Yes... The Gentoo-house... You can automatically upgrade from Toilet-1.2.3 to the bleeding edge Toilet-1.2.4-r1 but chances are the Toilet will become preclogged.
And then when you try to install LinuxCouch manually it can't find your Floor-1.3 because GentooHouse wanted to install Floor-1.3 next to Ceiling-2.4 instead of right next to Ground-9.6.3-r12 build 2569.
Hey! Yeah, I'm surprised I got modded that high too. I thought maybe 1 or 2...
But you need to back off.
Apparently you don't know as much as you say you do.
Digital or analog, interference will interupt the singal. Due to the nature of analog, when you get interference the quality drops (i.e. clicks, pops, buzzing, or a beat in audio signals). When digital signals get interference you often loose the entire packet sent, requiring it to be sent again. This causes connection speeds to drop because more and more packets have to be sent two(or three, or four, or five....) times.
Maybe you know how everyone always says you shouldn't run CAT5 right next to electrical. Why? Because the electrical cables cause interference which will cause a lot of packet loss.
I used to have one of those home intecom sets that works by transferring over the electrical wires... It sounded terrible and barely worked.
Will this work as good?;)
How about power spikes? I live in a neighborhood that is on the top end of what voltages are tolerable, so the quick, small, and frequent power spikes are more noticable and damaging and burn up lightbulbs frequently. If I were using this wouldn't I have to worry about it burning up the modem every couple of months?
I assume putting it behind some sort of surge supressor to protect it from the spikes would ruin it's ability to communite on the power lines.
I believe the Playstation was originally planned to be called the PSX for a while, but then it was decided to call it the Playstation but various media still called it the PSX so the abbreviation stuck.
I tried looking there earlier and couldn't find it... I did find the original artical talking about the cluster and it was indeed HP.
256 computers costing a total of $210,000 (including networking equipment I assume) making them easily less than $1k a piece.
I did a search on top500.org for a 256 processor HP supercomputer, and it was ranked 61st. So as long as I picked the right one... HP did it first, as cheap (cheaper?), fewer nodes, and placed higher on the list.
As nice as it is that there is a new cluster on the list, I hardly see it as the "coolest cluster" when there is a cheaper and faster cluster that's been around longer that was also built completely of "off-the-shelf" parts... (and yes, it does run linux....)
They have almost as many games and space dedicated to Xbox as PS2. What about Game Cube?
My local best buy has about 3/4ths of a side of an isle dedicated to XBOX games, the other 1/4 being mostly xbox accessories. The Gamecube has roughly the same space. The PS2 games occupy 2 full isles.
XBox is easily out numbered at my local Best Buy, and it is even more so in other local stores.
In my neighborhood, digital cable channels are of lower picture quality than analog cable channels.
(Yes, for those that don't know, the cable company has both digital signals (i.e. HBO, PPV, etc) and analog signals (i.e. the local networks and basic channel line-up) going to the cable box.)
Digital cable is using MPEG compression to compress the video, but they seem to be pushing the quality vs compression ratio too far towards compression.
Cable here offers more channels that a dish does here, and about the same price for the same channels.
STILL, the technology they provide allows you to sidestep any potential blockages they make. Ok, ok, so they block at the router your attempt at reaching 555.12.12.12. So? You want to get ther badly enough, you arrange with someone for a proxy.... lather, wash, rinse, repeat
Arrange a proxy with someone who is also behind a similar router?
Yet, if 99.99% of people ignore the email, throw it away, and never EVER would look at it, but 0.02% are interested in the product, then they can profit by sending out TONS of email.
I hope there are more people like me. When ever I receive a spam that I actually read, even if it is a product I would normally be interested in, I refuse to buy it. If it is something I need to buy I buy from their competitor.
If 99.95% of people throw it away without even looking,.02% open and buy, and.03% open and then actively avoid and boycott that product, the company loses money.
Maybe I am the oddball, but whenever a company advertises in a way which offends me (i.e. spam, or super annoying commercials) I refuse to buy that product.
I wish more would follow that ideal, and that companies would discover annoying and angering your customers hurts your business.
But I guess the american public is too interested in just getting what you want instead of going without some small thing in order to show your disapreciation.
I would like to know why some of these people are not being charged with fraud already.
I have received notices that mail I tried to send couldn't be delivered. But in fact, the mail was not from me, and some spammer had spoofed the email address and pretended to be me.
What happens when this is done and spoofed to point at an innocent person and gets them legal trouble?
And how come these damn spammers don't realize that I DON'T read the spam, and if by some accident I do open the letter, I refuse to ever buy that product because of how they market it.
You aren't the only one who is paying taxes on that car.
The raw materials used to build the parts had to have tax paid on them when they were bought.
Many auto manufactures are actually assembly plants that buy the parts from the plants that make the parts. When they buy those parts they pay tax.
The dealership paid tax on the vehicles when they bought them to sell to you.
There are even more steps and places than that, but I hope by now you get the point that down the line there are many times that tax is paid on the car/parts and when you buy the car, you are paying for all the tax they had to pay to make that car as part of the price.
IBM used mainly off the shelf components (thus, no (or few) patents and cheap prices to build your own). It was a last ditch effort because they knew if they didn't have something out right away to compete with Apple, they'd never stand a chance.
The video is/.'ed so I have not been able to see it, but am I the only one who thinks these pics look extremely fake?
If you look closely it does not appear there are any traces of the effect known as radiosity (light shining of off one surface and illuminating another). Radiosity exists in real life, but is rare to see in computer generated graphics and is almost always that "something missing" that makes faked pics look not quite real.
The shading is also not realistic. Looks like computer textures.
Maybe the vid looks real, and maybe I'm wrong, but the pics look extremely fake to me.
But what about a semi-clear surface between the camera and the screen? Clear enough to read the text, but opaque enough to filter out anything that is not the origninal text (i.e. that sub-visible watermark)
OCR the photos and voila, you got your copy. You may have to sharpen and despeckle the picture, but you can do it.
Programs such as gzip, tar, ls, and many of those probably don't much of a boost.
Any programs that use fuctions which sse or mmx would speed up would definatly get a speed increase.
This is far from a scientific benchmark, however....
I have a 400mhz celeron and 192 MB of RAM. I am running Gentoo with rigorous optimizations, and have a webserver (among other things) I've set up to load at boot.
My friend has a 1.2ghz pentium, with 256 MB of RAM. Running a basic installation of Mandrake (no added programs yet, no web server, nothing special)
Through many many times of helping them over the phone, I have discovered my computer is able to boot to console, manualy log in and start X, and then shut down X and my computer and start up again and log in and get into X a second time, all in the amount of time it takes his computer to boot up directly to X once.
This is far from scientific but my optimized computer booting twice as fast as a computer which should be more than twice as fast as mine proves to me the optimizations make a large enough difference for it to be worth it.
Sony did not buy out Square. Square choose to go to Sony due to Nintendo switching the N64 plan from cd-based to cartridge based.
One of the biggest reasons Sony had so many more games coming out for PSX than Nintendo did for the N64 was that it was easier, and much cheaper, to obtain a PSX dev kit and license, than a dev kit and license from Nintendo.
So... Sony enticed devlopers to make PSX games by making it cheaper and easier and having the functionality the developers wanted... And Microsoft got developers by buying out the companies...
Please explain to me how these are the same tactics.
AOL is the cheapest dialup connection available in my town (tied with two others)
When not root, linux is more difficult to accidentally break than windows. And from my experience, teaching someone who had never used a computer to use Linux/KDE to check email and surf the web is as easy (if not easier in some cases) than teaching to do the same on windows. YMMV.
The average Linux user likes Linux and wants it to become more mainstream. Having a corporation the size of AOL/TW supporting Linux is a very good thing, and will definatly serve to make it more mainstream.
If AOL/TW supports AOL on Linux, then they will be more likely to support other products in terms of Linux.
And what if it gets to the point AOL/TW makes it company policy to use Linux boxes whereever possibly and to no longer buy Microsoft products? You now have millions and millions of employees who are going to buy linux boxes instead of windows boxes, just so they dont' have to try to use something different at home and at work.
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So.. Am I the only one that realized if I had spare cash laying around I could already implement everything in that "house of tommorow"?
Yes... The Gentoo-house... You can automatically upgrade from Toilet-1.2.3 to the bleeding edge Toilet-1.2.4-r1 but chances are the Toilet will become preclogged. And then when you try to install LinuxCouch manually it can't find your Floor-1.3 because GentooHouse wanted to install Floor-1.3 next to Ceiling-2.4 instead of right next to Ground-9.6.3-r12 build 2569.
But you need to back off. Apparently you don't know as much as you say you do.
Digital or analog, interference will interupt the singal. Due to the nature of analog, when you get interference the quality drops (i.e. clicks, pops, buzzing, or a beat in audio signals). When digital signals get interference you often loose the entire packet sent, requiring it to be sent again. This causes connection speeds to drop because more and more packets have to be sent two(or three, or four, or five....) times.
Maybe you know how everyone always says you shouldn't run CAT5 right next to electrical. Why? Because the electrical cables cause interference which will cause a lot of packet loss.
Will this work as good? ;)
How about power spikes? I live in a neighborhood that is on the top end of what voltages are tolerable, so the quick, small, and frequent power spikes are more noticable and damaging and burn up lightbulbs frequently. If I were using this wouldn't I have to worry about it burning up the modem every couple of months?
I assume putting it behind some sort of surge supressor to protect it from the spikes would ruin it's ability to communite on the power lines.
I believe the Playstation was originally planned to be called the PSX for a while, but then it was decided to call it the Playstation but various media still called it the PSX so the abbreviation stuck.
256 computers costing a total of $210,000 (including networking equipment I assume) making them easily less than $1k a piece.
I did a search on top500.org for a 256 processor HP supercomputer, and it was ranked 61st. So as long as I picked the right one... HP did it first, as cheap (cheaper?), fewer nodes, and placed higher on the list.
As nice as it is that there is a new cluster on the list, I hardly see it as the "coolest cluster" when there is a cheaper and faster cluster that's been around longer that was also built completely of "off-the-shelf" parts... (and yes, it does run linux....)
Although if I recall correctly they ended up quite a bit higher on list.
The problem is, what if the project is great as a free open source program, but not worth paying the price for it while its still under ransom?
My local best buy has about 3/4ths of a side of an isle dedicated to XBOX games, the other 1/4 being mostly xbox accessories. The Gamecube has roughly the same space. The PS2 games occupy 2 full isles.
XBox is easily out numbered at my local Best Buy, and it is even more so in other local stores.
And now that The Sims was shown to be a succcess look at how much EA is milking it.
(Yes, for those that don't know, the cable company has both digital signals (i.e. HBO, PPV, etc) and analog signals (i.e. the local networks and basic channel line-up) going to the cable box.)
Digital cable is using MPEG compression to compress the video, but they seem to be pushing the quality vs compression ratio too far towards compression.
Cable here offers more channels that a dish does here, and about the same price for the same channels.
Arrange a proxy with someone who is also behind a similar router?
I hope there are more people like me. When ever I receive a spam that I actually read, even if it is a product I would normally be interested in, I refuse to buy it. If it is something I need to buy I buy from their competitor.
If 99.95% of people throw it away without even looking, .02% open and buy, and .03% open and then actively avoid and boycott that product, the company loses money.
Maybe I am the oddball, but whenever a company advertises in a way which offends me (i.e. spam, or super annoying commercials) I refuse to buy that product.
I wish more would follow that ideal, and that companies would discover annoying and angering your customers hurts your business.
But I guess the american public is too interested in just getting what you want instead of going without some small thing in order to show your disapreciation.
I have received notices that mail I tried to send couldn't be delivered. But in fact, the mail was not from me, and some spammer had spoofed the email address and pretended to be me.
What happens when this is done and spoofed to point at an innocent person and gets them legal trouble?
And how come these damn spammers don't realize that I DON'T read the spam, and if by some accident I do open the letter, I refuse to ever buy that product because of how they market it.
SPAM HURTS YOUR SALES!! DON'T SPAM ME!!!
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You aren't the only one who is paying taxes on that car. The raw materials used to build the parts had to have tax paid on them when they were bought. Many auto manufactures are actually assembly plants that buy the parts from the plants that make the parts. When they buy those parts they pay tax. The dealership paid tax on the vehicles when they bought them to sell to you. There are even more steps and places than that, but I hope by now you get the point that down the line there are many times that tax is paid on the car/parts and when you buy the car, you are paying for all the tax they had to pay to make that car as part of the price.
IBM used mainly off the shelf components (thus, no (or few) patents and cheap prices to build your own). It was a last ditch effort because they knew if they didn't have something out right away to compete with Apple, they'd never stand a chance.
How long do I have to be an SA before I earn that psychic ability to just KNOW what is wrong?
I just saw the video, and I am now convinced. THIS IS FAKE
The video is /.'ed so I have not been able to see it, but am I the only one who thinks these pics look extremely fake?
If you look closely it does not appear there are any traces of the effect known as radiosity (light shining of off one surface and illuminating another). Radiosity exists in real life, but is rare to see in computer generated graphics and is almost always that "something missing" that makes faked pics look not quite real.
The shading is also not realistic. Looks like computer textures.
Maybe the vid looks real, and maybe I'm wrong, but the pics look extremely fake to me.
Three words: User Mode Linux
But what about a semi-clear surface between the camera and the screen? Clear enough to read the text, but opaque enough to filter out anything that is not the origninal text (i.e. that sub-visible watermark) OCR the photos and voila, you got your copy. You may have to sharpen and despeckle the picture, but you can do it.
This is far from a scientific benchmark, however....
I have a 400mhz celeron and 192 MB of RAM. I am running Gentoo with rigorous optimizations, and have a webserver (among other things) I've set up to load at boot.
My friend has a 1.2ghz pentium, with 256 MB of RAM. Running a basic installation of Mandrake (no added programs yet, no web server, nothing special)
Through many many times of helping them over the phone, I have discovered my computer is able to boot to console, manualy log in and start X, and then shut down X and my computer and start up again and log in and get into X a second time, all in the amount of time it takes his computer to boot up directly to X once.
This is far from scientific but my optimized computer booting twice as fast as a computer which should be more than twice as fast as mine proves to me the optimizations make a large enough difference for it to be worth it.
One of the biggest reasons Sony had so many more games coming out for PSX than Nintendo did for the N64 was that it was easier, and much cheaper, to obtain a PSX dev kit and license, than a dev kit and license from Nintendo.
So... Sony enticed devlopers to make PSX games by making it cheaper and easier and having the functionality the developers wanted... And Microsoft got developers by buying out the companies...
Please explain to me how these are the same tactics.
And what if it gets to the point AOL/TW makes it company policy to use Linux boxes whereever possibly and to no longer buy Microsoft products? You now have millions and millions of employees who are going to buy linux boxes instead of windows boxes, just so they dont' have to try to use something different at home and at work.