin password that users are in the habit of providing it whenever the dialog box appears.
This opens the door for a socially engineered virus/trojan horse - one that politely asks the user for permission to infect the system.
Really. Why do developers insist on providing windows-style installers when all you have to do is drag the app to the right folder and let go?
And, actually, that's about where I'm at as well; there are just so many people running around waving their dictionaries or trying to come up with ridiculously complicated rules that preserve the first 9 as planets but exclude everything else.
To me, it seems simpler just to let the public have their 9 and let the astronomers use more technical terms that describe the objects rather than lumping them together.
You're oversimplifying. I can't use "any format I want" I have to know the format the tape was written in 40 years ago. And, given your obvious ignorance of even the existence of 7- and 9- track tapes, I defy you to lay your hands on the specs and tell me how to read the data off them.
I'll even give you a hint: They don't even use ASCII, and may not use EBCIDIC.
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Do you have any evidence for making this claim? Or are you saying that anti-war protesters are in the habit of calling bin-Laden?
Because if you actually RTFNYTA (Read the fucking New York Times Article) the claim was that the NSA was monitoring calls to and from terrorists overseas.
the law does not require a warrant. In addition, the law apparently permits the AG to authorize wiretaps in some other cases, without a warrant.
As near as I can tell, you only need a warrant if one of the persons in the call is a U.S. citizen or holds a U.S. "green card" (i.e., they have permanent residency).
Which is what the NYT is claiming, but for which they provide no proof whatsoever - they printed anonymous claims that US citizens and residents were tapped without a warrant but they don't say who was tapped, when or anything else - leaving us to guess as to who, why, how and even "did this really happen"?
Train the users to deal with a broken OS rather than train the company to ship a working one.
There have been several great games for the PSP, but nothing for the past several months. When I first got it, I promptly started writing software for it, but it's been sitting on a shelf since summer - there's been nothing new worth playing and the !#@$!@# DRM and half measures like streaming-only RSS feeds really just leave me frustrated.
I especially like the way you used a 50 line BASIC straw man rather than actually talk about the question at hand.
Kingpin is/was a mob boss. He controlled crime within a single (large) city: New York. While undoubtedly wealthy, he wasn't world class.
If you can't distinguish between it's behavior and "real" intelligence then it is really intelligent.
OSM is an attempt by several right-wing bloggers to band together
While that's certainly how it is portrayed (and the prominent members are generally conservative) It does seem to have a *few* left-of-center blogs and some completely non-political ones as well. Also, some of the ones called "conservative" don't exactly fall into the republican mode. The gay libertarian who runs "Classical Values" comes to mind.
But I think you're right about the ads.
to find a unique company name it doesn't surprise me much that there was a naming collision.
OTOH, I still can't figure out how the OSM site differs from many other sites that already exist.
I'm assuming (I could be wrong) that this will be part of the management console extensions that MS describes in their press release.
I don't think you understand HPC as much as you think. Remote batch management? Parallel processing? Again, my experience is that the clusters tend to get used for one or two jobs at a time, which is different from a grid. In that case, the MPI process manager and Microsoft's unspecified "management console" are more than sufficient.
;-D
As for interconnects - I know for a fact that gigE (trivial) and Infiniband will be supported (I believe the IB support comes from SilverStorm) and I've heard Myrinet will be supported, but who wants tired old Myrinet when you can have shiny new InfiniBand?
who, me? work for an IB company? what makes you say that?
A cluster is more like an embedded system. You set it up once and forget it for a few years (I should know, I've done it a time or two)
My experience is that clusters are in the middle of migrating from being a comp-eng thing (where you expect to work at the "bare metal" level) into a more of a pro-sumer thing where a standard UI is comforting even if it burns cycles.
As for Apple's offerings - I think they illustrate both your attitude and what I describe. My, hrm..., perception is that Apple didn't think there was a point in workgroup clustering either, but more-or-less got dragged into it by their customers.
Yes, this product will include MPI and a suite of cluster management tools.
As someone who actually works in this area, I don't see this as much weirder than Apple's offering. In particular since small scientific computing clusters tend to run one job at a time, Windows' relatively poor multiprocessing capabilities won't be such a loss.
I'm not a big Windows fan (I run Linux and OS X at home and I write Linux drivers for a living) but I can see where a Windows oriented IT department would see this sort of thing as a win - they can set up the kind of cluster that their internal customers want without having to learn one of them there communist operating systems.
Actually the more I think about this the more I see it as a response to Apple's Xgrid and Workgroup clustering solutions than an attempt to break into the Top 500 list.
First, you're exactly right. Second, the phrase "But that's the crux of the biscuit though." is icing on the cake.
While she has the honor of finding the first actual bug in a computer (the moth), the term "bug" had been in use for at least 70 years prior. For example, Edison used it in letters to associates in 1878. Wikipedia is your friend.
Einstein never played "Doom", never watched "Sopranos", never surfed online, but we can all agree that 50 years after his death we have yet to find anyone smarter.
Actually, no we can't. There's a long standing debate among physicists on whether Einstein was a genius or whether he merely took the next logical step.
In addition, in the modern era we have many physicists as intelligent as Einstein, they just aren't being used as wartime propaganda.
Kids today.
You know, sooner later some kid is going to post an article on discovering this cool cartoon called "Thundar the Barbarian" and Slashdot is going to go nuts.
I meant /Library; although I've seen plenty of dain-bramaged code that drops stuff in /System/Library, too. Developers seem to think that since it's already got all that stuff in it, they should just put their stuff there, too.
I hadn't heard of SDL before you mentioned it, so I did the google thing.
/System; I have any number of apps installed in my ~/Applications folder that contain frameworks within their .app folders.
But even so, frameworks don't have to be installed in
I don't know if you've noticed, but OS X has the *built in* ability to print to a PDF. There is no need for Acrobat to duplicate that ability, nor to silently install Safari plug-ins.
Name one regular app that *has* to have admin access to install correctly. For that matter, name a regular app that *has* to have an installer instead of just using drag-and-drop.
.pkg file?
For example:
* why does a screen blanker like Freefall come as a
* why does a game like diablo II use a special installer app?
And those are just two examples laying around in my archives directory.
It's true that OS X is more secure than XP normally, but there's one thing that worries me - stupid developers who make users type in their admin password for no good reason.
There are so many application installers out there that make the user type in the admin password that users are in the habit of providing it whenever the dialog box appears.
This opens the door for a socially engineered virus/trojan horse - one that politely asks the user for permission to infect the system.
Really. Why do developers insist on providing windows-style installers when all you have to do is drag the app to the right folder and let go?
Will make some group of astrologists mad
Not as angry as they get when you call them "astrologists." Astronomers study the sky, "astrologists" fleece the yokels at county fairs.
And, actually, that's about where I'm at as well; there are just so many people running around waving their dictionaries or trying to come up with ridiculously complicated rules that preserve the first 9 as planets but exclude everything else.
To me, it seems simpler just to let the public have their 9 and let the astronomers use more technical terms that describe the objects rather than lumping them together.
You're oversimplifying. I can't use "any format I want" I have to know the format the tape was written in 40 years ago. And, given your obvious ignorance of even the existence of 7- and 9- track tapes, I defy you to lay your hands on the specs and tell me how to read the data off them.
I'll even give you a hint: They don't even use ASCII, and may not use EBCIDIC.