NASA uses Linux for a lot of things, just not space probes (yet). You can see Linux quite heavily used on the desktop machines in mission control at JPL for various space probes.
Linux does fly on space shuttle missions though, various experiments have been run by linux embedded systems.
... students go to prison for years for stealing a few thousand dollars of warez.... riaa convicted of price fixing, stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from consumers, and they get a slap on the wrist.
shouldnt the equivalent punishment for the riaa CEOs be something like multiple life terms in prison?
because mysql is easier for ISPs to manage. adding new users with very fine grained db control is very simple for ISPs. not so with postgresql -- it can be a real bear for ISPs to manage with 1000's of separate users.
and ISPs are the driving force behind a lot of what is widely deployed.
this is one of the same reasons PHP won out over everything else -- because it integrates easily and because it's easy to manage. not because it's "the best" designed language or the most powerful.
mysql is "good enough", quite frankly the majority of people out there using sql in deployment are using eg phpbb or postnuke or whatnot and would gain little to nothing from using postgresql.
just like users will manage to fill most of the storage space available (no matter how large that may be), user tasks will manage to fill most of the cpu available (no matter how fast the cpu is).
the subjective performance of overall data processing hasn't changed much, but that's just because task complexity has increased as cpu speed increased.
15 years ago, most applications were far less computationally complex than they are today. it has little to do with code bloat.
or maybe......landing on mars is difficult, even for the best engineers, and landing on mars is still a big gamble no matter how you engineer your probes.
most eastern european countries are "high risk" for financial transactions. romania, ukraine, bulgaria, moldovia, etc. top the list.
the only country higher risk than these is nigeria:-P
many companies will refuse to do any business with those countries. it's sad because i'm sure there are a lot of honest people and companies in those countries, but the high criminal activity make it too risky to do transactions with them.
i believe part of the problem is the rampant corruption in government and law enforcement, so that financial fraud in those countries is out of control. it's easy for criminals to operate in those countries with no fear of being prosecuted.
russia is also high risk, but it's slowly getting better.
whatever iraqi soldiers did, or even saddam hussein did, doesnt justify or detract in the least from what american soldiers did. it is a non issue, completely and utterly irrelevant from the discussion.
the american soldiers got off pretty damned lightly for murder.
if MCI won't listen to complaints from non-customers who are victimized by them, the pressure to change needs to come directly from MCI customers.
IOW, RBLs _make_ spam MCI's problem. the more MCI ignores their abusive customers, the more MCI will be blocked, and the more MCI customers will complain to them.
the idea is that either: 1) mci will come to their senses and nuke their spammers, or 2) go out of business after all their customers leave in disgust.
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NASA uses Linux for a lot of things, just not space probes (yet). You can see Linux quite heavily used on the desktop machines in mission control at JPL for various space probes.
Linux does fly on space shuttle missions though, various experiments have been run by linux embedded systems.
"but it appears to have developed a good deal since then."
err, given the context, shouldnt the proper word be evolved ?
... students go to prison for years for stealing a few thousand dollars of warez. ... riaa convicted of price fixing, stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from consumers, and they get a slap on the wrist.
shouldnt the equivalent punishment for the riaa CEOs be something like multiple life terms in prison?
because mysql is easier for ISPs to manage. adding new users with very fine grained db control is very simple for ISPs. not so with postgresql -- it can be a real bear for ISPs to manage with 1000's of separate users.
and ISPs are the driving force behind a lot of what is widely deployed.
this is one of the same reasons PHP won out over everything else -- because it integrates easily and because it's easy to manage. not because it's "the best" designed language or the most powerful.
mysql is "good enough", quite frankly the majority of people out there using sql in deployment are using eg phpbb or postnuke or whatnot and would gain little to nothing from using postgresql.
Digipen
they've been around for years. no idea if theyre accredited or not, but i know game companies take digipen graduates seriously.
iirc the current daemon logo isn't by lassetter, but by tatsumi hosokawa.
so what do you call a spherical non-fusor that orbits a brown dwarf (eg a non-fusor)?
just like users will manage to fill most of the storage space available (no matter how large that may be), user tasks will manage to fill most of the cpu available (no matter how fast the cpu is).
the subjective performance of overall data processing hasn't changed much, but that's just because task complexity has increased as cpu speed increased.
15 years ago, most applications were far less computationally complex than they are today. it has little to do with code bloat.
even without vectorization, the performance improvements in gcc4 are impressive.
:-/
unfortunately some of the regressions are impressive as well
or maybe... ...landing on mars is difficult, even for the best engineers, and landing on mars is still a big gamble no matter how you engineer your probes.
500m/s is 1,118mph.
that means genesis would have crashed into the ground at about mach 1.5.
no, genesis crashed at 89m/s (200mph).
your guess was better than this guy's though.
actually the 128k mac was slaughtered when it was released. there was no software!
i mean really, macpaint and macwrite were cute, but they weren't "killer apps" enough to compel people to buy the hardware.
only later after the 512k mac and Laserwriter (and pagemaker) were released did mac start selling in sustainable quantities.
most eastern european countries are "high risk" for financial transactions. romania, ukraine, bulgaria, moldovia, etc. top the list.
:-P
the only country higher risk than these is nigeria
many companies will refuse to do any business with those countries. it's sad because i'm sure there are a lot of honest people and companies in those countries, but the high criminal activity make it too risky to do transactions with them.
i believe part of the problem is the rampant corruption in government and law enforcement, so that financial fraud in those countries is out of control. it's easy for criminals to operate in those countries with no fear of being prosecuted.
russia is also high risk, but it's slowly getting better.
...why the fuck is apple even offering a 256mb configuration? macos is absolutely painful with that.
if you want a system that will make someone run away screaming from apple, 256mb will certainly do it.
or are they trying to repeat their 128k mac debacle?
...starting with the fucktard who approved this patent, and following up with the cunt who approved this one.
they can always confiscate his house and auction it off. i mean, he obviously doesnt need it anymore.
the "you, too" argument doesn't hold any water.
whatever iraqi soldiers did, or even saddam hussein did, doesnt justify or detract in the least from what american soldiers did. it is a non issue, completely and utterly irrelevant from the discussion.
the american soldiers got off pretty damned lightly for murder .
It's also a crime to rape people, steal, view child porn using government property, armed robbery, and thousands more.
you're 100% right. they certainly do it all the time.
I agree 100%, thank you.
I think we should put to death, those army and marine personnel involved in the abu ghraib abuse. It's no different.
Those iraqi victims of abuse at the hands of americans will have to remember it for the rest of their lives.
this is the while point.
if MCI won't listen to complaints from non-customers who are victimized by them, the pressure to change needs to come directly from MCI customers.
IOW, RBLs _make_ spam MCI's problem. the more MCI ignores their abusive customers, the more MCI will be blocked, and the more MCI customers will complain to them.
the idea is that either:
1) mci will come to their senses and nuke their spammers, or
2) go out of business after all their customers leave in disgust.
it looks like they're hellbent on 2), especially after their ceo was indicted and their CFO plead guilty to fraud.
90% of mail to my server is spam now. 95% by 2006 doesn't seem too much of a stretch.
no longer, it's now logical exploits like cross site scripting and sql/arbitrary command injection -- and java won't save you here.
try writing povray in java. and once you're done, see how well it performs.
Lister: "Rimmer, you're dead and 3 million years from Earth."
Rimmer: "That means NOTHING to these people!"
That's not such a bad patent:
:))
"A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus..."
So you see, as long as you don't use an infrared or ultraviolet laser, you're not violating this patent!