agreed. you should always examine what's going on and who is doing it. in some cases where the law won't bend in your direction, you can even do a counter attack with the child's own toys and teach him a fairly nice lesson. it isn't nice or legal but it feels good.
The article said that it will be integrated into windows server architecture, so that your servers will power down the hdd's to save power. but this idea has flaws
* first of all, who the hell wants to spin down server hdd-s ? you can't cache hudred of gigabytes, and servers that would save any noticeable amount of power from that can't cache all the necessary data to the tiny dram or flash. * second, there is no real "mega power save" here, intel makes cpu's that still float near 100W while they are at fullspeed, whereas a modern hdd goes under 10W in normal conditions while spinning normally. * third, if it's mainly used as booting speedup, how many times do you really want to start your server (yeah ok, on windows, the update cycle needs you to boot once per month, but still...) * fourth, spinning any physical item down and up again will reduce it's lifetime, temperature changes in the oil and materials make it less resistable to damages. * fifth, spinning up the hdd requires a lot more power than keeping it spinning. * sixth, unless this works transparently (emulating some 'natural' disk operations will certainly make it slower than just disk access), who the hell is going to rework all the raid software that you have enhanced your boxes with ? * seventh, add all the things up from here, and althrough you find the disks inexpensive, the total cost will be expensive, may not save you a dime.
To save power i currently look at amd geode and laptop cpu's (from both, intel and amd). if i stack up my machines with those i will save more power per work unit than any flash trick.
For a desktop or notebook that you boot once per day, this ofcourse seems like a nice idea, way to go.
i definitely won't go "Q", i go for nokia e70 when i want all the features listed here. unlike the Q, the nokia fits into my pocket (and has all the bloated features from qwerty keyboard to wifi and builtin camera etc, go figure).
last week a pedestrian in my country was killed by a _bicycle_, so you need a bit more arguments.
perhaps amd should add a gearbox (actually would be great for laptops, a literal gearbox to turn down the mhz-s and save battery life, software tuning of same thing is cumbersome), add a sign that it can do 1mpg (and you'll still have the gallon left!), and enhance the desktop cases with kangaroo bouncers.
now that would be awesome.
other than that, i prefer a cluster of 64 bit ass-cheap semprons in the backroom, i can get around 8 cheap boxes for the price of one 4x4 "supermachine" that is constantly lagging behind a single harddisk or jammed memory channel. spread gentoo or freebsd among them, and snip:)
I'm on malta for now and the dudes over here can't predict anything... The sea temperature changes mess everything up so the weather forecast is as good as a blind guess, unless you have equipment to predict the temperature games in the sea and in the desert at south, you have no clue what is going down one day later. Yes it was a long sentence.
Due to the strike at the weather station, there will be no weather tomorrow.
the problem of yum is in the design of the application, not the language.
python is fast enough for almost any package management quest, but yum is the worst piece of... that i have seen on that frontier. proper indexes and logical stops would make it much faster. there's your chance to write it. choose whatever language you want. design has to be good.
if we continue that logic then my browser is an mosaic emulator and my text editor is a notepad emulator.
there's a very strong black line where emulators stop, wine does not emulate a running windows system, it just implements the library calls for regular windows api.
if anyone claims that this is emulation, then we shall also define most jvm's (kaffee, the micro one in your mobile or handheld) as emulators. we shall also call buses emulators of cars.
They definitely have to go below zero to get an effective result. My freezer tends to have green living organisms on cheese and stuff at 4C average temp. Now i definitely wouldn't like to see those on my hands when i arrive at Pluto...
The impurity of the freezing capsule will definitely require us to go below zero, there is no chance that a "slightly chilled down" human body can fight the bacteria and fungus back. However if you break the zero degree barrier you'll get a problem of some stuff still freezing in the longterm effect.
For the medicine, i doubt the effect will be sufficient, patients, at least the ones in critical conditions, will have lots of issues with thermal shocks and unexpected behaviour of well/sick organs that we can't just foresee.
Btw. since _you_ don't freeze at zero, can you help us out here a bit ? We need some baywatchers. See the phonebook for Arctic Sunny Bay:)
Actually i can't wait until they ship laptops with this cpu and a nasty integrated gpu that won't be able to pull vista off with all the bells and whistles attached.:)
Now let's hope amd finds something to strike back on this, more competition means more cheap'n'fast cpu-s for us.
you also get the chance to run four antiviruses and four spyware scanners:)
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I think he is more opposing the "silver bullet" hype. Ruby with rails or no rails is no silver bullet. RoR does give advantages, mostly to developers, can save time in some projects and be a great idea or at least provide groudn for great ideas to grow from.
If you're a little bit experienced in how applications scale and how good the products of big brothers are in this (either java or dotnet) you can clearly see that ror is not an answer to everything. It just makes some stuff simpler, and in it's own place it's a really good thing. If ruby ever gets real threading, i'm sure i'll throw a look at it, but as long as it's threading model is the way it is, it's not really meant for everyone. But the hype looks like it should be. It isn't.
As said zillion times on slashdot already, no language/platform/framework/developing-model is the ultimate thing, every item has it's own place in it's own corner, let's just try to keep the hype a bit down:)
not everyone enjoys the light of the electricity saving bulbs.
for my eyes the flicker all the time, and i just can't use them. sry, no can do. my eyes go berserk on those things. and a light is no use if it doesn't make me able to see or read.
when i don't need the light to read, i actually prefer a candle, it's monotonic emitting light is nice and doesn't get into interference with the herz rates of my crt and tft monitors.
for most people i give a slightly better idea: switch the damn a/c or heater off when you don't need it. a lightbulb that saves you 50w per hour compared to a device that consumes 1-4kW of power per hour, isn't a big gain in a small household, especially a household that doesn't run lights more than 6 hours a day. my neighbour let's his a/c run all the time. he's almost never at home. yea sure he can afford it, but even the politicians can't produce enough bs to methan that. and a bit isolation for either cooling or warming, isn't such a bad idea neither
ditch ajax for a while and learn wx/gtk/qt/tk and if you have extra time, java's awt and swing.
when you have even just touched the surface with the ones noted above, you'll see what's lacking in ajax and what's not and what you should aim towards to get a non-web-compatible source layout for your application. html may leave in some years in favor of something else (yeah sure it won't directly die, but there may come a better or more advanced alternative to networked applications) and it hell as sure wouldn't hurt to be ready for it.
while most ajax sites/docs spend their time in showing 'quick solutions' (spelled `hacks`) and putting first words in sentences in uppercase, they don't even try to teach you the proper design of code itself. and that is where your future resides.
Don't you just love the people who have never seen female swimmers ?:p
#1 dude, you are 16 years too late #2 dude, you have obviously never seen a prof. female swimmer naked, they all look like east germany's female athlethes used to.
as to "grandparent" posting, see #2. forget it dude, no man wants to see women more muscular and wider than he by himself is.
For 899$ you can get an amazingly more powerful shuttle box with an lcd screen which is much more "childproof" than any of those imacs standing on a fiddling single leg.
And you could run pretty much whatever you want on the x86/x86-64 shuttle box.
The only thing that may be worth a buck could be the software inside the mac.
additionally, wearing a blouse with buttons certainly is a lethal combination when you are hit by a car, the buttons distort the equal hit and you'll die from a button breaking your chest. wear t-shirts.
we have had quite many weird articles on slashdot, this certainly is one of them.
if i get hit by lightning, i'd honestly rather die than live like a burned skin zombie for the rest of my days of sorrow.
I think for the submitter it just looked quite obvious that very regular users (the biggest content of IE users), still don't have a clue what pc-to-pc calling could even look like. They know that their kids are grandhackers but they still ignore the technology as do they ignore the lack of security of internet explorer.
There are definitely a big chunk of voip users that still go for internet explorer, but quite a big bunch of the quick adaptors have adopted firefox along with voip programs.
It's just a good assumption that he/she makes, definitely not a very accurate one, but still a good one.
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No-Sex-Diet ? Dude, if you're on slashdot, you already _have_ it :)
ps. there are snacks that don't give you energy nor fat, there are sweets that are without sugar and there are seconds that you can afford.
Oh my oh my, why isn't wesnoth listed here ? It's a kickass game for being opensource portable etc.
;)
:)
http://www.wesnoth.org/
I like it, only wish that the online games would last a bit longer
As a close second for me, come torcs http://torcs.sourceforge.net/ and danger from the deep http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net/
Linux is quite playable today, if you're just into fps shooters, go for q3 or enemy territory
agreed. you should always examine what's going on and who is doing it. in some cases where the law won't bend in your direction, you can even do a counter attack with the child's own toys and teach him a fairly nice lesson. it isn't nice or legal but it feels good.
Actually the saving power hype quite stunned me :)
...)
The article said that it will be integrated into windows server architecture, so that your servers will power down the hdd's to save power. but this idea has flaws
* first of all, who the hell wants to spin down server hdd-s ? you can't cache hudred of gigabytes, and servers that would save any noticeable amount of power from that can't cache all the necessary data to the tiny dram or flash.
* second, there is no real "mega power save" here, intel makes cpu's that still float near 100W while they are at fullspeed, whereas a modern hdd goes under 10W in normal conditions while spinning normally.
* third, if it's mainly used as booting speedup, how many times do you really want to start your server (yeah ok, on windows, the update cycle needs you to boot once per month, but still
* fourth, spinning any physical item down and up again will reduce it's lifetime, temperature changes in the oil and materials make it less resistable to damages.
* fifth, spinning up the hdd requires a lot more power than keeping it spinning.
* sixth, unless this works transparently (emulating some 'natural' disk operations will certainly make it slower than just disk access), who the hell is going to rework all the raid software that you have enhanced your boxes with ?
* seventh, add all the things up from here, and althrough you find the disks inexpensive, the total cost will be expensive, may not save you a dime.
To save power i currently look at amd geode and laptop cpu's (from both, intel and amd). if i stack up my machines with those i will save more power per work unit than any flash trick.
For a desktop or notebook that you boot once per day, this ofcourse seems like a nice idea, way to go.
I'd rather call the new dna code God's Malware :)
They don't care, they don't have to. They are the telecom company.
i definitely won't go "Q", i go for nokia e70 when i want all the
features listed here. unlike the Q, the nokia fits into my pocket
(and has all the bloated features from qwerty keyboard to wifi
and builtin camera etc, go figure).
last week a pedestrian in my country was killed by a _bicycle_, so you need a bit more arguments.
:)
perhaps amd should add a gearbox (actually would be great for laptops, a literal gearbox to turn down the mhz-s and save battery life, software tuning of same thing is cumbersome), add a sign that it can do 1mpg (and you'll still have the gallon left!), and enhance the desktop cases with kangaroo bouncers.
now that would be awesome.
other than that, i prefer a cluster of 64 bit ass-cheap semprons in the backroom, i can get around 8 cheap boxes for the price of one 4x4 "supermachine" that is constantly lagging behind a single harddisk or jammed memory channel. spread gentoo or freebsd among them, and snip
welcome aboard :)
... The sea temperature changes mess everything up so the weather forecast is as good as a blind guess, unless you have equipment to predict the temperature games in the sea and in the desert at south, you have no clue what is going down one day later. Yes it was a long sentence.
I'm on malta for now and the dudes over here can't predict anything
Due to the strike at the weather station, there will be no weather tomorrow.
the problem of yum is in the design of the application, not the language.
... that i have seen on that frontier. proper indexes and logical stops would make it much faster. there's your chance to write it. choose whatever language you want. design has to be good.
python is fast enough for almost any package management quest, but yum is the worst piece of
if we continue that logic then my browser is an mosaic emulator
and my text editor is a notepad emulator.
there's a very strong black line where emulators stop, wine
does not emulate a running windows system, it just implements
the library calls for regular windows api.
if anyone claims that this is emulation, then we shall also
define most jvm's (kaffee, the micro one in your mobile or handheld)
as emulators. we shall also call buses emulators of cars.
They definitely have to go below zero to get an effective result. My freezer tends to have green living organisms on cheese and stuff at 4C average temp. Now i definitely wouldn't like to see those on my hands when i arrive at Pluto ...
:)
...
The impurity of the freezing capsule will definitely require us to go below zero, there is no chance that a "slightly chilled down" human body can fight the bacteria and fungus back. However if you break the zero degree barrier you'll get a problem of some stuff still freezing in the longterm effect.
For the medicine, i doubt the effect will be sufficient, patients, at least the ones in critical conditions, will have lots of issues with thermal shocks and unexpected behaviour of well/sick organs that we can't just foresee.
Btw. since _you_ don't freeze at zero, can you help us out here a bit ? We need some baywatchers. See the phonebook for Arctic Sunny Bay
Must kill all humans
Actually i can't wait until they ship laptops with this cpu and a nasty integrated gpu that won't be able to pull vista off with all the bells and whistles attached. :)
Now let's hope amd finds something to strike back on this, more competition means more cheap'n'fast cpu-s for us.
you also get the chance to run four antiviruses and four spyware scanners :)
I think he is more opposing the "silver bullet" hype. Ruby with rails or no rails is no silver bullet. RoR does give advantages, mostly to developers, can save time in some projects and be a great idea or at least provide groudn for great ideas to grow from.
:)
If you're a little bit experienced in how applications scale and how good the products of big brothers are in this (either java or dotnet) you can clearly see that ror is not an answer to everything. It just makes some stuff simpler, and in it's own place it's a really good thing. If ruby ever gets real threading, i'm sure i'll throw a look at it, but as long as it's threading model is the way it is, it's not really meant for everyone. But the hype looks like it should be. It isn't.
As said zillion times on slashdot already, no language/platform/framework/developing-model is the ultimate thing, every item has it's own place in it's own corner, let's just try to keep the hype a bit down
not everyone enjoys the light of the electricity saving bulbs.
for my eyes the flicker all the time, and i just can't use them. sry, no can do. my eyes go berserk on those things. and a light is no use if it doesn't make me able to see or read.
when i don't need the light to read, i actually prefer a candle, it's monotonic emitting light is nice and doesn't get into interference with the herz rates of my crt and tft monitors.
for most people i give a slightly better idea: switch the damn a/c or heater off when you don't need it. a lightbulb that saves you 50w per hour compared to a device that consumes 1-4kW of power per hour, isn't a big gain in a small household, especially a household that doesn't run lights more than 6 hours a day. my neighbour let's his a/c run all the time. he's almost never at home. yea sure he can afford it, but even the politicians can't produce enough bs to methan that. and a bit isolation for either cooling or warming, isn't such a bad idea neither
erm.
ditch ajax for a while and learn wx/gtk/qt/tk and if you have extra time, java's awt and swing.
when you have even just touched the surface with the ones noted above, you'll see what's lacking in ajax and what's not and what you should aim towards to get a non-web-compatible source layout for your application. html may leave in some years in favor of something else (yeah sure it won't directly die, but there may come a better or more advanced alternative to networked applications) and it hell as sure wouldn't hurt to be ready for it.
while most ajax sites/docs spend their time in showing 'quick solutions' (spelled `hacks`) and putting first words in sentences in uppercase, they don't even try to teach you the proper design of code itself. and that is where your future resides.
And you could say that they go out with a bang when they rocket into a skyscraper with their surfboards at 200mph...
Don't you just love the people who have never seen female swimmers ? :p
#1 dude, you are 16 years too late
#2 dude, you have obviously never seen a prof. female swimmer naked, they all look like east germany's female athlethes used to.
as to "grandparent" posting, see #2. forget it dude, no man wants to see women more muscular and wider than he by himself is.
Oh that's why i broke my teeth today on those damn nuggets ...
For 899$ you can get an amazingly more powerful shuttle box with an lcd screen which
is much more "childproof" than any of those imacs standing on a fiddling single leg.
And you could run pretty much whatever you want on the x86/x86-64 shuttle box.
The only thing that may be worth a buck could be the software inside the mac.
Ripoff.
I didn't see any chairs flying.
...
But when i read 15 year and microsoft i imagined that would be some kind
of new teenpr0n that my eyes certainly refuse to take. What a summary
couldn't they just have moved "home destination" by shifting
it around a bit instead of cuttiny legs off the pests ?
i'm no peta fanatic but sawing someones legs off seems rather violent.
next in news, cutting partially off scientist brains seems to affect research results
additionally, wearing a blouse with buttons certainly is a lethal
combination when you are hit by a car, the buttons distort the equal
hit and you'll die from a button breaking your chest. wear t-shirts.
we have had quite many weird articles on slashdot, this certainly is
one of them.
if i get hit by lightning, i'd honestly rather die than live like a
burned skin zombie for the rest of my days of sorrow.
I think for the submitter it just looked quite obvious that very regular users (the biggest content of IE users), still don't have a clue what pc-to-pc calling could even look like. They know that their kids are grandhackers but they still ignore the technology as do they ignore the lack of security of internet explorer.
There are definitely a big chunk of voip users that still go for internet explorer, but quite a big bunch of the quick adaptors have adopted firefox along with voip programs.
It's just a good assumption that he/she makes, definitely not a very accurate one, but still a good one.