It's pretty damn hot right now. (IANANCFVMLGAJIB: I am not a North Carolinian much longer, got a job in Boston.) And it gets worse. Nice place, though... I'd like to move back here in the long-term future.
Only Carolina could manage to interpret "firewall that box off" as "drywall that box off."
/me ducks
/me runs
:)
Re:Nice to know how reliable VA's own hardware is.
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If/. and sourceforge didn't have very, very regular hardware problems I might find it ironic. Instead I'll vote for "sort of pathetic." I like VA (this is being typed on a box they manufactured) and hope they do well. But their "flagship" websites are not their best advertisement.
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Since it seems like someone actually found this interesting, I thought I'd go ahead and post the actual link to the google service (AdWords.) Of course, clicking through, in their estimate of how much it would cost to attach your banner to the "communitech" keyword, it would appear that no one actually searches for communitech so maybe this isn't such a hot idea:) Still, especially if very few people search for communitech, this is a low-cost way to get your point across.
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buy one of those cheap ad banners on google and set it to come up every time someone searches "communitech." Have it link to a page where you've collected a list of your problems (and hopefully the problems of others, to give it more credibility.) Make it look very professional; avoid getting personal; etc., and pretty soon you'll have solutions.
Um, yeah, what the other guy said. Scroll around in here and you'll find links to Nature (which is eminently more respectable than Scientific American), and that article notes that the research will be published in Physical Review Letters, which is a pretty damn solid place. I mean, it hasn't been independently duplicated yet, but it has gotten coverage in the "real" scientific press- Nature is not about to go spouting off unless they feel it is pretty solid. Those with mod points should feel free to mod the parent down.
~luge
Re:WestWorld + FutureWorld + Jurassic Park
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Well, sure... the overall "technology does scary things" theme is a Frankenstein motif. The specifics, though (particularly the theme-park/ leisure->terror transition) are reasonably unique to his work.
rlogin? you are kidding, right? you do know that anyone who uses rlogin is basically walking around screaming "take my passwords, please!" Kudos to RH for their quite secure workstation install... in 7.1, it'll even do a firewall for you. Good for them...
Re:WestWorld + FutureWorld + Jurassic Park
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The amusing thing about WestWorld is that it is basically a Jurassic Park ripoff. Resort dependent on scary new technology goes awry, killing guests. Except, of course, WestWorld way predates Jurassic Park. The really, really amusing part... Michael Crichton wrote WestWorld. Basically, Jurassic Park was a rip-off of his own work, cast with a new villain (genetics instead of robotics) and better special effects, but otherwise nothing more than a remake. BTW, I strongly recommend WestWorld to those who haven't seen it- pretty solid film. FutureWorld... don't waste two hours of your life.
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Actually, it does benefit them. Their network only has value because it connects a lot of people; if they have a reduced number of users, the other users get less value from their product, which means they are more likely to defect to other services like MSN. So, long term, it is probably better for them to accept a small number of ad-free "moochers" in return for better overall stability for their users. Now... they/do/ have every right to shoot themselves in the foot by forcing me to ask my friends to use something other than AIM. But it would be nice if they didn't.
Umm... sure, it would be a great idea if it would work. But the whole proposal depends on the directory structure being harder to spam than keywords. I don't see any reason why it would be any harder to put "teens->education->health" in the directory structure for hardcoreteensex.com than it would be with current keyword-based schemes. I'd love to hear why you think that this would be different than what already goes on... but I'm not holding my breath about being convinced.
According to this page from the US Senate, it costs four cents to print a dollar bill. Look in the section on "seigniorage."
BTW, the reason no one forges a dollar bill is because the risk of getting caught is the same and the payoff is much, much lower. In other words, if you can pass one fake $100 bill, you have something worth $100 bucks and your risk of being caught was low- you only had to pass one bill. Passing 100 one dollar bills is much more difficult (greater odds of being caught) for the same payoff.
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Dude. It's just paper. There's no reason that a mass-produced little sheet of green paper that costs $0.01 to print should ever be worth $1 just because it has a picture of George Washington on it. That's insanity.
Just a little reality check on supply and demand...
and the provider of the information should be compensated. Um... maybe Tivo will continue to exist as an independent company? TV producers will (maybe) sell more relevant ads and therefore continue producing shows? Shouldn't those things be compensation enough? Right now, unless TV advertising becomes much more effective, TV channels are facing the same long term situation as web sites- they have a lot of ads that aren't relevant and that people ignore. If Tivo can help make those ads more relevant before the ad people figure out they are wasting their money then more power to them.
~luge
It's hard to say exactly, since different chips tend to do better at different things. However, if you mean raw math, a prof in my LUG (who happens to be a beowulf big shot) did some benchmarks that more or less show that for large vector math athlon 750s are more or less equivalent to a PIII 933. Obviously, this has little direct bearing on you if you aren't doing particle physics but it would tend to suggest that (at worst) you can assume that Athlons and PIIIs at the same clock speed perform the same. Unfortunately, most of the performance data he put on the web is not up right now because of some legal hassles with AMD but the data is quite interesting. If he is able to repost it (he should be able to soon) I'll try to find an excuse to post it in another thread, or you can email me for some more details.
ICQ was developed and initially marketed by an Israeli company and subsequently bought by AOL. That accounts for the initial protocol differences. Why they remain non-interoperable, I have no idea.
I thought that one of the "improvements" of XF86 4 was that driver modules were supposed to be inter-operable on the same arch? Like, the x86 module for Nvidia should work on both x86 Linux and x86 *BSD? Sort of disappointing if that is not the case.
Take a long, hard look at that URL (if you want to cheat, take a look at the URL and then at the date it was posted on) and then put the dunce cap on;)
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Sorry... Americans who constantly bitch about corruption, or 'freedom', or 'oppression' in this country by comparing it to the rest of the world really, really piss me off. They clearly have no idea how good we have it when compared to everyone else. The Mexican idea of 'corruption and graft' involves doing things like telling the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer money directly from the Treasury to swiss accounts. The Argentine idea of 'corruption and graft' is having their Secretary of the Interior sell their equivalent of Yellowstone- and pocketing the money herself! Yes, we have our problems. Yes, campaign finance sucks. But there is a huge leap from "the decisions of elected officials are influenced by large corporations" to "government officials who don't steal millions of dollars at a time are extremely unusual."
Well, it isn't like this distro is in any way in competition with the other distros. If Transmeta ever becomes successful enough to make RH and others do a Transmeta-centric distro, I'd expect he might reconsider things. But as it is, doing this doesn't seem to create much conflict for him- it doesn't look like it is reducing the time he spends on the mainstream kernel, and it isn't going to reduce revenue or opportunities for RH and others. So... I still don't think that he's in much trouble with the conflicts he was worried about at the time he joined Transmeta.
That said, I'd like to see a little more Big Iron development work... but that is (as other folks have pointed out) as much a factor of hardware availability as anything else, I think. We'll see, I s'pose...
I really can't disagree with that. It is a pretty sad statement. At the same time, while working to change it (you could contribute to Common Cause, for example) one also has to play within the rules. I mean... if we wait until campaign finance reform is enacted to take action on copyright reform, guess what- the MPAA will already be leasing you your own soul.
To put it another way: yeah, the system sucks. But it is our system: hating it doesn't change the way it works, nor does it change the fact that it has very serious consequences for the way we live our lives. So... we'd better work with it, even while trying to change it.
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Yeah, basically, that's me. I'm such a huge redneck, in fact, that I've somehow overcome the natural disadvantage of being Cuban. Go home, troll.
It's pretty damn hot right now. (IANANCFVMLGAJIB: I am not a North Carolinian much longer, got a job in Boston.) And it gets worse. Nice place, though... I'd like to move back here in the long-term future.
Only Carolina could manage to interpret "firewall that box off" as "drywall that box off."
/me ducks
/me runs
:)
If /. and sourceforge didn't have very, very regular hardware problems I might find it ironic. Instead I'll vote for "sort of pathetic." I like VA (this is being typed on a box they manufactured) and hope they do well. But their "flagship" websites are not their best advertisement.
~luge
Since it seems like someone actually found this interesting, I thought I'd go ahead and post the actual link to the google service (AdWords.) Of course, clicking through, in their estimate of how much it would cost to attach your banner to the "communitech" keyword, it would appear that no one actually searches for communitech so maybe this isn't such a hot idea :) Still, especially if very few people search for communitech, this is a low-cost way to get your point across.
~luge
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buy one of those cheap ad banners on google and set it to come up every time someone searches "communitech." Have it link to a page where you've collected a list of your problems (and hopefully the problems of others, to give it more credibility.) Make it look very professional; avoid getting personal; etc., and pretty soon you'll have solutions.
Um, yeah, what the other guy said. Scroll around in here and you'll find links to Nature (which is eminently more respectable than Scientific American), and that article notes that the research will be published in Physical Review Letters, which is a pretty damn solid place. I mean, it hasn't been independently duplicated yet, but it has gotten coverage in the "real" scientific press- Nature is not about to go spouting off unless they feel it is pretty solid. Those with mod points should feel free to mod the parent down.
~luge
Well, sure... the overall "technology does scary things" theme is a Frankenstein motif. The specifics, though (particularly the theme-park/ leisure->terror transition) are reasonably unique to his work.
rlogin? you are kidding, right? you do know that anyone who uses rlogin is basically walking around screaming "take my passwords, please!" Kudos to RH for their quite secure workstation install... in 7.1, it'll even do a firewall for you. Good for them...
The amusing thing about WestWorld is that it is basically a Jurassic Park ripoff. Resort dependent on scary new technology goes awry, killing guests. Except, of course, WestWorld way predates Jurassic Park. The really, really amusing part... Michael Crichton wrote WestWorld. Basically, Jurassic Park was a rip-off of his own work, cast with a new villain (genetics instead of robotics) and better special effects, but otherwise nothing more than a remake. BTW, I strongly recommend WestWorld to those who haven't seen it- pretty solid film. FutureWorld... don't waste two hours of your life.
~luge
Do you have a link for that?
Actually, it does benefit them. Their network only has value because it connects a lot of people; if they have a reduced number of users, the other users get less value from their product, which means they are more likely to defect to other services like MSN. So, long term, it is probably better for them to accept a small number of ad-free "moochers" in return for better overall stability for their users. Now... they /do/ have every right to shoot themselves in the foot by forcing me to ask my friends to use something other than AIM. But it would be nice if they didn't.
Umm... sure, it would be a great idea if it would work. But the whole proposal depends on the directory structure being harder to spam than keywords. I don't see any reason why it would be any harder to put "teens->education->health" in the directory structure for hardcoreteensex.com than it would be with current keyword-based schemes. I'd love to hear why you think that this would be different than what already goes on... but I'm not holding my breath about being convinced.
According to this page from the US Senate, it costs four cents to print a dollar bill. Look in the section on "seigniorage."
BTW, the reason no one forges a dollar bill is because the risk of getting caught is the same and the payoff is much, much lower. In other words, if you can pass one fake $100 bill, you have something worth $100 bucks and your risk of being caught was low- you only had to pass one bill. Passing 100 one dollar bills is much more difficult (greater odds of being caught) for the same payoff.
~luge
Yeah, I've read about Boggs before. He rocks. A little odd, but very cool stuff. I hope one day to have an excuse to sell him something :)
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Well, they did lay off most of their staff (1/2, IIRC) two weeks ago or thereabouts. The /. story is here.
Dude. It's just paper. There's no reason that a mass-produced little sheet of green paper that costs $0.01 to print should ever be worth $1 just because it has a picture of George Washington on it. That's insanity.
Just a little reality check on supply and demand...
and the provider of the information should be compensated.
Um... maybe Tivo will continue to exist as an independent company? TV producers will (maybe) sell more relevant ads and therefore continue producing shows? Shouldn't those things be compensation enough? Right now, unless TV advertising becomes much more effective, TV channels are facing the same long term situation as web sites- they have a lot of ads that aren't relevant and that people ignore. If Tivo can help make those ads more relevant before the ad people figure out they are wasting their money then more power to them.
~luge
It's hard to say exactly, since different chips tend to do better at different things. However, if you mean raw math, a prof in my LUG (who happens to be a beowulf big shot) did some benchmarks that more or less show that for large vector math athlon 750s are more or less equivalent to a PIII 933. Obviously, this has little direct bearing on you if you aren't doing particle physics but it would tend to suggest that (at worst) you can assume that Athlons and PIIIs at the same clock speed perform the same. Unfortunately, most of the performance data he put on the web is not up right now because of some legal hassles with AMD but the data is quite interesting. If he is able to repost it (he should be able to soon) I'll try to find an excuse to post it in another thread, or you can email me for some more details.
ICQ was developed and initially marketed by an Israeli company and subsequently bought by AOL. That accounts for the initial protocol differences. Why they remain non-interoperable, I have no idea.
I thought that one of the "improvements" of XF86 4 was that driver modules were supposed to be inter-operable on the same arch? Like, the x86 module for Nvidia should work on both x86 Linux and x86 *BSD? Sort of disappointing if that is not the case.
Take a long, hard look at that URL (if you want to cheat, take a look at the URL and then at the date it was posted on) and then put the dunce cap on ;)
~luge
Sorry... Americans who constantly bitch about corruption, or 'freedom', or 'oppression' in this country by comparing it to the rest of the world really, really piss me off. They clearly have no idea how good we have it when compared to everyone else. The Mexican idea of 'corruption and graft' involves doing things like telling the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer money directly from the Treasury to swiss accounts. The Argentine idea of 'corruption and graft' is having their Secretary of the Interior sell their equivalent of Yellowstone- and pocketing the money herself! Yes, we have our problems. Yes, campaign finance sucks. But there is a huge leap from "the decisions of elected officials are influenced by large corporations" to "government officials who don't steal millions of dollars at a time are extremely unusual."
Well, it isn't like this distro is in any way in competition with the other distros. If Transmeta ever becomes successful enough to make RH and others do a Transmeta-centric distro, I'd expect he might reconsider things. But as it is, doing this doesn't seem to create much conflict for him- it doesn't look like it is reducing the time he spends on the mainstream kernel, and it isn't going to reduce revenue or opportunities for RH and others. So... I still don't think that he's in much trouble with the conflicts he was worried about at the time he joined Transmeta.
That said, I'd like to see a little more Big Iron development work... but that is (as other folks have pointed out) as much a factor of hardware availability as anything else, I think. We'll see, I s'pose...
I really can't disagree with that. It is a pretty sad statement. At the same time, while working to change it (you could contribute to Common Cause, for example) one also has to play within the rules. I mean... if we wait until campaign finance reform is enacted to take action on copyright reform, guess what- the MPAA will already be leasing you your own soul.
To put it another way: yeah, the system sucks. But it is our system: hating it doesn't change the way it works, nor does it change the fact that it has very serious consequences for the way we live our lives. So... we'd better work with it, even while trying to change it.
~luge