You would first have to explain to them what a punch card is, and why we ever used one. After that you might have to wait for the laughter and shock to die down.
In 2002, incidents at public highway-rail crossings in the United States caused 311 deaths and 859 injuries.
So lets say thats 1200 total seperate incidents (its likely not, but we can start there), So at worse, in 2002, it averaged about three people involved in accidents a day. Now we dont know from that line if this involves passanger trains that might have derailed injuring more people than just individual accidents with a motor vechical and a freight train. So even with some lumping together, we still could easily get an accident a day with a train, which is too many, but please dont scare us with every 90 seconds without some reference.
Computers can't deal with imaginary numbers natively...
Uhh, they sure can. GNU C, for instance, has a complex qualifier.
I think the GP was refering to the hardware level, not an abstract software layer. Where traditonal computers, even those with modern math extensions dont know what an imaginary or complex number is. Normally, two floating point values are used to represent complex arithmetic, however its not a native operation, and still requires some software logic to be accomplished.
Seriously, the internet offers nothing that doesnt have some form of demand. The pr0n is there because there is a demand for it, get rid of it from the net, and the demand will just be satisfied by some other medium just as accessable by those who really want it.
Besides, you oviously havent seen how hard it is to find good quality pr0n these days, easy isnt what I would describe it as.
Not to troll too badly, but I have a hard time accepting the ranking of any press organization who spells countries wrong like this.
N Country Score 1 Finland 0,50 - Iceland 0,50 - Irland 0,50 - Netherland 0,50
I think they lost an 'e' and a 's' in there. Maybe i'm wrong, but I dont think the english spelling of said countries is quite like that? Sure we all typo, but in a 'big' position statement like this, by an organization composed of folks who presumably contain writers and editors.... Although givin my 1337 typo skillz, I shouldnt be the one arguing this, but it did jump out at me...
If that fails, the Austrailian government has a failsafe plan B to get rid of thier army. They'll simply declare war on the United States. Of course, this does have certain drawbacks...
Depending on who you ask, that might swell its ranks... that or wipe out the whole of the continent...
[offtopic] I was thinking along the lines of the IR line coupled with XIO. Pretty similar to a direct bus (numa) attached graphics chipset as the parent was suggesting, not exactly, but close enough. Don't get me wrong, without it, modern CAVEs wouldn't be what they are today, and its a wonderful piece of hardware. However, I don't think SGI is doing better (or worse) in the grand scheme because of it, at least not right now. [/offtopic]
How about a kernel halt with a blue background and a breif nonsensical message? That would get your attention! Ohhh wait...
Seriously though, the OOM Killer is a more 'friendly' solution than a Kernel OOPS! at least... As long as you dont mind sniping processes vs halting the system. But your very right, there is NO happy way to handle an OOM.
Maybe just have the kernel pass a redirect to your browser to a certain site?
Considering the company I work for has critical desktop (Win XP) business apps that depend and backed to a scarcely alive VMS cluster, the likelihood of this little API call being widespread are indeed very high.
In the old UPN version of Die Hard I once saw, they replaced "Mother-fucker" with "Mr. Falcon", and it sounded nothing like Bruce Willis...
"Yippie ki-yay, Mr. Falcon!"
What will they think of next?
I'm sorry to nitpick here, but the oh infamous Dan Goldin pushed for 'faster, better, cheaper'.
NASA research level employees, from my own experience, are not the problem, its bureaucracy and the lack of interested from much of the general public that is the problem. In the Apollo days space excited the general populace. Nowadays, the general public almost has forgotten one of the 'A's in NASA, and seems to be losing what interest it has in the 'S' portion. That is the true downfall of NASA, the majority of the public who funds it stopped caring as a whole.
And everyone forgets about the good higher PCI-X standard (Now in 2.0a!), which permits not only 100MHz and 133MHz like 1.0, but also 266MHz and 533MHz. Although you will be hard pressed to find 2.0 devices, the 66-133MHz devices are very common in the server market, infact I have a nice 133MHz GigE card here, a very nice 64-bit addition!
I dont know about you, but i'm getting up into your 'generation' that is aging with the NES, but I still love a good Mario game, and I know alot of folks and friends that sit for hours and still play thoes 'kids' nintendo games because they are highly enjoyable and captivating. The PS2 and XBox have some enjoyable titles, but nothing that gives more hours of enjoyment than the nintendo choices for me. But this all comes down to a choice, and I chose the big 'ol N, others, including you, may freely chose otherwise.
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I wonder if Microsoft Visual Earth has been getting their data from Setec Astronomy??
No, as TFA pointed out, this is Texas, you go to Frys.
You would first have to explain to them what a punch card is, and why we ever used one. After that you might have to wait for the laughter and shock to die down.
De basement can make it very inexpensive over time!
Disapointing Kahns? Never!
Oh wait...
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Wait a second, every 90 seconds? Thats a little far off. Even just looking at Google:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=train+
There seems to be 1 crash every day or so (and this is world wide), which I give you i still too many, but nowhere as bad as once every 90 seconds.
Lets look a little deeper:
From http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/media/reducerrcollsn.h
So lets say thats 1200 total seperate incidents (its likely not, but we can start there), So at worse, in 2002, it averaged about three people involved in accidents a day. Now we dont know from that line if this involves passanger trains that might have derailed injuring more people than just individual accidents with a motor vechical and a freight train. So even with some lumping together, we still could easily get an accident a day with a train, which is too many, but please dont scare us with every 90 seconds without some reference.
</rant>
I think the GP was refering to the hardware level, not an abstract software layer. Where traditonal computers, even those with modern math extensions dont know what an imaginary or complex number is. Normally, two floating point values are used to represent complex arithmetic, however its not a native operation, and still requires some software logic to be accomplished.
Actually, you should notice it was reported the ban was lifted two days ago. Although it was cleaverly disguised as a surge in Chinese Wiki-use.
Seriously, the internet offers nothing that doesnt have some form of demand. The pr0n is there because there is a demand for it, get rid of it from the net, and the demand will just be satisfied by some other medium just as accessable by those who really want it.
Besides, you oviously havent seen how hard it is to find good quality pr0n these days, easy isnt what I would describe it as.
You oviously had some trama with marbles as a small child.
I think they lost an 'e' and a 's' in there. Maybe i'm wrong, but I dont think the english spelling of said countries is quite like that?
Sure we all typo, but in a 'big' position statement like this, by an organization composed of folks who presumably contain writers and editors....
Although givin my 1337 typo skillz, I shouldnt be the one arguing this, but it did jump out at me...
</end rant>
Likely Asia Pacific, shortened in speach usually as 'Asia-Pac'.
Depending on who you ask, that might swell its ranks... that or wipe out the whole of the continent...
[offtopic]
I was thinking along the lines of the IR line coupled with XIO. Pretty similar to a direct bus (numa) attached graphics chipset as the parent was suggesting, not exactly, but close enough.
Don't get me wrong, without it, modern CAVEs wouldn't be what they are today, and its a wonderful piece of hardware. However, I don't think SGI is doing better (or worse) in the grand scheme because of it, at least not right now.
[/offtopic]
SGI already tried something similar and look where it got them!
I need any other cat aside from Nemo? Your kidding? The first, and original hypo-allergenic cat.
the mouses resistance to overdosing on saccharin?
How about a kernel halt with a blue background and a breif nonsensical message? That would get your attention! Ohhh wait...
Seriously though, the OOM Killer is a more 'friendly' solution than a Kernel OOPS! at least... As long as you dont mind sniping processes vs halting the system. But your very right, there is NO happy way to handle an OOM.
Maybe just have the kernel pass a redirect to your browser to a certain site?
Are you saying that my ... *cry* ... Star Fleet Technical Manual .. is.... WRONG?!
Yea, dont worry "the Network" is working for the pr0n.
Considering the company I work for has critical desktop (Win XP) business apps that depend and backed to a scarcely alive VMS cluster, the likelihood of this little API call being widespread are indeed very high.
In the old UPN version of Die Hard I once saw, they replaced "Mother-fucker" with "Mr. Falcon", and it sounded nothing like Bruce Willis... "Yippie ki-yay, Mr. Falcon!" What will they think of next?
I'm sorry to nitpick here, but the oh infamous Dan Goldin pushed for 'faster, better, cheaper'.
NASA research level employees, from my own experience, are not the problem, its bureaucracy and the lack of interested from much of the general public that is the problem. In the Apollo days space excited the general populace. Nowadays, the general public almost has forgotten one of the 'A's in NASA, and seems to be losing what interest it has in the 'S' portion. That is the true downfall of NASA, the majority of the public who funds it stopped caring as a whole.
And everyone forgets about the good higher PCI-X standard (Now in 2.0a!), which permits not only 100MHz and 133MHz like 1.0, but also 266MHz and 533MHz. Although you will be hard pressed to find 2.0 devices, the 66-133MHz devices are very common in the server market, infact I have a nice 133MHz GigE card here, a very nice 64-bit addition!
I dont know about you, but i'm getting up into your 'generation' that is aging with the NES, but I still love a good Mario game, and I know alot of folks and friends that sit for hours and still play thoes 'kids' nintendo games because they are highly enjoyable and captivating. The PS2 and XBox have some enjoyable titles, but nothing that gives more hours of enjoyment than the nintendo choices for me. But this all comes down to a choice, and I chose the big 'ol N, others, including you, may freely chose otherwise.