Faith: A valuable but dangerous commodity. Belief despite the evidence of one's senses may be necessary to our psychological well being, but can also justify the most horrendous of evils perpetrated by our species.
As someone who grew up in a religiously oppressive small town and became a physicist against the wishes of my extended family who wanted me to bow down before the "Lord" and become a weak-willed servant to the "elders" who were nothing but politicians in a religious disguise, I just wanted to bring this quote up from the AC level.
If I were the original poster, I'd left out the "may be necessary to our psychological well being, but can also"-bit, though. It reads even better without that.
Seriously, how do you like it? How well does the rest of your hardware work with it?
To be honest I've got a separate computer for games and anything that requires more mainstream hardware.
The Opteron system is basically an expensive exercise in running memory bandwidth/CPU/harddrive intensive work-related projects (i.e. prototyping selected computational physics code) at home.
It has been built around Tyan Thunder K8SPro (with the SCSI option) that does not have AGP and only has one legacy PCI-slot. This pretty much disqualifies it as a gaming machine. However, on a more positive note I'll probably be able to make it tax-deductible.
Some drawbacks: with the two CPU fans, two 15krpm SCSI drives, the heavy-duty EPS12V power supply and the two IDE drives it's also rather noisy. Furthermore, I'm sorry to see that, just like in my Alpha days in the mid-1990s, there is still plenty of badly written software (i.e. casting pointers to int) that won't compile out of box. Any other disadvantages? Well, now I'm rather bankrupt, too.;-)
Quite frankly, I don't think the 64-bit desktop is quite there yet. I'm sure you've grown fond of the responsiveness of your dual PIII (that's why I mostly buy only dual CPU computers these days). A dual Xeon or dual Athlon MP will probably serve you better than any of the present 64-bit CPUs.
AMD64 Mandrake and Fedora pre-releases hard-crashed during boot. FreeBSD installed cleanly but I felt more comfortable with Linux so that's how I wound up with Gentoo on my machine.
It took three hours to compile the base system (I intentionally chose stage1 installation where you compile almost everything; you could install Gentoo binaries too) and after that I just emerged the apps I required.
When we reach the point that none of the jobs are in the USA because its cheaper over seas
The trouble is that people think that once they get a degree or spend so and so many years on a job, then they are somehow entitled to do that particular work until they get to retire on a pension.
In 1753 it was the mob of angry "outsourced" weavers who attacked John Kay who invented the flying shuttle for weaving (and thus made the human weaver labour too expensive).
Today it's the mob of western IT pros attacking Indians and corporations for providing and using the less expensive labour. Wake up. It's time to learn and do something else and not whine about some imaginary entitlement you have to that particular job you studied for ten years ago.
Prepare for the inevitable periods of unemployment by saving money and re-educating yourself. There's no such thing as a secure job.
Sounds like a prime example of a typical auditor's chickenshit-mentality.
Any project - not to mention a project of this size - is bound to have holes in the documentation, inventory or accounting. Documents get misplaced, tools and materials get stolen/wasted/lost and some spending cannot be accounted for.
I don't feel the Community who feels that data should flow freely would be that interested in being up to the task.
Ok, and since they are not interested in getting their hands dirty, the world should change to accommodate them? That sounds a lot like the "I'm not going to vote or get involved in politics because it won't change anything" argument.
I actually like IBM's current affair with the Open Source because it's based on corporate greed. You can always count on that in business.
Microsoft has clearly working towards extending their influence from PCs to more general game console/home entertainment centres.
My question is, why has there been no professioanl lobbyist for open source involved with this workgroup? At this level, technical merits don't matter. It's all about politics (which is kind of a good thing; I'd hate to live in a technocratic soceity run by engineers).
jerks that sits in the far left hand lane and goes precisely the speed limit
I drive on the right lane at the precise speed limit.
I just get pissed off every time a speeding jerk drives by me at 30 mphs over the limit, cuts me off and gives me the finger "for being too slow". This is what I wish on them.
Have you never read the Risks List?
I'd rather take my chances with computer controlled cars than the speeding, emotionally volatile alpha-male jerks.
As an advocate for privacy, I don't want people to be able to follow my every move.
Surely you must understand that access to lethal materials such as guns, pathogens and nuclear material must be controlled to save innocent lives.
Similarly, given the increasing performance of cars and the increasing number of lethal accidents, I see it only natural development that roads are more carefully controlled in the future.
It's not about privacy. Just like you can use cash instead of a credit card (do you complain about people being able to track your payments?), you can still take a bus or a train if you want to travel anonymously.
Hopefully this will help getting the speeding jerks off our roads. Quite frankly, I wouldn't mind having completely remote-computer controlled cars in our lifetime.
Then feel free to enlighten me as I don't quite see your problem here. If your objection is that Microsoft is making money on the consumers, I give up. I have no arguments against it because I don't understand the accusation in the first place.
On another note, I categorically deny that Linux is more secure an operating system than Windows. If Linux were as popular as Windows, it would have exactly the same security record as the Microsoft product. Windows, XP and the latest version of it in particular, will get the millions-of-eyes treatment the open source community is so proud of. Only in this case, the millions of eyes will make any security features shallow.
What makes the difference are the users. Microsoft has actually done an admirable job in creating an operating system that your average user has any chance of connecting to the net and with a reasonable amount of security.
Managing people is stressful because - at worst - you're being bitched at by both your bosses and your subordinates the whom you're supposed to care about as a "good manager".
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I am afraid to check Google for "master sniffer".
It's probably a sexual fetish I really, really don't want to know about...
As someone who grew up in a religiously oppressive small town and became a physicist against the wishes of my extended family who wanted me to bow down before the "Lord" and become a weak-willed servant to the "elders" who were nothing but politicians in a religious disguise, I just wanted to bring this quote up from the AC level.
If I were the original poster, I'd left out the "may be necessary to our psychological well being, but can also"-bit, though. It reads even better without that.
Anti-religion? You bet I am. So what?
To be honest I've got a separate computer for games and anything that requires more mainstream hardware.
The Opteron system is basically an expensive exercise in running memory bandwidth/CPU/harddrive intensive work-related projects (i.e. prototyping selected computational physics code) at home.
It has been built around Tyan Thunder K8SPro (with the SCSI option) that does not have AGP and only has one legacy PCI-slot. This pretty much disqualifies it as a gaming machine. However, on a more positive note I'll probably be able to make it tax-deductible.
Some drawbacks: with the two CPU fans, two 15krpm SCSI drives, the heavy-duty EPS12V power supply and the two IDE drives it's also rather noisy. Furthermore, I'm sorry to see that, just like in my Alpha days in the mid-1990s, there is still plenty of badly written software (i.e. casting pointers to int) that won't compile out of box. Any other disadvantages? Well, now I'm rather bankrupt, too. ;-)
Quite frankly, I don't think the 64-bit desktop is quite there yet. I'm sure you've grown fond of the responsiveness of your dual PIII (that's why I mostly buy only dual CPU computers these days). A dual Xeon or dual Athlon MP will probably serve you better than any of the present 64-bit CPUs.
AMD64 Mandrake and Fedora pre-releases hard-crashed during boot. FreeBSD installed cleanly but I felt more comfortable with Linux so that's how I wound up with Gentoo on my machine.
It took three hours to compile the base system (I intentionally chose stage1 installation where you compile almost everything; you could install Gentoo binaries too) and after that I just emerged the apps I required.
The trouble is that people think that once they get a degree or spend so and so many years on a job, then they are somehow entitled to do that particular work until they get to retire on a pension.
In 1753 it was the mob of angry "outsourced" weavers who attacked John Kay who invented the flying shuttle for weaving (and thus made the human weaver labour too expensive).
Today it's the mob of western IT pros attacking Indians and corporations for providing and using the less expensive labour. Wake up. It's time to learn and do something else and not whine about some imaginary entitlement you have to that particular job you studied for ten years ago.
Prepare for the inevitable periods of unemployment by saving money and re-educating yourself. There's no such thing as a secure job.
Sounds like a prime example of a typical auditor's chickenshit-mentality.
Any project - not to mention a project of this size - is bound to have holes in the documentation, inventory or accounting. Documents get misplaced, tools and materials get stolen/wasted/lost and some spending cannot be accounted for.
You are clearly viewing this from the techie's point of view. All that is secondary for those who get to decide.
Ok, and since they are not interested in getting their hands dirty, the world should change to accommodate them? That sounds a lot like the "I'm not going to vote or get involved in politics because it won't change anything" argument.
I actually like IBM's current affair with the Open Source because it's based on corporate greed. You can always count on that in business.
And why is that?
Anyone can buy a license for writing a legit DVD player for Linux today. I don't see how that would be different in the future.
Just license the damn thing.
Microsoft has clearly working towards extending their influence from PCs to more general game console/home entertainment centres.
My question is, why has there been no professioanl lobbyist for open source involved with this workgroup? At this level, technical merits don't matter. It's all about politics (which is kind of a good thing; I'd hate to live in a technocratic soceity run by engineers).
Watchmen and From Hell are graphic novels I keep coming back to at least once or twice a year.
Why? This is why.
I drive on the right lane at the precise speed limit.
I just get pissed off every time a speeding jerk drives by me at 30 mphs over the limit, cuts me off and gives me the finger "for being too slow". This is what I wish on them.
Have you never read the Risks List?
I'd rather take my chances with computer controlled cars than the speeding, emotionally volatile alpha-male jerks.
Surely you must understand that access to lethal materials such as guns, pathogens and nuclear material must be controlled to save innocent lives.
Similarly, given the increasing performance of cars and the increasing number of lethal accidents, I see it only natural development that roads are more carefully controlled in the future.
It's not about privacy. Just like you can use cash instead of a credit card (do you complain about people being able to track your payments?), you can still take a bus or a train if you want to travel anonymously.
Until they got rocket launchers themselves and blasted their way through a traffic-jam.
Hopefully this will help getting the speeding jerks off our roads. Quite frankly, I wouldn't mind having completely remote-computer controlled cars in our lifetime.
Please don't even talk about something that.
I know it's not an analogy, but the first thing that came to my mind was: "Maybe some legislation is in order to make people politically active".
It's about turning a fundamentally good thing one volunteers for into a compulsory duty.
Linux is a fresh replacement, running websites and routing mail.
You see the difference? Linux could be developed at a much, much more rapid pace.
In fact, a Pentium M platform would be a perfect choice as long as the mobile Athlon mobos are impossible to find.
Does anyone have a link?
On another note, I categorically deny that Linux is more secure an operating system than Windows. If Linux were as popular as Windows, it would have exactly the same security record as the Microsoft product. Windows, XP and the latest version of it in particular, will get the millions-of-eyes treatment the open source community is so proud of. Only in this case, the millions of eyes will make any security features shallow.
What makes the difference are the users. Microsoft has actually done an admirable job in creating an operating system that your average user has any chance of connecting to the net and with a reasonable amount of security.
I decided against a mini-ITX cluster because the floating point performance (why else would you build a cluster?) of VIA CPUs is just abyssmal.
Is there any reason why there are no P4 or AMD mini-ITX mobos around?
Managing people is stressful because - at worst - you're being bitched at by both your bosses and your subordinates the whom you're supposed to care about as a "good manager".
Quite frankly: what a colossal waste of resources.
Yeah, so a product has a definite lifetime.
So? You don't have to upgrade an antiquated software but if you keep using Win95 today it's up to you to accept the risks.
I don't see what's wrong with this.
Microsoft supports W98/ME,W2K, XP and above.
So, how much has using Windows Update cost you extra so far?