Because EVERY SINGLE SLASHDOT POST WITH PICTURES... gets slashdotted.
It's almost as if the slashdot editors are like unable to learn such a basic concept. Mirror the pictures or don't bother. Cuz like all you get are 1000s of idiots like me replying when I haven't even seen the "so amazing it must be on slashdot" article yet.
I hate windows and I can name several good things about it.
- Standard kernel API [a lot of what was written for as far back as win 3.1 will still work today] - User interface [apis] are effective and the resulting "experience" is user friendly - The kernel is largely stable except when errant drivers take it down - Lots of games for windows
About gates personally?
- Donates considerable bank to charities - Oraganizes sporting events for his employees - Provides a challenging and innovative workplace
I'm sure working for MSFT has it's faults [namely you couldn't get away with using Gentoo] but if you didn't care about the OS wars then it wouldn't matter.
"customers want" or more correctly "what he tells the customers they want".
I'd pay good money to have him say on tape 10 good things about a Linux distro. The fact that he can't be objective means anything he has to say is totally worthless.
I'm not you. I offer to call for ANYONE I see on the side of the road unless I see they have a cell handy.
I also help people up who slip on ice and I generally open doors for people who are carrying a lot [like a huge tray of muffins once.... ooooh muffins].
Sure I don't do everything I can at any given moment to help. So I totally understand what you are saying. You have to prioritize how you help people. I think what I was trying to get at is that people set their threshold much too high and now it's basically "I'll help if it makes me look better in my community."
Well I am confident by the inactions of the many [and supporting some resort section of town...] that people really didn't care about the people.
I'm not saying that is bad. Personally I couldn't give two thoughts to them myself. My problem is all these "concerned" people only show up when it's popular.
I heard that Avril Lavigne was there at the concert last night. Where was she about protesting about the war in Iraq? The inaction in the Sudan and other nations? How about how some americans live in excess while others do without? Where is she on the homeless? How about healthcare? Does she give two shits about students trying to make ends meet in university? etc...
Oh, but it's P.C. to show up and "care" about the tsunami victims... people who lived in shantis and other low quality construction materials. People who often did without food, water and had wars of their own to contend with, etc...
That's why I'm upset with "relief aid". Because the concern is simply not genuine.
Dude, pretty much anything that has todo with money has todo with profit. Even the tsunami relief aid [SCAM!!!] concerts are about getting image out and being able to rob more mindshare. [*]
I have no problem paying for tax software. I would have a problem though if they locked me into a proprietary format so I couldn't escape later.
[*] All those who don't think tsunami relief aid is a scam please say "I cared about the people of the affected regions BEFORE December 26th, 2004".
Or.... pull the genius move of NOT BUY EVERYTHING MEDIA TELLS YOU TO!!!
I disliked the idea of Steam from the get-go. Hence I didn't buy HL2.
The problem with people like you is that you'll buy anything your told to, e.g. review posted on slashdot about upcoming HL2 engine, then IGN hosts a screenshot gallery, then you simply must own this game. It has l33t properties.
Even if you think "I'm deciding to buy this" if you actually do buy it, it's totally the marketing wheels spinning.
Not only that but as fun as HL2 is, it does get a bit tiring after a while. When I'm at my friends place playing the game I spend most of my time finding inventive ways to make the exploding red barrels explode all at once.
I fell for Doom3 and what a ripoff that was. Generally I don't buy games first day but Doom3 was hyped and it looked very sweet. Then it turns out to be "YetAnotherStaticWorldWithShinyPolyRendering(tm)". The actual gameplay blows donkey balls and the engine is so resource intense that it's impossible to play at a "nice looking AND >20 FPS" rate on any modest graphics card. To me that's not progress that's just "something".
Now I rent first [xbox/ps2] then buy. At least losing 5$ for a crappy game is better than losing 40$.
I judge the quality of peace officers by the "not occurence of crime" in my life. By that sentiment my monitor prevents crime too since I have to be victimized and I have a monitor....;-)
Point is I can walk around town any hour of the day and be safe from harm. So maybe you just live in a crappy place or you elect all the wrong peeps.
"on the former every memory access would take around 2 cycles"
See that's wrong. On the machine with a small cache and large DRAM every cache hit is 2 cycles. Even the 512KB L2's that AMD/Intel use are upwards of 13 cycles to access [or more]. It takes time for the address bits to settle and also the larger the cache the longer it will take for the signal to settle (more distance)
With 4GB of cache EVERY cache hit would be larger [say for conversation] access time of say 30 cycles.
So let's compare access times. Cache hits on the "small cache" platform might be split say 60%/30%/10% [for code]. That means most hits will be 2 cycles or ~13 cycles and some upwards of a 150 cycles or so [average of about 20 cycles].
The 30 cycle "large cache" system will still be slower on average then.
In reality though my averages aren't representative of applications like encoders where tight loops make up the largest parts of the execution time. So let's assume that 85/10/5 is more representative. That's an average access of 8 cycles.
That and the fact that SRAM is expensive is why people don't build systems with only SRAM.
...SRAM is much more expensive to produce? It also takes more power and generates more heat.
That and the benefits of cache go DOWN as the size of the cache goes up. Past a MB or two the benefits would be lowered. Also as the # of address lines goes up the access gets slower. And finally a bigger bottle neck is that "external memory" is external.
So unless you want to pay for a cpu with a GB of onboard "memory" in the form of SRAM.... the benefits won't be that high.
Personally I think alcohol and tobacco are far more dangerous because they're so omnipresent. Try to pass by a high school [outside mormon land] where the students are not 50% or higher smokers.
Of course they smoke because
a) They're serfs b) They think it makes them mature c) Omnipresence d) They're told not to.
See I watched [and am watching] my parents waste away because of tobacco. That's all the incentive I need not to smoke [oh that and the critical thinking I'm capable of].
Though my original point still stands. Maybe prescribed pot [e.g. sold over the counter] would be a good compromise. Generally I don't think any doctor would prescribe street pot to keep your health up. Who knows what's in it!!!
you only do "long complicated builds" on test environments. Not live.
Second...
If the test fails... YOU DONT ROLL IT INTO ACTION!!!
That's why you have test environments [and backups].
As for home personal servers... you can just unmerge the offending application and re-emerge the older copy. Even things like Apache or MySQL only take a couple minutes to build. So it's not the end of the world.
Of course that rarely happens [I can think of maybe once or twice I had todo that in the last TWO YEARS].
You say we should encourage pot for people who are sick...
And how many kids have ADHD [formerly known as ADD]? How many take drugs for it? How many actually need the drugs and not just a good swat on the ass?
If you legalize pot then first it will be the true needy, then the milderly needy, then just the "oh fuck I don't want to deal with work head aches"...
The real solution is to rebuild society on a "do things because it fills your life" and not money. Then they wouldn't push meds and the chronic all around and we wouldn't be in this mess.
[For the record, yes I would be a janitor or gas jockey if it meant I could enjoy living conditions on par with the rest of society. Not just the ultra poor].
Well obviously you won't use the setup of a workstation as the setup for your server. Stop being difficult.
I mean you might as well bitch that your ppc builds don't work on your Itanium servers....
And I don't know where you work but most professional shops maintain IDENTICAL hardware for the servers for the VERY REASON of making sure that ONE SETUP will service them all.
Unless of course you're the type that makes things complicated in a futile attempt at job security.
Well as someone who does a lot of development I don't have any problems with high loads.
I've seen nessus scans eat up tons of cpu time on even my AMD64 but the machine is still responsive and operating just fine. Mind you that was a different story with earlier 2.4.xx back when I had my Barton.
So maybe you were using an old kernel (2.6.10 works great... so did 2.6.7 through 2.6.9) or you're just making stuff up for the sake of posting.
Also that "pre-emptible kernel" checkbox in menuconfig... make sure that's checked eh;-)
Or just not subscribe to cable. When/if I move out of my parents house likely I will have net + phone but no cable.
Cable [like white collar industry] is largely a scam. They basically ripoff last weeks ideas, cliche up a script and sell drivel as "shows" [re: anything reality labeled] then early morning and weekends they show informercials.
Infomercials are great [aside from being funny and overtly scammish] they pay the station money to show the commercial and I pay the station to see the commercial....
Infomercial time really ought to come out of the customers bill. E.g. you get 20 channels and one channel shows informercials most of the time you should only pay 19/20th of the bill....
That aside I'm just pointing out that when science is completely absent from television [and I don't mean CSI which is largely fake] all your left with is mindless drivel.
I mean anyone remember MathNet or Dr.Wizard or anything else remotely educational on tv? Hell even Seaseme street is retarded now. "Where's elmo"??? who gives a fuck. Hide and seek on the TELEVISION is neither educational nor beneficial for small children [who should be playing it for real instead of sitting in from of the TV].
That and where I live cable costs about 40$ a month or so. I'd rather save it for something more useful.
Slashdot Mirror
Because EVERY SINGLE SLASHDOT POST WITH PICTURES... gets slashdotted.
It's almost as if the slashdot editors are like unable to learn such a basic concept. Mirror the pictures or don't bother. Cuz like all you get are 1000s of idiots like me replying when I haven't even seen the "so amazing it must be on slashdot" article yet.
Tom
#11539486
That's me biatch, FP!!!
Tom
and slashdotted...
Almost like if you post the story on slashdot... you should be ready for the audience...
Christalmighty they even have a name for the effect... "slashdotted"... maybe that should be a hint!!!
-1, redundant
but I mod the story as
-9, clueless fucking poster who doesn't know what a mirror is
Tom
I hate windows and I can name several good things about it.
- Standard kernel API [a lot of what was written for as far back as win 3.1 will still work today]
- User interface [apis] are effective and the resulting "experience" is user friendly
- The kernel is largely stable except when errant drivers take it down
- Lots of games for windows
About gates personally?
- Donates considerable bank to charities
- Oraganizes sporting events for his employees
- Provides a challenging and innovative workplace
I'm sure working for MSFT has it's faults [namely you couldn't get away with using Gentoo] but if you didn't care about the OS wars then it wouldn't matter.
Tom
"customers want" or more correctly "what he tells the customers they want".
I'd pay good money to have him say on tape 10 good things about a Linux distro. The fact that he can't be objective means anything he has to say is totally worthless.
Tom
Not quite. I saw the thingy [was up cuz of jetlag ... tom in france now ...] and it was all "advanced marketting lingo line 201"
... typical fodder
That longhorn "incorporates all the users desires" and that making "windows update automated was #1 priority".
I'm not you. I offer to call for ANYONE I see on the side of the road unless I see they have a cell handy.
I also help people up who slip on ice and I generally open doors for people who are carrying a lot [like a huge tray of muffins once.... ooooh muffins].
Sure I don't do everything I can at any given moment to help. So I totally understand what you are saying. You have to prioritize how you help people. I think what I was trying to get at is that people set their threshold much too high and now it's basically "I'll help if it makes me look better in my community."
Tom
Well I am confident by the inactions of the many [and supporting some resort section of town...] that people really didn't care about the people.
... people who lived in shantis and other low quality construction materials. People who often did without food, water and had wars of their own to contend with, etc...
I'm not saying that is bad. Personally I couldn't give two thoughts to them myself. My problem is all these "concerned" people only show up when it's popular.
I heard that Avril Lavigne was there at the concert last night. Where was she about protesting about the war in Iraq? The inaction in the Sudan and other nations? How about how some americans live in excess while others do without? Where is she on the homeless? How about healthcare? Does she give two shits about students trying to make ends meet in university? etc...
Oh, but it's P.C. to show up and "care" about the tsunami victims
That's why I'm upset with "relief aid". Because the concern is simply not genuine.
Tom
Dude, pretty much anything that has todo with money has todo with profit. Even the tsunami relief aid [SCAM!!!] concerts are about getting image out and being able to rob more mindshare. [*]
I have no problem paying for tax software. I would have a problem though if they locked me into a proprietary format so I couldn't escape later.
[*] All those who don't think tsunami relief aid is a scam please say "I cared about the people of the affected regions BEFORE December 26th, 2004".
Tom
Or.... pull the genius move of NOT BUY EVERYTHING MEDIA TELLS YOU TO!!!
. The actual gameplay blows donkey balls and the engine is so resource intense that it's impossible to play at a "nice looking AND >20 FPS" rate on any modest graphics card. To me that's not progress that's just "something".
I disliked the idea of Steam from the get-go. Hence I didn't buy HL2.
The problem with people like you is that you'll buy anything your told to, e.g. review posted on slashdot about upcoming HL2 engine, then IGN hosts a screenshot gallery, then you simply must own this game. It has l33t properties.
Even if you think "I'm deciding to buy this" if you actually do buy it, it's totally the marketing wheels spinning.
Not only that but as fun as HL2 is, it does get a bit tiring after a while. When I'm at my friends place playing the game I spend most of my time finding inventive ways to make the exploding red barrels explode all at once.
I fell for Doom3 and what a ripoff that was. Generally I don't buy games first day but Doom3 was hyped and it looked very sweet. Then it turns out to be "YetAnotherStaticWorldWithShinyPolyRendering(tm)"
Now I rent first [xbox/ps2] then buy. At least losing 5$ for a crappy game is better than losing 40$.
Tom
You don't buy games which have stupid use policies like "must connect online to play".
... Well that's ok because I have UT2k4 and GTA:SA to play ;-)
My friend thinks I'm silly for holding out on "cool games" like this
Tom
no hash = integrity, mac = authentication. There is a difference.
Tom
yes, changing the IV will help, but it's not the solution.
USE A FUCKING MAC!!! [message authentication code]
cipher == privacy
mac == authentication
Stupid fucking reporting...
Tom
You elect the wrong leaders.
;-)
I judge the quality of peace officers by the "not occurence of crime" in my life. By that sentiment my monitor prevents crime too since I have to be victimized and I have a monitor....
Point is I can walk around town any hour of the day and be safe from harm. So maybe you just live in a crappy place or you elect all the wrong peeps.
Tom
"on the former every memory access would take around 2 cycles"
See that's wrong. On the machine with a small cache and large DRAM every cache hit is 2 cycles. Even the 512KB L2's that AMD/Intel use are upwards of 13 cycles to access [or more]. It takes time for the address bits to settle and also the larger the cache the longer it will take for the signal to settle (more distance)
With 4GB of cache EVERY cache hit would be larger [say for conversation] access time of say 30 cycles.
So let's compare access times. Cache hits on the "small cache" platform might be split say 60%/30%/10% [for code]. That means most hits will be 2 cycles or ~13 cycles and some upwards of a 150 cycles or so [average of about 20 cycles].
The 30 cycle "large cache" system will still be slower on average then.
In reality though my averages aren't representative of applications like encoders where tight loops make up the largest parts of the execution time. So let's assume that 85/10/5 is more representative. That's an average access of 8 cycles.
That and the fact that SRAM is expensive is why people don't build systems with only SRAM.
Tom
8GB/sec is good but not if the latency is higher than DDR.
People seem to forget that the "Random" part of RAM is kinda crucial.
Tom
...SRAM is much more expensive to produce? It also takes more power and generates more heat.
That and the benefits of cache go DOWN as the size of the cache goes up. Past a MB or two the benefits would be lowered. Also as the # of address lines goes up the access gets slower. And finally a bigger bottle neck is that "external memory" is external.
So unless you want to pay for a cpu with a GB of onboard "memory" in the form of SRAM.... the benefits won't be that high.
Tom
... then you run the thinking that maybe there are just bad people out there?
Tom
You sir missed the point.
I never said don't use Solaris. I'm contesting that "Gentoo can't be used professionally" attitude the OP had.
Those are completely different issues. I'm sure Solaris works great, it's stable, etc, etc, yada yada. That's not my point.
Tom
I was just playing devils advocate there ;-)
Personally I think alcohol and tobacco are far more dangerous because they're so omnipresent. Try to pass by a high school [outside mormon land] where the students are not 50% or higher smokers.
Of course they smoke because
a) They're serfs
b) They think it makes them mature
c) Omnipresence
d) They're told not to.
See I watched [and am watching] my parents waste away because of tobacco. That's all the incentive I need not to smoke [oh that and the critical thinking I'm capable of].
Though my original point still stands. Maybe prescribed pot [e.g. sold over the counter] would be a good compromise. Generally I don't think any doctor would prescribe street pot to keep your health up. Who knows what's in it!!!
Tom
Your "linux friends" are retarded.
...
First...
you only do "long complicated builds" on test environments. Not live.
Second
If the test fails... YOU DONT ROLL IT INTO ACTION!!!
That's why you have test environments [and backups].
As for home personal servers... you can just unmerge the offending application and re-emerge the older copy. Even things like Apache or MySQL only take a couple minutes to build. So it's not the end of the world.
Of course that rarely happens [I can think of maybe once or twice I had todo that in the last TWO YEARS].
Tom
Um to point out something...[about the pot]
You say we should encourage pot for people who are sick...
And how many kids have ADHD [formerly known as ADD]? How many take drugs for it? How many actually need the drugs and not just a good swat on the ass?
If you legalize pot then first it will be the true needy, then the milderly needy, then just the "oh fuck I don't want to deal with work head aches"...
The real solution is to rebuild society on a "do things because it fills your life" and not money. Then they wouldn't push meds and the chronic all around and we wouldn't be in this mess.
[For the record, yes I would be a janitor or gas jockey if it meant I could enjoy living conditions on par with the rest of society. Not just the ultra poor].
Tom
Well obviously you won't use the setup of a workstation as the setup for your server. Stop being difficult.
I mean you might as well bitch that your ppc builds don't work on your Itanium servers....
And I don't know where you work but most professional shops maintain IDENTICAL hardware for the servers for the VERY REASON of making sure that ONE SETUP will service them all.
Unless of course you're the type that makes things complicated in a futile attempt at job security.
Tom
Well as someone who does a lot of development I don't have any problems with high loads.
... so did 2.6.7 through 2.6.9) or you're just making stuff up for the sake of posting.
;-)
I've seen nessus scans eat up tons of cpu time on even my AMD64 but the machine is still responsive and operating just fine. Mind you that was a different story with earlier 2.4.xx back when I had my Barton.
So maybe you were using an old kernel (2.6.10 works great
Also that "pre-emptible kernel" checkbox in menuconfig... make sure that's checked eh
Tom
Or just not subscribe to cable. When/if I move out of my parents house likely I will have net + phone but no cable.
...
Cable [like white collar industry] is largely a scam. They basically ripoff last weeks ideas, cliche up a script and sell drivel as "shows" [re: anything reality labeled] then early morning and weekends they show informercials.
Infomercials are great [aside from being funny and overtly scammish] they pay the station money to show the commercial and I pay the station to see the commercial....
Infomercial time really ought to come out of the customers bill. E.g. you get 20 channels and one channel shows informercials most of the time you should only pay 19/20th of the bill.
That aside I'm just pointing out that when science is completely absent from television [and I don't mean CSI which is largely fake] all your left with is mindless drivel.
I mean anyone remember MathNet or Dr.Wizard or anything else remotely educational on tv? Hell even Seaseme street is retarded now. "Where's elmo"??? who gives a fuck. Hide and seek on the TELEVISION is neither educational nor beneficial for small children [who should be playing it for real instead of sitting in from of the TV].
That and where I live cable costs about 40$ a month or so. I'd rather save it for something more useful.