... but, did you take pictures OF THE GIRL???;-) On one of the confluences? Hmm, can you post them on the site?;-)
Yes, it is getting silly how all/. start complaining about pointless misuse of "effort and resources". Depressing. I would love to visit my own, but I bet all So. Cali. points are taken (back to checking if they are).
If this country were to start acting in its own interests again, and not just the interests of its upper class, it would stop.
And these are this country's upper class people who are extatic about saving 3 bucks on $7, Made in China shoes in K-Mart, right? Hmm, I thought they had their shoes handmade in Paris or London...
Remember, corporations would not outsource their labor if there would not be enough demand for cheap(er) (though maybe poorer quality) things, eventually there is someone paying with his earned dollars for the product.
Yes, for example it includes South African Republic, I bet a good number of people here would feel more secure about their tech. support moving to.za domain, rather than to Nigeria.;-)
clusters become much more effective as the speed of communication between individual nodes increases
Clusters become much more efficient when LATENCY between nodes decreases, not when bandwidth ("speed") increases. Clusters want to exchange rather small packets and get the replies back as soon as possible, the actual time it takes to transmit a small packet does not depend that much on the link bandwidth, but on how fast you can get the packet to the link and pick it up on the other end.
Paul B.
The best argument against it so far!
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Yes, you might be right...
And if one adds bufferring at the entrance to the rail he will definitely lose the public transportation side.
Paul B.
Re:Youwant dual mode transportation?
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Takes out most rail infrastructure cost
I guess this is the main reason. I guess it's designed mostly not for human transport, it's for freight. And a crate does not get off the train and attaches itself to a truck all by itself...
Neat idea, I hope someone will feel like putting some $$ in.
The government has too many fingers in my pie already.
Agreed with this!;-) Actually I was trying to analyse my previous comments in this thread from more reasonable point of view than just my gut reaction that we are entitled to the complete disclosure (not necessarily by legal means, in no way I'd advocate increasing the Govt.'s powers!).
Try this: for some people their personal freedom is more important than their life. And their right to their property is quite important as well (here, property being the computer cycles, maybe insignificant; and also privacy, maybe more significant).
I would not automatically be on the bandwagon of ones who say that "hey, one side is a life-or-death situation, the other one is just someone's dignity and property!" -- with the same reasong one can justify *forcefully* stripping you of all your belongings to help someone dying somewhere on the other end of the world (not to mention that most probably the poor guy or girl is dying *because* there is no respect for the private property rights in that corner of the world!).
... and this is why one expects from people who run the infected sites just shrug and say, "Hey, it's only money, we can rebuild the same site usind more secure technology later..." -- and tell their customers that yeah, we've screwed up.
I personally would be more comfortable going to a site which admits to their mistakes and tries to patch them than to the one which tries to keep this hush-hush.
Paul B.
P.S. And yes, I have no personal reason to care just yet because I use Linux at home and my office computer is someone's else responsibility...;-)
Yeah, man, but still that was a good comment (one I thought of making myself, must be good, huh?;-) ) and if you were one of the newbies on/. I guess you'd deserve a bit more of some positive karma... See, the other guy in the thread did not know that +5 Funny moderation does not bring positive karma to people and was feeling "cheated" for his lost points, so no waste of keystrokes here (and no electrons were harmed either...;-) )
Disclaimer: I hit the karma kap not long after it was first implemented and so you might consider there to be a bit of hypocrisy up above, if you're that sort of person.
Me too, but maybe that guy who posted the original comment have not yet!;-)
You do not have to be a citizen to get a clearence
Really? Can you elaborate on that, please? (I am quite personally interested, not a troll!;-) ). I can imagine that they can grant citizenship and THEN clearance, but the other way around?...
Blame the guys who wrote first compilers! And 'make' and 'yacc' and 'lex' and all other time-saving tools! Imagine how many programmers would be employed if they would have to code Office XP in pure assembly!;-)
Or, consider the whole sub-continent of India as a super-duper server farm implementing 6th generation programming language: it takes program specs in human readable form (and some little $$) and generates executable ready to run. All you have to do is to have an IDEA of what you want to code, and it gets coded automatically, programmer's nirvana, right?
Oh, you are saying that you do not have any IDEAS to implement, but you know Java, Visual Basic and a little bit of COBOL picked up in 1999? Well, sorry for you, dude...:-( The "India" server farm seems to run a bit cheaper than the "Kentucky" server farm, but I will keep you in mind when we have to do some sensitive contract work for the Govt.
Basically his "idea" was that genes do not exist and species change into one another responding to the environment. Was quite popular with communist leaders due to political ramifications, from "Soviet science will grow tomatoes in the siberian snow" to "A bit of GULAG treatment turns thieves and reactionaries into new Communist people" (one can argue that the latter point was sometimes quite true).
Hey, man, I totally agree with you! (E.g., see my other post in the same thread...) I was just nitpicking on the necessity to make a distinctioin between the "Arab culture" of the 500 years ago and present total lack of it.
Hmm, man, I guess you are a bit confused... You know those characters, like, '1', '2', '3', up to '9' -- those vere actually made "in the midst of Arab culture", And I guess '0' too (though not sure), but the reast are definitely called "Arabic numerals", as opposed to "Roman numerals" of the I,II, III, IV... variety. And the symbol of 'X' as well as the word al-gebra was of the same descent.
So, I think that you do confuse current fundamentalist Arab politicians/"warriors" with "the Arab culture"...
Well, some phrases did sound a bit fishy to me, and I thought that my fellow/.er would ask for a bit more of a proof or at least confirmation of the fact, rather than getting into the usual "patents-vs.-public good" discussion.
I grew up in Soviet Russia (yeah, for real this time!) and we did have our share of "backyard inventors" kicking socks off the capitialist pigs in semi-techical news strories (yes, it was just state-run propaganda, of course, though some ideas were not too bad). And, BTW, does the name of Lysenko mean anything to this crowd?;-/
If the story is true, it is really remarkable, though I am not really sure how the fact of him being "semi-literate" really fits into the story (we have all been semi-literate at some stages of our life, and a guy like him would have learned the "tough skill" by now;-) ), except that to maybe make other not-too-literate people feel good about themselves. (yes, that was the part that made me a bit suspicious)
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... but, did you take pictures OF THE GIRL??? ;-) ;-)
/. start complaining about pointless misuse of "effort and resources". Depressing. I would love to visit my own, but I bet all So. Cali. points are taken (back to checking if they are).
On one of the confluences? Hmm, can you post them on the site?
Yes, it is getting silly how all
Paul B.
Good point, AC, maybe you SHOULD get an account after all! ;-)
... and entirely timely too! ;-) just read it today in Reason and HAD to put into my .sig
If this country were to start acting in its own interests again, and not just the interests of its upper class, it would stop.
And these are this country's upper class people who are extatic about saving 3 bucks on $7, Made in China shoes in K-Mart, right? Hmm, I thought they had their shoes handmade in Paris or London...
Remember, corporations would not outsource their labor if there would not be enough demand for cheap(er) (though maybe poorer quality) things, eventually there is someone paying with his earned dollars for the product.
Paul B.
Africa is a lot bigger than just Nigeria
.za domain, rather than to Nigeria. ;-)
Yes, for example it includes South African Republic, I bet a good number of people here would feel more secure about their tech. support moving to
Paul B.
clusters become much more effective as the speed of communication between individual nodes increases
Clusters become much more efficient when LATENCY between nodes decreases, not when bandwidth ("speed") increases. Clusters want to exchange rather small packets and get the replies back as soon as possible, the actual time it takes to transmit a small packet does not depend that much on the link bandwidth, but on how fast you can get the packet to the link and pick it up on the other end.
Paul B.
Yes, you might be right...
And if one adds bufferring at the entrance to the rail he will definitely lose the public transportation side.
Paul B.
Takes out most rail infrastructure cost
I guess this is the main reason. I guess it's designed mostly not for human transport, it's for freight. And a crate does not get off the train and attaches itself to a truck all by itself...
Neat idea, I hope someone will feel like putting some $$ in.
Paaul B.
The government has too many fingers in my pie already.
;-) Actually I was trying to analyse my previous comments in this thread from more reasonable point of view than just my gut reaction that we are entitled to the complete disclosure (not necessarily by legal means, in no way I'd advocate increasing the Govt.'s powers!).
Agreed with this!
Try this: for some people their personal freedom is more important than their life. And their right to their property is quite important as well (here, property being the computer cycles, maybe insignificant; and also privacy, maybe more significant).
I would not automatically be on the bandwagon of ones who say that "hey, one side is a life-or-death situation, the other one is just someone's dignity and property!" -- with the same reasong one can justify *forcefully* stripping you of all your belongings to help someone dying somewhere on the other end of the world (not to mention that most probably the poor guy or girl is dying *because* there is no respect for the private property rights in that corner of the world!).
Just a thought...
Paul B.
... some people (at least used to) commit suicide when some embarassing facts about them are revealed (or about to be revealed)?
Paul B.
... and this is why one expects from people who run the infected sites just shrug and say, "Hey, it's only money, we can rebuild the same site usind more secure technology later..." -- and tell their customers that yeah, we've screwed up.
;-)
I personally would be more comfortable going to a site which admits to their mistakes and tries to patch them than to the one which tries to keep this hush-hush.
Paul B.
P.S. And yes, I have no personal reason to care just yet because I use Linux at home and my office computer is someone's else responsibility...
... I overheard when the place I worked at years ago ...
;-)
Did they have BROWSERS back then???
Do not take it seriously, just my attempt at a light-hearted joke!
Paul B.
Yeah, man, but still that was a good comment (one I thought of making myself, must be good, huh? ;-) ) and if you were one of the newbies on /. I guess you'd deserve a bit more of some positive karma... See, the other guy in the thread did not know that +5 Funny moderation does not bring positive karma to people and was feeling "cheated" for his lost points, so no waste of keystrokes here (and no electrons were harmed either... ;-) )
Paul B.
Disclaimer: I hit the karma kap not long after it was first implemented and so you might consider there to be a bit of hypocrisy up above, if you're that sort of person.
;-)
Me too, but maybe that guy who posted the original comment have not yet!
Paul B.
At least I wanted to make the same comment... ;-) And remember 'Funny' does not give one karma points...
Paul B.
You do not have to be a citizen to get a clearence
;-) ). I can imagine that they can grant citizenship and THEN clearance, but the other way around?...
Really? Can you elaborate on that, please? (I am quite personally interested, not a troll!
Paul B.
Blame the guys who wrote first compilers! And 'make' and 'yacc' and 'lex' and all other time-saving tools! Imagine how many programmers would be employed if they would have to code Office XP in pure assembly! ;-)
:-( The "India" server farm seems to run a bit cheaper than the "Kentucky" server farm, but I will keep you in mind when we have to do some sensitive contract work for the Govt.
Or, consider the whole sub-continent of India as a super-duper server farm implementing 6th generation programming language: it takes program specs in human readable form (and some little $$) and generates executable ready to run. All you have to do is to have an IDEA of what you want to code, and it gets coded automatically, programmer's nirvana, right?
Oh, you are saying that you do not have any IDEAS to implement, but you know Java, Visual Basic and a little bit of COBOL picked up in 1999? Well, sorry for you, dude...
Paul B.
Here
Basically his "idea" was that genes do not exist and species change into one another responding to the environment. Was quite popular with communist leaders due to political ramifications, from "Soviet science will grow tomatoes in the siberian snow" to "A bit of GULAG treatment turns thieves and reactionaries into new Communist people" (one can argue that the latter point was sometimes quite true).
Paul B.
Yes, that was the story!
Paul B.
You might have valid points, but the smell of an AC troll just makes me say: No comment... ;-(
Hey, man, I totally agree with you! (E.g., see my other post in the same thread...) I was just nitpicking on the necessity to make a distinctioin between the "Arab culture" of the 500 years ago and present total lack of it.
.signature too! ;-)
Paul B.
P.S. And nice
Are you REALLY sure that the original article was published with the explicit intention to be read by /. crowd? ;-)
Paul B,
Hmm, man, I guess you are a bit confused... You know those characters, like, '1', '2', '3', up to '9' -- those vere actually made "in the midst of Arab culture", And I guess '0' too (though not sure), but the reast are definitely called "Arabic numerals", as opposed to "Roman numerals" of the I,II, III, IV... variety. And the symbol of 'X' as well as the word al-gebra was of the same descent.
So, I think that you do confuse current fundamentalist Arab politicians/"warriors" with "the Arab culture"...
Paul B.
Well, some phrases did sound a bit fishy to me, and I thought that my fellow /.er would ask for a bit more of a proof or at least confirmation of the fact, rather than getting into the usual "patents-vs.-public good" discussion.
;-/
;-) ), except that to maybe make other not-too-literate people feel good about themselves. (yes, that was the part that made me a bit suspicious)
I grew up in Soviet Russia (yeah, for real this time!) and we did have our share of "backyard inventors" kicking socks off the capitialist pigs in semi-techical news strories (yes, it was just state-run propaganda, of course, though some ideas were not too bad). And, BTW, does the name of Lysenko mean anything to this crowd?
If the story is true, it is really remarkable, though I am not really sure how the fact of him being "semi-literate" really fits into the story (we have all been semi-literate at some stages of our life, and a guy like him would have learned the "tough skill" by now
Paul B.
Check this story out. At least (slowly) read the second paragraph, it is hilarious! And for more serious analysis, read further.
Paul B.