Those flying dots were freaking hypnotic. I spent more time messing with those than I did pacman, personally.
IMO, it could be either a fancy gimmick or a symbolism of sorts. Yesterday, I thought the flying dots might symbolize Google's intent to self-regulate due to the antitrust suit brought against them - instead of having the potential to be broken, they might fracture their individual components into separate companies, enabling them to financially/legally protect/isolate them from such an action. Adsense, Google, gMail, Google Research, etc. would become their own independent entities, possibly making it so they could be considered loss-leaders.
I don't know. I'm just throwing it out there; I don't understand how the whole financial thing works once a company goes public. Today, with the 'typeface' change, I'm not sure my original 'gut instinct' is correct. We will see, I suppose.
I've seen similar problems with Starcraft ('wrong screen color settings' regardless of which is tried) and notice that Starcraft is listed on the site "with sluggishness".
This is interesting, because I found a work-around purely by happenstance in Windows 7, at least for SC. Leave your video settings as they are and just open the Display Properties dialog. THen start the game: it'll play flawlessly.
You have to wonder if, indeed, the incompatibility is intentional. I can see no other reason why SC would work 100% fine with the Display Properties window open, but not in every other scenario, compatibility modes and pre-set resolutions included. The functionality to play the game is evidently still there, so why doesn't it work?
Indeed; despite the unpleasantness of the facts, the reporting is a pleasant surprise than the every-other-word-is-praises reporting on Cuba we've seen for the past decade+. "Free healthcare" my ass; that's somewhat meaningless if most people can't feed their families.
Castro is not an idiot or an ideologue. He is the classic opportunist - and an intelligent one, at that. Seeing the opportunity for power in a top-town socialist regime, he seized it.
Now, he sees the power that 'new media' presents - and refuses it to the residents of his country. Seeing the open horizon of new media and denying it from others are not incompatible for a mega-maniacal dictator.
3D isn't new. It's been done many times now, each time as a blip on the radar. People get excited about it, realize you can't effectively present 3D on a 2D screen, and it goes back to obscurity. This has been happening since the late 1800s.
Hello! Remember the blue/red paper glasses? Each time the technology is slightly different - and slightly better - but the same thing is true: it really kinda sucks, and doesn't make up for shitty movies.
Once the novelty wears off, it'll stop being used.
I know you're trying to be funny, but the people responding to you don't seem to know what they're talking about.
The Powermacs of old didn't have these IBM chips. Hint: the word "power" has significance, here. PowerMac, PowerPC... IBM POWER? Could be!
The IBM POWER7 has been out for some time now:
Personally, I'd be tickled pink to get ahold of even a Power5 system (p Series), or one of those awesome late-generation UltraSPARCs. WOW. Talk about power! Not much I'd be able to do with a z-series.
If that's a jab, you should consider that AMD was right. They did get a lot more done per cycle, and it was just advertising - it was, and still is, trivial to identify the CPU clock (despite fear mongering at the time saying we'd have such things hidden from us).
You may recall Intel doing the exact same thing, once they caught up technologically. Now, it's easier to find that info for AMD CPU sales than it is for Intel.
but isn't a quad core 3.1 Ghz per chip with 20% logistic overhead faster?
It doesn't matter how fast it is if the software and operating systems you're running aren't able to make use of more than one core. I don't know for certain, but is it possible the Z-series stuff does not handle multicore CPUs? They're not exactly a 'wide distribution' market.
There are a LOT of games out there that most people will never have the opportunity to play, because they're dead. Just because the ROMs are available and there's an emulator or three does not mean people will have the opportunity. They're likely not even aware of them.
There was a version of this available for PC, circa 1996 or so. I had it. It was, indeed, quite a lot of fun.
There's a similar action puzzle game, can't recall the name exactly - Tank Wars! I think. It's quite a lot of fun, and it's both challenging enough that I have to restart levels frequently and my 6 year old can get a solution every once in a while.
I remember reading a letter in a museum, written sometime around the time of the American Revolution, from a father to his child's aunt/uncle about this. It was quite fascinating.
The gist of the letter was "Here is some extra money to take care of my daughter better. Please see to it that she gets at least some decent beer so she does not fall ill. But with this much money I do expect to hear that she is able to have regular wine."
Also, meade: meade is not honey beer, it is honey wine (though I suppose you could fortify your beer with honey). The antibiotic properties of honey are destroyed when boiling it, and the antibiotic properties are largely beneficial for topical use, not internal.
True. The in-place kernel upgrade is somewhat safer than their analogy might imply, but it does lead to an interesting point. Why would you want to do this?
As a sysadmin, I can give you a handful of good reasons:
1) I like to sleep at night and eat dinner at 5, not having to worry about going back out to work. If I can do a (user) transparent upgrade during the day, I will. Planned outages suck. 2) Same goes for weekends. WHY would I want to come in for a couple hours to watch something complete successfully? And if it fails, well, then I've got a couple more hours ahead of me. 3) If the system crashes mid-process, I'm fixing a problem, not causing one. People seem willing to deal with outages during the day for crashes, but not for upgrades. 4) Fixing crashed systems makes you look useful and like a miracle worker. If you never have a fire to fight, you look like you're not doing your job.
I have a somewhat addictive personality, too. But it's only somewhat addictive, so I'm only slightly drunk, most of the time - as opposed to frequently shitfaced, as appears to be the case with your friends. Being overall fairly conservative also helps.
I'm of the opinion that we have either been designed or have evolved to require alcohol - at least in so much as we require meat, milk, fruit, or a specific grain. Just like some people cut a certain food out of their diet and lose a lot of weight as a result, some people are lactose intolerant, and so on, I think certain genetics predispose us to being overall "healthier" if we consume alcohol. I get more done when I'm drinking lightly; I'm generally less grumpier and easier to get along with, as well as much more sociable. I don't even really drink that much - just a shot or two of whatever's in the house three or four times a week or maybe a beer. I don't get 'drunk' with any regularity.
Sure, it can quickly become a problem if you don't have a base level of self control - but most things can (over spending, over-eating, infidelity, etc.). Hell, even sobriety is problematic for people - as this study suggests. I know my mom could use a little more regular alcohol; she's much more pleasant then.
* CFLAGS - quite easy to do with apt-src. There is rarely a point to do so. * dependency masks? I assume you're referring to portage-like masking? This isn't even close to an issue: debian defaults to sanity, IE "pick the stable crap, not development crap which isn't vetted". This is done with release repositories classified 'stable', 'unstable', 'testing' (also permanently named 'sid'), and 'experimental'. IMO, lacking this basic (default) functionality is one of the biggest faults of pre-portage ports derivatives. (I just never had a term for it before now; didn't realize that's what it was called.) */etc/apt/preferences.d - `man apt_preferences` - for tagging/version locks.
Likewise, debian makes it trivial to maintain your own (local) repository. That's a huge boon vs. the complexity of doing that for other systems.
Hell, it's almost impossible to prove you've been discriminated against/sexually harassed as a female, but that tends to fly through the doors pretty quickly due to cultural stigmas.
Try being sexually harassed and discriminated against as a white male. Good luck with that - I hope you enjoy having your ass grabbed. Make such a claim and you will have them make a rebuttal that gets accepted as gospel - or you'll just be ignored.
The legal game is seriously rigged against the white, middle class male at this point in our society. They've become easy fodder: it used to be blacks or women would be quickly let go for this or that, but now it's white men. In many cases, it seems worse than how it "used to be", because the provocation is so freaking negligible so as to not matter.
I'd bet there's a higher ratio of white men than black men being let for for age.
Hell, I've noticed the whole "ageist" thing myself in IT. A buddy of mine works in a different part of the country than I do (California), and he says they've got no IT employees over the age of 35 (it's a small company).
I can also see the justification in letting older people go from IT. The lower cogs in the wheels do not benefit much from experience, because none of that experience tends to be conceptual or technique related - it's just process. They learn it, and they get stuck on it. I've seen this a number of times, where older people working in IT flag at a certain point. It's not necessarily due to being bored or not wanting to learn, but it's along the lines how some older mechanics years ago didn't move to the "non American" vehicles too easily. They're in a process, and they've learned it thoroughly: they may even be good at it. But conceptually, they can't step outside that box too much.
ATI/AMD makes open source drivers for their equipment?
Could've fooled me. You'll be hard pressed to do any of the following:
* Get ATI-supplied drivers to work well with X. * Get the open source ATI drivers to work well * Use any sort of sensors on modern K10 AMD systems * Utilize anything like CPU throttling, etc. on Solaris derived OSes
I like AMD, but their driver support is, in a word, "bare bones".
On the other hand, there is the Open64 compiler, which AMD has put a great amount of work in, I've heard.
You realize, don't you, that many people in America consider Lincoln's federal stance during the Civil War to be an extra-Constitutional act, right? It was about central, Federal control of the US and the financial strength of the South.
The construction of the Lincoln Memorial was a giant federalist "fuck you" towards state rights and interests.
I'll be the first to say that ZFS has some shortcomings and limitations.
However, it's like Active Directory is to the workstation/server model of enterprise networking: it does everything. There is nothing else which comes close (or shell we say, 9/10ths of the way) to it in terms of it's "completeness" and feature set. Yes, it has some severe limitations ("Windows only") and shortcomings ("OMG it's a pain to troubleshoot"), with a fairly deep learning curve as well as a limited domain of applicability beyond the base subset (network administrators/storage techs).
But at the end of the day, they do things easily which most other products can't even do in such a complete fashion. Before such capability can be surpassed, it has to be met. AD and ZFS have been out now in more-or-less their current incarnation for close to 7 years, and only a bare subset of those features are elsewhere (and in less-than-ideal development status).
Frankly, ZFS is a (the) "next generation filesystem" for these reasons. It made assumptions (which are wrong), but do not make it lack utility. The management toolset is clean (very clean).
How, exactly, was being the conceptual "next generation" not the conceptual goal for the first 64 bit, CoW, RAID-built-in filesystem available? Seems to me that's why it's the fox everyone is chasing...
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Those flying dots were freaking hypnotic. I spent more time messing with those than I did pacman, personally.
IMO, it could be either a fancy gimmick or a symbolism of sorts. Yesterday, I thought the flying dots might symbolize Google's intent to self-regulate due to the antitrust suit brought against them - instead of having the potential to be broken, they might fracture their individual components into separate companies, enabling them to financially/legally protect/isolate them from such an action. Adsense, Google, gMail, Google Research, etc. would become their own independent entities, possibly making it so they could be considered loss-leaders.
I don't know. I'm just throwing it out there; I don't understand how the whole financial thing works once a company goes public. Today, with the 'typeface' change, I'm not sure my original 'gut instinct' is correct. We will see, I suppose.
I've seen similar problems with Starcraft ('wrong screen color settings' regardless of which is tried) and notice that Starcraft is listed on the site "with sluggishness".
This is interesting, because I found a work-around purely by happenstance in Windows 7, at least for SC. Leave your video settings as they are and just open the Display Properties dialog. THen start the game: it'll play flawlessly.
You have to wonder if, indeed, the incompatibility is intentional. I can see no other reason why SC would work 100% fine with the Display Properties window open, but not in every other scenario, compatibility modes and pre-set resolutions included. The functionality to play the game is evidently still there, so why doesn't it work?
Indeed; despite the unpleasantness of the facts, the reporting is a pleasant surprise than the every-other-word-is-praises reporting on Cuba we've seen for the past decade+. "Free healthcare" my ass; that's somewhat meaningless if most people can't feed their families.
Castro is not an idiot or an ideologue. He is the classic opportunist - and an intelligent one, at that. Seeing the opportunity for power in a top-town socialist regime, he seized it.
Now, he sees the power that 'new media' presents - and refuses it to the residents of his country. Seeing the open horizon of new media and denying it from others are not incompatible for a mega-maniacal dictator.
You make light of this. This is seriously problematic for us immortals.
3D isn't new. It's been done many times now, each time as a blip on the radar. People get excited about it, realize you can't effectively present 3D on a 2D screen, and it goes back to obscurity. This has been happening since the late 1800s.
Hello! Remember the blue/red paper glasses? Each time the technology is slightly different - and slightly better - but the same thing is true: it really kinda sucks, and doesn't make up for shitty movies.
Once the novelty wears off, it'll stop being used.
I know you're trying to be funny, but the people responding to you don't seem to know what they're talking about.
The Powermacs of old didn't have these IBM chips. Hint: the word "power" has significance, here. PowerMac, PowerPC... IBM POWER? Could be!
The IBM POWER7 has been out for some time now:
Personally, I'd be tickled pink to get ahold of even a Power5 system (p Series), or one of those awesome late-generation UltraSPARCs. WOW. Talk about power! Not much I'd be able to do with a z-series.
I know, AMD style "more done per cycle"
If that's a jab, you should consider that AMD was right. They did get a lot more done per cycle, and it was just advertising - it was, and still is, trivial to identify the CPU clock (despite fear mongering at the time saying we'd have such things hidden from us).
You may recall Intel doing the exact same thing, once they caught up technologically. Now, it's easier to find that info for AMD CPU sales than it is for Intel.
but isn't a quad core 3.1 Ghz per chip with 20% logistic overhead faster?
It doesn't matter how fast it is if the software and operating systems you're running aren't able to make use of more than one core. I don't know for certain, but is it possible the Z-series stuff does not handle multicore CPUs? They're not exactly a 'wide distribution' market.
There are a LOT of games out there that most people will never have the opportunity to play, because they're dead. Just because the ROMs are available and there's an emulator or three does not mean people will have the opportunity. They're likely not even aware of them.
There was a version of this available for PC, circa 1996 or so. I had it. It was, indeed, quite a lot of fun.
There's a similar action puzzle game, can't recall the name exactly - Tank Wars! I think. It's quite a lot of fun, and it's both challenging enough that I have to restart levels frequently and my 6 year old can get a solution every once in a while.
So, then. It's just like academia and the formation of a traditional encyclopedia, is it?
I remember reading a letter in a museum, written sometime around the time of the American Revolution, from a father to his child's aunt/uncle about this. It was quite fascinating.
The gist of the letter was "Here is some extra money to take care of my daughter better. Please see to it that she gets at least some decent beer so she does not fall ill. But with this much money I do expect to hear that she is able to have regular wine."
Also, meade: meade is not honey beer, it is honey wine (though I suppose you could fortify your beer with honey). The antibiotic properties of honey are destroyed when boiling it, and the antibiotic properties are largely beneficial for topical use, not internal.
Were you paying attention?
THe people running SCO at the time made off like bandits. Meanwhile, the engineers and everyone else working for the company lost their shirts.
What kind of lesson are you hoping greedy people learn, exactly?
"release everything of value to the public domain, then burn the rest"
You realize, don't you, that someone would still manage to utilize that "rest" to some nefarious IP lawsuit?
I can't speak for you, but for my money, Evan Williams is better than Jack Daniels. It's also (stateside) about half the price.
True. The in-place kernel upgrade is somewhat safer than their analogy might imply, but it does lead to an interesting point. Why would you want to do this?
As a sysadmin, I can give you a handful of good reasons:
1) I like to sleep at night and eat dinner at 5, not having to worry about going back out to work. If I can do a (user) transparent upgrade during the day, I will. Planned outages suck.
2) Same goes for weekends. WHY would I want to come in for a couple hours to watch something complete successfully? And if it fails, well, then I've got a couple more hours ahead of me.
3) If the system crashes mid-process, I'm fixing a problem, not causing one. People seem willing to deal with outages during the day for crashes, but not for upgrades.
4) Fixing crashed systems makes you look useful and like a miracle worker. If you never have a fire to fight, you look like you're not doing your job.
Nonsense. I drink about 2-3 drinks a day, and I'm most certainly not an alcoholic.
Alcoholics have problems. I don't have problems. I am a drunk.
Please, have some respect.
I have a somewhat addictive personality, too. But it's only somewhat addictive, so I'm only slightly drunk, most of the time - as opposed to frequently shitfaced, as appears to be the case with your friends. Being overall fairly conservative also helps.
I'm of the opinion that we have either been designed or have evolved to require alcohol - at least in so much as we require meat, milk, fruit, or a specific grain. Just like some people cut a certain food out of their diet and lose a lot of weight as a result, some people are lactose intolerant, and so on, I think certain genetics predispose us to being overall "healthier" if we consume alcohol. I get more done when I'm drinking lightly; I'm generally less grumpier and easier to get along with, as well as much more sociable. I don't even really drink that much - just a shot or two of whatever's in the house three or four times a week or maybe a beer. I don't get 'drunk' with any regularity.
Sure, it can quickly become a problem if you don't have a base level of self control - but most things can (over spending, over-eating, infidelity, etc.). Hell, even sobriety is problematic for people - as this study suggests. I know my mom could use a little more regular alcohol; she's much more pleasant then.
Most of that can be set in one way or another:
* CFLAGS - quite easy to do with apt-src. There is rarely a point to do so. /etc/apt/preferences.d - `man apt_preferences` - for tagging/version locks.
* dependency masks? I assume you're referring to portage-like masking? This isn't even close to an issue: debian defaults to sanity, IE "pick the stable crap, not development crap which isn't vetted". This is done with release repositories classified 'stable', 'unstable', 'testing' (also permanently named 'sid'), and 'experimental'. IMO, lacking this basic (default) functionality is one of the biggest faults of pre-portage ports derivatives. (I just never had a term for it before now; didn't realize that's what it was called.)
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Likewise, debian makes it trivial to maintain your own (local) repository. That's a huge boon vs. the complexity of doing that for other systems.
Hell, it's almost impossible to prove you've been discriminated against/sexually harassed as a female, but that tends to fly through the doors pretty quickly due to cultural stigmas.
Try being sexually harassed and discriminated against as a white male. Good luck with that - I hope you enjoy having your ass grabbed. Make such a claim and you will have them make a rebuttal that gets accepted as gospel - or you'll just be ignored.
The legal game is seriously rigged against the white, middle class male at this point in our society. They've become easy fodder: it used to be blacks or women would be quickly let go for this or that, but now it's white men. In many cases, it seems worse than how it "used to be", because the provocation is so freaking negligible so as to not matter.
I'd bet there's a higher ratio of white men than black men being let for for age.
Hell, I've noticed the whole "ageist" thing myself in IT. A buddy of mine works in a different part of the country than I do (California), and he says they've got no IT employees over the age of 35 (it's a small company).
I can also see the justification in letting older people go from IT. The lower cogs in the wheels do not benefit much from experience, because none of that experience tends to be conceptual or technique related - it's just process. They learn it, and they get stuck on it. I've seen this a number of times, where older people working in IT flag at a certain point. It's not necessarily due to being bored or not wanting to learn, but it's along the lines how some older mechanics years ago didn't move to the "non American" vehicles too easily. They're in a process, and they've learned it thoroughly: they may even be good at it. But conceptually, they can't step outside that box too much.
ATI/AMD makes open source drivers for their equipment?
Could've fooled me. You'll be hard pressed to do any of the following:
* Get ATI-supplied drivers to work well with X.
* Get the open source ATI drivers to work well
* Use any sort of sensors on modern K10 AMD systems
* Utilize anything like CPU throttling, etc. on Solaris derived OSes
I like AMD, but their driver support is, in a word, "bare bones".
On the other hand, there is the Open64 compiler, which AMD has put a great amount of work in, I've heard.
It hasn't been proven one way or the other if "Chile" (or rather, the companies which operate within Chile) can "do it", whatever that means.
It's quite possible it will not be feasible to do so without raising costs, cutting service in areas, or otherwise going out of business.
Expect to see limited, "non-Internet" accounts pop up at lower (but inflated) prices, with the cost of standard Internet services going sky high.
I bet that if you took a random sampling of IT programmers and administrators, you'd be hard pressed to find 50% who can do half of what you mention.
You realize, don't you, that many people in America consider Lincoln's federal stance during the Civil War to be an extra-Constitutional act, right? It was about central, Federal control of the US and the financial strength of the South.
The construction of the Lincoln Memorial was a giant federalist "fuck you" towards state rights and interests.
I'll be the first to say that ZFS has some shortcomings and limitations.
However, it's like Active Directory is to the workstation/server model of enterprise networking: it does everything. There is nothing else which comes close (or shell we say, 9/10ths of the way) to it in terms of it's "completeness" and feature set. Yes, it has some severe limitations ("Windows only") and shortcomings ("OMG it's a pain to troubleshoot"), with a fairly deep learning curve as well as a limited domain of applicability beyond the base subset (network administrators/storage techs).
But at the end of the day, they do things easily which most other products can't even do in such a complete fashion. Before such capability can be surpassed, it has to be met. AD and ZFS have been out now in more-or-less their current incarnation for close to 7 years, and only a bare subset of those features are elsewhere (and in less-than-ideal development status).
Frankly, ZFS is a (the) "next generation filesystem" for these reasons. It made assumptions (which are wrong), but do not make it lack utility. The management toolset is clean (very clean).
How, exactly, was being the conceptual "next generation" not the conceptual goal for the first 64 bit, CoW, RAID-built-in filesystem available? Seems to me that's why it's the fox everyone is chasing...