I got a typeface designed for the visually impaired, so I could do things like read/. without my glasses, with the font size cranked way up (the sidebars disappear into give-up-and-use-tables land, but the body and comments are fine).
Speaking as mostly a middleware programmer who spent too many years expecting the database guys to "fix the database" when my shoddy queries ran slow, let me say, "Hallelujah, brother!"
Yeah, there's no denying that Microsoft Basic and the SoftCard were great hits. I think their Pascal came in after the IBM deal and the COBOL and FORTRAN (and assembler) didn't sell much.
That success may have cemented the deal, but it didn't create the introduction. They're just two separate and necessary ingredients.
Quite a bit of what made BeOS/Haiku great involve relatively huge numbers of preemptive, lightweight threads. In fact, a "process" in Linux speak is called a Team in BeOS... that's a Team of Threads, of course. Very much the opposite of how Linux/UNIX have worked through most of their history
So, each thread was scheduled independently? What about the Teams? Were they group scheduled?
Linux effectively treats kernel threads like processes, so the plumbing should be there. Are CGroups a map to Teams at this point?
For instance Flashcache requires about 500 megs of memory to manage a 300GB disk.
I put a 100GB SSD pair (Intel SLC, IIRC) in front of a 2TB 7200RPM Hitachi 3.5" pair using FlashCache, and the results are amazing. I've got several VM's on them, including databases, and the databases are faster than when the database had its own 15,000RPM 2.5" pair for dedicated use.
Those SSD's are about $400 each, so I pay about $8/GB after mirroring. 2GB of server ram is about $20. So, 1MB of server RAM is about 10 cents. Figure 15 cents for FlashCache overhead. So, I have to pay $15 in RAM to run FlashCache on my $800 worth of SSD's. This is not a problem.
In 1980, she discussed with John Opel, a fellow committee member who was the chairman of the International Business Machines Corporation," her son's company. "Mr. Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other I.B.M. executives. A few weeks later, I.B.M. took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer."
laundry list of Microsoft products
Yep - IBM never would have done the deal if Microsoft hadn't been a growing, successful company. Both were required. And if that IBM contract had been written differently history would also have taken a different track.
Being competent and being lucky aren't mutually exclusive.
More efficiency is great. Can I underclock it and get a smartphone that'll last 3 days on a charge?
I have friends with 'smart'phones that last 8 hours on a charge. My 5-year old 'feature phone' can regularly get 3 days, and its silicon is on an ancient process.
Yeah, I'm done with BB after experiencing their returns process recently. If I really need it today, I check WalMart. If they don't have it, too bad, Amazon will have it here tomorrow for $4.
Other people have done it out of worse circumstance than you. The difference? They didn't have the defeatist attitude from the beginning....and MachineShedFred wins the thread.
a: climate change isn't happening b: climate change may be happening c: climate change is happening
x: do nothing about it y: implement technology-based solutions to deal with it z: implement State-based solutions to deal with it
the people in (c,z) are advocating the violence-based taking of resources from the other 8 sectors, which upsets them. This especially burns the people at (c,y) because the (c,z) people are also preventing the (c,y) people from acting, and the (c,y) people believe that the (c,z) people have an unworkable solution, but they have might-makes-right people on their side.
The (c,z) people also paint the (c,y) people as (a,x) people, when they're actually closest neighbors. Media people tend to describe the problem as (A,B), where A maps to (a,x) and B maps to (c,z), which does the debate no favors at all.
The only way for the (c,y) people to prove their case is for them to be allowed to demonstrate it. But the (c,z) people prevent that from happening. Some (c,z) people know that the (c,y) people are right but want more State power, some are unaware, and some believe they are wrong. If we call them (l,m,n) respectively, it's only the (c,z,l) people who are dangerous - the other 26/27 quadrant occupants are amenable to persuasion by science. But you can't build a bridge between science and anti-science, they are actually opposites.
Now nothing was illegal - but my god. What a complete lack of any decent human characteristic.
I'm no Bill Gates fan, but that's a hard case to make. He had information that both IBM and Brock lacked, and without that information, Brock might never have made any money on the product. There's no denying that his mother's connections to IBM folks made that happen for him, but he was the essential link in the chain (even if not a very talented one). It's those essential connections where profit happens.
Gates gave SCP a decent payday (explicitly an acceptable price to Brock) and then gave Patterson a job three times, and bought Patterson's company from him. Heck, Patterson was such an early Microsoft employee that he could have made (did make?) a killing on its stock. SCP made healthy independent profits riding on the coattails of Microsoft's IBM-PC success, but then sued them for more profits, which only wound up in a settlement. Since we're judging all this in hindsight, Brock would have been better off joining Microsoft with Patterson if he wanted to share in its profits.
Posix compatibilty was brought up, and the prevailing opinion was that they didn't want to become yet another posix app launcher
I'd think they'd be better off taking the opposite approach - merge the advances that BeOS made into the existing FLOSS ecosystem.
I remember some awesome BeBox demos from c. '95, and it was clearly better than anything else at the time. But, I have to wonder how much better was it than Linux 20 years later. If BeOS can do some things more efficiently than Linux (or FreeBSD, et. al.), I suspect the kernel devs would like to know about it. There are features of BeFS that would be nice to have in ext4 or ZFS (I've actually chatted with an ext4 dev about some of these and the disk format wouldn't need to change). There are system-level services that FreeDesktop ought to implement. There are GUI elements that might find a nice home as XFCE features. Etc.
I realize I'm asking to keep the ideas in BeOS alive rather than keeping BeOS alive, and that's a different goal. There are folks who work on and use PDP/11 emulators, and more power to them, but it really has beneficial impact to very few people. Be's legacy ought to be the wide dispersion of its ideas, rather than its code, to as many people as possible.
Are you sure your information isn't dated? WHO Data.
Yeah, we have the Boston study, but I'm skeptical that they adequately controlled for lead paint.
FYI, a bunch of references at the bottom of this article.
I'm 47. I haven't had one, ever. I don't know what it's like to have one. Compare and contrast to my parents who had mouths full of metal by the time they hit 20 years old.
Yup, and mine too. Caries have decreased over time, independent of fluoridation. Studies listed at previous link.
Longer answer: if you buy into the "fluoridation is harmful and doesn't actually do anything to prevent dental caries" you are going against 50 years of worldwide studies.
Not really. US folks point to the Kingston study, but did not control for refrigeration. Do you have more recent studies? Because there are several showing that the rates of caries do not increase in towns where fluoridation is stopped. Entire countries, such as Sweden have taken this approach, giving xylitol gum in school lunches, which provides a higher level of benefit.
We also have modern studies showing that silicofluorides transport heavy metals across calcium channels and epidemiological studies show that municipalities that use them have statistically higher levels of violent crimes. The calcium binding may also be a cause of the increase in osteoporosis. Proponents claim without basis that silicofluorides completely dissociate, but that's been shown to be untrue. But silicoflourides are much cheaper than sodium fluoride because it's a toxic waste product extracted from the smokestack scrubbers of fertilizer manufacturing plants.
And that's ignoring the problems of mass-medicating a population against their will, with wildly uncontrolled dosing.
Personally, I have well water at home with no fluoride present and I use a distiller at work because the local town puts silicofluorides in their water. I use xylitol toothpaste which interrupts bacterial biofilms. I've had one single-surface cavity in 12 years.
Slashdot Mirror
Have you read a paperback recently?
The rules for readability are dependent on medium and resolution. Serifs behave differently with transmissive and reflective displays, for instance.
I find Comic Sans very hard to read.
I got a typeface designed for the visually impaired, so I could do things like read /. without my glasses, with the font size cranked way up (the sidebars disappear into give-up-and-use-tables land, but the body and comments are fine).
It's remarkably similar to Comic Sans.
obviously, the aesthetics circuits got the short end of the deal
I take it you've never seen Ms. Randall. Her wonderful ability for writing and teaching aren't her only assets.
Speaking as mostly a middleware programmer who spent too many years expecting the database guys to "fix the database" when my shoddy queries ran slow, let me say, "Hallelujah, brother!"
no EXPLAIN on your DBMS?
Either clever or evil. Maybe both. :)
Yeah, there's no denying that Microsoft Basic and the SoftCard were great hits. I think their Pascal came in after the IBM deal and the COBOL and FORTRAN (and assembler) didn't sell much.
That success may have cemented the deal, but it didn't create the introduction. They're just two separate and necessary ingredients.
Quite a bit of what made BeOS/Haiku great involve relatively huge numbers of preemptive, lightweight threads. In fact, a "process" in Linux speak is called a Team in BeOS... that's a Team of Threads, of course. Very much the opposite of how Linux/UNIX have worked through most of their history
So, each thread was scheduled independently? What about the Teams? Were they group scheduled?
Linux effectively treats kernel threads like processes, so the plumbing should be there. Are CGroups a map to Teams at this point?
For instance Flashcache requires about 500 megs of memory to manage a 300GB disk.
I put a 100GB SSD pair (Intel SLC, IIRC) in front of a 2TB 7200RPM Hitachi 3.5" pair using FlashCache, and the results are amazing. I've got several VM's on them, including databases, and the databases are faster than when the database had its own 15,000RPM 2.5" pair for dedicated use.
Those SSD's are about $400 each, so I pay about $8/GB after mirroring. 2GB of server ram is about $20. So, 1MB of server RAM is about 10 cents. Figure 15 cents for FlashCache overhead. So, I have to pay $15 in RAM to run FlashCache on my $800 worth of SSD's. This is not a problem.
Grow up.
Accept reality.
laundry list of Microsoft products
Yep - IBM never would have done the deal if Microsoft hadn't been a growing, successful company. Both were required. And if that IBM contract had been written differently history would also have taken a different track.
Being competent and being lucky aren't mutually exclusive.
There's every reason to release his tax records, unless of course it would make his winning the election impossible.
I like Root's suggestion - Romney releases his tax returns and Obama unseals his college records.
I'll be heating up the oil for the popcorn.
He also started the Drug War, created our debt problem by closing the gold window, and started the EPA. Oh, wait, you cited starting the EPA too.
has to pay $100 to the person who dealt with it
1/10th of 1% of annual income or corporate earnings (adjusting for $100K individual).
That's $100 for an individual and about $800,000 for Scripps. I think that's a fair balance - they both have relatively as much to risk.
More efficiency is great. Can I underclock it and get a smartphone that'll last 3 days on a charge?
I have friends with 'smart'phones that last 8 hours on a charge. My 5-year old 'feature phone' can regularly get 3 days, and its silicon is on an ancient process.
Yeah, I'm done with BB after experiencing their returns process recently. If I really need it today, I check WalMart. If they don't have it, too bad, Amazon will have it here tomorrow for $4.
Other people have done it out of worse circumstance than you. The difference? They didn't have the defeatist attitude from the beginning. ...and MachineShedFred wins the thread.
haha, the salmon are going to start building their own damn ladders.
And how am I at fault for pointing out the obvious?
You're arguing that the world's going to hell, so everybody should engage in the behaviors that are causing the world to go to hell.
That doesn't seem like a problem?
Build a bridge and get over it.
I don't think it's possible. Here's why:
Consider the 3x3 matrix:
a: climate change isn't happening
b: climate change may be happening
c: climate change is happening
x: do nothing about it
y: implement technology-based solutions to deal with it
z: implement State-based solutions to deal with it
the people in (c,z) are advocating the violence-based taking of resources from the other 8 sectors, which upsets them. This especially burns the people at (c,y) because the (c,z) people are also preventing the (c,y) people from acting, and the (c,y) people believe that the (c,z) people have an unworkable solution, but they have might-makes-right people on their side.
The (c,z) people also paint the (c,y) people as (a,x) people, when they're actually closest neighbors. Media people tend to describe the problem as (A,B), where A maps to (a,x) and B maps to (c,z), which does the debate no favors at all.
The only way for the (c,y) people to prove their case is for them to be allowed to demonstrate it. But the (c,z) people prevent that from happening. Some (c,z) people know that the (c,y) people are right but want more State power, some are unaware, and some believe they are wrong. If we call them (l,m,n) respectively, it's only the (c,z,l) people who are dangerous - the other 26/27 quadrant occupants are amenable to persuasion by science. But you can't build a bridge between science and anti-science, they are actually opposites.
How so?
<WP:Tragedy of the commons>
Now nothing was illegal - but my god. What a complete lack of any decent human characteristic.
I'm no Bill Gates fan, but that's a hard case to make. He had information that both IBM and Brock lacked, and without that information, Brock might never have made any money on the product. There's no denying that his mother's connections to IBM folks made that happen for him, but he was the essential link in the chain (even if not a very talented one). It's those essential connections where profit happens.
Gates gave SCP a decent payday (explicitly an acceptable price to Brock) and then gave Patterson a job three times, and bought Patterson's company from him. Heck, Patterson was such an early Microsoft employee that he could have made (did make?) a killing on its stock. SCP made healthy independent profits riding on the coattails of Microsoft's IBM-PC success, but then sued them for more profits, which only wound up in a settlement. Since we're judging all this in hindsight, Brock would have been better off joining Microsoft with Patterson if he wanted to share in its profits.
No one ever thought there was DOS code swiped from CPM.
Yeah, this story puzzled me for this reason as well. Oh, well, I guess the new formula is:
1) create strawman
2) disprove it with software
3) profit?
Posix compatibilty was brought up, and the prevailing opinion was that they didn't want to become yet another posix app launcher
I'd think they'd be better off taking the opposite approach - merge the advances that BeOS made into the existing FLOSS ecosystem.
I remember some awesome BeBox demos from c. '95, and it was clearly better than anything else at the time. But, I have to wonder how much better was it than Linux 20 years later. If BeOS can do some things more efficiently than Linux (or FreeBSD, et. al.), I suspect the kernel devs would like to know about it. There are features of BeFS that would be nice to have in ext4 or ZFS (I've actually chatted with an ext4 dev about some of these and the disk format wouldn't need to change). There are system-level services that FreeDesktop ought to implement. There are GUI elements that might find a nice home as XFCE features. Etc.
I realize I'm asking to keep the ideas in BeOS alive rather than keeping BeOS alive, and that's a different goal. There are folks who work on and use PDP/11 emulators, and more power to them, but it really has beneficial impact to very few people. Be's legacy ought to be the wide dispersion of its ideas, rather than its code, to as many people as possible.
This is just wrong. Sweden puts it in table salt,
Are you sure your information isn't dated? WHO Data.
Yeah, we have the Boston study, but I'm skeptical that they adequately controlled for lead paint.
FYI, a bunch of references at the bottom of this article.
I'm 47. I haven't had one, ever. I don't know what it's like to have one. Compare and contrast to my parents who had mouths full of metal by the time they hit 20 years old.
Yup, and mine too. Caries have decreased over time, independent of fluoridation. Studies listed at previous link.
I'd rather watch a Coke commercial.
Take you kids to your local college sports games. Better for everybody.
Longer answer: if you buy into the "fluoridation is harmful and doesn't actually do anything to prevent dental caries" you are going against 50 years of worldwide studies.
Not really. US folks point to the Kingston study, but did not control for refrigeration. Do you have more recent studies? Because there are several showing that the rates of caries do not increase in towns where fluoridation is stopped. Entire countries, such as Sweden have taken this approach, giving xylitol gum in school lunches, which provides a higher level of benefit.
We also have modern studies showing that silicofluorides transport heavy metals across calcium channels and epidemiological studies show that municipalities that use them have statistically higher levels of violent crimes. The calcium binding may also be a cause of the increase in osteoporosis. Proponents claim without basis that silicofluorides completely dissociate, but that's been shown to be untrue. But silicoflourides are much cheaper than sodium fluoride because it's a toxic waste product extracted from the smokestack scrubbers of fertilizer manufacturing plants.
And that's ignoring the problems of mass-medicating a population against their will, with wildly uncontrolled dosing.
Personally, I have well water at home with no fluoride present and I use a distiller at work because the local town puts silicofluorides in their water. I use xylitol toothpaste which interrupts bacterial biofilms. I've had one single-surface cavity in 12 years.