Core bit I think you are missing is that it takes a lot of energy to cool all the necessary parts down to near absolute zero (I believe I read somewhere that it takes a couple weeks to do the initial chill at least). I imagine the cost to keep it running (with or w/o ongoing injections) is less due to the initialization sequence, as it were.
I like Eclipse as an IDE because it supports many languages/modes and is very customizable. I mostly use it for Java, Perl and HTML/XML/CSS right now. There are MANY plugins and the context-aware help/auto-complete is very well done.
Most fiction and certainly most Sci-Fi can be considered about "altered reality" where something or someone that is not true/doesn't exist in our reality is described in a book. That is what makes it fiction. As for drug use and meaning of identity, I'd say most of his books DON'T have drug use as a major theme. Meaning of identity is fairly common though. Still, you come off as a hater. The idea of someone being tricked into helping a war effort he doesn't know exists is a pretty cool plot idea and he has many others.
PKD lover says: screw you. But seriously, have you read more than one of his books or few short stories? Your description of "drivel" seems a very limited view of his works. So many common themes that are beyond just "which reality is real" (which he does very well). Pervasive surveillance/advertising. The meaning of living an authentic life. Effects of modern societies/cultures on lower "cog in the machine" type individuals. Ordinary people fighting struggling whether to accept or fight against large organizations/systems. Mental illness. Alternate history. War. Love/Obsession. Religion. Belittling his whole body of work as "stoner ramblings" is pretty indefensible in my opinion.
Just to be clear, most of the movies that have been made from PKD's works are indeed based on his short stories, but that is far from all he wrote. A Scanner Darkly was a regular length book as is Flow My Tears.
I thought Paycheck was ok, if a bit cheesy. Next was absolute crap though. I reread the story before seeing it and was trying to figure out how they would make it into a movie.
Most recent episode talked about how Alpha came in and destroyed both their main storage and backups for some imprints. Which made me exclaim "they have offsite backups, right?". Apparently, they do not.
Some good points about controlled/validated systems. I would like to point out, however, that over two years ago the FDA released a special directive making it clear that OS-level security patches did NOT require full re-validation. Some vendors are likely slow on the uptake on this or are still hiding behind the old rules/misconceptions. To re-iterate: FDA says security patches are fine and don't need all the ISO/FDA change control procedures necessary for other software changes.
Just to be clear, this isn't a single/bare quark w/o a partner is it? As I thought isolating quarks outside of a hadron (w/ 1 or 2 other quarks) was not possible due to the nature of the strong force. Is what they are really saying is that they got an event to force just one top quark to decay once released from a hadron rather than 2 or more at once?
Agreed. Some thoughts from the large-filesystem end: XFS has consistently supported larger "single filesystems" (4/8/16TB+) for the past few years. We run these on top of hardware raid and LVM. XFS makes it easy to have these large filesystems and extend them online. I have used zfs as well and love the way it combines the LVM and filesystem layers. I would love to have something like that in linux. Hopefully the btrfs people keep the lvm bits in mind as well.
The compatibility they are talking about is just within PS3 games and peripherals. That is, Rock Band 2 instruments working with Guitar Hero: World Tour games and vice versa. It also appears that Rock Band 1 instruments will work with GH: WT as well as RB2.
Yes yes, we should in no way think we are as cool as you are while playing these very fun games.
Standard argument: Not just anyone can pick up a real instrument and groove along with a song, these games open that experience up to more people, they have fun, etc. With RB/GH you can get people who aren't gamers or musicians having fun with music fairly quickly.
I don't know how it worked exactly, but I fondly remember the days of many BBSes that ran Major BBS software linking up together. It may have been called MajorNet and it allowed not only forums but live chat as well. It was a real kick to be chatting realtime with someone in Iceland!
Software cracking skills are much different from, say, ICBM technology. They can be developed by an individual through reading readily accessible texts and practice. The argument that China as a whole does not have the technical sophistication to crack into U.S. systems due to it being a "developing nation" is disingenuous.
Probably for an end-user workstation with a single hard drive, the main benefit will be resistance to errors. ZFS also has optional transparent compression so that could be useful as well I suppose.
RAM settings can be tuned down (see ARC cache sizing). If you've just lurked on a list and not run it or read the tuning docs, you don't know and your vage sense of it being "scary" should hold little weight. I will say that the defaults for ZFS on Solaris are geared towards large-memory machines where you can afford to give a gig to the filesystem layer for caching and such. I don't know the absolute minimum RAM requirements, but I doubt they are inflexible and "scary". I've been running zfs on solaris oracle servers for a bit and it is REALLY NICE in my opinion. They have also continually improved the auto-tuning aspects so you don't even have to worry about some of the settings that were often tuned even two releases ago (10u2 vs 10u4).
Sheesh, don't we have enough non-BSD non-SYSV unix init systems yet? Solaris has their own, Mac OS X has a different one, and I think I recall hearing some other distro changed theirs as well. This fragmentation is irritating for sysadmins and gains little. Have these people looked at the other systems out there (Sun's, Apple's, etc) and seen what needs of theirs are not met? Perhaps extending one of these would be worth considering... Altho honestly, I find SysV style init to work just fine.
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He would never say that. I doubt he knows what "fsck" is.
Core bit I think you are missing is that it takes a lot of energy to cool all the necessary parts down to near absolute zero (I believe I read somewhere that it takes a couple weeks to do the initial chill at least). I imagine the cost to keep it running (with or w/o ongoing injections) is less due to the initialization sequence, as it were.
I like Eclipse as an IDE because it supports many languages/modes and is very customizable. I mostly use it for Java, Perl and HTML/XML/CSS right now. There are MANY plugins and the context-aware help/auto-complete is very well done.
Most fiction and certainly most Sci-Fi can be considered about "altered reality" where something or someone that is not true/doesn't exist in our reality is described in a book. That is what makes it fiction.
As for drug use and meaning of identity, I'd say most of his books DON'T have drug use as a major theme. Meaning of identity is fairly common though. Still, you come off as a hater. The idea of someone being tricked into helping a war effort he doesn't know exists is a pretty cool plot idea and he has many others.
You forgot the pink laser beams.
PKD lover says: screw you. But seriously, have you read more than one of his books or few short stories? Your description of "drivel" seems a very limited view of his works. So many common themes that are beyond just "which reality is real" (which he does very well). Pervasive surveillance/advertising. The meaning of living an authentic life. Effects of modern societies/cultures on lower "cog in the machine" type individuals. Ordinary people fighting struggling whether to accept or fight against large organizations/systems. Mental illness. Alternate history. War. Love/Obsession. Religion.
Belittling his whole body of work as "stoner ramblings" is pretty indefensible in my opinion.
Just to be clear, most of the movies that have been made from PKD's works are indeed based on his short stories, but that is far from all he wrote. A Scanner Darkly was a regular length book as is Flow My Tears.
I thought Paycheck was ok, if a bit cheesy. Next was absolute crap though. I reread the story before seeing it and was trying to figure out how they would make it into a movie.
Most recent episode talked about how Alpha came in and destroyed both their main storage and backups for some imprints. Which made me exclaim "they have offsite backups, right?". Apparently, they do not.
Some good points about controlled/validated systems. I would like to point out, however, that over two years ago the FDA released a special directive making it clear that OS-level security patches did NOT require full re-validation. Some vendors are likely slow on the uptake on this or are still hiding behind the old rules/misconceptions. To re-iterate: FDA says security patches are fine and don't need all the ISO/FDA change control procedures necessary for other software changes.
The Red Hat ad is over 3 minutes long! Not a very effective ad, maybe a good intro for a presentation or something tho.
Just to be clear, this isn't a single/bare quark w/o a partner is it? As I thought isolating quarks outside of a hadron (w/ 1 or 2 other quarks) was not possible due to the nature of the strong force. Is what they are really saying is that they got an event to force just one top quark to decay once released from a hadron rather than 2 or more at once?
He still has something to gain by staying on in as a contractor if he can swing it. Sweet contracting-rate money and good future references.
Quite likely a true story (often retold by Lederman and Higgs at least), it was supposedly Leon Lederman (of Fermilab) who coined the term goddamn (or "god") particle. He also has a book called The God Particle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Particle:_If_the_Universe_Is_the_Answer,_What_Is_the_Question
Agreed. Some thoughts from the large-filesystem end: XFS has consistently supported larger "single filesystems" (4/8/16TB+) for the past few years. We run these on top of hardware raid and LVM. XFS makes it easy to have these large filesystems and extend them online.
I have used zfs as well and love the way it combines the LVM and filesystem layers. I would love to have something like that in linux. Hopefully the btrfs people keep the lvm bits in mind as well.
The compatibility they are talking about is just within PS3 games and peripherals. That is, Rock Band 2 instruments working with Guitar Hero: World Tour games and vice versa. It also appears that Rock Band 1 instruments will work with GH: WT as well as RB2.
Yes yes, we should in no way think we are as cool as you are while playing these very fun games.
Standard argument: Not just anyone can pick up a real instrument and groove along with a song, these games open that experience up to more people, they have fun, etc. With RB/GH you can get people who aren't gamers or musicians having fun with music fairly quickly.
Bonus: we don't have to talk to you.
I don't know how it worked exactly, but I fondly remember the days of many BBSes that ran Major BBS software linking up together. It may have been called MajorNet and it allowed not only forums but live chat as well. It was a real kick to be chatting realtime with someone in Iceland!
True, instead they are given away on the internet.
Software cracking skills are much different from, say, ICBM technology. They can be developed by an individual through reading readily accessible texts and practice. The argument that China as a whole does not have the technical sophistication to crack into U.S. systems due to it being a "developing nation" is disingenuous.
Probably for an end-user workstation with a single hard drive, the main benefit will be resistance to errors. ZFS also has optional transparent compression so that could be useful as well I suppose.
RAM settings can be tuned down (see ARC cache sizing). If you've just lurked on a list and not run it or read the tuning docs, you don't know and your vage sense of it being "scary" should hold little weight. I will say that the defaults for ZFS on Solaris are geared towards large-memory machines where you can afford to give a gig to the filesystem layer for caching and such. I don't know the absolute minimum RAM requirements, but I doubt they are inflexible and "scary".
I've been running zfs on solaris oracle servers for a bit and it is REALLY NICE in my opinion. They have also continually improved the auto-tuning aspects so you don't even have to worry about some of the settings that were often tuned even two releases ago (10u2 vs 10u4).
Not to mention that the justechn link for one is already down/suspended for bandwidth cap with only a handful of comments posted.
"they claim more progress working on this for six months than working on Gentoo for four years"
Well, given Gentoo is usable and this is not, I disagree with their assessment.
Sheesh, don't we have enough non-BSD non-SYSV unix init systems yet? Solaris has their own, Mac OS X has a different one, and I think I recall hearing some other distro changed theirs as well. This fragmentation is irritating for sysadmins and gains little. Have these people looked at the other systems out there (Sun's, Apple's, etc) and seen what needs of theirs are not met? Perhaps extending one of these would be worth considering...
Altho honestly, I find SysV style init to work just fine.