No, this isn't just a swap file for inactive processes or for when you run out of main memory. It's how storage is handled on some systems. You read from a named resource and write to a named resource. The OS determines what's in RAM and what's on disk. IIRC, IBM's actually moving more towards files and away from object persistence because files are more flexible.
What's so different between revision control on that object and just keeping multiple revisions of the file automatically? If the revision control is the selling point, who cares if it's a persistent object store or an explicit file store?
Gee, I think people already have something like Time Machine to roll back to a previous state. I think it's called... Time Machine.
Really, revision control on objects vs. revision control on files is still just an object store vs. file store debate. You can have either an object store or a file store with or without revision control.
What's more is that most of the drawbacks for either files or persistent objects are fixed by revision control. So the big deal should be automatic revision control in the OS and not an object store. Guess what... VMS already had automatic file version tracking years ago.
think about this: save it, then save it again after more changes! OOo and MS Office and such already have automatic saving after a number of minutes. Do you really think every character you type will be saved to disk when you lose power, or only the last snapshot the program took?
Users do in fact often want to have to save something. Oh, I guess maybe someone out there has never made a mistake and wanted to go to an older version of a document before those changes. I know I have, though. Lots of people have. I don't want to save my work until I save my work. Don't save things I was just trying out into a permanent storage. I don't want them there.
So reinventing OS/400 makes it that much newer than reinventing Unix? Do you realize that core memory systems could be turned back on in the middle of a calculation because the magnetic core memory retained its state? Just how new do you think memory persistence is?
Ah, but while your TV is off or you're not watching it, it doesn't save a thing other than channel number and volume settings. The in-channel data (actually called a channel in this case) is streaming by and is lost unless you use a DVR, VCR, or VDR to save the parts you want to watch later. That's very well understood by most people.
It could be implemented as a permanent virtual address space in which the programmer treats everything like a memory-resident object and the pages of memory regularly get written to disk or read from it if needed. It seems to have worked for OS/400 (now IBM i) for over two decades.
They can, from what I gather in the story, act as gates in a digital circuit. Which means if they can be made this small and to operate at this low of a power and actually interconnected to work reliably, then we'll have very small and efficient CPUs once that has been moved from single-gate prototype through processor prototype and into manufacturing. I'm not a nanotechnologist, a physicist, or an electronics engineer, but that was my understanding of their role pretty much as soon as they were compared to on-chip transistors for storing and forwarding values.
Putting ads alongside a snippet, or even clearly delineated before or after, is not the same as editing a clip to insert ads. Are you saying Google actually takes creative control of snippets of video people upload?
they found that most/. posters are bored, self-important, anti-social, regular garden-grade assholes in general, or some combination thereof. Me? I'm more bored and an asshole. Others fit the criteria differently.
That requires actual investigation and trial. If they make the device regulated, then it's not a criminal matter and they just confiscate and fine you and the manufacturer to starvation.
I agree. Yet it doesn't say what protections are in place for keeping CBS's ads out of clips mistakenly identified as belonging to CBS. Will companies like Lucasfilm put ads in legally allowed parodies like Chad Vader that actually have very little to do with actual Lucasfilm characters and nothing to do with their plots?
IANA physician or pharmacist, so this isn't qualified medical advice. Do research from better sources than Slashdot when health is concerned. This is just a tip to a couple of those sources.
They actually recommend against aspirin as a fever reducer in children under the age of about 16, too. Reye's syndrome is a rare but dangerous sickness that can be triggered in victims of the chicken pox or flu viruses when given aspirin.
Any viral infection, particularly one in which the first symptom is fever, should not be treated with aspirin. This is true according to the NIH even in adults, but I've always heard it was especially true for children.
3GB and 6GB kits are becoming more common now that the i7 and associated motherboards support triple-channel memory instead of just dual-channel. Check Newegg or your favorite up-to-date component sales site.
Hmmm... a Slashdotter tries to get some use out of his analog TV, and you automatically assume he might not also have another TV in the house? How many TVs do you think the typical 'dotter (who is out of mommy's basement and qualifies for his own coupon) has? The coupon program wasn't for people who didn't have a single digital TV set. It's for people who have any analog sets using over-the-air tuners. The two are not the same thing.
It's not only much more rugged, but it's also much smaller and integrates well with top-mounted scopes without a need for a side rail. Thanks for the link.
This should help not just snipers but hunters and perhaps some day main force ground troops. At the listed link, the article's author states that the application software is available at the iTunes store. Contrary to some stories on the 'net, it is a general rifle ballistics application that allows someone to enter a different rifle and ammunition profile. So it's good for less specialized rifles, and not just the M110.
The article didn't mention the availability of the mounting hardware. It attaches an iPod Touch mounted in an Otterbox protective case to a side-mounted picatinny rail. That seems much more handy in combat situations than digging an iPod out of one's pocket. This is what makes it not just another ballistics app for the iPod Touch and iPhone. Mounting it on the rifle could be a big deal in certain situations, and lots of rifles can be fitted with picatinny rails on the side.
You assume many things. You assume the alleged scam artists are not licensed credit brokers. You assume that US law is equivalent to German law on this topic. You assume the alleged victim did not agree to be billed later, although you then say that if she did then that changes things. You assume incorrectly that US law prevents a property management company from reporting credit and that whether or not that is the case is relevant to a consumer product purchase in Germany.
Look up the definition of "credit". Whether a report against a credit rating is allowable doesn't change what credit means. Perhaps this event is reportable under German law. Perhaps it isn't. Perhaps it really is just a scam. If she agreed to pay for something after taking delivery, though, that is a creditor/borrower relationship.
The kernel folks aren't concerned so much with the desktop, because from the kernel space the desktop usually needs about the same things as a server. High speed, low latency kernel calls are good. The desktop is mostly about applications and user interfaces.
It's not quite the same, but there are caching SCSI (and now probably SATA) controllers that take RAM modules. I used to have a Vesa Local Bus (VLB) SCSI 2 caching controller. The system had 32 megabytes of RAM and would take up to 64, while I had 16 MB in the disk controller and it'd take up to 32 MB. I gave (well, lent, but it failed about 6 years later and I hadn't asked for it back yet) that controller to a friend for a household file server he built out of old parts. He had the full 32MB of cache RAM in it and it was blazing fast compared to most PCI SCSI controllers of the day.
It's happily not an either/or situation. If you didn't buy newer hardware in the meantime, this bug being fixed will speed the kernel up on your old hardware. If you did buy new hardware, you get that extra speed plus the speed boost when the bug is fixed.
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No, this isn't just a swap file for inactive processes or for when you run out of main memory. It's how storage is handled on some systems. You read from a named resource and write to a named resource. The OS determines what's in RAM and what's on disk. IIRC, IBM's actually moving more towards files and away from object persistence because files are more flexible.
What's so different between revision control on that object and just keeping multiple revisions of the file automatically? If the revision control is the selling point, who cares if it's a persistent object store or an explicit file store?
Gee, I think people already have something like Time Machine to roll back to a previous state. I think it's called... Time Machine.
Really, revision control on objects vs. revision control on files is still just an object store vs. file store debate. You can have either an object store or a file store with or without revision control.
What's more is that most of the drawbacks for either files or persistent objects are fixed by revision control. So the big deal should be automatic revision control in the OS and not an object store. Guess what... VMS already had automatic file version tracking years ago.
think about this: save it, then save it again after more changes! OOo and MS Office and such already have automatic saving after a number of minutes. Do you really think every character you type will be saved to disk when you lose power, or only the last snapshot the program took?
Users do in fact often want to have to save something. Oh, I guess maybe someone out there has never made a mistake and wanted to go to an older version of a document before those changes. I know I have, though. Lots of people have. I don't want to save my work until I save my work. Don't save things I was just trying out into a permanent storage. I don't want them there.
So reinventing OS/400 makes it that much newer than reinventing Unix? Do you realize that core memory systems could be turned back on in the middle of a calculation because the magnetic core memory retained its state? Just how new do you think memory persistence is?
Ah, but while your TV is off or you're not watching it, it doesn't save a thing other than channel number and volume settings. The in-channel data (actually called a channel in this case) is streaming by and is lost unless you use a DVR, VCR, or VDR to save the parts you want to watch later. That's very well understood by most people.
It could be implemented as a permanent virtual address space in which the programmer treats everything like a memory-resident object and the pages of memory regularly get written to disk or read from it if needed. It seems to have worked for OS/400 (now IBM i) for over two decades.
They can, from what I gather in the story, act as gates in a digital circuit. Which means if they can be made this small and to operate at this low of a power and actually interconnected to work reliably, then we'll have very small and efficient CPUs once that has been moved from single-gate prototype through processor prototype and into manufacturing. I'm not a nanotechnologist, a physicist, or an electronics engineer, but that was my understanding of their role pretty much as soon as they were compared to on-chip transistors for storing and forwarding values.
Putting ads alongside a snippet, or even clearly delineated before or after, is not the same as editing a clip to insert ads. Are you saying Google actually takes creative control of snippets of video people upload?
they found that most /. posters are bored, self-important, anti-social, regular garden-grade assholes in general, or some combination thereof. Me? I'm more bored and an asshole. Others fit the criteria differently.
That requires actual investigation and trial. If they make the device regulated, then it's not a criminal matter and they just confiscate and fine you and the manufacturer to starvation.
As a friend of mine likes to say (and I've taken it up too), "What part of 'shall not be infringed' do you not understand?"
I agree. Yet it doesn't say what protections are in place for keeping CBS's ads out of clips mistakenly identified as belonging to CBS. Will companies like Lucasfilm put ads in legally allowed parodies like Chad Vader that actually have very little to do with actual Lucasfilm characters and nothing to do with their plots?
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IANA physician or pharmacist, so this isn't qualified medical advice. Do research from better sources than Slashdot when health is concerned. This is just a tip to a couple of those sources.
They actually recommend against aspirin as a
fever reducer in children under the age of about 16, too. Reye's syndrome is a rare but dangerous sickness that can be triggered in victims of the chicken pox or flu viruses when given aspirin.
Any viral infection, particularly one in which the first symptom is fever, should not be treated with aspirin. This is true according to the NIH even in adults, but I've always heard it was especially true for children.
See the pages about Reye's at MedicineNet, WebMD, or the US National Institutes of Health or ask your doctor for more info.
Aspirin also has other contraindications, but it has many positive uses as a medicine. Very little in life is without drawbacks, unfortunately.
3GB and 6GB kits are becoming more common now that the i7 and associated motherboards support triple-channel memory instead of just dual-channel. Check Newegg or your favorite up-to-date component sales site.
It doesn't use the DIMMs, but it is in the address space. Read up, young padawan.
Hmmm... a Slashdotter tries to get some use out of his analog TV, and you automatically assume he might not also have another TV in the house? How many TVs do you think the typical 'dotter (who is out of mommy's basement and qualifies for his own coupon) has? The coupon program wasn't for people who didn't have a single digital TV set. It's for people who have any analog sets using over-the-air tuners. The two are not the same thing.
It's not only much more rugged, but it's also much smaller and integrates well with top-mounted scopes without a need for a side rail. Thanks for the link.
This should help not just snipers but hunters and perhaps some day main force ground troops. At the listed link, the article's author states that the application software is available at the iTunes store. Contrary to some stories on the 'net, it is a general rifle ballistics application that allows someone to enter a different rifle and ammunition profile. So it's good for less specialized rifles, and not just the M110.
The article didn't mention the availability of the mounting hardware. It attaches an iPod Touch mounted in an Otterbox protective case to a side-mounted picatinny rail. That seems much more handy in combat situations than digging an iPod out of one's pocket. This is what makes it not just another ballistics app for the iPod Touch and iPhone. Mounting it on the rifle could be a big deal in certain situations, and lots of rifles can be fitted with picatinny rails on the side.
You assume many things. You assume the alleged scam artists are not licensed credit brokers. You assume that US law is equivalent to German law on this topic. You assume the alleged victim did not agree to be billed later, although you then say that if she did then that changes things. You assume incorrectly that US law prevents a property management company from reporting credit and that whether or not that is the case is relevant to a consumer product purchase in Germany.
Look up the definition of "credit". Whether a report against a credit rating is allowable doesn't change what credit means. Perhaps this event is reportable under German law. Perhaps it isn't. Perhaps it really is just a scam. If she agreed to pay for something after taking delivery, though, that is a creditor/borrower relationship.
The kernel folks aren't concerned so much with the desktop, because from the kernel space the desktop usually needs about the same things as a server. High speed, low latency kernel calls are good. The desktop is mostly about applications and user interfaces.
It's not quite the same, but there are caching SCSI (and now probably SATA) controllers that take RAM modules. I used to have a Vesa Local Bus (VLB) SCSI 2 caching controller. The system had 32 megabytes of RAM and would take up to 64, while I had 16 MB in the disk controller and it'd take up to 32 MB. I gave (well, lent, but it failed about 6 years later and I hadn't asked for it back yet) that controller to a friend for a household file server he built out of old parts. He had the full 32MB of cache RAM in it and it was blazing fast compared to most PCI SCSI controllers of the day.
It's happily not an either/or situation. If you didn't buy newer hardware in the meantime, this bug being fixed will speed the kernel up on your old hardware. If you did buy new hardware, you get that extra speed plus the speed boost when the bug is fixed.