The big bonus is that you can access a lot more memory. A lot of databases are larger than 2GB, which means they cannot be loaded into RAM on a 32-bit system (well, 3GB if you play some tricks). Since disk access is on the order of 1000 times slower than RAM access, if you can load your 12GB database into RAM and query it from there, you should see significant performance improvements.
For editing WordPerfect documents, it's probably not that significant.:)
o how can they tell how much time somebody spends at a site? There's no way to tell how long I actually spend at a site -- just how often I load it.
I'm not terribly surprised that AOL, etc. tops the list (given its popularity among the unwashed masses), but is that sites run by or hosted on AOL? That'd be a significant difference.
Furthermore, so freaking what? Most people think they are network TV's customers and that network TV should respond to their wishes. I am not network TV's customer: the advertiser is network TV's customer. I am network TV's product: they are selling the advertiser the opportunity to present a message to me. TV Programming is merely a means to that end. So what if the web goes the same way?
Has anybody actually ever known of a Lego brick getting damaged in something like this?
I did manage to break a flat piece, but I did so intentionally (put it across a couple pieces of wood and hit it with an axe). My general experience has been that Lego products are remarkably robust.
IIRC, Ada was invented explicitly to ensure that the government could always get and keep source code for all its projects, and that it could assing modifications to different contractors.
You'd think the DoD would be dropping Windows like flies and flocking to "Software Libre" for precisely the same reasons. While I'm sure M$ is willing to let the govt. have access to Windows source code in exchange for a huge contract, I'm also willing to bet there are strings attached which prevent the govt. from, say, handing that to Company B and having Company B extend it, fix blue screens, etc.
My brother and I used to build Lego cars (sorry, build cars from Lego brand bricks). We'd then smash them into each other until one or the other was destroyed. Whoever's car lasted longest won.
My Mom stopped it because she was afraid we'd damage the bricks. A few months ago I saw in the store a kit where kids could build a couple cars and do a "demolition derby" with them.
Moron to the left of me talking on his cell phone. Moron to the right of me talking to his PDA. Me trying desperately to hear the conference presenter.
Can we start carrying water guns and squirting people who act as if the whole world is their personal office? Can we fill them with urine?
As long as there are enough students to start one, sure! That's what freedom of religion means: the state doesn't decide you can't assemble for religions reasons. Even on state property.
By the way, the mormon church gave up pologomy of their own accord before even joining the union. It's not a matter of the law telling them not to.
I was under the impression that the Mormons gave up polygamy in order to improve their chances of Utah gaining statehood. Not sure what pologomy is, but expect it's a typo.:)
Because my kids are members of society. Just because I have no interest in chess doesn't mean my taxes shouldn't support the chess club. There's also no reason that you couldn't have a Jewish club, and a Muslim club, etc.
If I were a conciencous objector, my taxes would still support a military. Merely paying taxes doesn't affect anything else.
As does the chess club, the drama club, and so on. We had an incident around here where a school principal threatened to suspend any students caught praying around the flagpole for "Meet You at the Pole," apparantly because students praying at their school flagpole was inherently damaging to student morale.
What part of this is unclear?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Freedom of Religion? How 'bout Freedom of Speech? We've already eroded freedom of religion to the point that kids have to fight hard to convince their school administrations to allow Bible clubs, even though such groups are explicitly legal. Oh well.:)
Actually, my family and I went to visit an Amish family who are good friends of my wife's family. While there, Kenny had me do some routine maintenence on his computer -- he has a laptop with his business records: he charges it up during the day with a solar panel.:)
I'm pretty used to people asking me questions about their computers, but I had assumed I was safe at an Amish home. Was kind of weird working on this computer under a gas lamp.:)
Why can't you surf the web on that? I use my 486DX75 with 24MB (running Slackware) to surf all the time. Particularly when I telnet over to my main box and run the browswer there (as an X terminal). All the real processing gets done on the faster box.
Can't have a passive switch; it's a computer that receives the data and transmits it out the correct port.
That actually does sound cool. You could then go several directions from a house (I run a line to your house, you run lines to three of your neighbors, etc.).
The wire is more expensive, but the hubs, etc. are significantly cheaper (I bought 100Mbit hubs for less than $50 for my house).
Except for this fundamental flaw in the plan (as he described it): Everyone has to be on the same central office (phone switch). So this doesn't extend out of the neighborhood.
You also still have to pay an ISP for service (unless you're stealing it from your boss or your school, which opens up a whole new can of ethical worms). And convince *them* it's a good idea.
OTOH, a similar thing would be to run down to your local electric supply shop and buy your own copper and run it to your neighbors. No fuss. No muss. No CLEC hassles. Then again, I only pay $32.50/mo to Verizoff for my DSL line, and $19.95 to my ISP. I have a staic IP and 768/128 line for roughly what Cringely suggests I spend by doing it myself. His solution is a higher speed, but no initial outlay (for me anyway -- the DSL "modem" was a freebie as part of a special).
You can still configure network cards in Win2K? We've been having trouble with some Win2K installations not having a Local Area Connection under "My Network Places" so we can't change IP address, etc.
I remember graphing calculators being banned in math courses. Lots of math courses are now designed around graphing calculators. You just need to recognize the possible problems with the technology (in the case of graphing calculators, learning to push the buttons without having a clue what's going on), and design your course to make them less of a problem and to use the value of the device (you can graph complex equations, and explain why the graph looks like it does).
Did I miss something? My cable was down for 12 hours during a storm, would they prorate my bill and take off 1/60th or 1/62nd of the bill? I dont think so.
Before I bought the satellite dish, a drunk took out a utility pole on my street. We called the cable company, which assured us that the police had notified them, and gave us a "return to service" time of, like 8 am the following morning. By mid afternoon I called them to find out what was up: they'd lost the ticket and sent someone out immediately. They credited me 1 month's charge for the missed service call.
In this instance, though, it sounds like the issue the plaintiff's see is that Qwest's own network was infected, rather than "I lost connection because the network was flooded by my neighbors' infected machines."
It might not be in the 'States and/or Europe, but in Africa it certainly is (and I gather in South America as well). I've heard estimates that over 70% of the people living in Nairobi are infected. President Moi even suggested that Kenyans should simply abstain from sex altogether to try and get this under control.
Given that most ISPs already block source routed packets, I suspect this would be pretty easy to do. Tell the router: On this interface is w.x.y.0 network; only traffic to and from w.x.y.0 network goes through this interface. Worst case, I fake my address with another on the network, but that should be reasonably easy to track down.
What problems would it cause, though? I know that blocking source routed packets makes it impossible to ping test a round trip (since there's no reason to assume a packet will come back from, say, Yahoo, the same way it went to, say, Yahoo). That's irritating, but not the end of the world.
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The big bonus is that you can access a lot more memory. A lot of databases are larger than 2GB, which means they cannot be loaded into RAM on a 32-bit system (well, 3GB if you play some tricks). Since disk access is on the order of 1000 times slower than RAM access, if you can load your 12GB database into RAM and query it from there, you should see significant performance improvements.
For editing WordPerfect documents, it's probably not that significant. :)
o how can they tell how much time somebody spends at a site? There's no way to tell how long I actually spend at a site -- just how often I load it.
I'm not terribly surprised that AOL, etc. tops the list (given its popularity among the unwashed masses), but is that sites run by or hosted on AOL? That'd be a significant difference.
Furthermore, so freaking what? Most people think they are network TV's customers and that network TV should respond to their wishes. I am not network TV's customer: the advertiser is network TV's customer. I am network TV's product: they are selling the advertiser the opportunity to present a message to me. TV Programming is merely a means to that end. So what if the web goes the same way?
I was under the impression that only pirated copies were in the hands of anybody but manufacturers. Oh well.
Has anybody actually ever known of a Lego brick getting damaged in something like this?
I did manage to break a flat piece, but I did so intentionally (put it across a couple pieces of wood and hit it with an axe). My general experience has been that Lego products are remarkably robust.
IIRC, Ada was invented explicitly to ensure that the government could always get and keep source code for all its projects, and that it could assing modifications to different contractors.
You'd think the DoD would be dropping Windows like flies and flocking to "Software Libre" for precisely the same reasons. While I'm sure M$ is willing to let the govt. have access to Windows source code in exchange for a huge contract, I'm also willing to bet there are strings attached which prevent the govt. from, say, handing that to Company B and having Company B extend it, fix blue screens, etc.
My brother and I used to build Lego cars (sorry, build cars from Lego brand bricks). We'd then smash them into each other until one or the other was destroyed. Whoever's car lasted longest won.
My Mom stopped it because she was afraid we'd damage the bricks. A few months ago I saw in the store a kit where kids could build a couple cars and do a "demolition derby" with them.
Great. Just what we need.
Moron to the left of me talking on his cell phone. Moron to the right of me talking to his PDA. Me trying desperately to hear the conference presenter.
Can we start carrying water guns and squirting people who act as if the whole world is their personal office? Can we fill them with urine?
As long as there are enough students to start one, sure! That's what freedom of religion means: the state doesn't decide you can't assemble for religions reasons. Even on state property.
But it costs more to build a steel plant. Better business plan or not, you start off further in hoc.
By the way, the mormon church gave up pologomy of their own accord before even joining the union. It's not a matter of the law telling them not to.
I was under the impression that the Mormons gave up polygamy in order to improve their chances of Utah gaining statehood. Not sure what pologomy is, but expect it's a typo. :)
Occam's Razor really only applies when there is no clear indication otherwise, and even then it's just a rule of thumb, not a solid scientific law.
Because my kids are members of society. Just because I have no interest in chess doesn't mean my taxes shouldn't support the chess club. There's also no reason that you couldn't have a Jewish club, and a Muslim club, etc.
If I were a conciencous objector, my taxes would still support a military. Merely paying taxes doesn't affect anything else.
As does the chess club, the drama club, and so on. We had an incident around here where a school principal threatened to suspend any students caught praying around the flagpole for "Meet You at the Pole," apparantly because students praying at their school flagpole was inherently damaging to student morale.
What part of this is unclear? Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Freedom of Religion? How 'bout Freedom of Speech? We've already eroded freedom of religion to the point that kids have to fight hard to convince their school administrations to allow Bible clubs, even though such groups are explicitly legal. Oh well. :)
Actually, my family and I went to visit an Amish family who are good friends of my wife's family. While there, Kenny had me do some routine maintenence on his computer -- he has a laptop with his business records: he charges it up during the day with a solar panel. :)
I'm pretty used to people asking me questions about their computers, but I had assumed I was safe at an Amish home. Was kind of weird working on this computer under a gas lamp. :)
Yeah, but since the Taliban have banned the internet in Afghanistan anyway, I'm guessing that's not a huge issue.
Why can't you surf the web on that? I use my 486DX75 with 24MB (running Slackware) to surf all the time. Particularly when I telnet over to my main box and run the browswer there (as an X terminal). All the real processing gets done on the faster box.
Can't have a passive switch; it's a computer that receives the data and transmits it out the correct port.
That actually does sound cool. You could then go several directions from a house (I run a line to your house, you run lines to three of your neighbors, etc.).
The wire is more expensive, but the hubs, etc. are significantly cheaper (I bought 100Mbit hubs for less than $50 for my house).
Except for this fundamental flaw in the plan (as he described it): Everyone has to be on the same central office (phone switch). So this doesn't extend out of the neighborhood.
You also still have to pay an ISP for service (unless you're stealing it from your boss or your school, which opens up a whole new can of ethical worms). And convince *them* it's a good idea.
OTOH, a similar thing would be to run down to your local electric supply shop and buy your own copper and run it to your neighbors. No fuss. No muss. No CLEC hassles. Then again, I only pay $32.50/mo to Verizoff for my DSL line, and $19.95 to my ISP. I have a staic IP and 768/128 line for roughly what Cringely suggests I spend by doing it myself. His solution is a higher speed, but no initial outlay (for me anyway -- the DSL "modem" was a freebie as part of a special).
You can still configure network cards in Win2K? We've been having trouble with some Win2K installations not having a Local Area Connection under "My Network Places" so we can't change IP address, etc.
I remember graphing calculators being banned in math courses. Lots of math courses are now designed around graphing calculators. You just need to recognize the possible problems with the technology (in the case of graphing calculators, learning to push the buttons without having a clue what's going on), and design your course to make them less of a problem and to use the value of the device (you can graph complex equations, and explain why the graph looks like it does).
Did I miss something? My cable was down for 12 hours during a storm, would they prorate my bill and take off 1/60th or 1/62nd of the bill? I dont think so.
Before I bought the satellite dish, a drunk took out a utility pole on my street. We called the cable company, which assured us that the police had notified them, and gave us a "return to service" time of, like 8 am the following morning. By mid afternoon I called them to find out what was up: they'd lost the ticket and sent someone out immediately. They credited me 1 month's charge for the missed service call.
In this instance, though, it sounds like the issue the plaintiff's see is that Qwest's own network was infected, rather than "I lost connection because the network was flooded by my neighbors' infected machines."
It might not be in the 'States and/or Europe, but in Africa it certainly is (and I gather in South America as well). I've heard estimates that over 70% of the people living in Nairobi are infected. President Moi even suggested that Kenyans should simply abstain from sex altogether to try and get this under control.
It's been posting on /. for weeks!
Given that most ISPs already block source routed packets, I suspect this would be pretty easy to do. Tell the router: On this interface is w.x.y.0 network; only traffic to and from w.x.y.0 network goes through this interface. Worst case, I fake my address with another on the network, but that should be reasonably easy to track down.
What problems would it cause, though? I know that blocking source routed packets makes it impossible to ping test a round trip (since there's no reason to assume a packet will come back from, say, Yahoo, the same way it went to, say, Yahoo). That's irritating, but not the end of the world.